Resolving Aliexpress default wishlist full issue

aliexpress_default_wish_list_items.md

NOTICE! Aliexpress changed their web site and thus these steps no longer work

When using a desktop browser and adding items to wish list on Aliexpress, those products get added to the default wish list. After a while your default wish list will get full and you cannot add items into any wish list as the wish list button only adds items to the default wish list, from where those can be moved to other wish lists. There is no simple way to see the contents of the default wish list, so cleaning it up is difficult. I got frustrated enough with this and created a solution that at least makes the job easier:

To get the titles of the items that are in your default wish list:

1. Open the developer console in the browser and select the network tab
2. Navigate to the wish list page on Aliexpress
3. Scroll the page down in order to fetch more items into the list
4. Add "2.0" into the filter bar
5. Copy the responses of all the requests and paste them in a list (i.e. start with "[", add "," between responses and end with "]")
6. Copy the resulting text to clipboard and head to https://calmm-js.github.io/partial.lenses/playground.html
7. Open the developer tools and paste "window.data = " followed by the text created in earlier steps, into the console (if the console is not visible, press ESC)
8. Insert the following into the console and press enter "var res = L.collect(L.query(L.when(R.propEq(0, 'groupId')), []), data)"
9. Paste the following into the console to copy the result into the clipboard "copy(res)"
10. The resulting list contains the topics of all the items that are in the default wish list. To remove / move the items to another wish list, search them from the wish list page (note: the page is refreshed after moving items to another list and thus you will need to scroll down the page to see the items you want to move)

Further info:

The Aliexpress API seems to use some kind of signing of the requests. This prevents creating and running requests that would remove the items from the wish list. The documentation seems to be public and there is a library for the API in NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/aliexpress-api.

Nice that you found these instructions! I created the instructions earlier mainly for my own use, so the instructions and the workflow was not as clear as it should be. Now that I know that there is at least one other person with the same issue I thought I'd create a slightly easier and more robust solution i.e. https://github.com/gadgetmies/aliexpress_default_wishlist. You will have to have React dev tools installed and thus need to use Chrome, but otherwise this solution should be much better. Can you give the new tool a try?

1. First & foremost....WOW! A world of thanks for taking the time to create step by step instructions to assist me and for the automated form to process the wishlist items.
2. I'm not an expert with using Github, so I spent more time than I'd like to admit trying to figure out how to get to this specific page from your Github root directory/page just so I can write this response, lol. I finally gave up and used the "View it on Github" link at the bottom of the email I got when you responded to me. I'm assuming there's an easy way to get to this "Gist" section, but maybe I missed it.
3. Your instructions were amazing (aside from a very minor note I got stuck on). The Ctrl+Alt+J javascript console shortcut didn't work, but after Googling it, I found out it was Ctrl+Shift+J. All the other steps were smooth sailing.
4. The absolute joy on my face when I clicked the "Process" button and saw the output from your form. And then seeing the links you included to view pictures of the items was the sweet, sweet icing on the cake :)
   Thanks again for all the work you put into this. It's greatly appreciated,

Thank you for testing the instructions! I'm glad to hear I was able to help!

Thanks also for pointing out the shortcut issue in the instructions. I am using a Mac, and only assumed that the shortcut would be similar on Windows. I now updated the instructions with the correct shortcut and also improved the readme a bit.

Hi, i was trying to do the tip and the page would stop loading whenever I tried.

Hi, i was trying to do the tip and the page would stop loading whenever I tried.

Hi! Could you provide some more details? At which step did the page stop loading?

Between the second and third step. When i open inspect element on aliexpress, then go to network and go the wishlist it says the internet is no longer working whenever i try to scroll to the bottom.

Between the second and third step. When i open inspect element on aliexpress, then go to network and go the wishlist it says the internet is no longer working whenever i try to scroll to the bottom.

Hmm... this sounds odd. Have you given it another try? Lately I've noticed that Aliexpress returns an error when trying to access the wishlists page. Perhaps something like that might be happening here?

If you are unable to get this to work, perhaps you could take and share a screenshot of the network tab in the inspector? There might be some info there to help debugging the issue.

Ok so i apologize for taking your time. I followed the wrong tutorial. Thank you so much for making an amazing Tool!!

Ok so i apologize for taking your time. I followed the wrong tutorial. Thank you so much for making an amazing Tool!!

No problem! Hope you got your wishlist in order 😊!

I did thank you

Hello friend. First of all, thank you for your effort in trying to work around the Ali Express developers' mistake. I've been bothered by this problem for months, which I thought had no solution. Now that I found your work around I couldn't use it. First, the page has changed, it's no longer https://www.aliexpress.com/p/wishlist/index.html, now it's https://www.aliexpress.com/p/wish-manage/index.html. Second, when opening the Components tab, the "allItemList" property is not there. It seems that the developers have changed (for the worse) once again.

Hi!

Sorry for takin so long to reply. It indeed looks like Aliexpress has changed their implementation and the script no longer works. Had a look at the new version and it seems that sadly the wishlist information is no longer available on the web page and the backend requests. I added a notice to the Gist. I'll see if I can come up with a new way to get the items in the default wish list. Not feeling too optimistic though as they've made it quite difficult to e.g. make requests to the backend from the console.

Anyway, thank you for letting me know about the issue!

For those who have had problems with wishlists becoming full because the now-hidden default wishlist has 1,000 items and it's impossible to delete anything from a now-hidden wishlist, here's a solution:
You need to delete the current version of Aliexpress (in my case, an Android phone) and install an older version of the app.
I went to Aptoide and installed version 8.7.0, which allowed me to view my "default" wishlist.
I then deleted/moved several items from the default list to other lists and am now able to add items to any of my wishlists. Finally, I updated AliExpress to the current version.

This "Default Wish List" being hidden or removed from AliExpress, has been bothering for more than a year, from beginning 2024. It is a pain, because a lot users were using it, as one between the created wish list, and on newer version (> 8.88.4), items are all mixed.
I have been on version 8.88.4 for more than a year, just do not update to newer version, but recently feedbacks comments are no more available on that old version, and they are usefull.
Easy will be to move all items from "Default Wish List" while still on old 8.88.4, but not so easy since only 20 items can be selected when move to other list + they are moved mixed.