# Rakuten Ichiba Product Search — Official API, JPY Pricing (`axery/rakuten-product-search`) Actor

Search Rakuten Ichiba (Japan's largest marketplace) via the official Rakuten Web Service API: numeric JPY price, reviews, shop info and shipping flags. No scraping.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/axery/rakuten-product-search.md
- **Developed by:** [Axery](https://apify.com/axery) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Business, Automation
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.01 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Rakuten Ichiba Product Search

Searches **Rakuten Ichiba**, Japan's largest online marketplace, via Rakuten's own official Web Service API — not a scrape.

### What you get per product

Numeric JPY price (no parsing needed — Rakuten's own `itemPrice` is already a number), shop name and URL, review average and count, and shipping/payment flags translated into plain booleans (`free_shipping`, `ships_overseas`, `accepts_credit_card`, `asuraku_available` for next-day delivery) instead of Rakuten's raw internal codes.

### You need your own Rakuten application ID

Confirmed directly against the live endpoint:

| Request | Result |
|---|---|
| Placeholder `applicationId` | HTTP 400 — `{"error": "wrong_parameter", "error_description": "specify valid applicationId"}` |
| Valid `applicationId` | Full search results |

Getting one is free: register at [webservice.rakuten.co.jp](https://webservice.rakuten.co.jp/), create an application, and use the ID it gives you. No payment plan is required for this API's free quota.

### ⚠️ Verification status

Every other Actor in this suite was tested against live, real data before shipping. **This one could not be** — no valid Rakuten application ID was available during development. The client is built directly against Rakuten's stable, versioned, publicly documented Ichiba Item Search API (`20220601`, `formatVersion=2`) rather than captured output. The error path above was confirmed live and returns cleanly with no crash; the success-path field mapping in `src/scraper.py` has not been.

**Please run it once with your own application ID and check the output against the schema before relying on it.**

### Input

| Field | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `keyword` | string | Product keyword — Japanese generally returns far more results than English. |
| `applicationId` | string | Your Rakuten Web Service application ID. Required. |
| `affiliateId` | string | Optional — tags product URLs with your Rakuten affiliate ID. |
| `genreId`, `minPrice`, `maxPrice`, `sort` | — | Optional narrowing filters, passed straight through to Rakuten's API. |
| `maxItems` | integer | Rakuten's own API caps one search at page × 30 ≤ 3,000 results total — the Actor stops there regardless. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Not needed — this calls Rakuten's API directly. |

### Local development

```bash
pip install -r requirements.txt
python test_local.py laptop --app-id YOUR_REAL_ID --out sample_output.json
```

There is no `sample_output.json` committed in this folder, unlike every other Actor in this suite — see the verification status note above for why.

# Actor input Schema

## `keyword` (type: `string`):

A product keyword, in Japanese or English (Japanese generally returns far more results).

## `applicationId` (type: `string`):

Your own Rakuten Web Service application ID. Get one free at https://webservice.rakuten.co.jp/ - register an account, create an app, no payment required for this API's free quota.

## `affiliateId` (type: `string`):

Your Rakuten Affiliate ID, if you have one - product URLs will carry your affiliate tag.

## `genreId` (type: `string`):

Restrict to a specific Rakuten genre/category id.

## `minPrice` (type: `integer`):

Only return products priced at or above this amount, in Japanese yen.

## `maxPrice` (type: `integer`):

Only return products priced at or below this amount, in Japanese yen.

## `sort` (type: `string`):

How results are ordered.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum products to return. Rakuten's own API caps results at page x 30 <= 3,000 total for one search - the Actor stops there regardless of this setting.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Not needed - this Actor calls Rakuten's official API directly, not a scrape.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keyword": "ノートパソコン",
  "applicationId": "1234567890123456789",
  "sort": "",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `products` (type: `string`):

One row per product from Rakuten's official Ichiba Item Search API.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "keyword": "laptop",
    "maxItems": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("axery/rakuten-product-search").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "keyword": "laptop",
    "maxItems": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("axery/rakuten-product-search").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "keyword": "laptop",
  "maxItems": 100
}' |
apify call axery/rakuten-product-search --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,axery/rakuten-product-search"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/a0g6zeKTTSGbDWhv2/builds/GDc5gd0pJ7X7X4YyK/openapi.json