Suruga-ya (駿河屋) – Used Hobby Item Price Scraper

Extract used and new prices, stock status, and product details from Suruga-ya — Japan's largest used hobby marketplace, covering trading figures, retro games, trading cards, anime merchandise, and other collectibles. Built for international resellers, collectors, and market researchers who need reliable Japanese hobby-market pricing data. No coding required: enter a keyword or category, run, and get clean JSON.

A key feature is that Suruga-ya lists fixed store prices, not auction bids — so you get a stable, repeatable price signal for used hobby goods and second-hand prices, rather than a one-off bidding outcome.

What data can you extract?

Field	Description
productId	Suruga-ya product id (e.g. 601194395)
title	Product title (Japanese)
inStock	true if a used or new price is available, false if sold out
stockLabel	Raw stock/price label text from the listing (e.g. 品切れ)
usedPrice	Used (中古) price in JPY, or null if unavailable
newPrice	New (新品) price in JPY, or null if unavailable
listPrice	Original list price (定価) in JPY
currency	Always "JPY"
category	Product condition/category label shown on the listing
brand	Manufacturer or brand name
releaseDate	Release date, if shown (e.g. 2026/01/26)
isNewArrival	true if flagged as a new arrival on Suruga-ya
imageUrl	Product photo URL
url	Direct link to the product page
keyword	The search keyword that produced this result
scrapedAt	ISO 8601 timestamp of when the item was scraped

Why scrape Suruga-ya?

• Reseller sourcing — find used Japanese figures, games, and cards priced below their list price (定価).
• Arbitrage — compare Suruga-ya's fixed store prices against eBay, Mercari, or other international marketplaces to spot margin opportunities.
• Collector & market research — track used hobby item and anime merchandise pricing for specific series, franchises, or retro titles over time.
• Stock monitoring — filter to in-stock-only results to catch restocks of hard-to-find collectibles.
• AI agents / RAG — feed structured Japanese hobby-market pricing data into an LLM workflow. This Actor is discoverable and callable through the Apify MCP server, so an autonomous Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT agent can query it directly.

How to use it (no coding)

1. Click Try for free / Start.
2. Enter a Search keyword (Japanese or English, e.g. ポケモン) and/or a Category ID.
3. Optionally enable In-stock items only to skip sold-out (品切れ) listings.
4. Click Start and download the results as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or pull them via the API (below).

Input example

{
  "searchKeyword": "ポケモン",
  "inStockOnly": false,
  "maxItems": 100
}

All fields are optional — running with no input uses sensible defaults (keyword ポケモン, both in-stock and sold-out items, 100 items). At least one of searchKeyword or categoryId must be provided.

Output example

Each result is one product listing:

{
  "productId": "601194395",
  "title": "ポケットモンスター Diamond Dust",
  "inStock": false,
  "stockLabel": "品切れ",
  "usedPrice": null,
  "newPrice": null,
  "listPrice": 1540,
  "currency": "JPY",
  "category": "トレーディングフィギュア",
  "brand": "リーメント",
  "releaseDate": "2026/01/26",
  "isNewArrival": true,
  "imageUrl": "https://www.suruga-ya.jp/database/photo.php?shinaban=601194395&size=m",
  "url": "https://www.suruga-ya.jp/product/detail/601194395?tenpo_cd=400498",
  "keyword": "ポケモン",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z"
}

How much does it cost?

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing: a small charge when a run starts, plus a per-result charge for each item returned. You only pay for the data you actually receive, so a 100-item run costs about the price of 100 results. Use maxItems to cap your spend. Note that this Actor uses a Japan-based residential proxy by default (see FAQ), which has a higher underlying data cost than a datacenter proxy, though this does not change the pay-per-event price you are billed.

Integrations: API, MCP, and AI agents

This Actor is read-only: it only reads publicly available listing data and performs no login, purchase, or write actions — safe for autonomous agents to call.

API (curl)

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/datalab-jp~suruga-ya-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchKeyword": "ポケモン", "inStockOnly": true, "maxItems": 50}'

Synchronous runs time out after 300 seconds. For large scrapes, use the standard run endpoint and fetch the dataset afterwards.

Python (apify-client)

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("datalab-jp/suruga-ya-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searchKeyword": "ポケモン",
    "inStockOnly": True,
    "maxItems": 50,
})
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items
print(items)

JavaScript (apify-client)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('datalab-jp/suruga-ya-scraper').call({
    searchKeyword: 'ポケモン',
    inStockOnly: true,
    maxItems: 50,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

MCP / AI agents

This Actor is available through the Apify MCP server. AI agents (Claude, and any MCP-compatible client) can discover it with search-actors, inspect its inputs with fetch-actor-details, and run it with call-actor — no manual setup on your side.

Related Actors

Part of a family of Japanese second-hand & resale market scrapers with a consistent output shape, so you can combine them for cross-marketplace comps:

• Yahoo! Auctions Sold Scraper — sold-price history from Japan's largest auction site
• Japan Flea Market Scraper — Rakuma & Yahoo! Flea Market listings
• Mercari Japan Scraper — Japan's largest C2C marketplace, with sold-price filtering
• CardRush TCG Price Scraper — trading card prices across 9 card games (Pokémon, One Piece, etc.)
• Melonbooks Scraper — doujin goods and otaku merchandise

FAQ

Is scraping Suruga-ya legal? This Actor collects only publicly available listing data from Suruga-ya's search results pages. It does not log in, bypass paywalls, or collect private personal data. You are responsible for using the data in accordance with applicable laws and Suruga-ya's terms of service.

Can I call this Actor from my own app or API? Yes. Use the Apify API or the apify-client libraries shown above. Every run returns a dataset you can fetch as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Can AI agents use this Actor? Yes. It is exposed through the Apify MCP server, so agents can find and run it automatically. It is read-only and safe to call.

Why does it use a residential proxy by default? Suruga-ya's WAF blocks Apify's datacenter proxy IPs outright, and it also blocks non-Japanese residential IPs from Apify's global residential pool — connections succeed at the network level but the site still returns 403. A Japan-based residential proxy (RESIDENTIAL group, country JP) is required for reliable results and is set as the default; changing it to datacenter or a non-JP country will likely cause runs to fail.

Why are usedPrice and newPrice sometimes both null? Sold-out (品切れ) listings only show the original list price (定価), with no active used or new price line. Set In-stock items only to true to filter these out.

Disclaimer

This Actor collects publicly available listing data only. It does not collect personal data. Use responsibly and in accordance with applicable laws and Suruga-ya's terms.