Mercari.com Scraper

Mercari.com Scraper extracts all and any items from any category page on Mercari or by a specific keyword, provided you copy & paste the search URL. Download your data as HTML or Excel table, as well as in JSON, CSV, or XML format.

How to use the data extracted from Mercari:

• Automated price and listing monitoring – Scan dozens of e-commerce items and products in real time to adjust your own buying or pricing strategies.
• Track competitors' prices – Track listings, product, and sales data from Mercari to compare with competitor prices and back up your decision-making process with real data.
• Facilitate market analysis – Scan and analyze Mercari for images, products, related keywords, new categories, and more to stay ahead of emerging trends and consumer habits.
• Optimize performance and implement lightweight automation – Collect product data easily and non-manually, whether for market research, machine learning, or new product development.

For more ideas on how to use data extracted from Mercari, check out industries pages which describe at least 12 ways web scraping data is used across projects and businesses, especially in retail and e-commerce.

Cost of usage

It is more efficient to run one longer scrape (at least one minute) than several short ones, due to startup time. On average, this scraper will cost you around 0.06 USD per 1000 items. For more details, see the platform pricing page. To check your usage and limits, visit Settings → Usage and Billing in your Console. The easiest way to estimate CU usage is to perform a test run.

Input Parameters

This actor needs only two settings from you – a link and a proxy:

• startUrls (required): List of Request objects, specifying the search queries/categories you want to scrape. The URL can be any search/category page on Mercari.
• maxPages (required): Limit of pages to be scraped.
• proxyConfiguration (required): Specifies the proxy settings used while running the actor. When running this actor on the platform, the proxy setting must always be set on. The default value is { "useApifyProxy": true }

Example

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.mercari.com/search/?keyword=phone"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.mercari.com/category/electronics/"
    }
  ],
  "maxPages": 10,
  "proxyConfig": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

Output

After the Mercari actor finishes the scraping run, it will store the scraped results in a dataset and show them to you as output results. The results can be downloaded in various formats.

Output example:

[
  {
    "url": "https://www.mercari.com/us/item/m1234567890/",
    "name": "iPhone 12 Pro Max 128GB",
    "image": "https://static.mercdn.net/item/detail/orig/photos/m1234567890_1.jpg",
    "priceShow": "$799",
    "location": "California",
    "description": [
      "Excellent condition, unlocked, includes original box and charger."
    ],
    "sellerName": "BestSeller123",
    "brandName": "Apple",
    "price": "799",
    "inStock": true,
    "originalPrice": "999",
    "listUrl": "https://www.mercari.com/search/?keyword=phone"
  }
]

Note: Search results may vary depending on your location. We recommend using proxies for consistent results from the same region.

Proxy usage

This actor, like many scrapers in the retail industry, requires Proxy servers to function properly. For more than a few results, subscribe to the Apify platform for access to a large pool of proxies.

Supported countries

This actor is designed for scraping the US version of Mercari:

• 🇺🇸 US – https://www.mercari.com

If you need support for other Mercari domains (e.g., Japan), please contact us.

Other e-commerce scrapers

We have many more e-commerce and retail scrapers available. See the E-commerce Category in Apify Store.

Need to find product pairs between Mercari and another online shop?

Use the AI Product Matcher to compare items from different web stores, identify exact matches, and compare real-time data obtained via web scraping. See this guide for details.