Mandarake Auction Scraper — Japan Used Collectibles Auctions

Live on Apify: Mandarake Auction Japan Scraper - Used Collectibles Prices API — callable as a REST API from any language.

What this actor does

This actor scrapes live auction listings from Mandarake (まんだらけ), Japan's premier second-hand anime, manga, figure, and collectibles marketplace. It returns structured JSON — item name, current bid price in JPY, bid count, watcher count, selling shop, image, auction-end time, and a direct item URL — across more than 60 categories.

Mandarake Auctions is where Japanese collectors buy and sell rare items: manga and doujinshi, anime figures, PVC action figures, trading cards and card packs, soft vinyl toys, model kits, retro games and hardware, records and CDs, animation cels, original art, and a long tail of niche hobby collectibles. Because it is an auction marketplace, the recorded price reflects real, time-stamped bidding pressure rather than a static shop tag — one of the best sources of live Japanese marketplace data for valuation.

The actor supports four modes: category browsing, keyword search with deep pagination (800+ items per keyword), RSS feed monitoring in Japanese or English, and single-item detail lookup. A built-in webhook lets you push run summaries to Slack, Discord, n8n, or Zapier the moment a run finishes.

Input schema

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	select	category	category / rss / detail / search
category	select	toys	One of 60+ Mandarake category slugs (used in category mode)
keyword	string	``	Search keyword (used in search mode)
maxResults	integer	50	Maximum items to return (1–200)
maxPages	integer	2	Pages to scrape for search / category modes (~40 items / page, max 20)
itemIndex	integer	0	Numeric item index for detail mode (found in the item URL)
language	select	ja	RSS feed language: ja or en
webhookUrl	string	``	POST a JSON summary to this URL on completion
proxyConfiguration	proxy	JP proxy	Apify proxy configuration

Example input (keyword search):

{
  "mode": "search",
  "keyword": "フィギュア",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "maxPages": 5
}

Output

Each item is written to the default Apify dataset in this shape:

{
  "name": "フィギュア ドラゴンボール",
  "current_price_jpy": 3000,
  "bid_count": 5,
  "watcher_count": 12,
  "shop_name": "まんだらけ 中野店",
  "item_url": "https://order.mandarake.co.jp/auction/...",
  "image_url": "https://img.mandarake.co.jp/...",
  "end_time": "2026-08-15T20:00:00+09:00"
}

The current_price_jpy, bid_count, and watcher_count fields together let you gauge live demand for each item at a glance.

Use cases

• Price monitoring — follow the current bid and buyout price of a specific collectible over time, and be alerted when a desirable item approaches your budget.
• Market research — analyze bidding patterns, watcher counts, and price distributions to understand what collectors are willing to pay in each category.
• Resale arbitrage — find undervalued auction items by comparing Mandarake bids to Mercari or Yahoo Auctions going prices, then flip for a margin.
• Inventory feeds — feed structured auction data into an LLM or vector database for automated pricing and curation.
• Automated alerts — add a webhookUrl to receive Slack, Discord, or n8n notifications whenever new items match your search.

Why Japan data

Japan's collectibles auction market is global in reach but local in character — condition grading, product rarity, and demand nuances are specific to the Japanese market. Mandarake is the largest and most reputable venue for this in the country, and its live auction data gives the clearest signal of what collectors are actually bidding. For anyone dealing in anime figures, trading cards, retro games, manga, or original art, dependable access to this Japanese marketplace data is a genuine edge for both buying and pricing decisions.

Pricing

Pay-per-event (PPE): $0.005 per item scraped, plus a small per-run start fee.

• A typical 100-item search run costs about $0.50.
• No monthly subscription — you pay only for the items you actually capture.
• Charges accrue only on items successfully written to the dataset.

FAQ

Does this scrape Yahoo Auctions Japan? No. This actor only scrapes Mandarake Auction. (See our separate Yahoo Auctions Japan scraper for that marketplace.)

Do I need a Mandarake account or API key? No. The actor scrapes publicly available listing and auction pages.

Are the item titles in Japanese? Yes — Mandarake is a Japanese site, so titles appear in Japanese (many product/model names are in English or Katakana).

How fresh is the data? Live. The actor fetches listing pages at execution time; nothing is cached.

Can I run this on a schedule? Yes — use the Apify Schedule tab to run daily or hourly for continuous auction monitoring.

Can I get notified when the run finishes? Yes — supply a webhookUrl and the actor will POST a JSON summary (including event, actor, keyword, itemCount, datasetId, datasetUrl) to your endpoint.

Limitations

• Mandarake blocks aggressive crawling; respect the built-in rate limiting (1–3 s delays between requests).
• Images are hosted on the Mandarake CDN and may expire after the auction ends.
• The actor does not bypass CAPTCHAs and respects robots.txt.

Integrations

Works with Apify Connectors (Slack, Google Sheets, Notion, Supabase, GitHub) and webhooks. Combine with a Schedule to build a fully automated collectibles auction-monitoring pipeline.