🎌 Buyee Scraper: Yahoo Auctions & Mercari Japan Data

Never miss a Yahoo Auctions Japan bid again. Turn any Buyee.jp listing, Yahoo Auctions item, or Mercari Japan item into structured price, bid, and shipping data, built to actually finish the run.

🔨 Real bid data Buy-it-now price, bid count, time remaining, and auction end time

💴 Price in JPY and USD Buyee's own conversion estimate, no manual math needed

📦 Shipping details up front Who pays and how many days to the Buyee warehouse

✅ Runs that actually finish Waits for the page to fully load, so you get real rows, not blanks

Give this Actor a Buyee.jp (buyee.jp) item link, a raw Yahoo Auctions Japan URL or ID, a Mercari Japan item ID, or a plain search term, and it returns one clean row per listing: title, price in yen with a US dollar estimate, auction bid state or buy-it-now price, seller name and rating, shipping payer and estimated days, item condition, category, images, and description. Built for resellers, collectors, and import/export buyers who source from Japan through Buyee's proxy-buying service. Runs on the Apify platform with scheduling, integrations (Make, Zapier, Google Sheets), and run monitoring built in.

🔍 What does Buyee Scraper do?

This Actor reads listing pages on buyee.jp, the proxy-buying service that lets international buyers purchase from Yahoo Auctions Japan and Mercari Japan without a Japanese address or payment method.

Give it an item link, a raw Yahoo Auctions URL or item ID, a Mercari item ID, or a search term, and it returns the listing title, price in yen with Buyee's own US dollar estimate, item condition, category, seller name and rating breakdown, shipping payer and estimated shipping days, and images. For Yahoo Auctions items it also returns the full item description, buy-it-now availability, starting price, bid count, watcher count, and the auction's start and end time. Set the deep-scan option to follow every search result to its own item page for the complete field set instead of just the summary shown on the results list.

💡 Why use Buyee Scraper?

• I resell Japanese collectibles, streetwear, or watches and need to track bid counts and auction end times across dozens of listings without refreshing Buyee all day.
• I run an import/export business sourcing from Japan and want seller ratings and condition notes in a spreadsheet before I commit to a purchase.
• I'm a collector hunting a specific card, figure, or watch and want to monitor a search term for new listings as they appear.
• I build price-tracking or sourcing tools for Japanese marketplaces and need clean structured data instead of reading Buyee's pages by hand.

🚀 How to use Buyee Scraper

STEP 1 Add listings or a search term Paste Buyee, Yahoo Auctions, or Mercari item links and IDs, or just type what you're looking for.

STEP 2 Run the Actor It waits for each page to fully load before reading it, so results are never blank.

STEP 3 Export your results Download price, bids, seller rating, shipping, and description as a spreadsheet or JSON.

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
startUrls	array of strings	No	Buyee item URLs (buyee.jp/item/jdirectitems/auction/... or buyee.jp/mercari/item/...), a raw Yahoo Auctions Japan item URL, a bare Yahoo Auction ID (like r1236578744), a bare Mercari item ID (like m10844932381), or a Buyee search or category URL.
searchQueries	array of strings	No	Free-text search terms run against Buyee's own search, such as "pokemon card". Returns matching Yahoo Auctions and Mercari listings.
scrapeItemDetails	boolean	No	When a search term or category URL is given, visit every result's own item page for the full field set (price, bids, seller rating, shipping, description). Off by default, which returns only the title, price, and thumbnail shown on the results list.
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum number of items to return across all inputs. Defaults to 50.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Proxy routing settings. Defaults to a residential Japanese connection, which this Actor needs for reliable results.

📦 Output

Download the results as a spreadsheet, a table, or structured data ready for your own systems. Each row is one listing:

{
  "itemId": "r1236578744",
  "itemUrl": "https://buyee.jp/item/jdirectitems/auction/r1236578744",
  "sourcePlatform": "yahoo_auction",
  "title": "ポケモンカード　メガリザードンX ex SR インフェルノX",
  "priceJpy": 4800,
  "priceUsdEstimate": 31.06,
  "currency": "JPY",
  "buyoutAvailable": true,
  "numberOfBids": 0,
  "watchCount": 5,
  "auctionEndTimeJst": "17 Jul 2026 21:51:13",
  "condition": "No obvious damages/dirt",
  "categoryBreadcrumb": ["Toys & Games", "Games", "Trading Card Games", "Pokemon Trading Card Game", "Single cards"],
  "sellerName": "a_donyunn",
  "sellerRatingGood": 590,
  "sellerFeedbackPercentGood": 100,
  "estimatedShippingDays": "2nd-3rd",
  "images": ["https://cdnyauction.buyee.jp/images.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/image/..."],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-17T00:00:00.000Z"
}

📊 Output data fields

Field	Type	Description
itemId	string	The listing's own ID on Buyee.
itemUrl	string	The Buyee item page this row was scraped from.
sourcePlatform	string	yahoo_auction or mercari.
title	string	Listing title, in Japanese as written by the seller.
priceJpy	number	Current price or bid, in yen.
priceUsdEstimate	number	Buyee's own US dollar estimate for the yen price.
buyoutAvailable	boolean	Yahoo Auctions only: whether a buy-it-now price is set.
startingPriceJpy	number	Yahoo Auctions only: the auction's starting price.
numberOfBids	number	Yahoo Auctions only: bids placed so far.
watchCount	number	Yahoo Auctions only: how many buyers are watching the listing.
auctionStartTimeJst	string	Yahoo Auctions only: when the auction opened, Japan time.
auctionEndTimeJst	string	Yahoo Auctions only: when the auction closes, Japan time.
timeRemainingText	string	Yahoo Auctions only: time left, as shown on the page.
brand	string	Mercari only: the brand Buyee lists for the item, when disclosed.
condition	string	Item condition as described by the seller.
categoryBreadcrumb	array	Full category path, from top level down to the listing's own category.
sellerName	string	Seller's display name.
sellerRatingGood / sellerRatingNormal / sellerRatingBad	number	Seller's feedback counts, when Buyee shows them.
sellerFeedbackPercentGood	number	Yahoo Auctions only: seller's positive feedback percentage.
shippingPaidBy	string	Who covers shipping to the Buyee warehouse.
estimatedShippingDays	string	How long the seller typically takes to ship to Buyee's warehouse.
exportRestrictionNote	string	Present only when Buyee flags the item as restricted from international shipping.
description	string	Full item description. Yahoo Auctions only, see the FAQ below for why.
images	array	Listing photo URLs.
scrapedAt	string	Timestamp when this row was collected.

💰 Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-result pricing: you pay for the listings you actually get back, and nothing for an empty run. There is no subscription and no minimum spend. Use maxItems to control how many results a run returns.

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✨ Tips

• Mix and match input types freely: a direct item link, a bare Yahoo Auction ID, and a search term can all go in the same run.
• Turn on scrapeItemDetails when you need images from a Mercari search. The results-list thumbnails don't always finish loading in time, but the item page always has real photos.
• Leaving scrapeItemDetails off returns a lighter record (title, price, thumbnail, link) with brand/condition/description/seller fields genuinely absent, not blank - switch to the dataset's Search Results (lightweight) view in the Output tab to see a clean table with no empty columns. Turn scrapeItemDetails on for the full field set.
• description only appears for Yahoo Auctions items. Mercari's own description page is off-limits to automated access on their side, so this Actor never fetches it rather than guess at the content.
• Re-run the same search term on a schedule to catch new listings as sellers post them.

❓ FAQ, disclaimers, and support

Why does this Actor include a description for Yahoo Auctions items but not Mercari items? Mercari's description page is blocked from automated access on Buyee's own site. Rather than work around that, this Actor simply never requests it, so description is left out for Mercari listings instead of guessed or left blank with no explanation.

Does this need a Buyee account or login? No. It reads publicly visible listing pages and does not require signing in.

Why did the existing Buyee scraper on Apify fail so often? The listing pages this Actor reads run a background check before showing content, and a scraper that doesn't wait for that check to finish gets an empty page back. This Actor waits for the real page content before reading anything, so runs come back with actual data instead of blanks.

How fresh is the data? Every run reads the live listing page at run time. There is no cached or stale data.

Is scraping Buyee data legal? This Actor collects publicly available listing data. You are responsible for complying with Buyee's Terms of Service and applicable laws in your use of the data.

Found a bug or need a field added? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab. Custom solutions are available on request.

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