🔎 Yahoo Flea Market Keyword Script · Apify Actor

Extract live listing data from Yahoo Flea Market (PayPayフリマ) based on keywords in clean, structured JSON format. Perfect for marketplace research, price tracking, reselling insights, and product monitoring.

Built and maintained by DataWizards.

---

📌 What Is Yahoo Flea Market Keyword Script?

Yahoo Flea Market Keyword Script is a powerful Apify Actor that allows you to scrape public marketplace listings from Yahoo Flea Market (PayPayフリマ) using keyword-based searches.

Instead of manually browsing listings, this actor automatically extracts essential data such as:

• 💰 Price
• 🏷 Title
• 🖼 Image URLs
• 📝 Description
• 📦 Availability
• 🗂 Category
• 📅 Listing Date

It’s optimized for reliability, performance, and structured output — making it ideal for developers, collectors, resellers, and automation workflows.

---

🧠 Key Features

• ✅ Keyword-Based Search Extraction
• ✅ Clean & Structured JSON Output
• ✅ Extracts price, title, images, description, and more
• ✅ Supports multiple queries
• ✅ Proxy Support via Apify Proxy
• ✅ Supports Residential IPs (Recommended)
• ✅ Lightweight & Fast Execution
• ✅ Ideal for collectible tracking (e.g., trading cards)

---

🛠️ Input Schema

{
  "itemLimit": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  },
  "queries": ["charizard"]
}

📥 Input Fields

Field	Type	Description
itemLimit	Number	Maximum number of listings to extract
queries	Array	List of keywords to search
proxyConfiguration	Object	Apify proxy settings

---

🔐 Proxy Configuration (Recommended)

Field	Description
useApifyProxy	Must be set to true
apifyProxyGroups	Use "RESIDENTIAL" for higher success rate & reduced blocking

💡 Why Residential Proxies? Marketplace platforms apply anti-bot protections. Residential IPs improve success rate and reduce blocking risks.

---

📤 Output Example

[
  {
    "url": "https://paypayfleamarket.yahoo.co.jp/item/z583792696",
    "item_id": "z583792696",
    "title": "スタートデッキ100 メガリザードンY ex 001/100 フルミラー キラ",
    "price": 11999,
    "price_currency": "JPY",
    "availability": "In Stock",
    "category": "ゲーム、おもちゃ > トレーディングカード",
    "description": "商品の状態に関しましては、素人目線での検品になりますので写真の方からご確認お願いいたします。",
    "image_url": "https://auctions.c.yimg.jp/images.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/image/...jpg",
    "images": [
      "https://auctions.c.yimg.jp/images.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/image/...jpg"
    ],
    "listing_date": "2026-03-29T02:28:27+09:00",
    "updated_time": "8時間前"
  }
]

---

🚀 Use Cases

🛒 1. Marketplace Price Monitoring

Track pricing trends of products like trading cards, electronics, and collectibles.

📊 2. Competitive Intelligence

Analyze competitors and similar listings in Japanese marketplaces.

🤖 3. Lead Generation

Find sellers and listings for outreach or sourcing opportunities.

📈 4. Market Research

Understand demand for trending items (e.g., Pokémon cards like Charizard).

🧾 5. Reselling & Arbitrage

Identify underpriced items and resale opportunities across markets.

---

⚙️ How It Works

1. The actor performs keyword-based searches on Yahoo Flea Market.

2. It navigates listing result pages.

3. Extracts structured listing data.

4. Outputs a clean JSON dataset ready for:

   • APIs
   • Dashboards
   • Databases
   • Automation pipelines

---

✅ Best Practices

✔ Always enable Residential proxies for production usage ✔ Avoid aggressive scraping frequency ✔ Respect marketplace usage policies ✔ Use relevant keywords for better results ✔ Store historical data for trend analysis

---

🔄 Customization Options

Need additional fields like:

• Seller name
• Listing URL normalization
• Condition filtering
• Currency conversion
• Pagination depth control
• CSV / Excel output

✨ DataWizards can customize this actor to fit your exact needs.

---

🛡 Reliability & Performance

• Stable scraping architecture
• Optimized parsing logic
• Works with Apify scheduling
• Scalable for large datasets

---

🤝 Support

Need help, custom output, or integration assistance?

📩 Email: hello.datawizard@gmail.com ✉️ Subject: Yahoo Flea Market Keyword Script – Support Request

🔗 LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/data-wizards-aa8080342

---

🐞 Bug Reports & Feature Requests

📧 Email: hello.datawizard@gmail.com ✉️ Subject: Bug Report – Yahoo Flea Market Actor

Or open an issue directly on Apify.

---

🧰 Need Something More Advanced?

Looking for:

• Multi-marketplace scraping
• Advanced filtering & deduplication
• Real-time alert systems
• API integrations
• Data pipelines & dashboards

💡 DataWizards deliver scalable, production-ready scraping solutions tailored to your business.

---