Creema Handmade Craft Marketplace Scraper

Scrape handmade craft item listings from Creema — Japan's largest handmade marketplace with over 15 million items from ~250,000 creators. Extract structured item data including title, creator name, category hierarchy, price, material, images, and engagement metrics across all major product categories.

What data does it extract?

Each record contains:

Field	Description
item_id	Creema item ID (numeric)
title	Item title (Japanese)
creator_name	Creator or brand name
category	Category breadcrumb hierarchy (e.g. "Accessories > Earrings > Stud earrings")
price	Price with currency code (e.g. 2400.00 JPY)
favorite_count	Number of favorites/likes
material	Primary material(s) used
image_urls	Newline-separated list of product image URLs
detail_url	Full URL of the item detail page
rating	Average review rating (null — dynamically loaded, not in server HTML)
review_count	Number of reviews (null — dynamically loaded, not in server HTML)

How does it work?

1. Discovery: Seeds from 16 top-level category listing pages covering the full catalog (accessories, fashion, bags, art, cosmetics, etc.)
2. Pagination: Iterates through paginated category listings (/listing/N?page=P), each returning ~125 items
3. Extraction: Fetches each item detail page (/item/NNNNN/detail) and extracts structured data from embedded schema.org/ProductGroup JSON-LD plus DOM elements

Input

Parameter	Type	Description	Default
maxItems	integer	Maximum number of item records to scrape	10

Usage notes

• Language: All content is in Japanese (UTF-8)
• Rating/Review fields: These fields are loaded via JavaScript after page load and are not available in server-rendered HTML. They will always be null in the output.
• Category coverage: The scraper seeds from all 16 top-level Creema categories; records span the full catalog
• Rate limiting: The actor uses polite concurrency (5 concurrent requests) respecting Creema's crawl guidelines

Example output

{
  "item_id": "16323696",
  "title": "【1秒で乾く！】 住所スタンプ アドレススタンプ 住所印 はんこ ゴム印",
  "creator_name": "malmall",
  "category": "雑貨・ステーショナリー > はんこ・スタンプ",
  "price": "3480.00 JPY",
  "rating": null,
  "review_count": null,
  "favorite_count": 2179,
  "material": "プラスティック",
  "image_urls": "https://c.p02.c4a.im/images/item/16323696/b63405de1faae6f53e26baf6eb06e9b7f66917c23c4d688a2b1d157fe6047719",
  "detail_url": "https://www.creema.jp/item/16323696/detail"
}

Use cases

• Craft market intelligence: Track pricing trends, popular materials, and category demand across Japan's largest handmade marketplace
• Creator/maker lead generation: Identify prolific creators and their product niches for partnership or sourcing outreach
• Cross-border artisan sourcing: Discover unique JP handmade products for import or resale — a dataset with no Western Etsy-scraper equivalent
• Competitive analysis: Monitor handmade product trends, pricing, and creator activity in the JP artisan-commerce segment