# Yahoo Auctions Japan Marketplace Scraper (`jungle_synthesizer/yahoo-auctions-japan-marketplace-scraper`) Actor Scrape live Yahoo Auctions Japan listings and closed/sold records by keyword. Get auction id, title, price, bid count, time left, buy-now price, postage, seller, condition, and sold prices from Japan's largest C2C auction marketplace -- built for resale/arbitrage pricing and sold-comps research. - **URL**: https://apify.com/jungle\_synthesizer/yahoo-auctions-japan-marketplace-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [BowTiedRaccoon](https://apify.com/jungle_synthesizer) (community) - **Categories:** E-commerce - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing Pay per event This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Yahoo Auctions Japan Marketplace Scraper Scrape live listings and closed/sold auction records from [Yahoo Auctions Japan](https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp), Japan's largest C2C auction marketplace. Returns auction ID, title, current price, bid count, buy-now price, time left, seller ID, condition, and realized sold prices — by keyword, in one actor. --- ### Yahoo Auctions Japan Marketplace Scraper Features - Extracts active listings and closed/sold records in a single actor - Returns 16 fields per record — auction ID, title, price, bid count, seller, condition, category, and more - Pulls sold-comps prices (落札価格) directly, not estimated - Handles pagination automatically — up to a few hundred records per keyword without babysitting the run - No login required — the public search endpoints return full data on the first request - Filter by keyword in Japanese or romanized English --- ### Who Uses Yahoo Auctions Japan Data? - **Resellers and arbitrageurs** — source collectibles, watches, and retro games to flip on eBay, Mercari, or Whatnot - **Proxy-buying services** — power English-language search and pricing tools for overseas customers who can't read Japanese listings - **Pricing and comps tools** — pull realized sold prices to build fair-market-value estimates, not guesses - **Market researchers** — track demand and pricing trends across categories over time - **Collectors** — monitor a keyword for new listings without refreshing the site by hand --- ### How Yahoo Auctions Japan Marketplace Scraper Works 1. Give it a keyword — "pokemon", "seiko watch", or the Japanese term itself. 2. Pick a mode: live listings, sold/closed comps, or both in one run. 3. The scraper walks the result pages for that keyword, extracting every listing card until it hits your `maxItems` cap. 4. Records land in your dataset as clean, flat JSON — ready to export or pipe into whatever you're building. --- ### Input ```json { "keyword": "pokemon", "mode": "live", "maxItems": 50 } ```` | Field | Type | Default | Description | |-------|------|---------|-------------| | `keyword` | string | `"pokemon"` | Search term — Japanese or romanized English (e.g. `"seiko watch"`, `"腕時計"`) | | `mode` | string | `"live"` | `"live"` = active listings only. `"sold"` = closed/realized-price records only. `"both"` = run both lanes in one call | | `maxItems` | integer | `10` | Maximum records to return (applies per lane when `mode` is `"both"`) | | `resumeCursor` | string | — | Cursor from a previous run's Output, used to continue a crawl that stopped early | **Sold-comps example:** ```json { "keyword": "seiko watch", "mode": "sold", "maxItems": 100 } ``` #### Resuming a large crawl Every run emits a `resumeCursor` in its Output. If a large crawl stops before it finishes — because it hit `maxItems`, your spend cap (`maxTotalChargeUsd`), or was aborted — start a new run with **the same input** plus that `resumeCursor` to continue from where it left off. The crawl resumes from the queued work the previous run didn't reach. - You are **not re-charged** for records the earlier run already delivered. - Resume within your account's run-retention window — on the free tier, roughly your 10 most recent runs. Once the source run is pruned, its `resumeCursor` is no longer valid. - `resumeCursor` is opaque — supply it unmodified. *** ### Yahoo Auctions Japan Marketplace Scraper Output Fields **Live listing example:** ```json { "auction_id": "q1235916458", "title": "【1円スタート】腕時計大量 セット SEIKO ロンジンCITIZEN OMEGA まとめ売り", "listing_url": "https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/q1235916458", "current_price": 10006, "buy_now_price": null, "bid_count": 17, "time_left": "2日", "end_time": "2026-07-04T12:08:47.000Z", "postage": "＋送料780円", "seller_id": "CEDNRwXigcC1XHgoK8XJYr1TNQVk8", "condition": "used", "image_url": "https://auc-pctr.c.yimg.jp/i/...i-img1200x1067.jpg", "is_sold": false, "sold_price": null, "category": "2084053759", "region": "JP" } ``` **Sold/closed comps example:** ```json { "auction_id": "e1233642849", "title": "ポケットモンスターエメラルド ソフト単品版 GBA ソフトのみ", "listing_url": "https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/e1233642849", "current_price": null, "buy_now_price": 7200, "bid_count": 1, "time_left": null, "end_time": "2026-07-06T09:38:59+09:00", "postage": "free", "seller_id": "Fpkaf5oRU7GcC1E7LXhZownnquSiH", "condition": "USED40", "image_url": "https://auc-pctr.c.yimg.jp/i/...i-img500x500.jpg", "is_sold": true, "sold_price": 7200, "category": "ロールプレイング", "region": "JP" } ``` | Field | Type | Description | |-------|------|--------------| | `auction_id` | string | Source-native Yahoo Auctions auction ID | | `title` | string | Listing title | | `listing_url` | string | Direct URL to the auction detail page | | `current_price` | number | Current bid / fixed price in JPY (live listings only; `null` for sold records) | | `buy_now_price` | number | Buy-now (即決) price in JPY, when present | | `bid_count` | integer | Number of bids placed | | `time_left` | string | Time remaining, relative text (live listings only) | | `end_time` | string | Auction end time, ISO-8601 | | `postage` | string | Shipping cost / buyer-pays / free, as shown | | `seller_id` | string | Seller's Yahoo ID | | `condition` | string | Item condition / grade when shown | | `image_url` | string | Thumbnail image URL | | `is_sold` | boolean | `true` for closed/realized records, `false` for live listings | | `sold_price` | number | Realized / winning price in JPY (closed records only, 落札価格) | | `category` | string | Leaf category ID or name | | `region` | string | Always `"JP"` | *** ### FAQ #### How do I scrape Yahoo Auctions Japan? Yahoo Auctions Japan Marketplace Scraper takes a keyword and a mode, then returns matching listings as structured JSON. No account, no login, no proxy setup on your end. #### How much does Yahoo Auctions Japan Marketplace Scraper cost to run? It's pay-per-event pricing — you pay per record returned, not a flat monthly fee. Check the Pricing tab on this actor's page for current rates. #### What data can I get from Yahoo Auctions Japan? Active listing prices, bid counts, seller IDs, item condition, and shipping cost — plus, separately, realized sold prices (落札価格) from closed auctions, which is the harder dataset to get and the one most competitors don't offer. #### Can I get both live listings and sold prices in one run? Yes. Set `mode` to `"both"` and the actor runs both lanes for the same keyword in a single call. #### Does Yahoo Auctions Japan Marketplace Scraper need proxies? No setup on your end. The actor handles its own residential routing for the Japan-locked pages — you just supply a keyword. *** ### Need More Features? Need custom fields, filters, or a different target site? [File an issue](https://console.apify.com/actors/issues) or get in touch. ### Why Use Yahoo Auctions Japan Marketplace Scraper? - **Sold-comps included** — most competitors scrape live listings only; this one pulls realized 落札価格 prices too, in the same schema. - **No login wall** — the public search and closed-search endpoints return full data on a cold request, so there's no session juggling or cookie babysitting. - **Built for volume** — pagination and rate-limit handling are automatic, so a deep keyword sweep doesn't need supervision. # Actor input Schema ## `sp_intended_usage` (type: `string`): Please describe how you plan to use the data extracted by this crawler. ## `sp_improvement_suggestions` (type: `string`): Provide any feedback or suggestions for improvements. ## `sp_contact` (type: `string`): Provide your email address so we can get in touch with you. ## `resumeCursor` (type: `string`): Leave empty for a fresh crawl. To CONTINUE a previous run where it stopped — without paying again for records you already received — paste the `resumeCursor` value from that run's Output (the run's OUTPUT key). Resume promptly: the previous run's data expires with your account's retention window (free tier: your ~10 most recent runs). ## `keyword` (type: `string`): Keyword to search for on Yahoo Auctions Japan (e.g. 'pokemon', 'seiko watch', '腕時計') ## `mode` (type: `string`): 'live' = active listings from /search/search. 'sold' = closed/realized-price records from /closedsearch/closedsearch. 'both' = run both lanes in one call. ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of records to scrape (applies per lane when mode is 'both') ## Actor input object example ```json { "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...", "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...", "sp_contact": "Share your email here...", "keyword": "pokemon", "mode": "live", "maxItems": 10 } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `results` (type: `string`): No description # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...", "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...", "sp_contact": "Share your email here...", "keyword": "pokemon", "mode": "live", "maxItems": 10 }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("jungle_synthesizer/yahoo-auctions-japan-marketplace-scraper").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...", "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...", "sp_contact": "Share your email here...", "keyword": "pokemon", "mode": "live", "maxItems": 10, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("jungle_synthesizer/yahoo-auctions-japan-marketplace-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...", "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...", "sp_contact": "Share your email here...", "keyword": "pokemon", "mode": "live", "maxItems": 10 }' | apify call jungle_synthesizer/yahoo-auctions-japan-marketplace-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=jungle_synthesizer/yahoo-auctions-japan-marketplace-scraper", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Yahoo Auctions Japan Marketplace Scraper", "description": "Scrape live Yahoo Auctions Japan listings and closed/sold records by keyword. Get auction id, title, price, bid count, time left, buy-now price, postage, seller, condition, and sold prices from Japan's largest C2C auction marketplace -- built for resale/arbitrage pricing and sold-comps research.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "gcmnMMf5lJTwGfwpN" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/jungle_synthesizer~yahoo-auctions-japan-marketplace-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-jungle_synthesizer-yahoo-auctions-japan-marketplace-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/jungle_synthesizer~yahoo-auctions-japan-marketplace-scraper/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-jungle_synthesizer-yahoo-auctions-japan-marketplace-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/jungle_synthesizer~yahoo-auctions-japan-marketplace-scraper/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-jungle_synthesizer-yahoo-auctions-japan-marketplace-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "keyword", "maxItems" ], "properties": { "sp_intended_usage": { "title": "What is the intended usage of this data?", "minLength": 1, "type": "string", "description": "Please describe how you plan to use the data extracted by this crawler." }, "sp_improvement_suggestions": { "title": "How can we improve this crawler for you?", "minLength": 1, "type": "string", "description": "Provide any feedback or suggestions for improvements." }, "sp_contact": { "title": "Contact Email", "minLength": 1, "type": "string", "description": "Provide your email address so we can get in touch with you." }, "resumeCursor": { "title": "Resume cursor (continue a previous run)", "type": "string", "description": "Leave empty for a fresh crawl. To CONTINUE a previous run where it stopped — without paying again for records you already received — paste the `resumeCursor` value from that run's Output (the run's OUTPUT key). Resume promptly: the previous run's data expires with your account's retention window (free tier: your ~10 most recent runs)." }, "keyword": { "title": "Search Keyword", "type": "string", "description": "Keyword to search for on Yahoo Auctions Japan (e.g. 'pokemon', 'seiko watch', '腕時計')" }, "mode": { "title": "Mode", "enum": [ "live", "sold", "both" ], "type": "string", "description": "'live' = active listings from /search/search. 'sold' = closed/realized-price records from /closedsearch/closedsearch. 'both' = run both lanes in one call.", "default": "live" }, "maxItems": { "title": "Max Items", "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of records to scrape (applies per lane when mode is 'both')" } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```