Yahoo Auctions Japan Scraper — Bids, Prices & Listings

Yahoo Auctions Japan in rows: title, current price, buy-it-now price, bid count, time left, exact end time, seller feedback rating, free-shipping flag, category, image and auction link.

What does the Yahoo Auctions Scraper do?

This Actor collects listings from Yahoo Auctions Japan (ヤフオク), the country's largest auction marketplace and the main source for Japanese collectors' items, used electronics, car parts and vintage goods. It returns one row per listing with the fields as data rather than display text: the price is the integer 17050 rather than the string "17,050円", and the end time is a real timestamp rather than "7時間" counting down.

Those values are not scraped from the rendered card. Yahoo annotates every listing with data-auction-* attributes and a packed parameter string that carries the buy-it-now price, the exact start and end timestamps and the seller's positive-feedback percentage — a field the card never displays at all. Reading those is what produces an export you can sort, filter and schedule against.

Who is it for?

• Proxy buying and forwarding services sourcing listings for overseas customers.
• Resellers and arbitrage buyers watching Japanese prices against Western markets.
• Collectors tracking specific models, makers or eras.
• Auction analysts studying bid behaviour and closing prices.
• Parts dealers monitoring used car and camera part supply.
• Market researchers measuring Japanese second-hand demand.

Use cases

• Track every listing for a model and record what it closes at.
• Find auctions ending soon with no bids — the classic bargain filter.
• Compare buy-it-now prices against auction prices for the same item.
• Build a seller shortlist using the feedback rating column.
• Monitor a category for new listings on a schedule.
• Filter to free-shipping listings only.
• Study how bid counts relate to final prices in a category.

Why use this Yahoo Auctions Scraper?

• Seller feedback rating on every row, extracted from data the card does not show.
• Exact end timestamps, not a relative countdown that is meaningless once exported.
• Bid counts including zero. A zero-bid auction is a real and interesting answer, not a missing value.
• Buy-it-now price separated from the current price, so fixed-price and auction supply can be told apart.
• 50 listings per page with keyword or whole-category crawling.
• Japan-pinned residential proxying, because the site serves its own market.

What data can you extract?

Field	Description
auctionId	Yahoo's own auction identifier
title	Listing title
currentPrice	Current price in yen
buyNowPrice	Buy-it-now price, where the listing has one
bids	Number of bids so far, zero included
timeLeft	Time remaining as the site words it
endsAt	Exact end time, ISO 8601
categoryId	Yahoo Auctions category identifier
sellerRating	Seller's positive-feedback percentage
isFleaMarket	Fixed-price marketplace listing rather than an auction
freeShipping	Free shipping flag
imageUrl	Listing thumbnail
url	Direct link to the auction

Sample output

{
  "auctionId": "c1113828077",
  "title": "送料無料／30日保証 ■ ノートPC用 内蔵スピーカー／DELL Inspiron 15より取外し品",
  "currentPrice": 2480,
  "buyNowPrice": null,
  "bids": 0,
  "timeLeft": "50秒",
  "endsAt": "2026-08-26T07:46:27.000Z",
  "categoryId": "2084193583",
  "sellerRating": 99.4,
  "isFleaMarket": false,
  "freeShipping": true,
  "imageUrl": "https://auc-pctr.c.yimg.jp/i/auctions.c.yimg.jp/images/auc.jpg",
  "url": "https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/c1113828077"
}

How to use the Yahoo Auctions Scraper

Option A — search terms

Put terms into Search terms. Japanese returns the most listings, but Latin brand and model names appear in a great many titles too.

Option B — a whole category

Set Category ID to the auccat number from a category URL and leave the search empty.

Option C — bargain hunting

Sort by Ending soonest and filter the export to rows where bids is 0.

Option D — fixed-price only

Tick Buy-it-now only to return listings that carry a fixed price.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
searchQueries	array	Search terms, one per line
categoryId	string	Category ID from a Yahoo Auctions URL
sortBy	select	Ending soonest, price, bids or newly listed
sortOrder	select	Ascending or descending
onlyBuyNow	boolean	Only listings with a fixed buy-it-now price
maxItems	integer	How many listings to collect in total
proxyConfiguration	object	Japan-pinned residential proxy, required

Tips for best results

• Leave the proxy pinned to Japan. Yahoo Auctions serves its own market and behaves differently from elsewhere.
• Japanese search terms return far more listings. ノートパソコン finds a great deal that laptop misses.
• Sort by ending soonest and re-run on a schedule to build a record of closing prices.
• buyNowPrice is empty on most rows because most listings are true auctions with no fixed price — that is the signal, not a gap.
• Use endsAt, not timeLeft, for anything you keep. A countdown is meaningless the moment the run finishes.

Integrations

Send results to Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, Zapier, Make or your own endpoint through Apify's integrations, or run on a schedule to track a category continuously.

API usage

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_USERNAME~yahoo-auctions-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "searchQueries": ["ノートパソコン"],
    "sortBy": "end",
    "maxItems": 1000
  }'

Results export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Available as a tool through Apify's MCP server, so an agent can find listings, check closing prices or watch a category on request.

FAQ

Do I need a Yahoo Japan account?

No. The search pages this Actor reads are open to any visitor.

How many listings can one run return?

Search results page deep, so several thousand listings from one run is normal.

Does it collect final sold prices?

It collects the price at the moment of the run. Schedule a run near an auction's end time, or re-run against the same search, to capture closing prices.

Why is bids zero on so many rows?

Because most auctions receive no bids until the final hours. Zero is recorded as zero rather than left empty, which is what makes the bargain filter possible.

What is sellerRating?

The seller's positive-feedback percentage. Yahoo does not print it on the search card; the Actor reads it from the listing's own tracking parameters.

What is isFleaMarket?

Yahoo runs a fixed-price marketplace alongside the auctions. The flag tells the two apart.

Can I search in English?

Yes, and it works for brand and model names. Japanese terms return substantially more.

Can I export to CSV or Excel?

Yes — JSON, CSV, Excel, XML and RSS.

How fresh is the data?

Every run reads Yahoo Auctions live.

Why did my run return zero listings?

Usually a category ID that does not exist, or a search term with no current listings. Check it on the site first.

Is it legal to scrape Yahoo Auctions?

This Actor reads publicly visible search pages, and collecting publicly available data is generally lawful. You are responsible for how you use it — check Yahoo Japan's terms, respect seller intellectual property in images and descriptions, and do not use the data for unsolicited bulk contact.

Related scrapers

Pair with the other marketplace and auction Actors in the store to cover Japanese, European and North American second-hand supply together.