Yahoo Auctions Japan Scraper: sold prices (sold comps), live listings and similar listings

Scrape Yahoo! Auctions Japan (ヤフオク!), Japan's largest auction marketplace, without an account, cookies or a browser. Get the final sold price of ended auctions (real sold comps, with the number of bids and the end time) or the live listings open right now (current price, buy-now price, bids, end time), from a keyword, a Yahoo! Auctions search link, a category link or an item link. Optionally open every listing's page for the full description, all photos, exact condition, brand and category path, item specs and shipping methods. New: find similar listings from a Yahoo Auctions listing or photo, sold (with the final price) or live, using Yahoo's own "similar images" search.

Built for resellers and proxy buyers pricing Japanese goods, sourcing teams, collectors (trading cards, watches, cameras, games, figures), market researchers and anyone who needs "what does this really sell for in Japan".

US$ 1.00 per 1,000 listings. Full item page +US$ 0.667 per 1,000. No start fee, no monthly fee. Error rows, duplicates and listings outside your filters are free.

At a glance

• Price per 1,000 listings, Free plan: US$ 1.00 (down to US$ 0.85 on Gold and above)
• Fee per run start: None
• Sold (ended) auctions with final price: Yes
• Live listings: Yes
• Price, condition, category filters and sort: Yes, plus exclude words
• Similar listings from a Yahoo Auctions listing or photo: Yes, sold or live, same price per listing
• Full item page (description, photos, specs, shipping): Optional, +US$ 0.667 / 1,000
• Seller id or nickname: Never (store flag and rating only)
• Resumes after a platform restart without charging twice: Yes

What you can do with it

• Price anything with real sold comps. Search "seiko 5" or "ポケモンカード 30th" in sold mode and get the final price, bids and end time of up to 15,000 ended auctions, newest first.
• Find underpriced live auctions. Live mode with sortBy: endingSoon, a price cap and excludeKeywords: ["ジャンク"] (junk) lists what is about to close cheap.
• Track a category. Paste a category link (/category/list/2084041921/) or a search link with Yahoo's own filters; this Actor keeps them.
• Get sold comps for one exact item. Paste a listing link in similarToItems with listingStatus: sold and get the ended auctions whose photos look most like it (usually the same model first), with their final prices.
• Enrich a list of auctions. Paste item links (https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/x1234567890) and get the full page for each.
• Feed a spreadsheet or an app. Export CSV, Excel or JSON, or call it through the Apify API and schedule it.

Input

Field	What it does
searchTerms	Keywords, one per line, Japanese or English (nintendo switch, ポケモンカード, seiko 5).
listingStatus	sold (default, ended auctions with final price), active (live listings) or both.
startUrls	Search links (/search/search?p=..., /closedsearch/closedsearch?p=...), category links or item links.
similarToItems	Yahoo! Auctions listing links or auction ids: returns listings that look like each one (see below).
imageUrls	Photo links hosted by Yahoo! Auctions (auctions.c.yimg.jp), for the same similar-listings search.
maxResultsPerImage	Similar listings per listing or photo, most similar first. Default 30; 0 = all, up to 3,000.
maxResultsPerSearch	Listings per search, 100 per page. Default 100, up to 15,000.
maxItems	Hard cap on charged listings for the whole run.
sortBy	default, newest, endingSoon (live), priceLow, priceHigh.
minPrice, maxPrice	Price range in yen (Yahoo's own filter).
condition	any, new or used (Yahoo's own filter).
categoryId	The number from a category link.
excludeKeywords	Skip listings whose title has any of these words (free).
storeSellersOnly	Keep only registered Yahoo! stores.
includeDetails	Open each listing's page: description, all photos, condition, brand, specs, shipping.

Example: the last 300 used Nintendo Switch consoles sold between 10,000 and 30,000 yen, without junk.

{
  "searchTerms": ["nintendo switch 本体"],
  "listingStatus": "sold",
  "condition": "used",
  "minPrice": 10000,
  "maxPrice": 30000,
  "excludeKeywords": ["ジャンク", "junk"],
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 300
}

Find similar listings from a Yahoo Auctions listing or photo

Yahoo! Auctions has a "similar images" (類似画像検索) button in every listing's photo gallery. This Actor runs the same search for you: give it a listing and it returns the listings whose photos look most alike, ranked by similarity, either sold (ended, with the final price: sold comps for that exact item) or live.

{
  "similarToItems": ["https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/x1234567890"],
  "listingStatus": "sold",
  "maxResultsPerImage": 50,
  "condition": "used",
  "excludeKeywords": ["ジャンク"]
}

• Input: a listing link or auction id in similarToItems (the Actor reads its main photo; the listing itself is left out), or a photo link in imageUrls. Only photos hosted by Yahoo! Auctions work (auctions.c.yimg.jp, or the auc-pctr.c.yimg.jp thumbnail links found in search results). Yahoo refuses photos from any other site, so this is not a search with your own picture: such links return a free UNSUPPORTED_IMAGE row.
• Filters: listingStatus (sold, active or both), minPrice, maxPrice, condition and categoryId go to Yahoo; excludeKeywords and storeSellersOnly are applied by the Actor (skipped listings are free). includeDetails works too. sortBy does not apply: results are always most similar first.
• Depth: Yahoo serves 96 per page; a typical photo has several hundred live and a few thousand sold look-alikes.
• Rows: the same fields as a search row, plus sourceItem (the auction id you gave), sourceImage (the photo that was matched) and position (rank in Yahoo's similar results). A listing is delivered and charged once per run, even if it matches several sources.
• Price: the normal US$ 1.00 per 1,000 listings delivered. No extra fee per photo.

An empty input runs a small example (20 sold listings for "nintendo switch"), so the Actor never fails on a blank form.

Output

Sold listing (search), one real row

From a local test run on 2026-09-29 (sold search "ポケモンカード"):

{
  "type": "item",
  "listingStatus": "sold",
  "auctionId": "z694968008",
  "url": "https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/z694968008",
  "title": "ポケモンカードゲーム 30th CELEBRATION 拡張パック 10パックセット",
  "priceJpy": 6200,
  "buyNowPriceJpy": 6200,
  "startPriceJpy": 6200,
  "bids": 1,
  "watchCount": 7,
  "isFixedPrice": true,
  "isFleaMarket": true,
  "isFreeShipping": true,
  "condition": "new",
  "conditionJa": "新品",
  "startTime": "2026-09-30T01:49:35+09:00",
  "endTime": "2026-09-30T06:55:51+09:00",
  "categoryId": 25826,
  "categoryName": "トレーディングカードゲーム",
  "categoryPath": ["おもちゃ、ゲーム", "ゲーム", "トレーディングカードゲーム"],
  "categoryIdPath": [25464, 27727, 25826],
  "imageUrl": "https://auc-pctr.c.yimg.jp/i/auctions.c.yimg.jp/images.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/image/...jpg",
  "sellerIsStore": false,
  "sellerGoodRatingPercent": 98.9,
  "isFeatured": false,
  "searchTerm": "ポケモンカード",
  "position": 1,
  "source": "sold:ポケモンカード",
  "detailsLoaded": false,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-29T21:57:29Z",
  "errorCode": null
}

Times are Japan time with the offset (+09:00). condition uses Yahoo's scale: new, unused, like_new, no_visible_damage, minor_damage, visible_damage, poor; conditionJa keeps the Japanese label. Live listings carry the same fields, with the current price; the category path, exact condition and the store flag come with every search row (the full item page adds the rest).

Extra fields with the full item page (includeDetails, and every item link)

From the same test run (live search "seiko", shortened):

{
  "title": "★激レア★SEIKO NAVIGATOR TIMER AUTOMATIC セイコー　ナビゲータータイマー",
  "priceJpy": 51000,
  "startPriceJpy": 1000,
  "bids": 47,
  "watchCount": 81,
  "condition": "no_visible_damage",
  "conditionJa": "目立った傷や汚れなし",
  "endTime": "2026-10-01T21:38:25+09:00",
  "categoryPath": ["アクセサリー、時計", "ブランド腕時計", "さ行", "セイコー", "その他"],
  "detailsLoaded": true,
  "description": "1970年代製 SEIKO ナビゲータータイマー稼働品です。 ムーブメント 自動巻  ケースサイズ41ミリ ...",
  "images": ["https://auctions.c.yimg.jp/images.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/image/dr000/auc0209/user/...jpg"],
  "brandPath": ["SEIKO"],
  "itemSpecs": {},
  "keywords": ["その他", "セイコー", "アクセサリー、時計"],
  "quantity": 1,
  "biddersCount": 15,
  "isAutomaticExtension": true,
  "isEarlyClosing": true,
  "returnsAccepted": false,
  "shippingPaidBy": "buyer",
  "shippingMethods": ["おてがる配送宅急便コンパクト"],
  "shipsWithin": "支払い手続きから2～3日で発送",
  "worldwideDelivery": false,
  "auctionStatus": "open",
  "sellerGoodRatingPercent": 92.3,
  "sellerRatingCount": 66
}

The run also saves SEARCH_SUMMARY in its key-value store: for each sold search, how many sold listings Yahoo has on record and their average, lowest and highest price (free).

Error rows (never charged)

errorCode	When
NO_RESULTS	The search found nothing.
NOT_FOUND	The item link points to an auction that was removed (ended flea-market items often are) or a wrong id.
INVALID_URL	The link is not a Yahoo! Auctions search, category or item link.
UNSUPPORTED_IMAGE	A similar-listings photo that is not hosted by Yahoo! Auctions (Yahoo only matches its own photos).
IMAGE_UNREADABLE	Yahoo did not accept that Yahoo-hosted photo for a similar search (use the listing link).
NO_DATA	The page opened without listing data (retry later).
BLOCKED	Yahoo! Auctions refused every attempt for that request.
NOT_REACHED	The run timeout arrived before this item.
INVALID_INPUT	A field has a value the Actor cannot use (the message says which).
UNEXPECTED	Anything else; the rest of the run continues.

Pricing

Pay per event, no start fee:

Event	Price per 1,000 (Free plan)	Charged for
Listing delivered	US$ 1.00	each unique sold or live listing, from searches, links or similar listings
Full item page added	US$ 0.667	each listing whose page was read (includeDetails, item links)

Examples: 1,000 sold comps cost US$ 1.00. 200 live listings with full pages cost about US$ 0.33. Error rows, duplicates, excluded words and filtered-out listings are free, and maxItems is a hard stop.

How it works and limits

• It reads the same search pages (and the same similar-images search) the Yahoo! Auctions website serves. No login needed, and the proxy is included.
• Yahoo! Auctions shows up to 100 listings per page and up to 15,000 per search. Sold search covers the auctions Yahoo keeps in its ended-auction search.
• Live search results include up to 3 paid "featured" listings at the top; they are flagged with isFeatured: true.
• Ended flea-market (フリマ) items are often removed from Yahoo soon after they sell: their search data is still delivered, but the full item page may be gone (then detailsLoaded is false and the page is not charged).
• Seller personal data is left out on purpose. Most sellers are individuals: no seller id, nickname, profile link or prefecture is returned, only whether the seller is a registered store and its positive-rating percentage. Bidders and Q&A are not returned either, and emails or phone numbers inside descriptions are replaced by [contact removed].

Also on Mercari Japan

Most Japanese second-hand goods are listed on both Yahoo! Auctions and Mercari. Mercari Japan Scraper returns on-sale and sold Mercari listings for the same keyword (US$ 1.99 per 1,000), and its onlyNewListings option turns a scheduled search into a new-listing alert. Run both to see the price on each marketplace.

For the new retail price of the same item, Rakuten Japan Scraper returns Rakuten Ichiba store listings (price, shop, review score) for the same keyword, US$ 1.00 per 1,000.

FAQ

Do I need a Yahoo! JAPAN account? No. Everything comes from public pages.

Can I search in English? Yes. Yahoo expands many English words (for example "nintendo switch" also matches ニンテンドースイッチ), but Japanese keywords usually find more.

Why is the sold price sometimes equal to the buy-now price? Fixed-price and flea-market listings end at the buy-now price; isFixedPrice and isFleaMarket tell them apart from real auctions.

What if the run is restarted by the platform? Listings already in the dataset are not charged again: the Actor reads its own dataset when it starts and skips what was delivered.

Can I upload my own photo to find it on Yahoo! Auctions? No. Yahoo's similar search only works with photos it already hosts, so start from a Yahoo! Auctions listing (or one of its photo links). For your own photo on Japanese second-hand listings, Mercari Japan Scraper has a search by image.

How fast is it? In our tests: 150 sold listings in 8 s, 50 live listings in 2 s, 8 live listings with full pages in 7 s.

Changelog

• 0.1.14 (2026-10-18): live search fixed. Yahoo! Auctions moved its live search page to a new format and live results came back empty; live rows now read the new page and also carry the category path, condition and store flag. New: similar listings from a Yahoo Auctions listing or photo (similarToItems, imageUrls, maxResultsPerImage), sold or live, with the usual filters.

• 0.1 (2026-09-29): first version: sold and live search, links, filters, sort, full item page, resume after restart.

Independent tool, not affiliated with Yahoo! JAPAN or LY Corporation.