# Japan Second-hand Search: Yahoo Auctions & PayPay (`sinodata/japan-secondhand-search`) Actor

Search Japan's second-hand marketplaces in one run: Yahoo! Auctions live listings and recent sold prices, and PayPay Flea Market listings, with price in yen and USD, bids, condition, category, shipping and seller rating, plus a sold-price summary per keyword. No login.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sinodata/japan-secondhand-search.md
- **Developed by:** [SinoData](https://apify.com/sinodata) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.80 / 1,000 listings

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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

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Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Japan Second-hand Search: Yahoo Auctions & PayPay

Search Japan's biggest second-hand marketplaces in one run and get clean, typed data in English field names:

- **Yahoo! Auctions (ヤフオク!) live listings**: current price, buy-it-now price, starting price, bids, watchers, end time, condition, category, shipping fee, where it ships from, seller rating
- **Yahoo! Auctions sold items**: what items actually sold for recently, with the final price and sale date
- **PayPay Flea Market (PayPayフリマ)**: fixed-price listings with price, likes, condition, brand, category, hashtags and seller rating
- **Sold-price summary per keyword** (free): count, min, quartiles, median, max and average of recent final prices
- **Prices in yen and your currency** (USD, EUR, GBP, CNY and more, at the European Central Bank rate)

No login, no Japanese phone number, no browser.

### Use cases

- **Resellers and importers**: check what Pokémon cards, sneakers, watches, cameras or game consoles really sell for in Japan before buying or listing.
- **Proxy-buying services**: feed live listings with prices in your customers' currency.
- **Price research**: compare live asking prices with recent sold prices for any model.
- **Collectors**: monitor new listings for a keyword on a schedule.

### Example input

```json
{
  "keywords": ["ポケモンカード", "Nintendo Switch 2"],
  "sources": ["yahooAuctions", "yahooAuctionsSold", "paypayFleamarket"],
  "maxItemsPerSource": 100,
  "maxPriceJpy": 60000,
  "currency": "USD"
}
```

**Use Japanese keywords** when you can: ニンテンドースイッチ finds far more than "Nintendo Switch". Brand and model names in English (Rolex, iPhone 15, PS5) work well.

### Output

A sold item:

```json
{
  "type": "sold",
  "source": "yahooAuctions",
  "keyword": "Nintendo Switch 2",
  "id": "z716898182",
  "title": "Nintendo Switch2 ゼルダの伝説 40周年アニバーサリーエディションの「付属品のみ」",
  "url": "https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/z716898182",
  "priceJpy": 35000,
  "priceUsd": 221.66,
  "bids": 1,
  "watchers": 4,
  "fixedPrice": true,
  "condition": "new",
  "category": "ニンテンドースイッチアクセサリー",
  "freeShipping": true,
  "sellerRating": "100%",
  "shipsFrom": "Chiba",
  "soldAt": "2026-11-03T12:32:21+09:00"
}
```

A summary (one per keyword, free):

```json
{ "type": "soldSummary", "keyword": "ポケモンカード", "count": 60, "minJpy": 200, "p25Jpy": 1000, "medianJpy": 10800, "p75Jpy": 15500, "maxJpy": 450000, "averageJpy": 19174, "medianUsd": 68.4 }
```

The summary covers every sold result for the keyword, accessories and bundles included, so use a precise keyword (model, edition, card name) for a meaningful price range.

`type` is `listing` (for sale now), `sold` or `soldSummary`. Conditions are translated to `new`, `like new`, `very good`, `good`, `fair` and `poor`.

### Pricing

| Record | Price |
|---|---|
| Listing or sold item | $0.002 |
| Sold-price summary | free |

100 live listings, 100 sold items and 100 PayPay listings for one keyword cost $0.60.

### Notes

- Results come in each site's default order. Sorting and condition filters aren't offered because the sites ask crawlers not to use them.
- The price range applies to live listings; sold items cover the most recent sales Yahoo shows for the keyword.
- Seller names are masked by the sites and not collected; only their rating is.
- Titles and categories stay in Japanese, as on the sites.

### Feedback

Need another marketplace or field? Open an issue on the Issues tab.

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

What to search for. Japanese keywords find far more listings (e.g. ニンテンドースイッチ, ポケモンカード, ロレックス), but English brand and model names work too.

## `sources` (type: `array`):

Where to search.

## `maxItemsPerSource` (type: `integer`):

How many results to save from each source for each keyword.

## `minPriceJpy` (type: `integer`):

Only items at or above this price. Applies to live listings.

## `maxPriceJpy` (type: `integer`):

Only items at or below this price. Applies to live listings.

## `currency` (type: `string`):

Adds the price converted at the European Central Bank's latest rate. JPY = yen only.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Not needed for normal use.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "ポケモンカード",
    "Nintendo Switch 2"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "yahooAuctions",
    "yahooAuctionsSold",
    "paypayFleamarket"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerSource": 100,
  "currency": "USD",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `items` (type: `string`):

No description

## `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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "keywords": [
        "ポケモンカード",
        "Nintendo Switch 2"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("sinodata/japan-secondhand-search").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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "keywords": [
        "ポケモンカード",
        "Nintendo Switch 2",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("sinodata/japan-secondhand-search").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "keywords": [
    "ポケモンカード",
    "Nintendo Switch 2"
  ]
}' |
apify call sinodata/japan-secondhand-search --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,sinodata/japan-secondhand-search"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/mUYtpEcLaMDjyPUq9/builds/wHflgGmf4Gbl54xgA/openapi.json