Mercari Scraper - Listings, Sold Comps, Sellers

Mercari scraper: listings, sold prices, item details & sellers

Pull live and sold listings, full item details, and seller profiles from Mercari Japan in one actor. Search by keyword, category, or brand, or paste item and seller URLs. No login, proxy, or browser setup.

$5 per 1,000 results. Flat for every mode. No meaningful per-run fee.

Covers jp.mercari.com, with native Japanese text and optional English translation.

Why this scraper?

• 💴 Sold prices, not just active listings: flip one switch to pull sold comps for pricing research and resale.
• ⭐ Seller intelligence on every profile: star rating, rating counts, follower count, total sales, and trust badges.
• ❤️ Likes and full comment threads: item detail returns like counts, comment counts, and the actual buyer comments.
• 🗂️ One actor, three modes: search, item detail, and seller, instead of stitching together separate scrapers.
• ⚡ HTTP-only and fast: no headless browser, no proxy juggling, no flaky page loads.
• 🌐 English translation built in: get the Japanese title and description plus an English version on request.
• 🧾 You only pay for rows you keep: billing is per delivered record, so capped runs never charge for nothing.

What data can you extract?

🆔 Item ID & URL	📝 Title & description	💴 Price (JPY)	🏷️ Brand
📦 Condition	📐 Size	🗂️ Category breadcrumb	🚚 Shipping payer
✅ On sale / sold	❤️ Like count	💬 Comment threads	🖼️ Photos
⭐ Seller rating	👥 Follower count	🛍️ Items sold	🎖️ Seller badges

Scraping modes

🔍 Search: keyword, category, brand, and sold comps

Find listings by keyword, or paste a Mercari search, category, or brand URL. Set status to sold_out to pull sold comps for pricing research, or all to get both.

{ "mode": "search", "keyword": "nike", "status": "on_sale", "sort": "created", "maxItems": 100 }

Sold comps:

{ "mode": "search", "keyword": "nike air max", "status": "sold_out", "maxItems": 200 }

📦 Item detail: likes, comments, full description

Paste item URLs or IDs. Returns the rich record: description, like count, comment threads, category breadcrumb, size, shipping method, the seller's rating and sales count, and an optional English translation.

{ "mode": "item", "itemUrls": ["https://jp.mercari.com/item/m39120191169"], "includeTranslation": true }

🧑‍💼 Seller: profile, ratings, and listings

Paste seller URLs or numeric IDs. Returns rating breakdown, follower count, total sales, badges, and optionally the seller's active and sold listings.

{ "mode": "seller", "sellerUrls": ["474702850"], "includeListings": true, "listingStatus": "both", "maxItemsPerSeller": 50 }

How to scrape Mercari Japan: step by step

1. Create a free Apify account. Takes 30 seconds, no card needed.
2. Open Mercari Scraper in the Apify Console.
3. Pick a mode and paste a keyword, or item/seller URLs.
4. Click Start. Most runs finish in under a minute.
5. Export as JSON, CSV, or Excel, or fetch via API.

How much does Mercari Scraper cost?

You pay $5 for 1,000 results, flat across all three modes. The Apify Free plan includes $5 in monthly credits, about 1,000 results. The $29/month Starter plan covers roughly 5,800 results a month. There is no meaningful per-run fee and no subscription lock-in.

Input

{
  "mode": "search",
  "keyword": "nike",
  "status": "on_sale",
  "sort": "created",
  "order": "desc",
  "priceMin": 2000,
  "priceMax": 20000,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Field	Type	Default	Notes
mode	string	search	search, item, or seller.
keyword	string	none	Search term (search mode).
startUrls	array	none	Search, category, or brand URLs (search mode).
itemUrls	array	none	Item URLs or IDs (item mode).
sellerUrls	array	none	Seller URLs or numeric IDs (seller mode).
status	string	on_sale	on_sale, sold_out (comps), or all.
sort	string	score	score, created, price, or likes.
priceMin / priceMax	integer	none	Price range in JPY.
includeTranslation	boolean	false	Add English title and description (item mode).
includeListings	boolean	true	Fetch the seller's items (seller mode).
listingStatus	string	active	active, sold, or both (seller mode).
maxItems	integer	100	Cap on records for the run.

Output

Search / item record:

{
  "recordType": "item",
  "id": "m39120191169",
  "url": "https://jp.mercari.com/item/m39120191169",
  "name": "NIKE スニーカー ホワイト ブラック ゴールド",
  "price": 3600,
  "currency": "JPY",
  "status": "ITEM_STATUS_ON_SALE",
  "isSold": false,
  "condition": { "id": "2", "name": "Almost new" },
  "brand": { "id": "857", "name": "NIKE" },
  "sizes": [{ "id": "11", "name": "27cm" }],
  "categoryBreadcrumb": ["Fashion", "Men's Fashion", "Shoes", "Sneakers"],
  "numLikes": 4,
  "numComments": 2,
  "comments": [{ "user": "...", "message": "...", "created": 1779990000 }],
  "description": "...",
  "shippingMethod": "RakuRaku Mercari Shipping",
  "sellerId": "791654963",
  "sellerName": "...",
  "sellerStarRating": 5,
  "sellerNumRatings": 211,
  "sellerNumSellItems": 171,
  "sellerIsOfficial": false,
  "translatedName": "NIKE Sneakers White Black Gold",
  "updated": 1780029726
}

Seller record:

{
  "recordType": "seller",
  "sellerId": "474702850",
  "sellerName": "古着屋アリーヤ",
  "starRatingScore": 5,
  "numRatings": 12357,
  "ratings": { "good": 12237, "normal": 2, "bad": 118 },
  "followerCount": 6755,
  "numSellItems": 15379,
  "badges": [{ "id": "10004", "name": "Highly Rated" }],
  "isOfficial": false
}

Use cases

• 💴 Resale and arbitrage: pull sold comps to price inventory and spot underpriced listings.
• 📊 Brand and category research: track price, condition, and supply for a brand across thousands of listings.
• 🧲 Seller scouting: surface high-rating, high-volume sellers with follower counts and trust badges.
• 📈 Demand signals: use like and comment counts to gauge interest in an item or category.
• 👟 Sneaker and streetwear tracking: monitor hype brands by size, condition, and sold price.
• 🗃️ Catalog building: collect structured item data with photos, sizes, and category breadcrumbs.

Limitations

• Mercari Japan only. This actor covers jp.mercari.com, not the US Mercari site.
• Sold time is approximate. Sold listings carry a last-updated timestamp as a sold-time proxy; Mercari does not expose an exact sale date.
• Search caps at 15,000 results per query, the limit Mercari itself returns.
• Seller listings cap at 120 per status (active or sold) in a single run.
• Likes and comments are in item-detail mode. Search records carry a liked flag; the full like count and comment threads come from item mode.

FAQ

How much does Mercari Scraper cost?

Mercari Scraper uses pay-per-result pricing. You pay $5 for 1,000 results. The Apify Free plan gives you $5 in usage credits a month, enough for around 1,000 results. If you run regularly, the $29/month Starter plan covers about 5,800 results.

No subscription lock-in. Pause whenever.

Is it legal to scrape Mercari?

Scraping public data is generally allowed in the US and most of the EU, as long as you don't collect personal data covered by GDPR or CCPA without a lawful basis. This actor only touches publicly accessible pages, but how you use the output is on you.

Apify's full breakdown: Is web scraping legal?.

Can I integrate Mercari Scraper with other tools?

Push results into Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Sheets, Google Drive, and more. Apify treats every actor as a webhook source, so anything that consumes webhooks or pulls from an API works.

Full list: Apify integrations.

Can I use Mercari Scraper with the Apify API?

Yes. Every run is available via the Apify REST API:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sourabhbgp~mercari-scraper/runs?token=APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"mode": "search", "keyword": "nike", "maxItems": 100}'

Docs: Apify API reference.

Can I use Mercari Scraper through an MCP Server?

Yes. Apify ships an MCP server that exposes every actor as a tool, so Claude Desktop, Cursor, and any other MCP-capable client can call Mercari Scraper. Setup: Apify MCP docs.

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