Yahoo Auctions Japan Sold Price Comps (ヤフオク落札相場)

Get real sold prices from Yahoo! Auctions Japan (ヤフオク) for any keyword — median, min/max, quartiles, and a sample of the most recent closed listings. Built for sourcing and resale teams who need a fast, English-language answer to "what does this actually sell for in Japan?" without reading Japanese or scraping pages by hand. Runs on the Apify platform, so you get API access, scheduling, and monitoring out of the box.

Why use Yahoo Auctions Japan Sold Price Comps?

Overseas resellers, proxy-buying services, and sourcing agents constantly need to answer one question before they buy: is this worth it in the Japanese market? Listing prices (what sellers are asking) are a poor signal — sold prices are the real market. This Actor queries Yahoo! Auctions' closed-listings search directly and returns aggregated comps, so a buying decision takes one API call instead of a manual search in Japanese.

It is also built to be safe to depend on: it only reads the page LY Corporation's own robots.txt explicitly allows, and it never reads or outputs seller/buyer information — only what was sold, for how much, and when.

How to use Yahoo Auctions Japan Sold Price Comps

1. Open the Input tab and enter one or more search keywords (Japanese or English romanized terms both work, but Japanese keywords match far more listings).
2. Optionally set a price range, how many recent items to sample, and how many recent items to show per keyword.
3. Click Start — or call the Actor via the API, a Python/JS client, or an MCP-compatible AI agent.
4. Read the results from the Output tab, or download the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Input

Field	Type	Description
keywords	array of strings	Search terms. One summary row per keyword.
maxItemsPerKeyword	integer	How many most-recently-sold listings to sample per keyword (default 100, max 300).
minPrice / maxPrice	integer	Optional sold-price range in JPY.
topN	integer	How many of the most recent sold items to list inside each summary row (default 5).
includeItems	boolean	Also output every sampled item as its own dataset row (billed separately, see Pricing).

{
  "keywords": ["ポケモンカード リザードン", "Nintendo Switch 有機EL"],
  "maxItemsPerKeyword": 100
}

Output

One dataset row per keyword, with the aggregated comps:

{
  "type": "summary",
  "keyword": "ポケモンカード リザードン",
  "totalResultsAvailable": 26967,
  "sampled": 100,
  "currency": "JPY",
  "priceJpy": { "median": 17000, "mean": 20968, "p25": 14625, "p75": 19000, "min": 500, "max": 126999 },
  "fixedPriceShare": 0.82,
  "avgBidCount": 3.4,
  "conditionBreakdown": { "NEW": 39, "USED20": 30 },
  "topItems": [ { "title": "...", "priceJpy": 18000, "endTime": "2026-09-17T23:05:27+09:00" } ]
}

You can download the full dataset in JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel from the Output tab.

Data fields

Field	Description
priceJpy.median / mean / p25 / p75 / min / max	Sold price stats across the sampled items, in JPY.
sampled	How many sold items the stats are based on.
totalResultsAvailable	Total closed listings Yahoo reports for the keyword (before sampling).
fixedPriceShare	Share of sampled items that were "Buy It Now" (fixed price) rather than auctioned.
avgBidCount	Average number of bids across the sampled items.
conditionBreakdown	Count of sampled items by Yahoo's condition code (e.g. NEW, USED20).
topItems	The most recently sold items (title, price, end time, condition, listing URL, image).

This Actor never outputs seller or buyer information. No usernames, no ratings, no IDs — by design, not as an afterthought.

Pricing

This Actor uses the Apify Pay Per Event model. There is no fixed run cost — you only pay for what you get:

Event	Price	When it's charged
summary	$0.05	Once per keyword that returns at least one sold item.
item	$0.003	Once per item, only if includeItems is enabled.

Example: 50 keywords, summaries only, costs $2.50. A keyword with zero sold items is not charged.

Tips

• Keep includeItems off unless you need the raw per-item data — the summary already covers typical sourcing/pricing decisions.
• Use Japanese keywords where possible; they match far more listings than romanized English terms.
• Results only include sold (closed) listings, sorted by most recent end time — this Actor does not read active/current listings.
• Call it via the Apify API, the Python or JavaScript client, or as a tool from an MCP-compatible AI agent.

FAQ

Why is there no seller information in the output? By design. This Actor only reads and reports on completed transactions (item, price, time) — never on who bought or sold. This keeps it clear of personal-data handling entirely.

Can I get active (not-yet-sold) listings? No — this Actor is scoped to closed/sold listings only, since that's what gives an honest read on real market price.

Is this affiliated with Yahoo! JAPAN or LY Corporation? No. This Actor is an independent tool that reads publicly accessible search result pages. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to LY Corporation or Yahoo! JAPAN. Data is provided for research and sourcing purposes with no accuracy guarantee. If you run into blocked runs or unexpected data, please open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab.