Jimoty Scraper — Japan free & secondhand classifieds (ジモティー)

Get clean, structured listings from Jimoty / ジモティー, Japan's largest local classifieds board — the place where people give things away for free or sell them locally instead of shipping through Mercari. Search any keyword in Japanese or English, filter by prefecture, and download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel. No login, no browser, no proxy setup.

What you get

{
  "articleId": "1qq781",
  "url": "https://jmty.jp/tokyo/sale-mob/article-1qq781",
  "title": "iPhone 13 Pro シエラブルー",
  "price": 41000,
  "priceText": "41,000円",
  "isFree": false,
  "prefecture": "東京",
  "city": "台東区",
  "station": "稲荷町駅",
  "category": "携帯電話/スマホ",
  "snippet": "トリプルカメラシステムを搭載した、洗練されたシエラブルーカラーの…",
  "imageUrl": "https://cdn.jmty.jp/articles/images/…/thumb_m_file.jpg",
  "favoriteCount": 4,
  "updatedAtText": "7月26日"
}

Turn on Include detail page data and every listing also carries the full description, all photos, exact timestamps, GPS coordinates of the handover spot, and the seller's trust profile:

{
  "description": "トリプルカメラシステムを搭載した…（full text）",
  "images": ["https://cdn.jmty.jp/…/slide_file.jpg", "…"],
  "areaName": "東京都台東区松が谷",
  "latitude": 35.7137819935,
  "longitude": 139.7852932900,
  "inquiriesCount": 2,
  "sellerName": "ひよ",
  "sellerArticlesCount": 6,
  "sellerGoodEvaluations": 3,
  "sellerBadEvaluations": 0,
  "sellerIdentified": true,
  "sellerIsBusiness": false
}

Why Jimoty specifically

Jimoty is the only major Japanese marketplace built around local pickup and free giveaways (無料 listings). That makes it a different dataset from Mercari, Rakuma or PayPay Flea:

• Resale sourcing — flip the freeOnly switch and you get a live feed of items people are giving away, with the pickup city and station attached
• Price research — local-pickup prices sit below shipped-marketplace prices, so this is the floor of the Japanese secondhand market
• Regional demand analysis — every listing carries prefecture, city, nearest station and (in detail mode) GPS coordinates
• Seller vetting — detail mode returns identity verification, business flag, listing count and the good/bad review split before you contact anyone

How to use

1. Enter a keyword (iphone, ソファ, 自転車) or leave it empty to browse a whole area
2. Pick a prefecture using Jimoty's romaji slug: all, tokyo, osaka, kanagawa, aichi, fukuoka, hokkaido …
3. Choose a section — everything, or a specific board like phones, furniture, appliances, bicycles
4. Optionally enable Free giveaways only or Include detail page data
5. Run, then download from the Dataset tab as JSON / CSV / Excel, or pull it through the Apify API

Example input

{
  "keyword": "",
  "prefecture": "tokyo",
  "section": "sale-fur",
  "maxItems": 300,
  "freeOnly": true,
  "includeDetails": true
}

That one returns every free furniture giveaway currently posted in Tokyo, with photos, pickup location and seller reputation.

Notes on reliability

• Requests are paced and retried with exponential backoff, so long exports keep running instead of dying on a temporary block
• Listings are de-duplicated by article ID across pages, and the run stops by itself when Jimoty starts repeating results — you never pay for the same row twice
• Prices come back as real numbers, with isFree: true on giveaways rather than a misleading 0 you have to interpret

Pricing model

You pay per result — a small fee for each listing returned. A 300-listing export costs less than a coffee, and you only pay for rows you actually receive.

FAQ

Does it need a proxy? No. It runs from Apify's servers without residential proxies.

Can I scrape a whole prefecture? Yes. Leave the keyword empty, pick the prefecture and raise maxItems. The Actor pages through until it runs out of new listings.

Is the free-giveaway filter reliable? It keys off the actual price field, so it catches both 無料 and 0円 listings.

How fresh is the data? List pages carry the update date, and detail mode adds exact ISO timestamps. Schedule the Actor hourly or daily and diff to catch new posts.