Is this legal to use commercially?

The scraper returns catalogue metadata — titles, prices, genres, URLs. Whether a downstream use is permissible depends on your own product and the source's terms; the data itself is product metadata, not creative content.

How deep does a sweep go?

Depth is set by the search scope you configure, from a narrow tag to a broad category sample.

Can I join this with external sales data?

The output is plain JSON with stable field names, so it merges easily with your own tables.

Japan Market Data › Doujin Market Data

Doujin Market Data

The doujin market is a genuine independent publishing economy, and unlike most indie scenes its catalogue is centralised enough to measure. Genres shift fast, a single popular release can define a season, and pricing follows a campaign rhythm rather than a fixed retail model.

Having the catalogue in structured form turns those impressions into observations: how many works a tag is gaining, what a genre's typical price band looks like, and which circles publish repeatedly.

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What you get

`item_name`	Release title.
`current_price_jpy`	Listed price in yen.
`category`	Genre and tag set — the main axis for market analysis.
`item_url`	Product URL for verification.
`image_url`	Cover art.

Field names follow the actor's dataset schema and can differ slightly between actors — check the actor page for the exact input and output schema before wiring it into a pipeline.

Use cases

Genre analysis: measure how listing volume concentrates across tags over time.
Publisher tracking: identify circles that release consistently within a niche.
Marketplace features: power a category browser or recommendation list with fresh data.

How a run works

Starting a run: call the Apify API with the actor id fruitful_quintessence~dlsite-scraper, or press Start on the actor page and download the dataset. Check the actor page for its exact input schema — a run is scoped by the search terms you supply, and billing is per result returned (roughly $0.002 per item).

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/fruitful_quintessence~dlsite-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchTerms": ["your", "search", "terms"]}'

FAQ

Is this legal to use commercially?: The scraper returns catalogue metadata — titles, prices, genres, URLs. Whether a downstream use is permissible depends on your own product and the source's terms; the data itself is product metadata, not creative content.
How deep does a sweep go?: Depth is set by the search scope you configure, from a narrow tag to a broad category sample.
Can I join this with external sales data?: The output is plain JSON with stable field names, so it merges easily with your own tables.

What you get

Use cases

How a run works

FAQ

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