Japan Market Data › Japan Trading Card Price Data
The Japanese card market moves differently from the English-language one. Sealed boxes, single cards and promo distributions are often priced first in Japan, and an English-market repricing tends to follow rather than lead it.
Sampling Japanese listings in bulk gives you the leading edge of that series. The scraper returns one record per listing with the price, condition and image URL, so you can chart a card's Japanese ask against its overseas price.
item_name | Card, box or product name as listed. |
|---|---|
current_price_jpy | Asking or cleared price in yen. |
condition | Grade for singles where published. |
image_url | Listing image, useful for spotting reprints and counterfeit tells. |
item_url | Source URL. |
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.
Starting a run: call the Apify API with the actor id fruitful_quintessence~mandarake-auction-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 $0.002 per item).
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/fruitful_quintessence~mandarake-auction-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"searchTerms": ["your", "search", "terms"]}'