Is sold data available?

Mercari's public listings expose asking prices. For realised prices, the auction sources (Mandarake, Yahoo! Auctions) carry end timestamps.

Can I search by keyword and category?

Yes — runs are scoped by the search terms you provide, and the marketplace category can be recorded with each record.

How fresh is the result set?

Each run captures the state of the catalogue at that moment, so freshness is a function of how often you run it.

Japan Market Data › Mercari Japan Price Data

Mercari Japan Price Data

Mercari Japan is the single best proxy for what Japanese consumers actually pay for second-hand goods. Listings turn over quickly, prices are negotiated by individual sellers, and the same item can sit at wildly different asks depending on how urgently someone wants it gone.

Because the market is C2C, the spread is the signal. A single sweep shows the current price band for an item; a weekly sweep shows which direction it is moving.

Mercari Japan Search Scraper → All Japanese market scrapers →

What you get

`item_name`	Listing title.
`current_price_jpy`	Asking price in yen.
`condition`	Seller-declared condition.
`item_url`	Listing URL.
`image_url`	Primary image.

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

Buy-side research: establish a realistic price band before making an offer.
Sell-side pricing: check what comparable items currently ask before listing your own stock.
Arbitrage screening: surface Japanese listings that sit well below overseas equivalents.

How a run works

Starting a run: call the Apify API with the actor id fruitful_quintessence~mercari-japan-search-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~mercari-japan-search-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchTerms": ["your", "search", "terms"]}'

FAQ

Is sold data available?: Mercari's public listings expose asking prices. For realised prices, the auction sources (Mandarake, Yahoo! Auctions) carry end timestamps.
Can I search by keyword and category?: Yes — runs are scoped by the search terms you provide, and the marketplace category can be recorded with each record.
How fresh is the result set?: Each run captures the state of the catalogue at that moment, so freshness is a function of how often you run it.

What you get

Use cases

How a run works

FAQ

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