Japan Market Data › Resale Arbitrage Japan
Arbitrage between Japan and Western markets has a long history in collectibles, cameras and cars, and it survives because the information is genuinely hard to assemble. Prices are published in Japanese, on marketplaces with different catalogue conventions, and the interesting spread is often invisible from a search result page.
Systematic screening requires structured data on both sides. The Japanese side is what these scrapers provide: prices in yen with condition, images and URLs, in a format you can join to your own comparison table.
item_name | Title to match against your overseas reference table. |
|---|---|
current_price_jpy | Japanese price in yen for conversion and margin maths. |
condition | Critical — arbitrage margins collapse if the cheaper copy is in worse condition. |
item_url | Listing URL for manual verification before committing capital. |
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: pick the actor for your marketplace from the publisher page, then start it from the Apify console or the API. Billing is per result returned (roughly $0.002 per item), so a scoped search stays cheap.
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/$DATASET_ID/items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN&format=json"