Yahoo! Auctions Seller Profile — Rating, Store Badges & Bio
Send a Yahoo! Auctions Japan seller ID or profile URL and this source returns the seller's public profile as data: display name, number of ratings, positive-feedback percentage, store and verification badges, and the profile message.
{
"session_id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
"kind": "yahoo_auctions_seller",
"seller": "8bdaxRiVapnRAmjjt2iWjM9wQzLXU",
"seller_id": "8bdaxRiVapnRAmjjt2iWjM9wQzLXU",
"human": "# Yahoo! Auctions seller\n\n- **Seller:** 8bdaxRiVapnRAmjjt2iWjM9wQzLXU\n- **Proxy traffic:** 125.4 KB\n- **Display name:** まねきや\n- **URL:** https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/seller/8bdaxRiVapnRAmjjt2iWjM9wQzLXU\n- **Ratings:** 8057\n- **Positive feedback:** 99.3%\n- **Store:** yes",
"machine": {
"seller": {
"id": "8bdaxRiVapnRAmjjt2iWjM9wQzLXU",
"url": "https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/seller/8bdaxRiVapnRAmjjt2iWjM9wQzLXU",
"display_name": "まねきや",
"image": "https://displayname-pctr.c.yimg.jp/d/display-name/8a6477ab9b0328737c5b54ef7f2bf34b1650f98f03773af612cb96a87ae5d37e.png?tag=20220708085422&h=128&w=128",
"rating_count": 8057,
"good_rating": 99.3,
"is_store": true,
"is_best_store": false,
"is_excellent_seller": null,
"is_verified": false,
"is_speed_shipping": false,
"region": null,
"region_code": null,
"profile_message": "ご覧頂きましてありがとうございます。\nまねきやです。\n\n\n\n【実店舗営業時間】\n\n営業時間 9:30-18:30\n休業日 夏季休暇・年末年始\nお問合せ yahoo-auc@miduno.co.jp\n (メールのみでの対応となります)\n\n\n【古物営業法に基づく表示】\n\n・古物商（販売業務・買取業務）\n・株式会社水野 代表者：水野政行\n・大阪府公安委員会許可 第62101210038",
"store_licenses": []
},
"proxy_traffic_bytes": 128406
},
"total_points": 5
}- You send
- A Yahoo! Auctions seller ID or seller page URL
- You get back
- Display name, rating count, positive-feedback percentage, store and verification badges and profile message
- Coverage
- Yahoo! Auctions Japan sellers with a public seller page.
- Price
- 5 pts — $5 per 1,000
- Charged only when the seller resolves. A seller ID or URL that doesn't resolve is not billed.
Ways to get this data
Three approaches teams use today, and where each one runs into trouble.
| Approach | What it takes | Cost | Trade-off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading the profile page by hand | Open the seller page and read it | Free, and slow | Fine for one seller, useless across a list |
| Building a scraper | Write it, host it, and repair it when Yahoo! changes the page | Engineering time | A maintenance commitment for something that isn't your product |
| NeuralVerge | One request per seller | $5 per 1,000, misses not billed | Gives the profile as published; deeper feedback detail is in the reviews sources |
What you get back
Every field in the response shown above.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
seller | object | The seller profile, with the keys below. |
id | string | Seller ID. |
url | string | Link to the seller's page. |
display_name | string | Seller's display name. |
image | string | Profile image URL. |
rating_count | number | Total number of ratings. |
good_rating | number | Positive-feedback percentage. |
is_store | boolean | Whether the seller is a store account. |
is_best_store | boolean | Whether the seller carries a best-store designation. |
is_excellent_seller | boolean | Excellent-seller flag, null when the page does not show it. |
is_verified | boolean | Whether the seller carries a verification badge. |
is_speed_shipping | boolean | Whether the seller carries a fast-shipping badge. |
region | string | Seller's prefecture, null when not shown. |
region_code | number | Numeric code for that prefecture, null when not shown. |
profile_message | string | The seller's profile text, in Japanese as written. |
store_licenses | array | Store licence entries, empty when none are listed. |
How to run it
The same lookup works from the app, the API, or as a tool an agent can call mid-task.
One seller per request. The seller ID is the token after /seller/ in the profile URL.
curl -X POST https://api.neuralverge.ai/functions/v1/run-yahoo-auctions-sellers \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "seller": "8bdaxRiVapnRAmjjt2iWjM9wQzLXU" }'What teams use it for
Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.
Check ratings, positive-feedback percentage and badges before you bid.
Read a store's profile message for business details and the terms it states.
Take seller.id from a listing result and see who is behind it.
Keep a set of reliable sellers and refresh their profiles over time.
Coverage, freshness and limits
What this source covers, how fresh it is, and where it stops.
Yahoo! Auctions Japan sellers with a public seller page.
Read at request time.
This source returns publicly visible seller information, stamped with the seller ID it was read from and a session id you can trace. Profile messages can include names and contact details that sellers chose to publish; handle those under your own data-protection rules.
- —Some fields, such as the excellent-seller flag and region, are null when the page does not show them.
- —The profile message is free text in Japanese and may contain personal or business contact details.
- —The profile gives totals only; use the reviews sources for the underlying feedback.
Questions, answered
In the seller page URL after /seller/, and as seller.id in the item and listing sources.
Related sources
The seller's score and counts by period.
Read the feedback comments behind a seller's score.
The seller's live listings.
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Try yahoo! auctions seller on your own data
One request format across every source in the catalog.