E-commerce & Marketplaces
Yahoo! Auctions Seller Listings — A Seller's Live Auctions
Send a Yahoo! Auctions Japan seller ID or profile URL and this source returns that seller's live listings as data: title, price, buy-it-now price, bids, end time, condition, category, shipping prefecture and the seller's rating and store flag.
Example response
{
"session_id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
"kind": "yahoo_auctions_seller_items",
"seller": "8bdaxRiVapnRAmjjt2iWjM9wQzLXU",
"seller_id": "8bdaxRiVapnRAmjjt2iWjM9wQzLXU",
"max_items": 2,
"start_page": 1,
"partial": false,
"human": "# Yahoo! Auctions seller items\n\n- **seller:** 8bdaxRiVapnRAmjjt2iWjM9wQzLXU\n- **seller_id:** 8bdaxRiVapnRAmjjt2iWjM9wQzLXU\n- **max_items:** 2\n- **start_page:** 1\n- **Records returned:** 2\n- **Proxy traffic:** 133.9 KB",
"machine": {
"total_items": 2,
"first_item": {
"id": "r1246535918",
"url": "https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/r1246535918",
"name": "■dunhill ダンヒル ボストンバッグ トラベルバッグ レザー ヴィンテージ 計1点【買取まねきや】",
"image": "https://auc-pctr.c.yimg.jp/i/auctions.c.yimg.jp/images.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/image/dr000/auc0209/user/51f851691f96ca1c0a0a326b8dc8c7d6165590e70c73563362193852794ea53c/i-img1200x1200-17907611586574f6atd",
"price": 1100,
"buy_now_price": null,
"start_price": 1000,
"is_taxed": true,
"bid_count": 0,
"watch_count": 2,
"start_at": 1790761159,
"end_at": 1791379841,
"condition": "slight_damage",
"category": {
"id": "2084051036",
"name": "かばん、バッグ"
},
"category_path": [
{
"id": "0",
"name": "オークション"
},
{
"id": "23000",
"name": "ファッション"
}
],
"brand_id": 101160,
"region": "fukuoka",
"region_code": 40,
"marketplace": "yahoo_auctions",
"is_fixed_price": false,
"is_free_shipping": false,
"is_new_arrival": true,
"is_appraisal": false,
"is_featured": false,
"seller": {
"id": "8bdaxRiVapnRAmjjt2iWjM9wQzLXU",
"url": "https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/seller/8bdaxRiVapnRAmjjt2iWjM9wQzLXU",
"display_name": null,
"image": null,
"rating_count": null,
"good_rating": 99.3,
"is_store": true,
"is_best_store": false,
"is_excellent_seller": null,
"is_verified": null,
"is_speed_shipping": null,
"region": null,
"region_code": null,
"profile_message": null,
"store_licenses": []
}
},
"items": [
{
"id": "r1246535918",
"url": "https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/r1246535918",
"name": "■dunhill ダンヒル ボストンバッグ トラベルバッグ レザー ヴィンテージ 計1点【買取まねきや】",
"image": "https://auc-pctr.c.yimg.jp/i/auctions.c.yimg.jp/images.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/image/dr000/auc0209/user/51f851691f96ca1c0a0a326b8dc8c7d6165590e70c73563362193852794ea53c/i-img1200x1200-17907611586574f6atd",
"price": 1100,
"buy_now_price": null,
"start_price": 1000,
"is_taxed": true,
"bid_count": 0,
"watch_count": 2,
"start_at": 1790761159,
"end_at": 1791379841,
"condition": "slight_damage",
"category": {
"id": "2084051036",
"name": "かばん、バッグ"
},
"category_path": [
{
"id": "0",
"name": "オークション"
},
{
"id": "23000",
"name": "ファッション"
}
],
"brand_id": 101160,
"region": "fukuoka",
"region_code": 40,
"marketplace": "yahoo_auctions",
"is_fixed_price": false,
"is_free_shipping": false,
"is_new_arrival": true,
"is_appraisal": false,
"is_featured": false,
"seller": {
"id": "8bdaxRiVapnRAmjjt2iWjM9wQzLXU",
"url": "https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/seller/8bdaxRiVapnRAmjjt2iWjM9wQzLXU",
"display_name": null,
"image": null,
"rating_count": null,
"good_rating": 99.3,
"is_store": true,
"is_best_store": false,
"is_excellent_seller": null,
"is_verified": null,
"is_speed_shipping": null,
"region": null,
"region_code": null,
"profile_message": null,
"store_licenses": []
}
},
{
"id": "1246515443",
"url": "https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/1246515443",
"name": "■ROLEX ロレックス サブマリーナ 純正BOX 68.00.71 ウォッチボックス ケース グリーン 外箱 アンカー 計1点【買取まねきや】",
"image": "https://auc-pctr.c.yimg.jp/i/auctions.c.yimg.jp/images.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/image/dr000/auc0209/user/51f851691f96ca1c0a0a326b8dc8c7d6165590e70c73563362193852794ea53c/i-img1179x1179-17907609464615zwqtg",
"price": 8683,
"buy_now_price": null,
"start_price": 1000,
"is_taxed": true,
"bid_count": 3,
"watch_count": 4,
"start_at": 1790760946,
"end_at": 1791379576,
"condition": "no_visible_damage",
"category": {
"id": "2084310801",
"name": "箱、保証書、付属品"
},
"category_path": [
{
"id": "0",
"name": "オークション"
},
{
"id": "23140",
"name": "アクセサリー、時計"
}
],
"brand_id": 102294,
"region": "fukuoka",
"region_code": 40,
"marketplace": "yahoo_auctions",
"is_fixed_price": false,
"is_free_shipping": false,
"is_new_arrival": true,
"is_appraisal": false,
"is_featured": false,
"seller": {
"id": "8bdaxRiVapnRAmjjt2iWjM9wQzLXU",
"url": "https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/seller/8bdaxRiVapnRAmjjt2iWjM9wQzLXU",
"display_name": null,
"image": null,
"rating_count": null,
"good_rating": 99.3,
"is_store": true,
"is_best_store": false,
"is_excellent_seller": null,
"is_verified": null,
"is_speed_shipping": null,
"region": null,
"region_code": null,
"profile_message": null,
"store_licenses": []
}
}
],
"proxy_traffic_bytes": 137075
},
"total_points": 2
}- You send
- A Yahoo! Auctions seller ID or URL, with optional keyword, category, price, condition, region and sort filters
- You get back
- The seller's live listings with title, price, bids, end time, condition, category and region
- Coverage
- Live listings of Yahoo! Auctions Japan sellers with a public seller page.
- Price
- 1 point per returned result, up to 500 per request — $1 per 1,000
- Billed per listing actually returned, capped by max_items. A seller with no matching listings costs nothing.
Comparison
Ways to get this data
Three approaches teams use today, and where each one runs into trouble.
| Approach | What it takes | Cost | Trade-off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Browsing the seller's page by hand | Page through the listings and copy them out | Free, and slow | Fine for a quick look, not for tracking stock |
| 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, filters as parameters | $1 per 1,000, misses not billed | A large store with no filter returns, and bills, a large result set |
Response
What you get back
Every field in the response shown above.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
total_items | number | How many records were returned in this batch (capped by max_items). |
first_item | object | The first returned listing, repeated for convenience. |
items | array | The returned records. |
id | string | Yahoo! Auctions listing ID. |
url | string | Direct link to the auction page. |
name | string | Listing title, in Japanese as posted. |
image | string | Primary photo URL. |
price | number | Current price in JPY. |
buy_now_price | number | Buy-it-now price in JPY, null when the listing has none. |
start_price | number | Opening price in JPY. |
is_taxed | boolean | Whether the listing is flagged as taxed. |
bid_count | number | Number of bids placed. |
watch_count | number | Number of users watching the listing. |
start_at | number | Listing start time as a Unix timestamp. |
end_at | number | Auction end time as a Unix timestamp. |
condition | string | Condition code, e.g. damaged, slight_damage, no_visible_damage. |
category | object | Leaf category id and Japanese name. |
category_path | array | Category ancestors, each with id and name. |
brand_id | number | Yahoo! Auctions brand ID, when the listing is tagged with one. |
region | string | Prefecture the item ships from, e.g. osaka or tokyo. |
region_code | number | Numeric code for that prefecture. |
marketplace | string | Which marketplace the listing is on, e.g. yahoo_auctions. |
is_fixed_price | boolean | Whether the listing is fixed price rather than a bidding auction. |
is_free_shipping | boolean | Whether shipping is free. |
is_new_arrival | boolean | Whether the listing is flagged as newly listed. |
is_appraisal | boolean | Whether the listing carries an authenticity appraisal flag. |
is_featured | boolean | Whether the listing is flagged as featured. |
seller | object | Seller id, URL and the rating and store flags the results page shows. Profile fields such as display_name come back null here; run Yahoo! Auctions seller for the full profile. |
Integration
How to run it
The same lookup works from the app, the API, or as a tool an agent can call mid-task.
Set max_items to cap spend; it accepts up to 500 per request. keyword_exclude needs a keyword. Use start_page to continue from where a previous request stopped.
curl -X POST https://api.neuralverge.ai/functions/v1/run-yahoo-auctions-sellers-items \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "seller": "8bdaxRiVapnRAmjjt2iWjM9wQzLXU", "max_items": 2 }'Use cases
What teams use it for
Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.
New stock alerts
Sort by newest and run on a schedule to see what a store has just listed.
Competitor monitoring
Track a rival seller's prices, bid counts and categories over time.
Targeted sourcing
Filter a trusted store's inventory by keyword and condition.
Coverage & limits
Coverage, freshness and limits
What this source covers, how fresh it is, and where it stops.
Coverage
Live listings of Yahoo! Auctions Japan sellers with a public seller page.
Freshness
Read at request time.
Handling
This source returns publicly visible listing information, stamped with the seller ID it was read from and a session id you can trace.
What it will not do
- —Only live listings are returned, not the seller's past auctions.
- —The seller object on each record is limited to rating and store flags; use Yahoo! Auctions seller for the full profile.
- —Titles are in Japanese as posted, so keywords usually need to be Japanese to match them.
FAQ
Questions, answered
In the seller page URL after /seller/, and as seller.id in the item and listing sources.
Related
Related sources
Yahoo! Auctions seller
The seller's profile, badges and rating.
Yahoo! Auctions items search
Search live listings by keyword or category.
Yahoo! Auctions seller reviews
Read the feedback comments behind a seller's score.
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