Yahoo! Auctions Seller Reviews — Feedback Comments by Seller
Send a Yahoo! Auctions Japan seller ID or profile URL and this source returns the feedback comments left for that seller as data: the verdict, the author, the auction it relates to, the comment text and a relative date.
{
"session_id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
"kind": "yahoo_auctions_seller_reviews",
"seller": "8bdaxRiVapnRAmjjt2iWjM9wQzLXU",
"seller_id": "8bdaxRiVapnRAmjjt2iWjM9wQzLXU",
"max_items": 2,
"start_page": 1,
"partial": false,
"human": "# Yahoo! Auctions seller reviews\n\n- **seller:** 8bdaxRiVapnRAmjjt2iWjM9wQzLXU\n- **seller_id:** 8bdaxRiVapnRAmjjt2iWjM9wQzLXU\n- **max_items:** 2\n- **start_page:** 1\n- **Records returned:** 2\n- **Proxy traffic:** 23.1 KB",
"machine": {
"total_items": 2,
"first_item": {
"rating": "very_good",
"rating_label": "非常に良い 出品者です。",
"role": "as_seller",
"author": "ast********",
"author_rating_count": 78,
"item_id": "j1244909667",
"item_title": "■未開栓 グランド オールドパー デラックス 12年 Grand Old Parr De Luxe 750ml 43％ 旧ボトル スコッチ ウイスキー 古酒【買取まねきや】",
"item_url": "https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/j1244909667",
"text": "ありがとうございました。とても良い取引ができました。また機会がありましたら、よろしくお願いいたします。",
"rated_at_label": "1週間以内"
},
"items": [
{
"rating": "very_good",
"rating_label": "非常に良い 出品者です。",
"role": "as_seller",
"author": "ast********",
"author_rating_count": 78,
"item_id": "j1244909667",
"item_title": "■未開栓 グランド オールドパー デラックス 12年 Grand Old Parr De Luxe 750ml 43％ 旧ボトル スコッチ ウイスキー 古酒【買取まねきや】",
"item_url": "https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/j1244909667",
"text": "ありがとうございました。とても良い取引ができました。また機会がありましたら、よろしくお願いいたします。",
"rated_at_label": "1週間以内"
},
{
"rating": "very_good",
"rating_label": "非常に良い 出品者です。",
"role": "as_seller",
"author": "Nobutan",
"author_rating_count": 250,
"item_id": "j1245196376",
"item_title": "■SEIKO セイコー CASIO カシオ Baby-G CITIZEN 他 腕時計 まとめ 総重量約0.67㎏(袋の重さ含む) 計15点【買取まねきや】",
"item_url": "https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/j1245196376",
"text": "ありがとうございました。とても良い取引ができました。また機会がありましたら、よろしくお願いいたします。",
"rated_at_label": "1週間以内"
}
],
"proxy_traffic_bytes": 23640
},
"total_points": 2
}- You send
- A Yahoo! Auctions seller ID or URL, with optional role and verdict filters
- You get back
- Feedback comments with verdict, author, auction, comment text and relative date
- Coverage
- Feedback shown on the public rating pages of Yahoo! Auctions Japan sellers.
- Price
- 1 point per returned result, up to 500 per request — $1 per 1,000
- Billed per comment actually returned, capped by max_items. A seller with no matching feedback costs nothing.
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 feedback page by hand | Page through the comments and copy them out | Free, and slow | Fine for one seller, not for vetting 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, role and verdict as parameters | $1 per 1,000, misses not billed | Comments are in Japanese and dated only as Yahoo! shows them, such as within the last week |
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 comment, repeated for convenience. |
items | array | The returned records. |
rating | string | Verdict code, e.g. very_good. |
rating_label | string | The verdict label as shown by Yahoo!, in Japanese. |
role | string | Which side the feedback was left on, e.g. as_seller for feedback received while selling. |
author | string | Author's display name, partly masked as Yahoo! shows it. |
author_rating_count | number | Number of ratings the author has. |
item_id | string | ID of the auction the feedback relates to. |
item_title | string | Title of that auction. |
item_url | string | Link to that auction. |
text | string | The comment text, in Japanese as written. |
rated_at_label | string | Relative date label as shown by Yahoo!, e.g. within the last week. |
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. role takes as_seller or as_buyer, and rating takes positive, neutral or negative.
curl -X POST https://api.neuralverge.ai/functions/v1/run-yahoo-auctions-sellers-reviews \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "seller": "8bdaxRiVapnRAmjjt2iWjM9wQzLXU", "max_items": 2 }'What teams use it for
Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.
Read the negative comments for a seller before a high-value purchase.
Track new feedback for a store you compete with or supply.
Feed the comments into your own classification to find recurring complaints.
Coverage, freshness and limits
What this source covers, how fresh it is, and where it stops.
Feedback shown on the public rating pages of Yahoo! Auctions Japan sellers.
Read at request time.
This source returns publicly visible feedback, stamped with the seller ID it was read from and a session id you can trace. Comments are written by individuals; treat the author names and text under your own data-protection rules.
- —Dates are relative labels, not exact timestamps.
- —Comment authors are partly masked, as on the site.
- —Comments are in Japanese as written.
Questions, answered
Yes. Set rating to negative. You can also filter by neutral or positive.
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