Mandarake Auction Scraper — まんだらけ オークション

Scrapes auction listings (item name, price, bids, watchers, shop, images) from Mandarake (まんだらけ), Japan's premier second-hand anime, manga, figure, and collectibles marketplace. Supports 60+ categories, keyword search with pagination (800+ items/keyword), and RSS feed monitoring.

LICENSE

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Output Sample

[
  {
    "name": "フィギュア ドラゴンボール",
    "current_price_jpy": 3000,
    "bid_count": 5,
    "watcher_count": 12,
    "shop_name": "まんだらけ 中野店",
    "item_url": "https://order.mandarake.co.jp/auction/...",
    "image_url": "https://img.mandarake.co.jp/...",
    "end_time": "2026-08-15T20:00:00+09:00"
  }
]

Input

{
  "keyword": "フィギュア",
  "maxPages": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyCountry": "JP"
  }
}

Parameters:

• keyword (required) — Search term (Japanese characters supported)
• category (optional) — Filter by one of 60+ Mandarake categories
• maxPages (optional, default: 3) — Pages to scrape (30 items/page)
• inStock (optional) — Return only items with active bids

Use Cases

• Resale arbitrage — Find undervalued items by comparing Mandarake auction prices to market rates
• Price monitoring — Track auction prices for specific collectibles over time
• Market research — Analyze bidding patterns, popular categories, and price distributions
• Inventory feeds — Feed structured auction data into LLMs for automated pricing analysis
• Automated alerts — Add a webhook URL to receive Slack/Discord/n8n notifications when new items match your search

Integrations

This actor supports Apify MCP Connectors — connect your runs to Slack, Notion, Supabase, or GitHub without sharing credentials. Look for the "Connectors" tab on the run screen.

You can also schedule daily/hourly runs from the Schedule tab and receive results via webhook (add a webhookUrl in the input).

Webhook Setup Examples

Slack — Create a Slack webhook:

1. Go to https://api.slack.com/apps → Create New App → Incoming Webhooks
2. Activate and copy the Webhook URL (looks like https://hooks.slack.com/services/T00/B00/xxxxx)
3. Paste it into the webhookUrl input field when running the actor
4. Result: Slack posts a message like "Mandarake Auction Scraper completed: 25 items found"

Discord — Create a Discord webhook:

1. Server Settings → Integrations → Webhooks → New Webhook
2. Copy the Webhook URL (looks like https://discord.com/api/webhooks/xxxxx/yyyyy)
3. Paste it into the webhookUrl input field

n8n / Zapier — Use any webhook trigger:

1. Create an n8n "Webhook" node or Zapier "Webhooks by Zapier" trigger
2. Copy the generated URL and paste into webhookUrl
3. The JSON payload includes: event, actor, keyword, itemCount, datasetId, datasetUrl

Example: Scheduled Slack Alerts with Price Monitoring

1. Set up keyword search as usual
2. Add a Slack webhook URL to webhookUrl
3. Go to Schedule tab → Create a daily schedule
4. Every day at 9 AM, the actor runs and posts results to your Slack channel
5. Click the dataset link in Slack to open full results

Pricing

• $0.00005 per actor start + $0.001 per search + $0.00001 per result item
• Typical 100-item search run: ~$0.001 total
• You only pay for what you use — no monthly subscription

Limitations

• Mandarake blocks aggressive crawling; respect the built-in rate limiting
• Images are hosted on Mandarake CDN and may expire after the auction ends
• We do not bypass CAPTCHAs; the actor respects robots.txt

FAQ

Does this work for Yahoo Auctions Japan? No. This actor only scrapes Mandarake Auction. See our other actors.

How fresh is the data? Live at run time. We do not cache results.

Can I run this on a schedule? Yes. Use the Apify Schedule tab to run daily or hourly.

Does this require an API key? No. The actor scrapes publicly available listing pages.

Changelog

• v0.2.1 (2026-07-29): Reduced pricing — start fee $0.00005, search $0.001
• v0.2.0 (2026-07-27): Added isPrimaryEvent pricing model
• v0.1.0 (2026-07-26): Initial release with keyword search and 60+ categories