# /yahoo/auctions/items/search

`POST /api/yahoo/auctions/items/search`

Price: 20 credits

Search live Yahoo! Auctions Japan (Yahoo!オークション) listings by keyword and/or category, with filters for current-price range, buy-it-now price range, item condition, shipping-from prefecture, seller type, brand, listing type (bidding or fixed price), authenticity appraisal, free shipping, photo presence, newly listed items, auctions ending within the hour, convenience-store pickup and anonymous shipping, plus sorting by recency, remaining time, price, buy-it-now price, bid count, popularity or featured rank. Returns listing cards with current price, buy-it-now price, start price, bid count, end time, category path and seller id.

## How to use it

Search currently running Yahoo! Auctions Japan listings. Provide keyword and/or category plus count. Filters: keyword_exclude, price_min/price_max, buy_now_price_min/buy_now_price_max (JPY), condition (new/like_new/no_visible_damage/slight_damage/damaged/poor/used), region (tokyo/osaka/...), seller_type (store/individual), brand_id, listing_type (auction/fixed_price), marketplace (yahoo_auctions/yahoo_flea), authenticated, free_shipping, has_image, new_arrival, ending_within_hour, konbini_pickup, anonymous_shipping, sort (newest/ending_soonest/ending_latest/price_asc/price_desc/buy_now_price_asc/buy_now_price_desc/bids_desc/bids_asc/popular/featured). Each result has id, url, name, image, price (current bid), buy_now_price, start_price, bid_count, end_at (unix seconds), category_path_ids, marketplace, is_free_shipping and seller_id/seller_url (call yahoo/auctions/sellers for the full seller profile). price and buy_now_price include consumption tax; start_price is the pre-tax opening bid. For prices items actually sold at, use yahoo/auctions/items/closed/search.

## Parameters

- `access-token` (string, required)

## Request body

- `timeout` (integer) — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
- `category` (integer, nullable) — Category id to search in, as returned by yahoo/auctions/categories (min: 0)
- `price_min` (integer, nullable) — Minimum price (JPY) (min: 0)
- `price_max` (integer, nullable) — Maximum price (JPY) (min: 0)
- `condition` (string, nullable) — Item condition (one of: "new", "used", "like_new", "no_visible_damage", "slight_damage", "damaged", "poor")
- `region` (string, nullable) — Prefecture the item is shipped from (one of: "hokkaido", "aomori", "iwate", "miyagi", "akita", "yamagata", "fukushima", "ibaraki", "tochigi", "gunma", "saitama", "chiba", "tokyo", "kanagawa", "yamanashi", "nagano", "niigata", "toyama", "ishikawa", "fukui", "gifu", "shizuoka", "aichi", "mie", "shiga", "kyoto", "osaka", "hyogo", "nara", "wakayama", "tottori", "shimane", "okayama", "hiroshima", "yamaguchi", "tokushima", "kagawa", "ehime", "kochi", "fukuoka", "saga", "nagasaki", "kumamoto", "oita", "miyazaki", "kagoshima", "okinawa", "overseas")
- `brand_id` (integer, nullable) — Brand id, as returned in item brand_id (min: 0)
- `free_shipping` (boolean) — Only items shipped free of charge (default: false)
- `has_image` (boolean) — Only items that have a photo (default: false)
- `keyword` (string, nullable) — Search keyword; may be omitted when a category is given (examples: "ロレックス")
- `keyword_exclude` (string, nullable) — Space-separated words that must not appear in the item name
- `buy_now_price_min` (integer, nullable) — Minimum buy-it-now price (JPY) (min: 0)
- `buy_now_price_max` (integer, nullable) — Maximum buy-it-now price (JPY) (min: 0)
- `seller_type` (string, nullable) — Restrict to store or private sellers (one of: "store", "individual")
- `listing_type` (string, nullable) — Restrict to bidding auctions or to fixed-price listings (one of: "auction", "fixed_price")
- `marketplace` (string, nullable) — Keep only listings from this marketplace (yahoo_auctions or the mixed-in yahoo_flea) (one of: "yahoo_auctions", "yahoo_flea")
- `authenticated` (boolean) — Only items that come with an authenticity appraisal (default: false)
- `new_arrival` (boolean) — Only newly listed items (default: false)
- `ending_within_hour` (boolean) — Only auctions ending within the next hour (default: false)
- `konbini_pickup` (boolean) — Only items collectable at a convenience store (default: false)
- `anonymous_shipping` (boolean) — Only items shipped anonymously (default: false)
- `sort` (string) — Sort order (default: "newest"; one of: "newest", "ending_soonest", "ending_latest", "price_asc", "price_desc", "buy_now_price_asc", "buy_now_price_desc", "bids_desc", "bids_asc", "popular", "featured")
- `count` (integer, required) — Max number of results to return (examples: 20; min: 1)

## Response

### 200 — Successful Response

- `@type` (string) (default: "YahooAuctionsSearchItem")
- `id` (string, required)
- `url` (string, required)
- `name` (string, required)
- `image` (string, nullable)
- `price` (integer, nullable)
- `buy_now_price` (integer, nullable)
- `start_price` (integer, nullable)
- `bid_count` (integer, nullable)
- `end_at` (integer, nullable)
- `category_id` (string, nullable)
- `category_path_ids` (array) (default: [])
- `marketplace` (string, nullable)
- `is_free_shipping` (boolean, nullable)
- `accepts_easy_payment` (boolean, nullable)
- `seller_id` (string, nullable)
- `seller_url` (string, nullable)

## Errors

### 422 — Validation Error

The request body did not validate

What to do: Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.

- `detail` (array)
  - `loc` (array, required)
  - `msg` (string, required)
  - `type` (string, required)
  - `input` (any)
  - `ctx` (object)

### 408

The request ran past its time limit

What to do: Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.

### 412

The entity was not found, or a precondition failed

What to do: Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.

### 429

Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted

What to do: When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.

### 500

Something broke on our side

What to do: Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.

### 529

Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded

What to do: Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

## Response envelope

Success: Array of objects (may be empty if no results)

Error: Error may coexist with partial results if it occurs mid-execution. Check X-Error header and status code.

Every response carries these headers:

- `X-Error` — Error message text (present only on error)
- `X-Request-ID` — Unique request identifier
- `X-Execution-Time` — Execution time in seconds
- `X-Result-Count` — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
- `X-Total-Available-Results` — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
- `X-Warning` — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
- `X-Retry-After` — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.