You will get clean data from any Japanese website, scraped with Python
Project details
I scrape Japanese websites - the ones English-speaking developers usually can't read, and that most Japanese speakers can't code against.
I'm a native Japanese speaker in Japan who writes Python daily. Japanese sites bring problems generic scraping experience doesn't cover: Shift-JIS and EUC-JP encodings that break naive parsers, dates written as R7.8.19 rather than 2026-08-19, addresses that run prefecture first, full-width digits that look like numbers but aren't.
Scraping fails in two ways: the script breaks when the site changes, or it keeps running and quietly returns the wrong data. I hit the second one myself - an API returned listing prices where I had assumed sold prices, and nothing errored. So every delivery includes a validation pass: row counts, required fields, and a sanity check on the values.
Stack: Python, Playwright for rendered pages, requests and BeautifulSoup for static HTML, pandas for cleanup. Output as CSV, JSON, Excel or into a database.
What I won't do: scrape a site whose terms forbid it, work around CAPTCHAs, or collect personal data. If your target falls into that, I'll say so before you order.
I'm a native Japanese speaker in Japan who writes Python daily. Japanese sites bring problems generic scraping experience doesn't cover: Shift-JIS and EUC-JP encodings that break naive parsers, dates written as R7.8.19 rather than 2026-08-19, addresses that run prefecture first, full-width digits that look like numbers but aren't.
Scraping fails in two ways: the script breaks when the site changes, or it keeps running and quietly returns the wrong data. I hit the second one myself - an API returned listing prices where I had assumed sold prices, and nothing errored. So every delivery includes a validation pass: row counts, required fields, and a sanity check on the values.
Stack: Python, Playwright for rendered pages, requests and BeautifulSoup for static HTML, pandas for cleanup. Output as CSV, JSON, Excel or into a database.
What I won't do: scrape a site whose terms forbid it, work around CAPTCHAs, or collect personal data. If your target falls into that, I'll say so before you order.
Data Tool
PythonWhat's included
| Service Tiers |
Starter
$80
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Standard
$200
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Advanced
$400
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|---|---|---|---|
| Delivery Time | 3 days | 5 days | 7 days |
Number of Pages Mined/Scraped | 1 | 50 | 100 |
Number of Sources Mined/Scraped | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Number of Revisions | 1 | 2 | 2 |
About Taro
Japanese Web Scraping Specialist | Python Automation
Naha, Japan - 2:49 pm local time
I am a native Japanese speaker based in Japan who writes Python daily. That combination is rarer than it sounds, and it matters more than people expect. Japanese sites bring problems that generic scraping experience does not cover: Shift-JIS and EUC-JP encodings that break naive parsers, dates written as R7.8.19 instead of 2026-08-19, addresses that run prefecture-first, full-width digits that look like numbers but are not, and layouts built for a domestic audience rather than for machines.
What I work on:
- Japanese e-commerce and marketplace data (product listings, prices, stock, sold history)
- Japanese job boards, company directories, real estate portals
- Scheduled monitors that run unattended and alert on change
- Cleaning and normalising Japanese text into something you can actually query
The part I care most about: scraping fails in two ways. The script breaks when the site changes, or it keeps running and quietly returns the wrong data. I have hit the second one myself - an API I relied on returned listing prices where I had assumed sold prices, and nothing errored. So everything I deliver includes a validation pass: row counts, required fields present, and a sanity check on the values themselves.
Stack: Python, Playwright for rendered pages, requests and BeautifulSoup for static HTML, pandas for cleanup. Output as CSV, JSON, Excel or straight into SQLite or Postgres.
Recent open-source work: a fix to trafilatura, a content-extraction library with 6.6k stars, measured against the project's 990-document evaluation corpus before submitting. Details in my portfolio.
What I will not do: scrape a site whose terms forbid it, work around CAPTCHAs or bot protection, or collect personal data. If your target falls into that, I will tell you before you hire me rather than after.
Send me the URL and the fields you need, and I will tell you honestly whether it is a fit.
Steps for completing your project
After purchasing the project, send requirements so Taro can start the project.
Delivery time starts when Taro receives requirements from you.
Taro works on your project following the steps below.
Revisions may occur after the delivery date.
Scope check
You send the target URLs and the fields you need. I confirm what is reachable, flag anything I will not scrape, and agree the output shape with you before any code is written.
Build and sample run
I write the scraper and run it against a real sample, then send you that sample so you can check the fields are right before I commit to the full run.