yahoo-shopping-api

Search Yahoo Shopping for product listings with prices, sellers, and images. Apify-backed n8n community node, pay-per-result, and usable as an AI agent tool.

Package Information

Released: 4 mo ago
Downloads: 20 weekly / 309 monthly
Latest Version: 0.1.1
Author: John Cole

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Yahoo Shopping
Search Yahoo Shopping for product listings with prices, sellers, and images

Documentation

n8n-nodes-yahoo-shopping-api

An n8n community node that searches Yahoo Shopping and returns product listings with prices, sellers, and images. It is backed by the Yahoo Shopping API on Apify and bills per page processed, so there are no subscriptions and no minimums.

Installation · Credentials · Operations · Output · Example workflows · Pricing · Resources

What it does

Give the node a search query, and it returns one item per Yahoo Shopping product with its title, price, sale price, seller, product link, and thumbnail. You can filter by price range and merchant, sort the results, and page through them. It also works as an AI Agent tool, so an agent can look up products and prices on demand. This is great for price monitoring, market research, and competitive analysis.

  • Search Yahoo Shopping for any product query
  • Filter by minimum and maximum price, and by merchant
  • Sort by price, relevancy, popularity, or discount percentage
  • Choose how much data to return per product: Simplified, Raw, or Selected Fields

Installation

Follow the n8n community nodes installation guide:

  1. In n8n, open Settings > Community Nodes.
  2. Select Install.
  3. Enter n8n-nodes-yahoo-shopping-api as the npm package name.
  4. Agree to the risks of using community nodes, then select Install.

After it installs, the Yahoo Shopping node appears in the nodes panel.

n8n Cloud only allows verified community nodes. Until this node is verified, install it on a self-hosted n8n instance.

Credentials

You need a free Apify account and an API token.

  1. Sign in to the Apify Console.
  2. Open Settings > Integrations and copy your Personal API token.
  3. In n8n, create a new Apify API credential and paste the token.
  4. Use the credential's Test button to confirm it works.

The node also supports Apify OAuth2 if you prefer to connect that way.

Operations

Product > Search returns Yahoo Shopping products for a query.

Parameter Description
Search Query The product query to search for, for example coffee. Required.
Minimum Price / Maximum Price Constrain results to a USD range. Use 0.00 for no bound.
Sort By / Sort Direction Sort by price, relevancy, popularity, or discount percentage.
Merchants Comma-separated merchant IDs to restrict results to specific sellers.
Results per Page / Maximum Pages Control page size (up to 60) and how many pages to fetch.
Output How much data to return: Simplified, Raw, or Selected Fields.

Output

Each product is returned as its own n8n item, flattened across all fetched pages. The Output parameter lets you choose how much to return:

  • Simplified (default): a compact object with title, price, salePrice, seller, productLink, thumbnail, productId, and position. This mode is also used automatically when the node runs as an AI Agent tool, to keep responses small.
  • Raw: every field the API returns for each product, using the original field names below.
  • Selected Fields: pick exactly which fields to include.

Fields (Raw and Selected Fields)

Field Type Description
query string The query that produced this product
page_number integer The result page this product came from
position integer Rank of the product on its page
product_id string Yahoo Shopping product identifier
title string Product name
seller string Merchant or seller name
price number Current price in USD
sale_price number Discounted price when on sale
link string Direct URL to the product page
thumbnail string Product image URL

Example workflows

1. Price monitoring

  1. Schedule Trigger (daily).
  2. Yahoo Shopping: search your tracked product with a price range.
  3. Postgres: store price and sale_price with the run date to chart trends.

2. Build a competitive price sheet

  1. Read a list of product queries.
  2. Yahoo Shopping: search each query, sorted by price ascending.
  3. Google Sheets: append title, seller, price, and link to a comparison sheet.

3. Let an AI Agent find deals

  1. AI Agent node.
  2. Attach Yahoo Shopping as a tool.
  3. Ask "Find headphones under 100 and tell me who sells them cheapest." The agent calls the node (in Simplified mode) and returns matching products.

Pricing

This node calls the Yahoo Shopping API on Apify, which is billed pay-per-page-processed, with no subscription and no minimums. Apify also includes a free monthly usage tier that covers typical volumes. See the Actor page for current rates.

Resources

License

MIT

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