Weekly Update: 650+ Anime Figure Prices Now Available Free on GitHub

Every Monday, I push a fresh snapshot of Japanese anime figure prices to GitHub Releases.

What's in the data

655 figures, each with:

• Current lowest/highest price across 5+ Japanese retailers
• Stock availability (in/out of stock counts)
• Shop-level offer details (price, URL, condition)
• MSRP, scale, sculptor, release date

The raw CSV is ~900 KB — small enough to download in seconds, rich enough to build models on.

Why free?

I scrape this data weekly for my own resale research. Sharing it publicly serves two purposes:

1. Reproducibility — others can verify my price-tracking claims
2. Network effects — more users = more feedback = better data quality

The full historical dataset (price history over months, not just current snapshot) is available on Gumroad for researchers who need time-series analysis.

Technical details

• Source: MyFigureList (primary) + secondary aggregators
• Normalization: unified schema, confidence scoring, deduplication
• Delivery: automated weekly GitHub Release via Python script + GitHub Actions
• Last updated: {{DATE}}

How to use

# Download latest release asset
curl -L -o figure_prices.csv.gz \
  $(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/atushi1841/kensho/releases/latest \
  | grep browser_download_url \
  | grep csv.gz \
  | cut -d\" -f4)

# Or use the API
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/atushi1841/kensho/releases/latest \
  | jq '.assets[].browser_download_url'

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This is part of the Kensho project — automated Japanese marketplace price tracking.