How to programmatically bid on Yahoo Auctions JP?

Question

PHP

Does anyone know how to programmatically bid on auctons.yahoo.co.jp on behalf of a specific user?
There is an Auctions WebAPI, but the necessary methods are not provided there, you need something like make_bid and buy_it_now
In theory, you can log in to the site, send a POST request and place a bid, but when you try to log in, a captcha in Japanese is triggered. I tried to log in through YConnect, but authorization through a browser is required with saving cookies on the client side, which is not at all suitable for the server-side application (

Answer 1

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