Daangn Scraper: Karrot Market New Listing Alerts

Watch a search, get only what's new. This actor runs your search against Daangn (Karrot Market) — Korea's neighbourhood-scoped classifieds app — and returns one clean row per listing: title, price, description, status, and a permanent link. Turn on monitoring and it becomes a watchlist: new listings and price drops since your last run, charged per new row, free on quiet days.

Who it's for

A reseller or arbitrage buyer watching one category (phones, bikes, free stuff) for underpriced or newly-posted listings wants a live feed of what's actually on Daangn right now, without refreshing the search page by hand. A market-research team tracking asking prices, or a Sheets/n8n workflow that reacts the moment something new is posted, gets the same shape here: paste a list of search terms, get back a flat row per listing, and pay only for listings actually returned — a search that finds nothing costs nothing.

Use it alongside joonggonara-listing-lookup and bunjang-listing-lookup — all three Korean second-hand marketplaces in this catalogue share the same column names (listingId, title, price, currency, listingStatus, postedAt, imageUrl, url) so their rows merge cleanly into one feed. A free GitHub tool (twbeatles/used-market-notifier) already bundles all three by hand into one alert feed — that's exactly the gap this actor and its two siblings fill.

Why this one

• Monitoring first, not a one-off dump. Turn on "Only return results that are new, or dropped in price" and this actor becomes a watchlist: it remembers every listing ID it has already shown you, and only bills you for what's actually new or has dropped in price since the last run. A quiet run — nothing new, nothing cheaper — still finishes and costs only the base run fee.
• No competing monitoring actor. The current Apify Store leader for Daangn, oxygenated_quagmire's scraper, has 28 lifetime users and no monitoring mode. Korea's DIY alert-bot scene (GitHub bots posting new Daangn listings to Discord/Telegram) is the strongest signal of unmet demand found anywhere in this catalogue's Asia research.
• Never charged for a miss, or a quiet monitoring run. A search that finds nothing, or a scheduled watchlist run where nothing changed, still gets a row explaining what happened — and costs nothing.
• Neighbourhood-scoped, on purpose. Daangn shows different results depending on which neighbourhood you're browsing from — this actor exposes that as a "Neighbourhood (region)" input instead of hiding it, so a monitored search actually matches what you'd see browsing locally.
• Paste a keyword or your own saved search URL. Type plain keywords (including Korean, e.g. "자전거"), or paste a daangn.com search URL you've already run in your browser.

What you get

One row per listing by default (turn off "Expand rows" in Advanced to get one row per search instead, with the listings nested under listings).

Field	Type	Description
query	text	The search you submitted, echoed back
found	boolean	true if Daangn returned a real search-results page for this search
status	text	OK on a match; NOT_FOUND, BLOCKED, or BAD_FORMAT on a miss
message	text	Plain-English reason for a miss — only present when found is false
searchQuery	text	The keyword actually searched (parsed out of a pasted URL, if you gave one)
listingCount	number	Listings returned and billed for this search
totalAvailable	number	Always empty — Daangn's own search page carries no total-count field this actor can read (see the FAQ)
truncated	boolean	Always empty, for the same reason as totalAvailable
newCount	number	New listings this run (monitoring only)
priceDropCount	number	Price drops this run (monitoring only)
listingId	text	Daangn's own listing ID, read from its listing-link slug
title	text	Listing title
description	text	Full listing description, with contact-info-like strings redacted
price	number	Price in KRW (0 is a valid, real price — Daangn is well known for free/giveaway listings)
currency	text	Always KRW
listingStatus	text	Ongoing on every listing this actor has observed live; other values are passed through as-is
postedAt	date	When the listing was first posted
boostedAt	date	When the listing was last bumped/boosted
region	text	The neighbourhood name Daangn attached to the listing
instantBuyAvailable	boolean	Daangn's own "instant buy" flag
imageUrl	text (link)	Listing thumbnail image
changeType	text	new, price-drop, or seen (monitoring only)
isNew	boolean	true on this listing's first appearance (monitoring only)
previousPrice	number	The price last recorded for this listing, when it dropped (monitoring only)
priceDropPct	number	Percentage drop from the previous recorded price (monitoring only)
firstSeenAt	date	When this watchlist first saw this listing (monitoring only)
url	text (link)	Permanent listing link
scrapedAt	date	When this row was fetched

Deselect any field in the Input tab's column picker to drop it from every row — query, found, status, message, and scrapedAt always stay. Unlike its two Korean siblings, this actor has no seller-identity columns at all: Daangn's own search results carry none to expose in the first place.

Pricing

Pay-per-event. A flat per-run fee covers session/proxy warmup; you're billed per item only when data is actually found and returned — see .actor/pay_per_event.json for exact prices. A miss is never charged.

Monitoring / only new results

Turn on "Only return results that are new or dropped in price since the last run" and a search line becomes a watchlist instead of a one-off dump:

• A listing counts as new the first time its Daangn listing ID is returned by this watchlist.
• A listing counts as a price drop when its price falls by at least "Minimum price drop to alert on" (5% by default) since it was last seen — measured against the most recently seen price. Daangn has no bidding system, so every listing's price (including a genuine 0, free-stuff listing) is a real, comparable fixed price.
• Already-seen, unchanged listings are dropped before you're billed. A quiet run — nothing new, nothing cheaper — still finishes and returns one free row.
• The first run has nothing to compare against. By default it returns everything it finds as "new". Turn on "Skip alerts on the first run" to instead have the first run bank everything quietly with zero rows and zero charge, and start alerting from the second run on — this stops a fresh watchlist from firing a wall of "new listing" messages on day one.

Schedule recipe. Save this actor as an Apify Task with deltaMode: true and a deltaName you choose, add an hourly (or daily) Schedule, and point the task's webhook at Discord, Slack, Google Sheets, or an n8n/Make webhook URL to get pinged only when something actually changes.

Coverage limitation. Because this route serves only one page of results with no confirmed way to page further, a very high-volume keyword can exceed what a single run returns — Daangn's own sort still keeps things fresh, but keep a monitored search reasonably narrow (a specific model, not a whole category) if you want to be sure nothing scrolls past the cap between runs.

How to use

1. In the Apify Console. Open the actor page and click Start — the searches field is already pre-filled with a working example. Results land in the run's dataset as soon as each item is found.
2. Via the API. Call it directly with a POST request — no Console needed once you have an API token:

   curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/accountable_eel~daangn-listing-lookup/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>" \
     -X POST \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"searches":["iphone"]}'
   

3. On a schedule. Save this actor as an Apify Task with the input you want, then add a Schedule (hourly, daily, weekly) so it runs on its own — no server of your own required.

4. Set "Neighbourhood (region) ID" and "Neighbourhood (region) name" under Search settings if you want results scoped to your own area instead of the default (Seocho 4-dong, Seoul) — see the FAQ for how to read these off your own browser.
5. Turn on "Only return results that are new or dropped in price since the last run" under Monitoring once you want a watchlist instead of a one-off dump — see "Monitoring / only new results" above.

Input

{
  "searches": [
    "iphone"
  ]
}

One search per line — keywords like "iphone" or "자전거", or paste a daangn.com search URL. Accepted formats: iphone, 자전거, https://www.daangn.com/kr/search/buy-sell/?q=iphone.

Sample output

query	found	status	searchQuery	listingCount	totalAvailable	truncated	newCount	priceDropCount	listings	listingId	url	title	description	price	currency	listingStatus	postedAt	boostedAt	region	instantBuyAvailable	imageUrl	isNew	changeType	previousPrice	priceDropPct	firstSeenAt	scrapedAt
iphone	true	OK							<all listings found (full list)>				<description>	<price (krw)>			<posted (date)>	<boosted (date)>				<is this listing new?>		<previous price (krw)>	<price drop %>		1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

A search that finds nothing comes back as a row with "found": false and is never charged.

Use it from Clay, n8n, Make, or an AI agent

This actor runs synchronously over plain HTTP — call it directly from a script, a workflow tool, or an AI agent, no Apify Console needed once you have an API token.

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/accountable_eel~daangn-listing-lookup/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>" \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searches":["iphone"]}'

n8n. Add an HTTP Request node: Method POST, URL https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/accountable_eel~daangn-listing-lookup/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>, Body Content Type JSON, JSON Body {"searches":["iphone"]} (swap in an expression from an earlier node for a real value).

Clay. Add an "HTTP API" column: Method POST, URL https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/accountable_eel~daangn-listing-lookup/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>, Body {"searches":["{{search}}"]}, mapping the row's search into the searches array.

MCP. In Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client with the Apify MCP server, ask for "Daangn Scraper | Apify" — the agent will find and run this actor.

Tips

• Set your own "Neighbourhood (region) ID"/"Neighbourhood (region) name" if the default (Seocho 4-dong, Seoul) isn't where you want to search — see the FAQ for how to read your own off a browser.
• Start monitoring with "Skip alerts on the first run" on for any watchlist you're setting up on a schedule — it avoids a wall of "new" alerts for your entire current search result on day one.
• A 0 price is a real, valid value on this actor — Daangn is well known for free giveaway listings, don't filter them out by accident with a "Minimum price" above zero.
• A BLOCKED status means Daangn returned a 403, 429, or 503 — lowering "Max concurrency" or trying again shortly usually clears it; this actor doesn't need a proxy by default.
• Use all three Korean marketplace actors together (this one, joonggonara-listing-lookup, bunjang-listing-lookup) for one alert feed across Korea's whole DIY-alert-bot territory — their shared column names make merging the three outputs straightforward in Sheets or n8n.

vs. oxygenated_quagmire's scraper

The current Apify Store leader for Daangn, oxygenated_quagmire's actor, has 28 lifetime users and no monitoring mode. This actor adds new-listing and price-drop monitoring as a first-class mode, and bills only for listings actually delivered.

	What it costs	What you get	Trade-off
This actor	$2 per 1,000 listings; nothing for a miss or a quiet monitoring run	Monitoring mode (new + price drop), full description, neighbourhood scoping, permanent listing link	No seller identity or total-count field (Daangn's search page exposes neither)
oxygenated_quagmire's scraper	Unknown / no monitoring	A one-off dump	No monitoring
Doing it yourself	Your time to build and maintain a scraper, a seen-listing store, and a price-tracking layer	The same data	This actor's Remix-payload parsing and monitoring state are the maintenance burden it absorbs

Data & privacy

This actor reads public search results that anyone can see without logging in. It doesn't log in, solve CAPTCHAs, or reveal hidden contact details. Daangn's own search results carry no seller identity at all — no name, no id, no type — so this actor has nothing to expose there in the first place. Contact-info-like strings (emails, phone numbers) inside a listing's description are redacted to [redacted]. Not affiliated with Daangn / 당근마켓 / Karrot.

Is this allowed? It collects the same public listing data your browser shows, for the searches you choose. It's built for monitoring a search, not for copying the marketplace. South Korea's Supreme Court held in 2022 (case 2021Do1533) that scraping publicly available web data did not breach copyright or information-protection law — favourable context, not a substitute for checking that your own use fits Daangn's terms and your local law.

FAQ

Why is a row empty, or why does found say false? Either the input line was blank (status: BAD_FORMAT), Daangn returned a 403/429/503 (status: BLOCKED), or the search matched nothing in this neighbourhood right now (status: NOT_FOUND). Check the message column for the specific reason. None of these are billed.

Am I charged for a quiet monitoring run? No. When monitoring finds nothing new and no price drops, you get one row with listingCount: 0 — Actor.charge() only fires when listingCount is greater than zero.

Why are totalAvailable and truncated always empty? Daangn's own search page (confirmed directly, not assumed) carries no totalCount, hasNextPage, or cursor field anywhere in its loader data — there's simply nothing to read. This actor reports what it can actually confirm rather than estimating a number it can't back up.

How do I search near my own neighbourhood instead of the default? Open daangn.com in your own browser, set your neighbourhood there the normal way, then open your browser's dev tools and read the search_region cookie's value. It decodes (base64) to {"regionId":"...","regionName":"...","countryCode":"kr"} — copy the regionId and regionName into this actor's matching input fields. The default (366, 서초4동) is Daangn's own fallback for a non-Korean IP address, not a guess made up for this actor.

What does listingStatus: Ongoing mean, and are there other values? Every listing sampled live across two different searches came back Ongoing. If Daangn's search results ever surface a reserved or sold listing on this same route, its raw status string is passed through as-is rather than hidden.

Do I need to configure proxies? No. This actor uses Apify's default proxy configuration (no proxy group) out of the box — Daangn doesn't block plain requests from Apify's datacenter IPs.

Can an AI agent call this directly? Yes. It's registered on the Apify MCP server — an agent in Claude, Cursor, or another MCP client can find and run it by name ("Daangn Scraper | Apify"), or you can call the REST endpoint shown above from any script or workflow tool.

Related actors

• Joonggonara Scraper — the same search and monitoring shape for Joonggonara, Korea's largest second-hand classifieds marketplace.
• Bunjang Scraper — the same shape for Bunjang, Korea's other major second-hand marketplace app.