Daum News (다음뉴스) Scraper

Collects Korean news articles from news.daum.net, Korea's second-largest news portal, which aggregates every major Korean outlet (연합뉴스, 뉴스1, 조선일보, 한겨레, KBS, …). Everything scraped is public: no login, no API key, no proxy needed. Pay-per-event: one article event per article saved.

What you get

One record per article:

field	example
id	20260901122450927
url	https://v.daum.net/v/20260901122450927
title	전기차 보급 '속도전'·충전기는 '고도화'…
section	economy — the section page it was found on; an article listed in several requested sections is saved once, under whichever was crawled first
publisher, publisherUrl	뉴스1, https://v.daum.net/channel/396/home
reporter	황덕현 기후환경전문기자
publishedAt	ISO 8601 in KST (2026-09-01T12:24:50+09:00)
modifiedAt	usually null; set only when Daum prints a second timestamp
description	Daum's meta description (first ~200 chars)
body	full article text: paragraphs and sub-headings, one per line (\n)
autoSummary	Daum's own 3–4 sentence auto summary, when present
image, images, captions, thumbnail	og:image, in-body images, their captions, list thumbnail

With fetchArticles: false you get only id, url, title, thumbnail, publisher, section — one request per section, seconds instead of minutes.

Input

Example: economy and tech, full articles —

{ "sections": ["economy", "tech"], "maxItems": 200 }

• sections — slugs after news.daum.net/. Main: home, politics, society, economy, world, culture, tech, life, people, climate. Economy sub-sections: policy, industry, stock, finance, estate, coin, pension, employ, consumer, startup, worldeconomy, autos. Any other slug that exists on the site works too.
• maxItems — total cap across sections (default 100). Each section page currently lists roughly 20–80 articles.
• fetchArticles — open each article (default true).
• maxConcurrency, proxyConfiguration — optional.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: one article event is charged per article pushed to the dataset (in list-only mode, fetchArticles: false, one per list entry). Nothing else is charged. If a run's budget (maxTotalChargeUsd) is exhausted before maxItems, the actor stops cleanly with the articles it could pay for and says so in the status message.

Notes

• Section pages are curated front pages, not archives: each shows the current 20–80 articles. Run the actor on a schedule to build a continuous feed; articles are de-duplicated within a run by id (and across resumes of the same run).
• Times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+9) as printed by Daum.
• Articles removed between listing and fetch (Daum answers HTTP 500) are skipped with a warning. A section that fails is named in the run's status message; the run only fails if no article at all could be saved.

Use cases

Media monitoring, Korean-language NLP corpora, brand/keyword tracking across all Korean outlets from a single source, comparing outlet coverage of an event.