Hwahae Reviews Scraper

Scrape Hwahae Korean beauty product review signals without logging in. This actor collects product and goods records from public Hwahae search and ranking pages, including ratings, review counts, brand names, prices, discounts, badges, and URLs.

What does Hwahae Reviews Scraper do?

Hwahae Reviews Scraper turns public Hwahae discovery pages into structured datasets for Korean beauty research.

It helps you monitor:

• ⭐ product ratings
• 💬 review counts
• 🧴 product and goods names
• 🏷️ brands and discounts
• 📈 ranking/search context
• 🖼️ images and public URLs

The actor focuses on reliable public search and ranking data. Hwahae product detail pages can show an AWS WAF challenge to direct HTTP clients, so the MVP avoids fragile detail-page review text and extracts stable review-summary signals instead.

Who is it for?

Cosmetics brands

Track how your products and competing products appear in Hwahae search results.

Ecommerce category analysts

Compare review volumes, ratings, prices, and discounts across Korean beauty categories.

Agencies and market researchers

Build repeatable Korean beauty monitoring workflows for clients.

Retail and merchandising teams

Spot high-review products, fast-moving goods, and promotional price signals.

Why use this actor?

Manual Hwahae research is slow when you need many keywords or category checks.

This actor gives you:

• ✅ structured product and goods rows
• ✅ Korean brand and product names
• ✅ review count and rating metrics
• ✅ prices, discounts, and sold-out flags
• ✅ repeatable runs for monitoring
• ✅ dataset export to JSON, CSV, Excel, and API

What data can you extract?

Field	Description
searchKeyword	Keyword used for a search run
sourceUrl	API or page URL used as source
itemType	goods, product, or ranking_product
productId	Hwahae product identifier when available
goodsId	Hwahae commerce goods identifier when available
brandName	Public brand name
productName	Product name
goodsName	Commerce goods listing name
rating	Average rating shown by Hwahae
reviewCount	Public review count
price	Current/discount price when available
originalPrice	Original price when available
discountRate	Discount percentage
imageUrl	Product or goods image
rank	Ranking/search rank when available
badges	Hwahae commerce badges
isSoldOut	Sold-out flag when available
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp

How much does it cost to scrape Hwahae review data?

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing.

• A small start event is charged once per run.
• A per-item event is charged for each saved record.
• You control spend with maxItems.

For first tests, keep maxItems around 50.

Quick start

1. Open the actor on Apify.
2. Enter one or more Korean search keywords.
3. Optionally add Hwahae search or ranking URLs.
4. Set maxItems.
5. Run the actor.
6. Export the dataset.

Input options

Search keywords

Use Korean beauty terms, brands, or product names.

Examples:

• 토리든
• 선크림
• 수분크림
• 클렌징오일

Start URLs

Use public Hwahae pages such as:

• https://www.hwahae.co.kr/search?q=%ED%86%A0%EB%A6%AC%EB%93%A0
• https://www.hwahae.co.kr/rankings?english_name=category&theme_id=2

Maximum records

maxItems limits saved records across all keywords and URLs.

Example input

{
  "searchKeywords": ["토리든", "선크림"],
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.hwahae.co.kr/rankings?english_name=category&theme_id=2" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example output

{
  "searchKeyword": "토리든",
  "sourceUrl": "https://gateway.hwahae.co.kr/v14/commerce/search/goods?...",
  "itemType": "goods",
  "goodsId": 54413,
  "goodsUrl": "https://www.hwahae.co.kr/goods/.../54413?goods_tab=review_ingredients",
  "brandName": "토리든",
  "goodsName": "[only화해] 다이브인 저분자 히알루론산 세럼 100ml",
  "rating": 4.61,
  "reviewCount": 83328,
  "price": 27900,
  "discountRate": 36,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-01T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Tips for better results

• Use Korean keywords for best recall.
• Combine brand and category terms.
• Use ranking URLs when you want category/trending context.
• Increase maxItems only after a small test run succeeds.
• Deduplicate downstream on goodsId or productId.

Limitations

Hwahae product detail pages can trigger AWS WAF challenges for direct scrapers.

This actor intentionally extracts public search/ranking review signals instead of forcing fragile detail-page review text collection.

Integrations

Use the output with:

• Google Sheets for category monitoring
• BigQuery or Snowflake for trend analysis
• BI dashboards for Korean beauty reporting
• Alerts when review counts or ranks change
• Brand intelligence workflows

API usage with Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('automation-lab/hwahae-reviews-scraper').call({
  searchKeywords: ['토리든', '선크림'],
  maxItems: 100,
});
console.log(run.defaultDatasetId);

API usage with Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient('YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN')
run = client.actor('automation-lab/hwahae-reviews-scraper').call(run_input={
    'searchKeywords': ['토리든', '선크림'],
    'maxItems': 100,
})
print(run['defaultDatasetId'])

API usage with cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/automation-lab~hwahae-reviews-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"searchKeywords":["토리든","선크림"],"maxItems":100}'

MCP usage

Use this actor from Apify MCP:

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=automation-lab/hwahae-reviews-scraper

Add it in Claude Code:

$claude mcp add apify-hwahae --url "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=automation-lab/hwahae-reviews-scraper"

Or configure an MCP client with JSON:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify-hwahae": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=automation-lab/hwahae-reviews-scraper"
    }
  }
}

Example prompts:

• "Run Hwahae Reviews Scraper for 토리든 and summarize top products by review count."
• "Compare 선크림 products by rating and discount rate."
• "Export Hwahae category ranking data to a CSV."

Data quality notes

The actor uses public Hwahae API/page data and keeps raw identifiers where available.

Ratings and review counts are point-in-time values from Hwahae.

FAQ

Why do product detail pages not return full review text?

Hwahae detail pages may require a browser WAF token. This actor avoids that fragile path and uses public search/ranking data.

Why do I see fewer rows than expected?

The keyword may have fewer public goods results than maxItems. Add more keywords or ranking URLs.

Legality

Only scrape publicly available data and respect Hwahae's terms, privacy rules, and applicable laws.

Do not use the output for spam, harassment, or unauthorized profiling.

Related scrapers

Explore other automation-lab actors for ecommerce and market intelligence workflows:

• https://apify.com/automation-lab/google-shopping-scraper
• https://apify.com/automation-lab/amazon-products-scraper
• https://apify.com/automation-lab/product-review-scraper

Version notes

0.1

Initial release focused on public Hwahae search/ranking review signals.

Field mapping details

Search API rows are emitted as goods items.

Search page embedded product rows are emitted as product items.

Ranking embedded rows are emitted as ranking_product items.

Monitoring workflow

Run the same keywords daily or weekly.

Compare reviewCount, rating, price, and rank over time.

Alert when competitors gain review volume quickly.

Category workflow

Use broad category keywords such as 선크림, 토너, or 클렌징폼.

Sort by reviewCount to identify established winners.

Sort by discountRate to spot aggressive promotions.

Brand workflow

Use brand keywords such as 토리든.

Review which goods listings dominate search results.

Compare official goods, bundles, and promotions.

Export formats

Apify datasets can be exported as:

• JSON
• CSV
• Excel
• XML
• RSS
• API responses

Support

If a public Hwahae page changes or a keyword returns unexpected data, open an issue with the run input and run URL.