Theqoo Scraper – Korean K-pop Community Posts & Comments (No API, No Login)

Scrape theqoo (theqoo.net, 더쿠), Korea's top K-pop, entertainment and beauty community: the latest posts of any board, and the full text plus every comment of any post. Works with HOT, Square (스퀘어), K-idol talk (케이돌토크), beauty, drama/film boards and the per-artist fan boards (bts, newjeans, seventeen and hundreds more). Public pages only, no browser, output as JSON/CSV/Excel.

theqoo sits behind a Cloudflare security check that blocks datacenter and most foreign IPs (403 "보안 검사중", "security check in progress"). This actor uses a Korean residential proxy by default to pass it, and loads comments exactly the way the site does (same session plus a CSRF token), so you do not have to build any of that yourself.

Output Fields

Board post listing (board mode, content is null)

Field	Type	Description
post_id	string	Post number
site	string	Always theqoo
board	string | null	Board ID (e.g. hot, square)
category	string | null	Post category tag (e.g. 이슈 issue, 잡담 chat, 유머 humor)
title	string | null	Title
author	string | null	Author. Everyone on theqoo is anonymous ("무명의 더쿠"), so this is usually null
reply_count	number | null	Comment count
view_count	number | null	View count
created_at	string | null	Post time (ISO 8601, Korea time +09:00)
created_at_precision	string | null	Time precision: minute (today's posts) or day (older posts, date only)
post_url	string	Post URL
content / links / image_count	null	Always null in listing mode
source_mode	string	Mode used
source_query	string	Query (board ID)
scraped_at	string	Scrape time (ISO 8601)

Post content (full post mode: the fields above plus these)

Field	Type	Description
content	string | null	Post text (HTML removed, line breaks kept). Null for image-only posts
links	string[]	Outbound links in the post (x.com, YouTube, news...), both linked and pasted as plain text
image_count	number	Number of images in the post
created_at	string | null	Post time to the minute (created_at_precision: "minute")
board	string | null	The board the post was opened under. Give just the number and theqoo redirects to the post's home board

Comment (full post mode)

Field	Type	Description
reply_id	string	Comment ID
post_id	string	Post number
site	string	Always theqoo
floor	number	Comment number: the 12 in the site's "12. 무명의 더쿠", and what "@12" in other comments points to
commenter_floor	number	Same-commenter marker. The comment number where this anonymous person first commented on the post (the site's "= 12덬"). Same value = same person, within this post only
is_op	boolean	true when the post's own writer left the comment (the site's "= 원덬")
reply_to_floor	number | null	The comment number this one answers, read from a leading "@N". Null when there is none
is_hidden	boolean	true for deleted comments and comments hidden from logged-out visitors. These rows are never billed
hidden_reason	string | null	deleted, or members_only_recent (under one hour old, hidden from logged-out visitors)
author	string | null	Only set on boards that show nicknames; null when anonymous
content	string | null	Comment text (HTML removed). Null for hidden comments
created_at	string | null	Comment time to the second (ISO 8601, +09:00)
scraped_at	string	Scrape time (ISO 8601)

Field names match hardwarezone-scraper (Singapore), lihkg-scraper (Hong Kong), ptt-scraper (Taiwan) and voz-scraper (Vietnam) from the same developer, so you can merge community data from several countries into one table.

Modes

Mode	Input	Output	Billing
board	boards (board IDs), keywords (title filter, optional), dateFrom (optional)	Board post listing	$0.002 per post
thread	threadIds / threadUrls	Post content ($0.008 each) + all comments ($0.0005 each)	By volume

Deleted comments and comments hidden from logged-out visitors are included so comment numbers stay continuous, but they are not billed.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	enum	board	Mode: board / thread (required)
boards	array	["hot"]	Board IDs or board URLs, e.g. hot, square, ktalk (K-idol talk), beauty, dyb (drama/film/actors), talk (daily talk), bts, newjeans
threadIds	array	—	Post numbers (e.g. 4371268800)
threadUrls	array	—	Post URLs; the number is extracted automatically
bulkInput	textarea	—	Bulk paste, one item per line, merged into the matching field for the current mode
keywords	array	—	Board mode: title keyword filter (empty = no filter)
maxItems	integer	50	Board mode: max posts per board; full post mode: max posts. Up to 500
maxReplies	integer	—	Full post mode: max comments per post (comments #1 to #N). 0 = post only, empty = all
dateFrom	string	—	Board mode: only posts since this time (30m, 12h, 3d, 2w or 2026-10-01). Stops paging early when set
proxyConfiguration	proxy	Apify RESIDENTIAL + KR	Korean residential proxy. Datacenter IPs are blocked by Cloudflare, so keep the default

Input Examples

1. Latest posts on the HOT board

{
  "mode": "board",
  "boards": ["hot"],
  "maxItems": 50
}

2. Daily monitoring of artist boards (scheduled)

{
  "mode": "board",
  "boards": ["newjeans", "seventeen", "ktalk"],
  "dateFrom": "1d",
  "maxItems": 200
}

3. Filter by title keywords

{
  "mode": "board",
  "boards": ["square", "hot"],
  "keywords": ["컴백", "콘서트"],
  "maxItems": 100
}

4. One full post (text + every comment)

{
  "mode": "thread",
  "threadUrls": ["https://theqoo.net/hot/4371268800"]
}

5. Cap the cost of a long post (comments #1–200 only)

{
  "mode": "thread",
  "threadIds": ["4370661006"],
  "maxReplies": 200
}

Sample Output

Board listing:

{
  "post_id": "4371268800",
  "site": "theqoo",
  "board": "hot",
  "category": "이슈",
  "title": "뎡배에서 반응 좋은 오늘 첫방송 한 드라마.jpg",
  "author": null,
  "reply_count": 363,
  "view_count": 71014,
  "created_at": "2026-10-10T22:25:00+09:00",
  "created_at_precision": "minute",
  "post_url": "https://theqoo.net/hot/4371268800",
  "content": null,
  "links": null,
  "image_count": null,
  "source_mode": "board",
  "source_query": "hot",
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-10T16:22:00.000Z"
}

Comment:

{
  "reply_id": "4371277604",
  "post_id": "4371268800",
  "site": "theqoo",
  "floor": 54,
  "commenter_floor": 33,
  "is_op": false,
  "reply_to_floor": 49,
  "is_hidden": false,
  "hidden_reason": null,
  "author": null,
  "content": "@49 그시대는 맞음ㅋㅋㅋ",
  "created_at": "2026-10-10T22:31:43+09:00",
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-10T16:22:05.000Z"
}

This is comment #54, written by the same person as comment #33, answering comment #49.

Notes

• Public content only; no account or token needed. Members-only boards and anything that needs a login are not collected.
• theqoo disables search for logged-out visitors (no site-wide search). So this actor has no keyword search across the site; keywords only filters the titles of the boards you list. With keywords, each board is scanned for at most 20 pages (about 400 posts). For keyword monitoring, schedule a daily run on the relevant boards with dateFrom: "1d".
• Every writer is anonymous ("무명의 더쿠"), so author is usually null. Use commenter_floor to group the comments one person left on a post, and is_op to spot the writer's own comments. Identity does not carry across posts.
• theqoo hides comments younger than one hour from logged-out visitors. They come back with is_hidden: true, hidden_reason: "members_only_recent" and no text, and are not billed. If you need every recent comment, collect a post at least an hour after it was written.
• Board listings show the minute for today's posts and only the date for older ones (created_at_precision). Use full post mode for exact times. For dateFrom, a date-only post counts as the whole day.
• All timestamps are ISO 8601 in Korea time (+09:00).
• Pinned notices and event posts at the top of each board are excluded.
• Stops automatically after 5 consecutive pages with no new posts; with dateFrom it stops as soon as a whole page is older than the cut-off.
• If nothing was collected because requests failed (blocks, proxy errors) or every board/post was a 404, the run ends as FAILED with the reason, so "nothing new" is never confused with "blocked".
• Korean residential proxy requests take 3–7 seconds each, slower than datacenter sites. The actor stays at 3 concurrent requests and at most 30 per minute.
• theqoo's rules forbid reposting full news articles, and post bodies can contain text from other outlets. Do not redistribute collected text as is.

FAQ

Q: Do I need to log in?

A: No. The actor only reads public board listings and posts and uses nothing that requires an account.

Q: How do I find a board ID?

A: It is in the board URL: theqoo.net/ktalk is ktalk, theqoo.net/newjeans is newjeans. You can also paste the URL as is.

Q: Is the post number enough?

A: Yes. Give 4370661006 and theqoo redirects to the post's home board (e.g. square), which also ends up in board.

Q: Will a post with many comments cost a lot?

A: Comments are $0.0005 each, so even 1,000 comments cost about $0.50. To cap it anyway, set maxReplies; maxReplies: 0 fetches the post only and makes no comment requests at all.

Q: Why not switch to the datacenter proxy?

A: theqoo's Cloudflare answers datacenter IPs and most foreign IPs with 403 "보안 검사중". Only Korean residential IPs were verified to pass reliably.

Q: The log shows [incomplete-data].

A: Some pages or comments could not be fetched after retries. The post itself is in the dataset; only the missing part is logged. Run again a little later or lower maxItems.

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Disclaimer

This tool is for academic research and lawful market analysis only. Users must comply with theqoo's terms of service and applicable law (including Korea's Copyright Act and Personal Information Protection Act), must not redistribute collected text without permission, and must not use the data to identify or track individuals. The author is not responsible for misuse. If the site owner asks for removal, use will stop.

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