Webtoons Originals Scraper

Scrape WEBTOON Originals — the platform's officially published, professionally produced comics — and Canvas, its open-submission fan platform, without login, cookies, or a paid proxy. Browse the daily release schedule, genre catalogs, cross-genre trending rankings, or Canvas genre categories, or pull a single series' full metadata and episode list.

What this actor does

• Browse Originals by day-of-week schedule — every daily-release bucket (Monday–Sunday) plus the Complete (finished-series) catalog, in the site's own popularity / likes / update ordering.
• Browse Originals by genre — all 17 official WEBTOON genre taxonomies (Action, Romance, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-fi, and more).
• Trending / popular rankings — the site's curated Top-30 boards: Trending (biggest movers), Popular (all-time likes), and the Originals ranking.
• Browse Canvas by genre — WEBTOON's open-submission fan platform, across its own 25-genre taxonomy (Romance, Comedy, LGBTQ+, Informative, and more), fully paginated.
• Single series lookup — full metadata (synopsis, authors, views, subscribers, schedule, genre) plus a paginated episode list (title, date, likes, thumbnail) for one series by title number or share URL. Works for both Originals and Canvas series.
• Global — 7 storefront locales: English, Chinese (Traditional), Thai, Indonesian, Spanish, French, German.
• Images made public — poster/cover/banner/episode-thumbnail images are mirrored into the dataset's Key-Value Store so every image URL resolves with no special headers; the original CDN link is kept alongside for traceability.
• No login required. No cookies, no API key, no paid proxy — the actor runs on the Apify free plan out of the box.
• Empty fields are omitted — a record only includes the fields the source page actually populates; nothing is padded with null, empty strings, or placeholder values.

Modes

Mode	What it fetches	Key inputs
originals (default)	Titles scheduled for a given day of week, or the Complete catalog	dayOfWeek, sortOrder
genre	All Originals titles in one of the 17 genre taxonomies	genreSlug, sortOrder
trending	Top-30 cross-genre ranking board	rankingType
canvas	All Canvas (fan-made) titles in one of 25 genre categories, or all genres	canvasGenre, sortOrder
titleDetails	One series' full profile + episode list (Originals or Canvas)	titleNo or titleUrl

Output

Every record includes recordType (series or titleDetails), language (resolved storefront locale), scrapedAt (UTC ISO timestamp), and only the fields that source page actually populates — no empty strings, nulls, or placeholder values.

series records (originals / genre / trending / canvas modes)

• titleNo, title, genre, genreSlug (Originals only — Canvas has its own, unrelated genre taxonomy)
• canvasGenreTab — echoes the requested Canvas genre category (mode=canvas only)
• author — creator credit (modes genre, canvas only; the daily/ranking cards don't show it)
• likeCount — cumulative likes shown on the browse card
• subscriberCount — subscriber count badge, when the site shows it (mode=canvas only)
• completed — boolean, whether the site flags the series as finished (mode=canvas only)
• badge — NEW or UP when the site flags it (Originals only)
• matureContent — boolean (Originals only — Canvas cards don't expose a reliable per-title rating; see FAQ)
• scheduleDay — echoes the requested day/complete bucket (mode=originals)
• rank, trendDirection (up/down), trendDelta, rankingType — ranking-board fields (mode=trending)
• thumbnailUrl / thumbnailUrlOriginal — poster image (mirrored / original CDN link)
• titleUrl — canonical series URL

titleDetails records

Works for both Originals and Canvas title numbers/URLs — the actor auto-detects and resolves whichever catalog the ID belongs to.

• titleNo, seriesType (ORIGINALS or CANVAS), title, genre, genreSlug (Originals only), authors[], author
• synopsis
• views, subscribers
• scheduleDay — e.g. EVERY MONDAY (Originals) or COMPLETED (either catalog, when finished)
• matureContent — Originals only; Canvas detail pages don't expose this signal in static HTML (see FAQ)
• coverUrl / coverUrlOriginal — character portrait art
• bannerUrl / bannerUrlOriginal — landing-page banner art (Originals only; Canvas pages don't set one)
• latestEpisodeNo — highest episode number returned
• episodes[] — each with episodeNo, title, date (ISO), likeCount, thumbnailUrl / thumbnailUrlOriginal, episodeUrl
• relatedTitles[] — the site's own "You may also like" recommendations: titleNo, title, author, views, thumbnailUrl / thumbnailUrlOriginal, titleUrl (Originals only)
• creators[] — one entry per credited role (e.g. Created by, Original work by, Art by): role, name, bio, socialLinks (platform → URL, e.g. twitter/instagram/blog), otherWorks[] (that creator's other WEBTOON series: titleNo, title, genre, author, thumbnailUrl / thumbnailUrlOriginal, titleUrl) (Originals only)
• titleUrl

Input

Field	Type	Applies to	Description
mode	select	all	originals / genre / trending / canvas / titleDetails
language	select	all	Storefront locale: en, zh-hant, th, id, es, fr, de
dayOfWeek	select	originals	MONDAY…SUNDAY, or COMPLETE for finished series
sortOrder	select	originals, genre, canvas	MANA (popularity), LIKEIT (likes), UPDATE (last updated)
genreSlug	select	genre	One of the 17 Originals genre taxonomies (required for this mode)
canvasGenre	select	canvas	One of 25 Canvas genre categories, or ALL
rankingType	select	trending	trending, popular, or originals ranking board
genreFilter	select	originals, trending	Optionally restrict results to one Originals genre after fetching
excludeMatureContent	boolean	originals, genre, trending	Drop series flagged unsuitable for children (not applied to canvas — see FAQ)
minLikeCount	integer	originals, genre, trending, canvas	Drop series below this cumulative like count
titleNo	integer	titleDetails	Numeric WEBTOON title ID (from any series URL's title_no= param)
titleUrl	string	titleDetails	Full series URL — used if titleNo is not set
includeEpisodes	boolean	titleDetails	Attach the episode list to the series record
maxEpisodes	integer	titleDetails	Cap on episodes returned (newest first)
maxItems	integer	originals, genre, trending, canvas	Hard cap on emitted series records
proxyConfiguration	proxy	all	Optional. Not required — WEBTOON serves plain HTML with no bot challenge

Example: Monday schedule, family-friendly, most-liked first

{
  "mode": "originals",
  "dayOfWeek": "MONDAY",
  "sortOrder": "LIKEIT",
  "excludeMatureContent": true,
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: all Horror titles with 100K+ likes

{
  "mode": "genre",
  "genreSlug": "horror",
  "minLikeCount": 100000
}

Example: today's Top-30 trending board, Action only

{
  "mode": "trending",
  "rankingType": "trending",
  "genreFilter": "action"
}

Example: full profile + last 50 episodes for one series

{
  "mode": "titleDetails",
  "titleNo": 6465,
  "maxEpisodes": 50
}

Example: top-liked Canvas Romance titles

{
  "mode": "canvas",
  "canvasGenre": "ROMANCE",
  "sortOrder": "LIKEIT",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "minLikeCount": 1000000
}

Use cases

• Content discovery — build a browsable catalog of WEBTOON Originals or Canvas by genre or day
• Market research — track like counts, view/subscriber totals, and trending movement over time
• Recommendation engines — feed genre + popularity signals into a comics recommender
• Publishing intelligence — monitor a series' update cadence, episode release dates, and engagement
• Localization research — compare catalogs across the 7 supported storefront locales
• Talent scouting — surface rising Canvas titles by like/subscriber count before they're picked up as an Original

FAQ

What's the difference between likeCount, views, and subscribers? likeCount is the cumulative-likes number shown on browse/ranking cards (heart icon). views and subscribers are separate totals only shown on a series' own detail page (titleDetails mode) — they measure different things and won't match likeCount.

Why don't originals/trending records include an author field? WEBTOON's daily-schedule and ranking cards don't display the author on the card itself — only the genre browse pages and the series detail page do. Use mode=genre or mode=titleDetails for author credits.

Why are image URLs different from what I see on webtoons.com? WEBTOON's image CDN blocks direct image requests that don't come from its own site (no Referer header = 403). The actor fetches each image once and re-hosts it in the dataset's Key-Value Store so the URL works from anywhere, with no special headers. The original CDN link is kept in the matching ...Original field.

How many series can I get per genre/day? Genre catalogs range from ~75 to ~800+ titles; each daily schedule has 130–160 titles; the Complete (finished-series) catalog has 1,000+. maxItems caps how many the actor emits per run, up to 1,200.

Does this include Canvas (fan-made) comics? Yes — use mode=canvas to browse WEBTOON's open-submission Canvas platform by its own 25-genre taxonomy, and mode=titleDetails works for Canvas title numbers/URLs too (the actor auto-detects which catalog a title belongs to). Canvas has different licensing and quality guarantees than Originals — series aren't professionally edited or officially licensed — so seriesType on titleDetails records always tells you which catalog a result came from.

Why don't Canvas records have a matureContent field? WEBTOON's Canvas listing cards render the same unsuitableForChildren HTML attribute as true on literally every card regardless of actual content, and Canvas detail pages don't embed any per-title rating data in static HTML at all. Since neither source gives a genuine signal, the actor omits matureContent for Canvas rather than emit a constant, meaningless value — and excludeMatureContent has no effect on mode=canvas for the same reason.

Can I read episodes through this actor? No — the actor deliberately stops at metadata (title, episode number, date, likes, thumbnail). It never fetches the paginated /viewer reader pages, consistent with WEBTOON's robots.txt crawl policy.

Can I search WEBTOON by keyword? No — WEBTOON's own robots.txt disallows crawling /*/search paths (Disallow: /*/search) for every crawler, so this actor intentionally does not expose a keyword-search mode. Use genreSlug / canvasGenre / dayOfWeek browsing together with genreFilter / minLikeCount to narrow results instead.

Does titleDetails work for a title with no translation in my chosen language? WEBTOON falls back to the English edition automatically when a locale translation doesn't exist. The returned language and titleUrl fields always reflect the storefront locale that was actually resolved.

Where do relatedTitles and creators come from? Both are scraped from the same series detail page fetched for titleDetails mode — no extra request is made. relatedTitles mirrors the "You may also like" strip WEBTOON itself shows on the page; creators mirrors the "author info" popup layer (name, bio, social links, and that creator's other WEBTOON series), one entry per credited role.

Do I need a proxy? No. WEBTOON serves plain HTML with no bot-detection challenge, so the actor runs proxy-free by default. The optional proxyConfiguration input is available if you ever see IP-based rate limiting on your account.

How many series can I get per Canvas genre? Canvas genres range from a few dozen to several thousand titles each; unlike Originals/genre listings (which return everything on one page), Canvas is paginated 20-per-page and the actor fetches as many pages as needed to satisfy maxItems, up to 1,200.

Why is likeCount sometimes missing on a canvas record? A small number of brand-new Canvas titles show a literal "Like" placeholder instead of a number on their browse card — the real count hasn't rendered server-side yet. The actor never emits a placeholder value; it simply omits likeCount for that record rather than guessing.

Is this affiliated with WEBTOON? No, this is a third-party actor using WEBTOON's publicly accessible web pages. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by WEBTOON or Naver/LINE Digital Frontier.