Naver News Scraper — Korean News Articles & Headlines 🇰🇷📰

Scrape Korean news from Naver News — South Korea's dominant news platform where 80%+ of news consumption happens, serving 30M+ daily users.

Why Naver News Scraper?

• Korea's #1 news platform — Aggregates all major Korean media outlets (Yonhap, Chosun, Hankyung, MBC, KBS, and 100+ more)
• 3 powerful modes — Keyword search, category browsing, and trending/ranking news
• No API key required — Works out of the box with a built-in Naver API integration. No setup needed
• Clean structured data — HTML tags auto-stripped, dates in ISO 8601, consistent JSON output
• Copyright-safe — Only extracts titles, summaries, sources, and URLs. Never extracts full article text
• Part of the Korea Data Suite by huggable_quote

Data Modes

1. Keyword Search (keyword_search)

Search articles by any keyword in Korean or English. Uses the official Naver Search API — up to 1,000 results per keyword, fast and reliable.

Example keywords: 삼성전자, AI 반도체, Korea economy, BTS

2. Category Browse (category_browse)

Browse the latest news from Naver News category sections:

Category	Korean	Section Code
Politics	정치	100
Economy	경제	101
Society	사회	102
Culture/Life	생활/문화	103
World	세계	104
IT/Science	IT/과학	105

3. Ranking (ranking)

Get trending news that Korea is reading right now:

• Most Viewed (많이 본 뉴스) — Articles with the highest view count
• Most Commented (댓글 많은 뉴스) — Articles generating the most discussion

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	keyword_search	keyword_search, category_browse, or ranking
searchKeywords	string[]	—	Keywords to search (keyword_search mode)
maxArticlesPerKeyword	integer	50	Max results per keyword (1–1,000)
sortBy	string	date	date (latest) or relevance
category	string	economy	News category (category_browse mode)
rankingType	string	most_viewed	most_viewed or most_commented
maxArticles	integer	30	Max articles for category/ranking mode
dateFrom	string	—	Filter from date (YYYY-MM-DD)
dateTo	string	—	Filter until date (YYYY-MM-DD)

Output Fields

Each article is one row in the dataset:

Field	Type	Description
title	string	Article headline (Korean, may include HTML <b> tags from API)
titleClean	string	Article headline with HTML tags stripped
description	string	Article summary/snippet
source	string	News outlet name (한국경제, 연합뉴스, MBC, etc.). In keyword search it comes from Naver's press ID, or from the outlet site's name metadata for articles not hosted on Naver (only metadata is read, never article text)
sourceDomain	string	Domain of the original article, e.g. hankyung.com (keyword search)
sourceUrl	string	Original article URL on the news outlet's site
naverUrl	string	Naver News article URL (n.news.naver.com)
imageUrl	string	Article thumbnail (category and ranking modes)
publishedAt	string	Publication datetime in ISO 8601. Category/ranking modes derive it from Naver's relative time ("12분전")
category	string	News category in English
searchKeyword	string	The keyword that found this article
ranking	integer	Rank within the outlet's own ranking (ranking mode only). Results are ordered by rank across outlets: every outlet's #1, then every #2, ...
language	string	Always ko (Korean)
scrapedAt	string	Scraping timestamp in ISO 8601

Output Example

[
  {
    "title": "삼성전자, <b>AI</b> 반도체 투자 10조 확대 발표",
    "titleClean": "삼성전자, AI 반도체 투자 10조 확대 발표",
    "description": "삼성전자가 AI 반도체 분야에 10조원 추가 투자를 발표했다. HBM4 양산 시점을 앞당기고...",
    "source": "한국경제",
    "sourceDomain": "hankyung.com",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.hankyung.com/article/202605121234",
    "naverUrl": "https://n.news.naver.com/mnews/article/015/0005012345",
    "imageUrl": null,
    "publishedAt": "2026-05-12T09:30:00+09:00",
    "category": null,
    "searchKeyword": "삼성전자",
    "ranking": null,
    "language": "ko",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-12T10:15:30+09:00"
  },
  {
    "title": "현대차, 전기차 글로벌 판매 1위 달성",
    "titleClean": "현대차, 전기차 글로벌 판매 1위 달성",
    "description": "현대자동차그룹이 올해 1분기 글로벌 전기차 판매량에서 처음으로 1위를 차지했다...",
    "source": "연합뉴스",
    "sourceDomain": "yna.co.kr",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20260512001200003",
    "naverUrl": "https://n.news.naver.com/mnews/article/001/0015012345",
    "imageUrl": null,
    "publishedAt": "2026-05-12T11:00:00+09:00",
    "category": null,
    "searchKeyword": "현대자동차",
    "ranking": null,
    "language": "ko",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-12T11:30:00+09:00"
  }
]

Pricing

$2.50 per 1,000 results (Pay per event)

Use Cases

• Korean media monitoring for global companies operating in Korea
• Market intelligence — Track semiconductor, K-battery, EV, and K-pop industry news
• Investment research — Monitor Korean market news alongside our KRX Stock Scraper
• PR & marketing — Korean media coverage tracking and sentiment analysis
• NLP/AI research — Build Korean news corpora for language models and sentiment analysis
• Academic research — Study Korean media landscape and press coverage patterns

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