Danawa Scraper — Korean Price Comparison 💻

Scrape live product price-comparison data from Danawa (다나와) — Korea's #1 electronics & product price-comparison site — as clean, structured JSON. Search any keyword and get the product name, lowest listed KRW price, category, brand, spec summary, and image for every result in one run.

The go-to source for price monitoring, MAP enforcement, repricing, and market research on the Korean market. Danawa aggregates prices across hundreds of malls, so its lowest-price figure is the reference point Korean shoppers and sellers actually use.

Try it free. Apify's free plan includes $5 of monthly platform credit — at $2.00 / 1,000 results that's roughly 2,500 products from this actor, no credit card required. Set your keyword, click Start, and export JSON/CSV/Excel.

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What it does

This actor reads product data straight from Danawa's own public search results (the same page the website renders as you search), so results are fast and complete — no headless browser. For any keyword you give it, you get a structured, filterable list of matching products with their lowest aggregated price. You can scrape:

• Any search keyword — 노트북 (laptop), 아이폰, RTX 4070, 무선청소기, a brand, a model number — anything Danawa's search box accepts, in Korean or English.
• As many results as you want — the actor paginates through Danawa's results (≈40 products per page) up to your maxItems.

Why Danawa? Danawa is Korea's dominant price-comparison portal for electronics, appliances, and thousands of other categories. Its "최저가" (lowest price) is aggregated across hundreds of online malls, making it the single best public reference for what a product actually costs in Korea. This actor turns that into a dataset you can filter, price-model, and pipe into your own tools.

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Input

Field	Type	Description
query	string	The search keyword, exactly as you'd type it into Danawa. Korean or English — e.g. 노트북, 아이폰 15, RTX 4070, 무선청소기. Defaults to 노트북.
maxItems	integer	Max products to collect. Default 100, max 10000.
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings (see below). Optional — defaults to a direct connection, and the actor switches to Apify Proxy by itself if the direct IP gets blocked.

Input example

{
  "query": "노트북",
  "maxItems": 200
}

{
  "query": "RTX 4070",
  "maxItems": 500
}

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Output

Each product is one dataset record. price_krw is the lowest listed price in Korean won (Danawa's aggregated 최저가), as a plain integer. spec_summary is Danawa's short spec line for the product when shown. category is the product's Danawa category path.

{
  "source": "danawa",
  "product_id": "106749749",
  "name": "레노버 요가 Slim 7i Ultra Aura Edition 83QK001JKR",
  "price_krw": 2798000,
  "category": "디지털 완제품 > 노트북",
  "brand": "레노버",
  "spec_summary": "AI노트북/ 35.56cm(14인치)/ 975g/ 최대 26.5시간/ sRGB: 100%/ Adobe RGB: 100%/ DCI-P3: 100%/ 500nit/ 인텔/ 코어 울트라5(S3)/325 (4.5GHz)/ 47TOPS/Intel Graphics/ 32GB/ 램 교체: 불가능/ 용량: 1TB/출시가: 2,607,600원",
  "mall_count": 18,
  "url": "https://prod.danawa.com/info/?pcode=106749749",
  "image_url": "https://img.danuri.io/catalog-image/749/749/106/421c8dbfe7db4eb4a3228e1a88536850.jpeg",
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-24T08:22:51+09:00"
}

A full 40-item sample from a real run is in samples/sample-output.json.

Field	Meaning
source	Always "danawa".
product_id	Danawa product code (pcode).
name	Full product name, as Danawa lists it.
price_krw	Lowest listed price in KRW (integer).
category	Danawa category path (e.g. 디지털 완제품 > 노트북), else null.
brand	Best-effort brand (first token of the name), else null.
spec_summary	Danawa's short spec line when shown, else null.
mall_count	Number of sellers listing the product (Danawa's N몰 badge), else null.
url	Product detail page URL.
image_url	Main product image URL, else null.
scraped_at	ISO-8601 timestamp (KST, UTC+9).

Every field above was populated on 40/40 records in the live test of 2026-08-24, mall_count and spec_summary included. brand and spec_summary remain best-effort by nature (see Known limitations).

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Use cases

• Price monitoring & MAP enforcement — track a product's Danawa 최저가 (lowest price) over time to detect price drops and catch resellers breaking your Minimum Advertised Price.
• Reseller & arbitrage sourcing — scan a category or keyword for underpriced listings versus their typical Danawa price, and spot cross-border arbitrage opportunities.
• E-commerce repricing — feed live Korean market prices into your own repricing engine so your storefront always tracks the reference lowest price.
• Market & competitive research — measure price distribution, brand mix, and product availability across a keyword or category on Korea's biggest price portal.
• AI agents & datasets — feed structured product + price data into pricing models, dashboards, or LLM agents.

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❓ FAQ

Is it legal to scrape this data? This actor collects only public, non-personal price-comparison data — the same product listings any visitor sees on danawa.com without logging in. No personal or individual-seller contact data is collected. You are responsible for how you use the data; see the legality note below.

What does it cost in practice? $2.00 per 1,000 results (launch pricing) + a few cents of platform usage. Example: a 500-result daily pull costs about $1.00/day. Apify's free $5 monthly credit covers ~2,500 results (5 ÷ 2 × 1,000).

Do I need to configure proxies? No. The default is a direct connection, and if Danawa's WAF blocks that IP the actor retries with backoff and automatically escalates to Apify Proxy on a fresh IP — a transient block no longer fails the run. Configuring a proxy yourself is still worthwhile for very heavy pulls.

How fresh is the data? Every run scrapes the live Danawa results at run time. Schedule the actor for recurring snapshots (e.g. daily price tracking).

What is NOT included? Per-seller price rows and individual mall contact details are not returned — only the product, its aggregated lowest price and how many malls list it. spec_summary and brand are best-effort (see Known limitations). Product names, categories, and specs come as Korean strings, as Danawa lists them.

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🤖 Use with AI agents (MCP)

Call this Actor as a tool from Claude or any MCP-compatible AI agent — no glue code. Point your MCP client at Apify's server, scoped to this Actor:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=kdatafactory/danawa-scraper",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" }
    }
  }
}

Your agent can then pull Danawa product prices and market data on demand — no scraping code in your app. Grab a free token from Apify → Integrations.

🇰🇷 More Korean data actors

This actor is part of a suite of Korean-platform scrapers by the same maintainer:

• kurly-scraper — product & price data from Market Kurly, Korea's leading premium grocery platform.
• musinsa-scraper — fashion product listings from Musinsa, Korea's #1 online fashion store.

Browse all: apify.com/kdatafactory

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Rate limiting & legality

• The actor collects only public, non-authenticated data. It never logs in and never touches private endpoints.
• No personal data is collected. Only product attributes and an aggregated lowest price are returned — never individual seller contact information.
• Requests are rate-limited: one page at a time with a ≥ 500 ms delay between requests, to stay gentle on Danawa's servers.
• You are responsible for using the data in line with Danawa's terms of service and applicable law.

Reliability & blocking

Danawa's WAF intermittently answers datacenter IPs with a 403 block page. It is transient — the same input succeeds minutes later — so the actor treats it as a retry, not a failure:

1. Up to 5 attempts per page with exponential backoff (≈2s → 12s).
2. From the 3rd attempt it escalates to Apify Proxy on a fresh session/IP, even when you configured no proxy.
3. A 200 response carrying a block interstitial is caught too, so a blocked run can never masquerade as an empty result.

Failures that are not transient stop immediately with an explicit message instead of burning retries — a keyword with no matches on Danawa reports exactly that.

Known limitations (honesty note)

• mall_count (number of sellers) is read from the N몰 badge on the price list and was present on 40/40 rows in the 2026-08-24 test. Until that date the actor looked for an older 판매처 N wording that Danawa no longer uses, so earlier runs returned null here; it is still declared nullable because Danawa omits the badge on single-seller listings.
• brand is derived heuristically as the first token of the product name (e.g. LG전자, ASUS, 삼성전자). It's right for the vast majority of listings, but Danawa has no dedicated brand field on the card, so treat it as best-effort. The authoritative full product name is always in the name field.
• spec_summary is Danawa's raw short spec line, lightly cleaned. It's present for most products but its format varies by category (and is occasionally empty), so it's best-effort and can be null.
• category is derived from Danawa's category metadata on the card. It's populated for the vast majority of products but can be null for the occasional result that omits it.
• Names, categories, and specs are Korean strings, exactly as Danawa lists them — they are not translated.

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