RIDI Bestseller Scraper — Korean Ebooks, Webnovels & Webtoons 📚

Scrape live bestseller charts from RIDI (리디) — one of Korea's biggest ebook, webnovel and webtoon stores — as clean, structured JSON. Get rank, title, author, publisher, price (KRW), rating, and cover image for every book on the chart in one run.

RIDI is where Korea's webnovel and webtoon demand becomes measurable: its serial charts surface the original stories that feed the K-drama and webtoon-adaptation pipeline, long before they trend. This actor turns those public charts into a dataset you can filter, rank-track, and pipe into your own tools — for IP scouting, publishing research, and bestseller monitoring.

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

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What it does

This actor reads bestseller data straight from RIDI's own public sources — the server-rendered bestseller page (page 1) and the same public GraphQL API the site calls for "load more" (pages 2+) — so results are fast and complete, with no headless browser. The bestseller list is fully public (only reading a book is paywalled), so no login is required. You can scrape any of RIDI's bestseller charts:

Category (alias)	RIDI chart	Notes
general (default), all	일반 단행본 — general trade e-books	The site's default bestseller view
ebook	All e-books	Broad e-book chart
webnovel	웹소설 — webnovels (serials)	Original-story IP pipeline
webtoon	웹툰 — webtoons	Daily chart
comic	만화 — comics/manga
fantasy	판타지 e-book	Also fantasy_serial (판타지 웹소설)
romance	로맨스 e-book	Also romance_serial (로맨스 웹소설)
romance-fantasy	로판 (romance-fantasy) e-book	Also romance_fantasy_serial
lightnovel	라이트노벨

Power users can pass any raw RIDI genre slug (e.g. general, serial, comic_serial) directly. RIDI's bestseller chart holds up to 200 ranked books per genre.

Why RIDI? Korean webnovels and webtoons are the raw material of the global K-content boom — a huge share of hit K-dramas and webtoons start as serialized web fiction. RIDI is one of the largest stores for exactly that content, and its bestseller charts are an early, ranked signal of what's resonating with Korean readers right now.

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Input

Field	Type	Description
category	string	Which bestseller chart to scrape. A friendly alias — all/general, ebook, webnovel, webtoon, comic, fantasy, romance, romance-fantasy, lightnovel — or a raw RIDI genre slug (e.g. general, serial, fantasy_serial). Blank = general.
maxItems	integer	Max records to collect. Default 100, max 200 (RIDI's chart caps at 200 per genre).
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings (see below). Defaults to a direct connection.

Input example

{
  "category": "webnovel",
  "maxItems": 200
}

{
  "category": "general",
  "maxItems": 100
}

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Output

Each bestseller is one dataset record, in chart order. rank is the book's position on the chart (1 = top). price_krw is the discounted selling price in Korean won. rating is the average of RIDI's 1–5 star reader ratings. title keeps the full original book/episode name.

{
  "source": "ridi",
  "rank": 1,
  "book_id": "4239000438",
  "title": "신 퇴마록 신세편 1권",
  "author": "이우혁",
  "publisher": "반타",
  "price_krw": 16200,
  "rating": 4.18,
  "category": "general",
  "url": "https://ridibooks.com/books/4239000438",
  "image_url": "https://img.ridicdn.net/cover/4239000438/xxlarge",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-14T14:45:46+09:00"
}

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

Field	Meaning
source	Always "ridi".
rank	Position on the bestseller chart (1 = top).
book_id	RIDI book ID.
title	Full original book / episode title (Korean).
author	Public creator name(s), as RIDI lists them. Webtoons list all roles (writer / illustrator / original author), comma-joined.
publisher	Publisher / label (Korean), else null.
price_krw	Discounted selling price in KRW, else null (see limitations — webnovel/webtoon episodes are often free or per-episode).
rating	Average reader rating, 1–5, else null when the book has no ratings yet.
category	The RIDI genre slug that was scraped (e.g. general, serial, webtoon).
url	Book detail page URL.
image_url	Cover image URL.
scraped_at	ISO-8601 timestamp (KST, UTC+9).

The critical fields — rank, title, author — are populated on 40/40 records in the live test, along with publisher, url, image_url, and category. price_krw (40/40 on the general chart) and rating (35/40) are best-effort — see Known limitations.

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Use cases

• Webnovel & webtoon IP scouting — build a live, ranked catalogue of Korea's top serialized stories to scout source material for K-drama, film, and webtoon adaptation before it breaks out. Run the webnovel and webtoon charts on a schedule to catch rising titles early.
• Publishing & rights scouts — track which authors, publishers, and genres are climbing RIDI's charts to inform acquisitions, translation rights, and licensing.
• Bestseller & trend tracking — snapshot the charts daily to measure rank velocity, price positioning, and rating momentum across genres.
• AI agents & datasets — feed structured Korean-book chart data into dashboards, recommendation models, or LLM agents.

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❓ FAQ

Is it legal to scrape this data? This actor collects only public, non-personal bestseller-list data — the same charts any visitor sees on ridibooks.com without logging in. It never logs in and never accesses paywalled book content. Author names are the public creator credits RIDI publishes on every listing. 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. A full 200-book chart pull costs about $0.40. Apify's free $5 monthly credit covers ~2,500 results.

Do I need to configure proxies? No — the default settings work out of the box. RIDI serves its bestseller data without a bot wall, so the actor runs fine on a direct connection. For very heavy scheduled pulls you can optionally enable Apify Proxy — see the proxy note below.

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

Which categories can I scrape? Any RIDI bestseller genre — general (default), ebook, webnovel, webtoon, comic, fantasy, romance, romance-fantasy, lightnovel, and their raw slugs (e.g. serial, fantasy_serial). See the table above.

What is NOT included? Paywalled book content (we never fetch it) and any account/personal data. price_krw and rating are best-effort (see limitations). Titles, authors, and publishers come as Korean strings — RIDI is a Korean-language store.

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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/ridibooks-scraper",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" }
    }
  }
}

Your agent can then pull RIDI ebook, webnovel, and webtoon bestseller charts 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:

• yes24-bestseller-scraper — bestseller charts from Yes24, Korea's largest online bookstore. Pair it with this actor to cover both print and digital Korean book demand.
• naver-webtoon-scraper — series & rankings from Naver Webtoon, Korea's #1 webtoon platform. Run it alongside RIDI's webtoon chart for cross-platform webtoon IP scouting.

Browse all: apify.com/kdatafactory

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Rate limiting & legality

• The actor collects only public, non-authenticated data — the public bestseller charts. It never logs in and never touches paywalled book content or private endpoints.
• No personal / account data is collected. Only bestseller-list book metadata and the public creator (author) credit RIDI publishes on each listing are returned.
• Requests are rate-limited: one page at a time with a ≥ 500 ms delay between requests, to stay gentle on RIDI's servers.
• You are responsible for using the data in line with RIDI's terms of service and applicable law.

Known limitations (honesty note)

• price_krw is best-effort. On the general, ebook, and comic charts it's the book's discounted selling price and is well-populated. On the webnovel/webtoon (serial) charts, the chart entry is usually a first episode that's free or priced per-episode, so price_krw is often null — that's honest, not a bug. It is not billed as a guaranteed field.
• rating is best-effort. It's the weighted average of RIDI's 1–5 star reader ratings, and is null when a book has no ratings yet (about 1 in 8 books on the live general chart). Rounded to two decimals.
• publisher can be null when RIDI doesn't expose a publisher/label for a listing (rare on the tested charts, but possible on some serials).
• Text is Korean. RIDI is a Korean-language store, so titles, author names, and publishers are returned as Korean strings and are not translated.
• The chart caps at 200. RIDI's bestseller list returns at most 200 books per genre, so maxItems above 200 is clamped to 200.

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