# Yes24 Bestseller Scraper — Korean Book & K-pop Album Charts (`kdatafactory/yes24-bestseller-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Yes24 (yes24.com) bestseller charts — Korea's largest bookstore and top K-pop album retailer. Books or albums as clean JSON: rank, title, author/artist, publisher/label, KRW prices, rating, review count, sales index. For K-lit rights scouting, K-pop demand signals, market research.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/kdatafactory/yes24-bestseller-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Seok June Park](https://apify.com/kdatafactory) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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```bash

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# README

## Yes24 Bestseller Scraper 📚

Scrape the **bestseller charts** from [Yes24](https://www.yes24.com) (예스24) —
**Korea's largest online bookstore and a top physical K-pop album retailer**. Get clean,
structured chart data (rank, title, author/artist, publisher/label, list & sale price in
KRW, rating, review count, **Yes24 sales index**, publication date, image, product URL)
in JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Yes24 is where Korean reading demand and K-pop album demand become **measurable**: its
book chart tracks the K-lit wave (post-Han-Kang-Nobel), and its CD/LP chart is
effectively a **K-pop album sales chart** — Yes24's physical album sales feed Korea's
Hanteo/Circle charts.

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

---

### 🚀 What it does

Give it a **chart** and it returns the ranked bestseller list:

| Chart | What you get | Example input |
|-------|--------------|---------------|
| `books` | The overall **Korean book** bestseller chart (~1,000 ranked titles) | `{ "category": "books" }` |
| `music` | The **CD/LP** chart — K-pop albums, ranked by sales | `{ "category": "music" }` |

Power users can pass any raw Yes24 `categoryNumber` (e.g. `002` foreign books, or a
deep book sub-genre code) to chart any category in the site's tree, and set how many
chart rows to pull (`maxItems`).

---

### 📥 Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|-------|------|---------|-------------|
| `category` | string | `books` | `books` (Korean book chart) or `music` (CD/LP — K-pop album chart). |
| `categoryNumber` | string | — | Advanced: raw Yes24 category code that overrides `category` (any code from the bestseller page's category tree). |
| `maxItems` | integer | `100` | Max chart rows to return (paginated at 24 per request, chart runs ~1,000 deep). |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | off | Optional Apify proxy. Not required — enable for IP diversity at scale. |

**Input example — top 100 K-pop albums by sales:**

```json
{
  "category": "music",
  "maxItems": 100
}
````

***

### 📤 Output

Each chart row is one dataset record in this shape (real sample from a live run):

```json
{
  "source": "yes24",
  "product_id": "193401355",
  "rank": 1,
  "title": "박효신 - A & E",
  "author": "박효신",
  "publisher": "지니(genie)뮤직",
  "price_krw": 166700,
  "sale_price_krw": 135000,
  "rating": 8.4,
  "review_count": 20,
  "sales_point": 154440,
  "published_date": "2026-08",
  "category": "music",
  "category_number": "003",
  "url": "https://www.yes24.com/product/goods/193401355",
  "image_url": "https://image.yes24.com/goods/193401355/L",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-10T15:19:58.256+09:00"
}
```

**Field notes**

- `rank` — 1-based chart position as printed by Yes24.
- `author` — the **public commercial attribution** printed on the chart card: author
  (plus credited translator/illustrator) for books, **artist/group name** for albums.
  No personal contact details, profiles, or user IDs are collected.
- `publisher` — publisher (books) or **label/distributor** (albums).
- `price_krw` / `sale_price_krw` — list price and current selling price, integer **KRW**
  (equal when there is no discount).
- `sales_point` — **Yes24's own sales index (판매지수)**, a demand metric that lets you
  compare sales momentum between titles and across snapshots — more informative than
  rank alone.
- `rating` — Yes24 member review score on a **0–10** scale; `review_count` — number of
  member reviews. Both are `null` when a title has no reviews yet (common for
  pre-order albums — see limitations).
- `published_date` — publication/release date normalized to ISO (`2026-08`), including
  future dates for pre-orders.
- A 25-record real sample (15 books + 10 albums) lives in
  [`samples/sample-output.json`](samples/sample-output.json).

***

### 💡 Use cases

- **K-lit rights scouting** — Korean fiction is the hottest rights market since Han
  Kang's Nobel. See what Korea is actually reading *now*, with author, publisher and a
  real sales index — before it surfaces in English-language trade press.
- **K-pop album sales signals** — the CD/LP chart ranks physical album demand
  (including pre-orders with future release dates), the same physical sales that drive
  Hanteo/Circle chart outcomes. Track versions, box sets and label activity per group.
- **Publishing market research** — genre trends, price points, discount depth, and
  publisher share of the top 1,000, snapshot by snapshot.
- **Price monitoring** — list vs. sale price across the chart, per publisher or label.
- **AI agents & LLM pipelines** — feed a clean, ranked JSON catalog of what Korea reads
  and listens to into RAG or a trend-analysis assistant.

***

### 🌐 Data source

This actor reads Yes24's **public** bestseller chart pages — the same server-rendered
HTML any visitor sees at `yes24.com/product/category/bestseller`. No login, no private
API. The pages are served without a bot challenge, so **no proxy is required**; you can
enable an Apify proxy for IP diversity when running at scale.

***

### ⚠️ Known limitations (honest notes)

- **`rating` / `review_count` depend on reviews existing.** On the book chart nearly
  every item has them (39/40 in live tests). On the music chart most entries are
  **new or pre-order albums** that have no reviews yet, so those two fields are often
  `null` there (9/40 populated in live tests). All other fields populate on both charts.
- **`rating` is on a 0–10 scale** (Yes24's review score), not the 5-star scale most
  platforms use.
- **`sales_point` is Yes24's proprietary index**, not a unit-sales figure. It is
  comparable between titles and across time, but not convertible to absolute copies sold.
- **Chart depth is ~1,000 items** per category — this is a bestseller chart scraper,
  not a full catalog crawler.

***

### ⚖️ Rate & legality note

- Only **public, non-personal** chart data is collected — listings anyone can see
  without logging in. **No personal data** (no reader reviews, reviewer nicknames,
  profiles, or user IDs). `author` and `publisher` are public commercial attribution —
  author/artist and publisher/label names, like a shop name.
- Requests are **rate-limited** (sequential pages, ≥500 ms delay) to stay light on the
  site.
- You are responsible for complying with Yes24's Terms of Service and applicable law in
  your jurisdiction. Use the data for research, monitoring, and analytics — not to
  replicate the platform.

***

### ❓ FAQ

**Is it legal to scrape this data?**
This actor collects only public, non-personal chart data — the same bestseller lists any visitor sees on Yes24 without logging in. No personal data is collected (reader reviews, nicknames, and profiles are never parsed; author/artist names are public commercial attribution). You are responsible for how you use the data; see the rate & legality note above.

**What does it cost in practice?**
$2.50 per 1,000 results (launch pricing) + a few cents of platform usage. Example: snapshotting the top 500 books daily costs about $1.25/day. Apify's free $5 monthly credit covers ~2,000 results.

**Do I need to configure proxies?**
No — the default settings work out of the box. Optionally, enable an Apify proxy for IP diversity when running at scale.

**How fresh is the data?**
Every run scrapes the live Yes24 chart at run time (Yes24 recomputes its bestseller ranking on a rolling basis). Schedule the actor for daily/weekly time series.

**Can I scrape a specific genre instead of the overall chart?**
Yes — pass the genre's raw code in `categoryNumber` (any code from the bestseller page's category tree, e.g. a Korean-fiction sub-genre). The `books`/`music` presets cover the two headline charts.

**What is NOT included?**
Reader reviews and any reviewer identity (never collected), unit sales figures (`sales_point` is Yes24's own index), and products outside the bestseller charts (~1,000 items deep per category).

***

### 🇰🇷 More Korean data actors

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

- [ktown4u-scraper](https://apify.com/kdatafactory/ktown4u-scraper) — global K-pop album & goods store, product and price data.
- [pocamarket-scraper](https://apify.com/kdatafactory/pocamarket-scraper) — K-pop photocard marketplace, listing & price data.
- [wadiz-scraper](https://apify.com/kdatafactory/wadiz-scraper) — Korea's largest reward crowdfunding platform, campaign & funding data.

Browse all: [apify.com/kdatafactory](https://apify.com/kdatafactory)

***

### 🏃 Run it

On Apify: set your input and click **Start**. Locally:

```bash
npm install
## put your input in storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json
npm start
```

Results land in the default dataset (Apify) or `./storage/datasets/default` (local).

***

*If this actor saves you time, a rating on the [Store page](https://apify.com/kdatafactory/yes24-bestseller-scraper) helps a solo maintainer a lot. Found an issue? Open it in the Issues tab — I respond fast.*

# Actor input Schema

## `category` (type: `string`):

'books' = the overall Korean book bestseller chart. 'music' = the CD/LP chart (Yes24 is a top K-pop album retailer, so this is effectively a K-pop album sales chart).

## `categoryNumber` (type: `string`):

Advanced: a raw Yes24 category code that overrides the Chart preset — any code from the bestseller page's category tree (e.g. '002' foreign books, '001001046' a book sub-genre). Leave empty to use the Chart preset.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of chart items to return (paginated at 24 per request; the overall book chart runs ~1,000 items deep).

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional Apify proxy. The chart page is not IP-blocked, so a proxy is not required; enable one for IP diversity at scale.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "category": "books",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "category": "books"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("kdatafactory/yes24-bestseller-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "category": "books" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("kdatafactory/yes24-bestseller-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "category": "books"
}' |
apify call kdatafactory/yes24-bestseller-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=kdatafactory/yes24-bestseller-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Yes24 Bestseller Scraper — Korean Book & K-pop Album Charts",
        "description": "Scrape Yes24 (yes24.com) bestseller charts — Korea's largest bookstore and top K-pop album retailer. Books or albums as clean JSON: rank, title, author/artist, publisher/label, KRW prices, rating, review count, sales index. For K-lit rights scouting, K-pop demand signals, market research.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "oGCUUonLxBiwjvQ5z"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/kdatafactory~yes24-bestseller-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-kdatafactory-yes24-bestseller-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/kdatafactory~yes24-bestseller-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-kdatafactory-yes24-bestseller-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/kdatafactory~yes24-bestseller-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-kdatafactory-yes24-bestseller-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "category"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "category": {
                        "title": "Chart",
                        "enum": [
                            "books",
                            "music"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "'books' = the overall Korean book bestseller chart. 'music' = the CD/LP chart (Yes24 is a top K-pop album retailer, so this is effectively a K-pop album sales chart).",
                        "default": "books"
                    },
                    "categoryNumber": {
                        "title": "Raw category number (optional)",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Advanced: a raw Yes24 category code that overrides the Chart preset — any code from the bestseller page's category tree (e.g. '002' foreign books, '001001046' a book sub-genre). Leave empty to use the Chart preset."
                    },
                    "maxItems": {
                        "title": "Max items",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 1000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of chart items to return (paginated at 24 per request; the overall book chart runs ~1,000 items deep).",
                        "default": 100
                    },
                    "proxyConfiguration": {
                        "title": "Proxy configuration",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "Optional Apify proxy. The chart page is not IP-blocked, so a proxy is not required; enable one for IP diversity at scale.",
                        "default": {
                            "useApifyProxy": false
                        }
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
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                                        "example": 0
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                                        "example": 0
                                    }
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                            }
                        }
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                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```