# NAVER Search Scraper - Blogs, News, Cafes, Q\&A (`loopchips/naver-search-scraper`) Actor

Search Korea's dominant platform through the official NAVER API: blog posts, news, cafe community threads, 지식iN answers, web documents, local businesses and images. For brand monitoring, PR tracking and Korean market research.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/loopchips/naver-search-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Loopchips](https://apify.com/loopchips) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, SEO tools, Automation
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.50 / 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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## NAVER Search Scraper - Blogs, News, Cafes, Q\&A

**What Koreans are actually saying, from the platform they actually use.** Google has minority share in South Korea. NAVER is where blogs, community cafes, news and Q\&A live - and this actor searches all of it through the official NAVER API.

One keyword, up to 8 verticals, structured rows.

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### What you can search

| Vertical | What it gives you |
|---|---|
| **Blogs** | Post title, snippet, blogger name, blogger URL, publish date |
| **News** | Headline, snippet, NAVER link, original publisher link, publish time |
| **Cafes** | Community thread title, snippet, cafe name, cafe URL |
| **Q\&A (지식iN)** | Question title and answer snippet - raw consumer intent |
| **Web documents** | Broad web results indexed by NAVER |
| **Encyclopedia** | Reference entries with thumbnails |
| **Local businesses** | Name, category, address, road address, GPS coordinates |
| **Images** | Image URL, thumbnail, dimensions |

Every row carries the keyword that found it and a scrape timestamp, so repeat runs build a mention timeline.

Export as **JSON, CSV or Excel**, or pull from the API.

### What people use it for

**Brand and reputation monitoring** - Track every mention of your brand across Korean blogs, news and community cafes on a schedule. Cafes in particular are where Korean consumers speak candidly, and no global tool covers them.

**PR and news tracking** - Follow coverage of a company, product or issue with publisher links and timestamps.

**Market and consumer research** - 지식iN questions are unfiltered consumer intent: what buyers are confused about, what they compare, what they fear.

**Content and SEO research** - See which blogs rank for your keywords, who writes them, and how often they publish.

**Competitive intelligence** - Run competitor names on a schedule and watch their coverage volume and messaging shift.

### How to use it

1. Get a **free NAVER API HUB credential** at https://www.ncloud.com (Services > Application Services > NAVER API HUB). Register an application and enable the search APIs. Free quota at the time of writing is 25,000 calls per day per API
2. Paste **Client ID** and **Client Secret** into the input
3. Enter **keywords** (Korean returns the richest results, English works) and pick **verticals**
4. Set max results per keyword and vertical (NAVER caps paging at 1,000 per search)
5. Run it, or schedule it for continuous monitoring

### Notes

- Searching 3 keywords across 4 verticals is 12 searches - quota is per API, so this stays well inside the free tier for normal use
- NAVER returns matched terms wrapped in bold tags; this actor strips them so text is clean
- Sorting by relevance or newest applies to text verticals; local and image search ignore it
- The NAVER local API no longer returns phone numbers, so that column is deliberately absent. For phone numbers use our **Naver Map Scraper**

### Pairs with

**Naver Map Scraper** and **Naver Place Detail & Menu Scraper** (local business data with contacts and menus), **Korean Price Comparison Scraper** (product prices), **Korean Company Filings & Financials** (DART). The same Korea data toolkit.

### FAQ

**Do I need my own API credential?** Yes, and it is free. Your usage runs under your own quota, so no shared rate limits.

**Is this official?** Yes - this uses NAVER's own API through NAVER Cloud Platform, not scraped HTML. That means it does not break when NAVER changes its page markup.

**Will it stay free?** NAVER API HUB is currently offered free of charge and states that any move to paid pricing will be announced in advance. Check the current terms when you register.

**Do I need Korean?** No. Field names are English. Content comes back in Korean as published - pipe it through a translator if needed.

### Support

Need another vertical or field? Open an issue on the actor page - issues are answered within 3 business days.

# Actor input Schema

## `ncpApiKeyId` (type: `string`):

Your own free NAVER API HUB credential. Create an application at https://www.ncloud.com (Services > Application Services > NAVER API HUB) and enable the search APIs. Free quota is 25,000 calls per day per API at the time of writing.

## `ncpApiKey` (type: `string`):

The Client Secret from the same NAVER API HUB application.

## `searchKeywords` (type: `array`):

What to search for. Korean keywords return the richest results, English works too. Brand names, product names, competitor names, topics.

## `verticals` (type: `array`):

Which parts of NAVER to search. Every selected vertical is searched for every keyword.

## `maxResultsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

NAVER caps paging at 1,000 results per search.

## `sort` (type: `string`):

Relevance or newest first. Ignored for local and image search.

## `requestDelayMs` (type: `integer`):

Politeness delay between API calls.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchKeywords": [
    "마케팅"
  ],
  "verticals": [
    "blog",
    "news"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 100,
  "sort": "sim",
  "requestDelayMs": 300
}
```

# 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 = {
    "searchKeywords": [
        "마케팅"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("loopchips/naver-search-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 = { "searchKeywords": ["마케팅"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("loopchips/naver-search-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchKeywords": [
    "마케팅"
  ]
}' |
apify call loopchips/naver-search-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,loopchips/naver-search-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/8gX8JS47kglQpGwtz/builds/m4uqJsF0xvvrCG26z/openapi.json