Naver Search API → Clean English JSON

Search Korea's largest portal in your own language. This Apify Actor calls Naver's official Open Search API and returns clean English JSON, ready for AI agents, dashboards, and analytics pipelines.

What it does

• Calls the official Naver Open API (no scraping, no ToS gray area) for news, blog, web, and shopping results
• Normalizes Korean → English with Claude Haiku, including HTML entity stripping and entity preservation (BTS, Samsung, BLACKPINK stay BTS, Samsung, BLACKPINK)
• Returns a flat, predictable JSON schema with title, summary, source URL, publish date, and translation confidence

Use cases

1. AI agents — drop into Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP client to make Korean web searchable in English chats
2. Trend analysts — track K-pop, K-drama, K-beauty, or any keyword across Naver News and Blogs in English
3. E-commerce research — pull Naver Shopping results for cross-border arbitrage, price monitoring, or competitor scans
4. Newsroom & investor research — surface Korean coverage of global brands, executives, or events without a translator
5. Workflow automation — wire into Make, n8n, Zapier, or LangChain for agent workflows that touch Korean data

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
query	string (required)	—	Keyword. Korean (방탄소년단) and English (BTS) are both supported.
search_type	enum	news	One of news, blog, webkr, shop.
max_results	integer	10	Between 1 and 100.
translate	boolean	true	If true, normalize to English with Claude Haiku. If false, return raw Korean (still HTML-stripped).
sort	enum	sim	sim (relevance) or date.

Example inputs

{ "query": "BTS", "search_type": "news", "max_results": 5 }

{ "query": "K-beauty trends", "search_type": "blog", "max_results": 20 }

{ "query": "삼성전자 실적", "search_type": "news", "max_results": 10, "sort": "date" }

{ "query": "iPhone 17 케이스", "search_type": "shop", "max_results": 15 }

{ "query": "korea startup ecosystem", "search_type": "webkr", "max_results": 25 }

Output

Each result is pushed to the default dataset as a flat record:

{
  "title": "BTS announces world tour 2026",
  "summary": "BTS revealed their first world tour since 2024, opening in Seoul on June 12.",
  "source_url": "https://n.news.naver.com/article/...",
  "published_at": "Mon, 05 May 2026 10:00:00 +0900",
  "language": "ko",
  "translation_quality": 0.95,
  "search_type": "news",
  "source": "naver",
  "raw": { "title": "<b>BTS</b> 월드투어 발표", "description": "...", "link": "..." }
}

raw preserves the untouched Naver record so you can recover vertical-specific fields (e.g. lprice, mallName, bloggername) when you need them.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: $0.03 per result returned. No subscription, no minimums.

Run	Cost
10 results	$0.30
100 results	$3.00
0 results (no match)	$0.00
Errors (rate limit, bad credentials, network)	$0.00

Why this Actor

	This Actor	Generic web scraper	Raw Naver API
Korean → English translation	✅ Claude Haiku	❌	❌
Official API (ToS-safe)	✅	⚠️ Often gray	✅
Flat English JSON schema	✅	❌	❌
MCP / Make / n8n / Zapier	✅ auto-listed	Sometimes	Manual integration
HTML & entity cleanup	✅	❌	❌
Pay-per-result, no subscription	✅	Varies	n/a

Compatibility

• Apify Console — run interactively or via the Apify API
• Apify MCP server — exposed at mcp.apify.com
• Claude Desktop / Cursor / Cline — via the Apify MCP connector
• Make.com, n8n, Zapier — auto-listed through Apify's native integrations
• Anywhere with HTTP — call the run-sync-get-dataset-items endpoint

Compliance

• Uses the official Naver Open API under its commercial-allowed terms (25,000 calls/day quota per app, attribution required)
• Returns metadata and short summaries only — never republishes full article bodies
• No personal data collection; no scraping; no ToS gray areas
• Source attribution preserved in the source_url and source fields of every record

Author

Built and maintained by an independent Korean developer focused on bridging Korean public data to global AI agents. For bugs, feature requests, or vertical additions, leave a comment on the Actor page.

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