Naver Scraper - Places, Blogs, News & Cafe Leads

Turn Naver, South Korea's dominant search portal, into clean structured data: Korean local business leads with phone numbers and addresses, plus blog, news and cafe search results with the full article body, not just a snippet.

No browser, no login, no cookies. This actor runs on plain HTTP against Naver's own server-rendered pages, so runs finish in seconds and cost a fraction of a browser-based scraper.

What you get

places - Korean local business leads

The lead-generation mode. Every business comes back with contact and location data ready for outreach or market mapping.

Field	Notes
name, category, businessCategory, categories	Business name + Naver's own category codes
phone	The contact number - populated for the large majority of listings
roadAddress, address, fullAddress, commonAddress	Full Korean address, all four Naver formats
latitude, longitude	Map coordinates, ready for geo analysis
visitorReviewScore, visitorReviewCount, blogCafeReviewCount, bookingReviewCount, totalReviewCount	Full review picture
conveniences, options, paymentMethods	Amenities, service options, accepted payments
menuCount, topMenus	Menu items with prices (businesses that publish a menu)
topReviews, microReview	Actual visitor review text (listings with recent reviews)
imageUrl, imageUrls, imageCount	Photos
bookingUrl, talkTalkUrl, hasBooking, hasNaverPay	Booking / chat channels (opt-in per merchant)
representativePrice, bookingReviewScore	Beauty lane only - hair & beauty listings
leadScore	0-100 contactability score, so you can sort the best leads to the top
placeUrl, mapUrl	Direct Naver Place and Naver Map links

blogs / news / cafes - Naver search results

Field	Notes
title, snippet, publishedDate / publishedRelative	Result basics
fullText, textLength	The complete post or article body when includeDetails is on
bloggerName, blogId, blogUrl, likeCount, commentCount, categoryName	Blogs
publisher, publishedAt, reporter, section, naverNewsUrl, originalUrl	News
cafeName, cafeUrl, isAd	Cafes - paid placements are flagged, not silently mixed in

Honest scope - what this actor does NOT do

We would rather tell you up front than have you discover it on your first run.

• Naver Shopping is not included. search.shopping.naver.com answers automated requests with HTTP 418 on every lane we tested, so shopping is not offered rather than shipped broken.
• Only two Naver Place lanes are offered (general and beauty). Naver's other Place verticals (/cafe/list, /hospital, /attraction, /accommodation, /place) either 404 or render zero businesses server-side. general covers every business type anyway - the query picks the category, e.g. 강남 카페, 부산 치과, 홍대 헬스장.
• Opening hours are not returned. Naver loads them through a later request and leaves the field null in the page payload, measured across 122 live businesses. Rather than ship a permanently empty column, we removed it. Blog tags and news thumbnails were dropped for the same reason.
• Naver Place ignores ?page=. Page 2 returns the identical businesses. Depth therefore comes from sweeping the regions list (each region is a different map anchor and a different result set), not from paging - which is why regions exists.

Reliability

Naver rate-limits by IP. This actor rotates a pool of independently-primed Korean residential proxy sessions, one egress IP each, and validates the payload rather than the status code - a 200 that came back without the expected data is treated as a throttle, rotated and retried.

• A transient block never throws. The run ends Succeeded with a status message and, on pay-per-event, you are billed nothing for zero results.
• Every run carries a wall-clock budget from ACTOR_TIMEOUT_AT and stops cleanly before the platform can kill it, so a run can never end TIMED-OUT. Proven: an unbounded run under a 120 s timeout finished Succeeded in 64 s with 36 complete records and a status message.
• Empty or malformed input runs a small real sample instead of failing.

Input

{
  "mode": "places",
  "placeType": "general",
  "queries": ["강남 카페"],
  "regions": ["서울", "부산"],
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 50
}

Field	Description
mode	places | blogs | news | cafes
queries	Search terms, Korean or English
placeType	general (any business type) or beauty
regions	Places only - sweep these regions for depth
includeDetails	Adds full article text / business detail fields
maxItems	0 = unlimited (still stops safely before the timeout)
sortBy	relevance or recent

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

This actor works as a tool for AI agents through Apify's MCP server, so an assistant can look up Korean businesses or Korean-language coverage on demand.

Agent-ready: autonomous discovery and payment

This Actor is pay-per-event with limited permissions, which makes it eligible for Apify's agentic payments. AI agents can discover, run, and pay for this Actor autonomously - with no Apify account - using USDC on Base via x402 or Skyfire.

• MCP-native: callable as a tool from any MCP-compatible assistant.
• Deterministic pricing: you are charged per result, so an agent can budget a task precisely.
• No empty-result charges: a run that returns nothing costs nothing.

Legal

Collects publicly available information only. No login, no paywall bypass, no personal accounts. Business contact details are published by the businesses themselves on their public Naver listings. You are responsible for using the data in line with Naver's terms and applicable law, including PIPA/GDPR where relevant.