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Keywords: yes24, korean books, korean bestseller, korea book data, south korea, korean web scraping, naver data, apify actor, korean data extraction

YES24 Book Scraper 🇰🇷📚

Scrape YES24 (예스24) — Korea's largest online bookstore — for bestseller charts, book search results, and detailed product information. Extract titles, authors, prices, ISBNs, ratings, genres, descriptions, and more.

No browser needed — uses fast, lightweight HTML parsing and structured data (JSON-LD). No proxies required.

⚡ Quick Start

Scrape bestseller chart (Top 24)

{
"mode":"bestseller",
"category":"all",
"maxResults":24
}

Search for books by keyword

{
"mode":"search",
"keyword":"파이썬",
"maxResults":20
}

Get bestseller chart with full details (ISBN, genre, description)

{
"mode":"bestseller",
"category":"novel",
"fetchDetails":true,
"maxResults":50
}

Get detailed info for specific books

{
"mode":"detail",
"goodsIds":["175568752","109625396"]
}

🎯 Use Cases

• Publishing Market Research — Track Korean book market trends and bestseller movements
• Academic Research — Collect metadata for Korean literature studies and bibliometrics
• Price Monitoring — Track book prices and discounts across categories
• Book Recommendation Systems — Build datasets for book discovery and recommendation engines
• Library Cataloging — Bulk extraction of ISBN, author, publisher, and classification data
• K-Literature Trends — Monitor which Korean authors and genres are trending
• Content Strategy — Data-driven insights for publishers and bookstores
• Translation Scouting — Discover popular Korean books for international translation deals

📥 Input Parameters

Bestseller Categories

📤 Output Fields

List mode (search / bestseller)

Detail mode (or with fetchDetails: true)

All fields above, plus:

Sample Output (bestseller)

{
"rank":1,
"goodsId":"178042058",
"title":"단단력",
"subtitle":"선생님과 아이들을 모두 지키는 190일 매일 미션 일력",
"productType":"도서",
"author":"이종혁 저/김참외 그림",
"publisher":"테크빌교육",
"publishDate":"2026년 03월",
"salePrice":15300,
"originalPrice":17000,
"discount":"10%",
"rating":10.0,
"reviewCount":20,
"imageUrl":"https://image.yes24.com/goods/178042058/L",
"url":"https://www.yes24.com/product/goods/178042058",
"mode":"bestseller",
"category":"all",
"scrapedAt":"2026-03-01T00:30:00.000000+09:00"
}

Sample Output (detail)

{
"goodsId":"175568752",
"title":"괴수 보존 협회",
"description":"SF 장르에서 발표하는 작품마다 대중과 평론가를 함께 만족시키며...",
"isbn":"9791193367230",
"author":"존 스칼지",
"publisher":"구픽",
"datePublished":"2026-02-05",
"numberOfPages":364,
"bookFormat":"Paperback",
"genre":["소설/시/희곡","장르소설","SF"],
"keywords":"괴수보존협회, SF란시대의거울, The Kaiju Preservation Society",
"price":16200,
"currency":"KRW",
"availability":"InStock",
"language":"ko-KR",
"imageUrl":"https://image.yes24.com/goods/175568752/xl",
"url":"https://www.yes24.com/product/goods/175568752",
"mode":"detail",
"scrapedAt":"2026-03-01T00:30:00.000000+09:00"
}

💰 Pricing

• $0.50 per 1,000 books — Pay only for results
• Detail page fetching included in the price
• No hidden fees or minimum spend

⚙️ Performance

🔧 Technical Details

• Method: Server-side rendered HTML + JSON-LD structured data parsing
• Rate limiting: Built-in delays to respect YES24's servers
• Proxy: Optional (YES24 doesn't block bots by default)
• Language: Python 3.12+
• No browser: Pure HTTP requests (httpx + BeautifulSoup) — fast and cost-effective
• Encoding: UTF-8 (detail pages) with automatic charset detection

📋 Notes

• YES24 is Korea's largest online bookstore, founded in 1999
• Bestseller charts update daily with 24 books per page
• Product detail pages provide rich JSON-LD structured data (Book + Product schema)
• All public data — no authentication required
• Korean and English search keywords both supported
• The scraper automatically initializes a session for search functionality