# Kakao Map Place Autocomplete (`battery/kakaomap-autocomplete`) Actor

Search Kakao Map for up to 15 place candidates per page, optionally using latitude and longitude.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/battery/kakaomap-autocomplete.md
- **Developed by:** [Battery](https://apify.com/battery) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, SEO tools, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 autocomplete queries

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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Actors are written with capital "A".

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

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# README

## Kakao Map Place Autocomplete

Get the live keyword suggestions shown by the Kakao Map web search box.

### What does this Actor do?

Enter a Korean place or local-search phrase. The Actor calls Kakao Map's
dedicated web autocomplete service and returns up to 20 ranked suggestions.
It does not run a place-results search and does not duplicate the paginated
Kakao Map Search Actor.

### What data does it return?

- Suggested keyword and rank
- Kakao suggestion category and relevance score
- Highlight ranges used by the Kakao Map interface
- Kakao's normalized query
- Explicit source and fallback markers

Autocomplete suggestions are keywords, not resolved places. They do not include
place IDs, addresses, coordinates, ratings, or review counts. Use Kakao Map
Search or Place Detail when those fields are required.

### Input

```json
{
  "query": "강남역 "
}
```

| Field | Required | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `query` | Yes | - | Autocomplete query, up to 100 characters. |
| `failOnError` | No | `true` | Fail the run when Kakao Map returns an HTTP, JSON, or schema error. Set `false` only to store an error row. |

### Output example

```json
{
  "rank": 2,
  "keyword": "강남역 맛집",
  "category": "place",
  "score": 198.2493,
  "highlighted": [[0.0, 3.0]],
  "rawItem": "강남역 맛집|place",
  "query": "강남역",
  "responseQuery": "강남역",
  "normalizedQuery": "강남역",
  "count": 20,
  "source": "kakaomap_suggest_hub",
  "fallbackApplied": false,
  "success": true,
  "httpStatus": 200
}
```

### Reliability and network

- Source: the single autocomplete endpoint used by the Kakao Map web search box
- Proxy: Apify Residential proxy fixed to South Korea
- Retry: one bounded retry only for network errors, HTTP 429, or HTTP 5xx
- Fallback: none; invalid JSON or an unexpected response schema fails the run

### Pricing and limits

- Price: **$0.0015 per query**
- Billing event: one successful autocomplete query
- Maximum: up to 20 suggestions returned by Kakao Map
- Actor compute and the KR Residential proxy are included in the event price.

### Troubleshooting

- No suggestions can be a valid result for a query Kakao Map does not recognize.
- An HTTP or schema error fails by default instead of returning a fabricated
  empty result.

### Disclaimer

This Actor is unofficial and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Kakao.

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Search query.

## `failOnError` (type: `boolean`):

Fail on crawler error.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "강남역 맛집",
  "failOnError": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `output` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "query": "강남역 맛집"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("battery/kakaomap-autocomplete").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 = { "query": "강남역 맛집" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("battery/kakaomap-autocomplete").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 '{
  "query": "강남역 맛집"
}' |
apify call battery/kakaomap-autocomplete --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/9YKzE8WQdPx3V6O2R/builds/dPzsPy23xRLdxsqc3/openapi.json