# Kakao Map Search Scraper (`battery/kakaomap-search`) Actor

Fetch a selected Kakao Map result page by keyword, with an optional WGS84 center that anchors result ordering.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/battery/kakaomap-search.md
- **Developed by:** [Battery](https://apify.com/battery) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, SEO tools, Marketing
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 fetched result pages

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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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Kakao Map Search Scraper

Fetch a selected Kakao Map result page by keyword, optionally anchored to a
WGS84 map center.

### What does this Actor do?

The Actor searches Kakao Map for a Korean keyword and returns the selected
result page. When both `x` and `y` are provided, the center is applied to that
page so generic queries return
results ordered around that location.

The center anchors result ordering; it is not a radius or strict geographic
boundary.

### What data does it return?

- Rank, Kakao place ID, name, and category
- Lot and road addresses, phone, and coordinates
- Thumbnail, review count, rating count, and average rating
- Franchise, delivery, takeout, parking, reservation, Wi-Fi, and pet signals
  when present
- Applied WGS84 center and the WCONGNAMUL coordinates sent to Kakao Map

### Input

```json
{
  "query": "스타벅스",
  "x": 126.978,
  "y": 37.5665,
  "page": 2,
  "limit": 15,
  "sort": 0
}
```

| Field | Required | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `query` | Yes | - | Korean local-search query. |
| `x` | No | - | WGS84 longitude, from -180 to 180. Must be supplied together with `y`. Numeric strings remain accepted by the HTTP runtime for compatibility. |
| `y` | No | - | WGS84 latitude, from -90 to 90. Must be supplied together with `x`. Numeric strings remain accepted by the HTTP runtime for compatibility. |
| `page` | No | `1` | Kakao Map source page to fetch, from 1 to 10. |
| `limit` | No | `15` | Results returned from the selected source page, from 1 to 15. |
| `sort` | No | `0` | Kakao sort mode accepted by the search endpoint. |
| `failOnError` | No | `true` | Fail the run on an HTTP, JSON, response-schema, or coordinate error. Set `false` only to store an error row. |

### Center-coordinate contract

Kakao Map's public web client sends map centers to the search endpoint as
`center=<WCONGNAMUL x>,<WCONGNAMUL y>`. This Actor accepts `x`/`y` as WGS84
longitude and latitude and reproduces the public web client's
`LatLng.toCoords()` conversion locally.

- No Kakao REST API key or official DAPI request is used.
- Supplying only one coordinate fails instead of silently running an
  unanchored search.
- The converted `center` parameter is sent on the selected page.
- There is no coordinate-source or search-source fallback.

### Output example

```json
{
  "rank": 1,
  "placeId": "27557389",
  "name": "스타벅스 한국프레스센터점",
  "roadAddress": "서울 중구 세종대로 124",
  "reviewCount": 320,
  "ratingAverage": 4.1,
  "total": 30,
  "query": "스타벅스",
  "centerApplied": true,
  "inputX": 126.978,
  "inputY": 37.5665,
  "centerX": 495141,
  "centerY": 1129713,
  "inputCoordinateSystem": "WGS84",
  "centerCoordinateSystem": "WCONGNAMUL",
  "success": true,
  "httpStatus": 200
}
```

### Reliability and network

- Source: Kakao Map's internal `mapsearch/map.daum` web endpoint
- Proxy: Apify Residential proxy fixed to South Korea
- Fallback: none; malformed JSON or a missing `place` array fails the run

### Pricing and limits

- Price: **$0.002 per fetched source page** (**$2 per 1,000 pages**)
- Billing event: one successfully fetched Kakao Map result page
- Maximum: one selected page and 15 places per run
- Actor compute and the KR Residential proxy are included in the event price.
- A page can contain fewer than 15 places.

### Troubleshooting

- No results: make the query more specific.
- Unexpected region: supply both WGS84 `x` (longitude) and `y` (latitude).
- Need one place's reviews and hours: use
  [Kakao Map Place Detail](https://apify.com/battery/kakaomap-place-detail).

### Disclaimer

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

# Actor input Schema

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

Search query.

## `x` (type: `number`):

Optional WGS84 longitude. Supply together with y (latitude) to anchor every result page.

## `y` (type: `number`):

Optional WGS84 latitude. Supply together with x (longitude) to anchor every result page.

## `page` (type: `integer`):

Kakao Map result page to fetch.

## `limit` (type: `integer`):

Maximum results returned from the selected source page.

## `sort` (type: `integer`):

Kakao sort mode: 0 relevance, 1 distance, or 2 rating.

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

Fail on crawler error.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "강남역 맛집",
  "page": 1,
  "limit": 15,
  "sort": 0,
  "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-search").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-search").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-search --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/L3eWf89HufqmM8Bqn/builds/e7u0F85iV7hR3yeR6/openapi.json