theqoo Data: Getting Posts and Comments From Korea's K-pop Community Without an API

theqoo (더쿠) is where Korea's K-pop, drama and beauty fans talk in public: the HOT board, Square, K-idol talk and a board for almost every artist. It offers no public API, and logged-out visitors cannot use its search.

theqoo-scraper pulls board listings and full posts with every comment from the public pages, through a Korean residential connection that passes the site's Cloudflare check. Writers are anonymous, but each comment carries its number, the same-commenter marker the site shows and the comment it answers. The table shows what it returns and costs, in the same field layout as this site's Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Southeast Asia forum actors.

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FAQ

Does theqoo have an API?

Not a public one. theqoo-scraper reads the public board pages, post pages and the comment list the site itself loads, with no login.

Can I search theqoo by keyword?

Not as a logged-out visitor: theqoo turns search off. theqoo-scraper filters the titles of the boards you choose instead, so the usual setup is a daily run on the relevant boards.