Naver

aid: naver
name: Naver
description: |
  Naver Corp. is South Korea's largest internet company,
  operating the Naver search portal, Naver Webtoon, Naver Pay,
  Naver Maps, Naver Shopping, WORKS Mobile, and the LINE
  messenger platform (jointly with SoftBank via LY Corporation).
  Naver runs two distinct public developer surfaces: Naver
  Developers (developers.naver.com) which hosts Naver's classic
  Open APIs — Search (blog, news, book, encyclopedia, café,
  knowledge, web, image, shop, doc), Papago N2MT translation,
  Naver Login (OAuth 2.0), Naver Maps geocoding and static map,
  Datalab trend, CAPTCHA, and SmartEditor; and Naver Cloud
  Platform (www.ncloud.com) — Naver's IaaS / PaaS offering with
  Compute (Server, Container, Functions), Storage (Object,
  Block, File), Network (VPC, CDN+, Global Edge), AI (CLOVA
  Speech, CLOVA OCR, Papago, HyperCLOVA X), Maps, SENS (SMS /
  push messaging), Cloud Search, and Certificate Manager.
type: Index
position: Provider
access: Public
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Search
  - Translation
  - Maps
  - Cloud Platform
  - AI
  - Korea
  - OAuth2
  - SMS
  - OCR
  - Webtoon
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/naver/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis:
  - aid: naver:search
    name: Naver Search Open API
    description: |
      Naver Search API returns search results across Naver's
      catalogs: blog, news, book, encyclopedia, café article,
      knowledge-in (Kin), web document, image, shopping product,
      and academic document. Each catalog has its own endpoint
      and shares a common JSON / XML response envelope.
    humanURL: https://developers.naver.com/docs/serviceapi/search/blog/blog.md
    baseURL: https://openapi.naver.com
    tags:
      - Search
      - Blog
      - News
      - Books
      - Images
      - Shopping
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developers.naver.com/docs/serviceapi/search/blog/blog.md
  - aid: naver:papago-translation
    name: Naver Papago Translation (N2MT) API
    description: |
      Papago is Naver's neural machine translation service. The
      Papago N2MT API performs text translation across Korean,
      English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified / Traditional),
      Spanish, French, German, Russian, Vietnamese, Thai,
      Indonesian, and other languages.
    humanURL: https://developers.naver.com/docs/papago/papago-nmt-overview.md
    baseURL: https://openapi.naver.com
    tags:
      - Translation
      - NMT
      - AI
      - Papago
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developers.naver.com/docs/papago/papago-nmt-overview.md
  - aid: naver:papago-detect-language
    name: Naver Papago Language Detection API
    description: |
      Papago Language Detection identifies the source language of
      a text snippet, used to drive automatic translation routing.
    humanURL: https://developers.naver.com/docs/papago/papago-detectlangs-overview.md
    baseURL: https://openapi.naver.com
    tags:
      - Translation
      - Detection
      - Papago
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developers.naver.com/docs/papago/papago-detectlangs-overview.md
  - aid: naver:login
    name: Naver Login (OAuth 2.0) API
    description: |
      Naver Login is an OAuth 2.0 identity provider used by
      Korean web and mobile apps to authenticate users with their
      Naver account and access basic profile attributes.
    humanURL: https://developers.naver.com/docs/login/api/api.md
    baseURL: https://nid.naver.com
    tags:
      - Identity
      - OAuth2
      - Login
      - Korea
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developers.naver.com/docs/login/api/api.md
  - aid: naver:datalab
    name: Naver Datalab API
    description: |
      Datalab API exposes search-volume trend data for keywords
      across Naver Search and Naver Shopping over user-defined
      time windows, demographic slices, and category filters.
    humanURL: https://developers.naver.com/docs/serviceapi/datalab/search/search.md
    baseURL: https://openapi.naver.com
    tags:
      - Analytics
      - Trends
      - Search
      - Shopping
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developers.naver.com/docs/serviceapi/datalab/search/search.md
  - aid: naver:short-url
    name: Naver Shortener (me2.do) API
    description: |
      The me2.do URL shortener API converts long URLs into Naver
      short links for sharing across messaging and social
      channels.
    humanURL: https://developers.naver.com/docs/utils/shortenurl/
    baseURL: https://openapi.naver.com
    tags:
      - URL Shortener
      - Utility
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developers.naver.com/docs/utils/shortenurl/
  - aid: naver:captcha
    name: Naver CAPTCHA API
    description: |
      The CAPTCHA API issues image-based human-verification
      challenges and validates user responses, used by Korean
      sites to prevent bot abuse.
    humanURL: https://developers.naver.com/docs/utils/captcha/
    baseURL: https://openapi.naver.com
    tags:
      - CAPTCHA
      - Bot Mitigation
      - Security
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developers.naver.com/docs/utils/captcha/
  - aid: naver:smarteditor
    name: Naver SmartEditor 2 API
    description: |
      SmartEditor 2 is Naver's embeddable rich-text editor for
      blog and CMS-style applications. The integration API exposes
      attachment uploads, image processing, and editor lifecycle.
    humanURL: https://developers.naver.com/docs/utils/smarteditor2/
    baseURL: https://openapi.naver.com
    tags:
      - Editor
      - CMS
      - Rich Text
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developers.naver.com/docs/utils/smarteditor2/
  - aid: naver:maps-web
    name: Naver Maps (Web) API
    description: |
      The Naver Maps Web API embeds Korean street-level mapping,
      markers, polylines, and geocoding in third-party web
      applications. (Naver Cloud Platform's Maps API hosts the
      production-grade map and directions service.)
    humanURL: https://navermaps.github.io/maps.js.ncp/
    baseURL: https://oapi.map.naver.com
    tags:
      - Maps
      - Geocoding
      - Korea
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://navermaps.github.io/maps.js.ncp/
  - aid: naver-cloud:maps
    name: Naver Cloud Platform Maps API
    description: |
      Naver Cloud Platform Maps exposes geocoding, reverse
      geocoding, directions (driving / walking / public transit),
      static map images, and the dynamic JavaScript map tile
      service for Korean addresses and POIs.
    humanURL: https://api.ncloud-docs.com/docs/ai-naver-mapsgeocoding
    baseURL: https://maps.apigw.ntruss.com
    tags:
      - Maps
      - Geocoding
      - Directions
      - Korea
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://api.ncloud-docs.com/docs/ai-naver-mapsgeocoding
  - aid: naver-cloud:papago
    name: Naver Cloud Platform Papago APIs
    description: |
      The Papago service group on Naver Cloud Platform packages
      production-grade NMT translation, language detection,
      Korean name romanization, and Papago Image Translation.
    humanURL: https://api.ncloud-docs.com/docs/ai-naver-papagonmt
    baseURL: https://naveropenapi.apigw.ntruss.com
    tags:
      - Translation
      - NMT
      - Papago
      - AI
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://api.ncloud-docs.com/docs/ai-naver-papagonmt
  - aid: naver-cloud:clova-ocr
    name: Naver Cloud CLOVA OCR API
    description: |
      CLOVA OCR detects and extracts text from images and
      documents — supporting general OCR, document-template OCR
      for IDs / receipts / business cards, and structured key /
      value extraction.
    humanURL: https://api.ncloud-docs.com/docs/ai-application-service-ocr
    baseURL: https://*.apigw.ntruss.com
    tags:
      - OCR
      - Vision
      - AI
      - Documents
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://api.ncloud-docs.com/docs/ai-application-service-ocr
  - aid: naver-cloud:clova-speech
    name: Naver Cloud CLOVA Speech API
    description: |
      CLOVA Speech provides Korean-first speech-to-text (STT) and
      Korean speech synthesis (TTS / Premium Voice) APIs for
      contact-center, captioning, and voice-app workloads.
    humanURL: https://api.ncloud-docs.com/docs/ai-application-service-clovaspeech
    baseURL: https://clovaspeech-gw.ncloud.com
    tags:
      - Speech
      - STT
      - TTS
      - Korean
      - CLOVA
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://api.ncloud-docs.com/docs/ai-application-service-clovaspeech
  - aid: naver-cloud:hyperclova-x
    name: Naver Cloud HyperCLOVA X API
    description: |
      HyperCLOVA X is Naver's Korean-language large language
      model. The HyperCLOVA X API exposes chat completion,
      embeddings, summarization, and tool-use endpoints for
      Korean-first generative AI applications.
    humanURL: https://api.ncloud-docs.com/docs/clovastudio-overview
    baseURL: https://clovastudio.stream.ntruss.com
    tags:
      - LLM
      - Generative AI
      - Korean
      - HyperCLOVA
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://api.ncloud-docs.com/docs/clovastudio-overview
  - aid: naver-cloud:sens
    name: Naver Cloud SENS Messaging API
    description: |
      SENS (Simple & Easy Notification Service) sends SMS, LMS,
      MMS, Alimtalk (KakaoTalk channel), Friend Talk, and push
      notifications to Korean recipients.
    humanURL: https://api.ncloud-docs.com/docs/ai-application-service-sens
    baseURL: https://sens.apigw.ntruss.com
    tags:
      - Messaging
      - SMS
      - Push
      - KakaoTalk
      - Korea
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://api.ncloud-docs.com/docs/ai-application-service-sens
  - aid: naver-cloud:object-storage
    name: Naver Cloud Object Storage API
    description: |
      Object Storage is Naver Cloud Platform's S3-compatible
      object store for unstructured data, with public read /
      versioning / lifecycle / CDN-origin support.
    humanURL: https://api.ncloud-docs.com/docs/storage-objectstorage
    baseURL: https://kr.object.ncloudstorage.com
    tags:
      - Storage
      - S3
      - Object
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://api.ncloud-docs.com/docs/storage-objectstorage
  - aid: naver-cloud:server
    name: Naver Cloud Server (Compute) API
    description: |
      Server is Naver Cloud Platform's IaaS compute service, with
      VPC and Classic deployments, GPU and bare-metal options,
      and standard create / scale / snapshot / image management
      APIs.
    humanURL: https://api.ncloud-docs.com/docs/compute-server
    baseURL: https://ncloud.apigw.ntruss.com
    tags:
      - Compute
      - Server
      - IaaS
      - VPC
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://api.ncloud-docs.com/docs/compute-server
  - aid: naver-cloud:cdn-plus
    name: Naver Cloud CDN+ / Global Edge API
    description: |
      CDN+ and Global Edge are Naver Cloud Platform's Korean and
      global content delivery services, with cache configuration,
      purge, and traffic-reporting APIs.
    humanURL: https://api.ncloud-docs.com/docs/networking-cdn
    baseURL: https://ncloud.apigw.ntruss.com
    tags:
      - CDN
      - Edge
      - Performance
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://api.ncloud-docs.com/docs/networking-cdn
features:
  - name: Naver Developers Open APIs
    description: Free public APIs for Search, Papago translation, Naver Login, Maps, Datalab, and SmartEditor.
  - name: Naver Cloud Platform
    description: Full-stack Korean cloud with Compute, Storage, Network, AI (CLOVA, HyperCLOVA X, Papago), Maps, and SENS messaging.
  - name: HyperCLOVA X LLM
    description: Korean-first generative AI exposed through Naver Cloud's CLOVA Studio API.
  - name: Korean Address & Map Coverage
    description: Strongest geocoding and POI dataset for South Korea, ahead of global mapping providers in-market.
  - name: KakaoTalk Channel Messaging via SENS
    description: SENS supports KakaoTalk Alimtalk / Friend Talk delivery alongside SMS and push.
useCases:
  - name: Korean Market Search Integration
    description: Display Naver search results, blog posts, news, and shopping items in third-party apps.
  - name: Multilingual Translation
    description: Translate Korean ↔ English / Japanese / Chinese / Vietnamese text using Papago.
  - name: Korean OCR Workflows
    description: Extract structured data from Korean IDs, receipts, and business documents via CLOVA OCR.
  - name: Korean LLM Applications
    description: Build Korean-language chatbots, summarizers, and copilots on HyperCLOVA X.
  - name: Korean SMS / Alimtalk Delivery
    description: Send transactional SMS, LMS, and KakaoTalk Alimtalk messages via SENS.
integrations:
  - name: Naver Login
  - name: Naver Pay
  - name: Naver Shopping
  - name: Naver Maps
  - name: KakaoTalk Alimtalk
  - name: LINE Messaging
  - name: AWS S3 (compatible)
authentication:
  - type: APIKey
    description: Naver Developers Open APIs authenticate with X-Naver-Client-Id and X-Naver-Client-Secret headers from a registered application.
  - type: OAuth2
    description: Naver Login uses OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow with user-granted scopes.
  - type: AccessKey
    description: Naver Cloud Platform APIs authenticate with NCP Access Key ID and Secret Key, signed per request with HMAC-SHA256.
common:
  - type: CorporateWebsite
    url: https://www.navercorp.com/
  - type: ConsumerPortal
    url: https://www.naver.com/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://developers.naver.com/main/
  - type: NaverCloudPlatform
    url: https://www.ncloud.com/
  - type: NaverCloudDocs
    url: https://api.ncloud-docs.com/docs/home
  - type: HyperCLOVAStudio
    url: https://clovastudio.ncloud.com/
  - type: PapagoConsumer
    url: https://papago.naver.com/
  - type: NaverMaps
    url: https://map.naver.com/
  - type: NaverShopping
    url: https://shopping.naver.com/
  - type: NaverPay
    url: https://new-m.pay.naver.com/
  - type: NaverWebtoon
    url: https://comic.naver.com/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/naver
  - type: TechBlog
    url: https://d2.naver.com/home
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/naver-corporation/
  - type: InvestorRelations
    url: https://www.navercorp.com/en/investment
  - type: Newsroom
    url: https://www.navercorp.com/en/news
  - type: Careers
    url: https://recruit.navercorp.com/
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]