# Naver

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/naver/  
**Website:** https://www.navercorp.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 18

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.

## Kin Score — 15.8 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 15.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Telecommunications**: 8.3 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (18)

- **Naver Search Open API** — 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 aca...
- **Naver Papago Translation (N2MT) API** — Papago is Naver's neural machine translation service. The Papago N2MT API performs text translation across Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified / Traditional), Spanish...
- **Naver Papago Language Detection API** — Papago Language Detection identifies the source language of a text snippet, used to drive automatic translation routing.
- **Naver Login (OAuth 2.0) API** — 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.
- **Naver Datalab API** — 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.
- **Naver Shortener (me2.do) API** — The me2.do URL shortener API converts long URLs into Naver short links for sharing across messaging and social channels.
- **Naver CAPTCHA API** — The CAPTCHA API issues image-based human-verification challenges and validates user responses, used by Korean sites to prevent bot abuse.
- **Naver SmartEditor 2 API** — 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.
- **Naver Maps (Web) API** — 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 producti...
- **Naver Cloud Platform Maps API** — Naver Cloud Platform Maps exposes geocoding, reverse geocoding, directions (driving / walking / public transit), static map images, and the dynamic JavaScript map tile service f...
- **Naver Cloud Platform Papago APIs** — The Papago service group on Naver Cloud Platform packages production-grade NMT translation, language detection, Korean name romanization, and Papago Image Translation.
- **Naver Cloud CLOVA OCR API** — 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 ext...
- **Naver Cloud CLOVA Speech API** — 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.
- **Naver Cloud HyperCLOVA X API** — 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 ge...
- **Naver Cloud SENS Messaging API** — SENS (Simple & Easy Notification Service) sends SMS, LMS, MMS, Alimtalk (KakaoTalk channel), Friend Talk, and push notifications to Korean recipients.
- **Naver Cloud Object Storage API** — Object Storage is Naver Cloud Platform's S3-compatible object store for unstructured data, with public read / versioning / lifecycle / CDN-origin support.
- **Naver Cloud Server (Compute) API** — 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.
- **Naver Cloud CDN+ / Global Edge API** — CDN+ and Global Edge are Naver Cloud Platform's Korean and global content delivery services, with cache configuration, purge, and traffic-reporting APIs.

## Security (1)

- **Naver Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Naver Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Search, Translation, Maps, Cloud Platform, Artificial Intelligence, Korea, Authentication, SMS, OCR, Webtoon

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/naver/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.