Cameo Talent Listings Scraper

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🎯 What this scrapes

Cameo (cameo.com) lists roughly 60,000 celebrities and creators selling personalized video shout-outs. This Actor queries Cameo's own JSON search backend by name and returns one structured row per matched talent — no HTML parsing, no browser, just the same API the cameo.com search box calls.

🔥 What we handle for you

• 🛡️ Browser fingerprint rotation — curl-cffi impersonates real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes so the target sees a browser, not Python.
• 🌐 Residential proxy rotation via Apify Proxy — fresh session and exit IP on every block.
• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 5xx — up to 5 attempts per page, Retry-After honoured.
• 🧱 Rate-limit-aware pacing — when the target pushes back, we slow down instead of getting banned.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for results that hit your dataset. No data, no charge.

💡 Use cases

• Talent-booking agencies — build a searchable roster of Cameo talent with current pricing before pitching clients.
• PR / marketing competitive intel — track which creators and celebrities are active on Cameo and how they're priced.
• Pricing research — benchmark video, DM, rush, and business-tier prices across a category of talent.
• Availability monitoring — re-run a saved query list to catch when a talent becomes bookable again.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Click Try for free at the top of the page.
2. Fill in the input form — most fields have sensible defaults.
3. Click Start. Output streams into the run's dataset.
4. Export from Storage → Dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
queries	array	yes	['MrBeast']	One or more free-text search terms (talent names, handles, or keywords). Each entry is queried against Cameo's talent…
sortBy	string	no	'featured'	Maps to Cameo's underlying search index. Only featured is verified against production; the others fall…
maxResultsPerQuery	integer	no	60	Upper bound on rows returned per input query, after dedup across pages for that query.
hitsPerPage	integer	no	60	Page size sent to Cameo's API per request. Capped at 100 — the highest value confirmed working in live testing.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{'useApifyProxy': True}	Apify Proxy — wired per house anti-blocking rule. Cameo's search API has needed no proxy in local testing to date, but…

Example input

{
  "queries": [
    "Snoop Dogg"
  ],
  "sortBy": "featured",
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 5,
  "hitsPerPage": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

Field	Type	Notes
id	string	Cameo talent ID (hits[]._id).
name	string	Talent display name.
username	string	Cameo username / URL slug.
profile_url	string	Public Cameo profile URL, derived from username.
image_url	string	Profile image URL, derived from imageUrlKey + the Cameo CDN base. null when imageUrlKey is absent.
profession	string	Talent's stated profession / one-liner.
price_usd	number	Standard video price in dollars, converted from Cameo's raw cents.
dm_price_usd	number	Direct-message price in dollars. 0.0 means offered free; null means not offered.
ios_price_usd	number	In-app (iOS) price in dollars.
business_price_usd	number	Business-tier booking price in dollars.
tags	array	Category / interest tags. Always an array, empty when Cameo returns none.
average_rating	number	Average customer rating, 0-5.
num_ratings	integer	Number of ratings received. Defaults to 0.
temporarily_unavailable	boolean	Whether the talent is currently marked unavailable for booking.
is_available_for_business	boolean	Whether business-tier bookings are open for this talent.
booking_last_24h	integer	Bookings in the last 24 hours, per Cameo's own booking-activity metric.
booking_last_7d	integer	Bookings in the last 7 days, per Cameo's own booking-activity metric.
matched_queries	array	Every distinct input query that surfaced this talent in this run, in first-match order.

Example output

{
  "id": "5de2b2ab0e7204016ccde9b5",
  "name": "Chris Gronkowski",
  "username": "chrisgronkowski",
  "profile_url": "https://www.cameo.com/chrisgronkowski",
  "image_url": "https://cdn2.cameo.com/NDEu87dGE_avatar-G8LV2b3Td.jpg",
  "profession": "Former NFL Fullback",
  "price_usd": 30.0,
  "dm_price_usd": 0.0,
  "ios_price_usd": 42.85,
  "business_price_usd": 500.0,
  "tags": [
    "Promotional",
    "Athletes"
  ],
  "average_rating": 4.9,
  "num_ratings": 181,
  "temporarily_unavailable": false,
  "is_available_for_business": true,
  "booking_last_24h": 0,
  "booking_last_7d": 1,
  "matched_queries": [
    "Gronk"
  ]
}

💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

Event	USD	What it is
actor-start	$0.20	One-off warm-up charge per run
result-row	$0.0012	Per unique dataset item

Example: 1 000 results at the rates above ≈ $1.40. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.

🚧 Limitations

• Covers Cameo's public search/listing surface only — no individual profile-page bio text, video samples, or review content.
• No booking or purchase automation.
• No historical price tracking across runs in v1 — each run is a point-in-time snapshot.
• Non-featured sort orders (price_asc, price_desc, newest, alpha) fall back to the default featured order if Cameo rejects the underlying index.

❓ FAQ

Is this legal?

We only fetch content the source makes publicly available. Respect any platform terms of service before using output commercially.

How do I export to Sheets?

After the run, click Storage → Dataset → Export and pick CSV. Google Sheets imports it directly.

Why is my run slow?

Some sources rate-limit aggressively. The Actor backs off automatically. Lower the maxResults setting if you're testing.

💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab on Apify Console — we ship fixes weekly and we read every report.

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