Snapchat Scraper — Public Profiles

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🎯 What this scrapes

www.snapchat.com/@<username> public profile pages. We parse the page's embedded Next.js __NEXT_DATA__ payload and return one row per username: profile info (display name, bio, website, subscriber count, snapcode) plus the account's current story snaps, when it has one.

🔥 What we handle for you

• 🛡️ Browser fingerprint rotation — curl-cffi impersonates real Chrome / Firefox TLS handshakes so the target sees a browser, not Python.
• 🌐 Proxy routing pinned to a US exit via Apify Proxy — the profile payload is geo-aware, so we keep every run on the exit geography that returns full data.
• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 503 and network errors — up to 5 attempts per profile, Retry-After honoured.
• 🧩 Per-username fault isolation — a private, removed, or malformed profile is skipped with a logged reason; it never sinks the rest of the run.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for profiles that actually land in your dataset.

💡 Use cases

• Brand-safety monitoring — track what a creator account is currently posting.
• Influencer research — pull subscriber counts and bios for a shortlist of accounts.
• Social-media monitoring tools — feed structured Snapchat profile data into a dashboard.
• Competitive research — compare public creator profiles across a category.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Click Try for free at the top of the page.
2. Paste in one or more Snapchat usernames (with or without the leading @).
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
usernames	array (stringList)	yes	—	1+ Snapchat usernames. A leading @ and blank entries are stripped automatically.
proxyConfiguration	object (proxy)	no	{"useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["BUYPROXIES94952"], "apifyProxyCountry": "US"}	Apify Proxy, pinned to a US exit — the profile payload is geo-aware.

Example input

{
  "usernames": ["kyliejenner"],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["BUYPROXIES94952"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}

📤 Output

Every row is one resolved public profile.

Field	Type	Notes
username	string	Requested username, normalized (no @).
is_public_profile	boolean	true when the account has a public creator profile.
display_name	string | null	Public display name.
bio	string | null	Profile bio text.
website_url	string | null	Linked website.
subscriber_count	integer | null	Public subscriber count.
profile_picture_url	string | null	Profile picture URL.
snapcode_image_url	string | null	Snapcode deep-link image.
has_active_story	boolean	Whether the account currently has a live story.
story_snap_count	integer	Number of snaps in the current story.
story_snaps	array	Per-snap media URL, type, and post time.
page_title	string | null	The profile page's <title> text.
profile_url	string	https://www.snapchat.com/@<username>.
scraped_at	string	ISO-8601 UTC timestamp of the fetch.

Example output

{
  "username": "kyliejenner",
  "is_public_profile": true,
  "display_name": "King Kylie 👑",
  "bio": "",
  "website_url": "kyliecosmetics.com",
  "subscriber_count": 29262900,
  "profile_picture_url": "https://cf-st.sc-cdn.net/...",
  "snapcode_image_url": "https://app.snapchat.com/web/deeplink/snapcode?username=kyliejenner&type=SVG&bitmoji=enable",
  "has_active_story": true,
  "story_snap_count": 3,
  "story_snaps": [
    {"snap_index": 0, "media_type": 0, "media_url": "https://cf-st.sc-cdn.net/d/...", "media_preview_url": "https://cf-st.sc-cdn.net/d/...", "posted_at": "2026-09-18T12:00:00+00:00"}
  ],
  "page_title": "King Kylie 👑 (@kyliejenner) | Snapchat Stories, Spotlight & Lenses",
  "profile_url": "https://www.snapchat.com/@kyliejenner",
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-24T12:00:00+00:00"
}

💰 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
profile-scraped	$0.003 (provisional)	Per resolved public profile pushed to the dataset

Example: 1 000 profiles at the rates above ≈ $3.20. No subscription, no minimum. The profile-scraped rate is measured against a real batch before publish, per this fleet's pricing rule — the number above may move slightly.

🚧 Limitations

• v1 covers the profile card and current story only — no lenses, curated/spotlight highlights, tagged-tab search, or pagination.
• story_snaps[].media_url and media_preview_url point at Snapchat CDN links that expire — Snapchat stories are ephemeral by design, so treat story media as a snapshot, not a durable asset.
• A private, removed, or non-public account is a per-item skip, not a run failure — it's counted and reported in the run's status message.
• No authenticated/logged-in views, DMs, or friend-graph data.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a Snapchat account?

No. This Actor reads only the public profile page at snapchat.com/@<username> — no login, no API key.

What happens if a username doesn't exist or isn't public?

The run reports it as a skipped username in the status message and keeps going — one bad username never fails the whole run.

Why does story_snaps come back empty sometimes?

Either the account has no active story right now, or its story expired between your request and ours — Snapchat stories are short-lived by design.

💬 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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