Anghami Catalog Scraper

Scrape Anghami's public music and podcast catalog (anghami.com, the MENA region's leading streaming service) by keyword or player URL. One request per page of results walks the same JSON gateway the Anghami web player itself calls, so a run reads songs, albums, artists, curated playlists and charting collections from the anonymous public catalog: no account, no session, no streaming, just catalog metadata, at a few hundred KB per page.

Why this scraper

• Full coverage of the anonymous catalog surface: songs, albums (including podcast and audiobook objects), artists, curated playlists and the category tags behind Anghami's genre and chart pages, in one unified record shape.
• Every row reports the record kind, so a mixed search feed filters cleanly in downstream code, and carries play counts, likes, follower counts, verified and podcast flags straight from the feed.
• Dual mode: keyword search for catalog-wide sweeps, or paste player URLs to walk one artist page with its full discography pagination, a playlist, a genre or chart tag, or to fetch a single song or album object.
• Detail view toggle adds the store page description and, for album objects, the complete song and episode id list, charged once per record.
• Recurring monitoring is first-class: incremental mode reports NEW, UPDATED (play or follower moves) and EXPIRED records for scheduled runs, and Resume continues an interrupted crawl from where it stopped.
• MCP connector export: pipe results into Notion, Linear, Airtable or another MCP app you already use.
• Clean dataset contract: record identity (kind:id), canonical URL, artwork URL and incremental change fields on every row, so downstream consumers can join and dedupe reliably.

Data You Get

Sample shape: values are illustrative placeholders, not from a live record.

Field	Example
recordId	"song:0000000"
kind	"song"
id	"0000000"
url	"https://play.anghami.com/song/0000000"
title	"Sample Song Title"
artist	"Sample Artist"
artistId	"000000"
album	"Sample Album Title"
albumId	"0000000000"
durationSec	228
year	2026
releasedate	"2026-01-01"
genre	"Pop - Sample"
plays	13000000
likes	120000
followers	17600000
nbrSongs	100
isPodcast	false
isAudiobook	false
isPodcaster	false (artist rows)
verified	true
explicit	false
keywords	["Sample Song Title", "Sample Artist"]
coverArt	"https://artwork.anghcdn.co/webp/?id=000000000&size=400"
webTitle / webDescription	detail-view extras
curator	"Anghami Editorial" (playlist-style album objects)
songIds	["0000000000", "0000000001"] (album objects, detail toggle on)
changeType	"NEW" (incremental mode)
scrapedAt	"2026-01-01T00:00:00Z"

How to Use

1. Search by keyword

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchTerms": ["Sherine", "Wael Kfoury"],
  "maxItems": 50
}

2. Music only, from a search

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchTerms": ["new arabic releases"],
  "kinds": ["song", "album"],
  "maxItems": 100
}

3. Walk an artist's catalog (URL mode)

{
  "mode": "url",
  "urls": ["https://play.anghami.com/artist/422"],
  "maxItems": 100
}

Past a playlist, category tag or album URL the same way; each URL decides its own scope.

4. Recurring monitoring (incremental mode)

{
  "mode": "url",
  "urls": ["https://play.anghami.com/artist/422"],
  "incrementalMode": true,
  "emitUnchanged": false
}

Run it on a schedule: the first run marks everything NEW, later runs report only the changes (play counts and follower moves included as UPDATED).

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
mode	select	search	Search by keyword, or process pasted player URLs.
searchTerms	string list	["Sherine"]	Keywords to search. Search mode only.
urls	string list	-	Player URLs (artist, song, album, playlist, tag pages). URL mode only.
kinds	multi-select	-	Only keep rows of these kinds (song, album, artist, playlist, tag). Applied to the rows this run reads, in both modes. A pasted song or album URL is the one exception: the object you pasted is returned in full regardless of this filter.
excludePodcasts	checkbox	false	Drop rows flagged as podcast episodes (both flagged song rows and the podcast object itself, an album-kind row). A pasted song or album URL is the one exception: that object is returned in full.
fetchDetails	checkbox	false	Fetch each record's detail view (store page description, album song/episode id list). Charged once per record; a pasted song or album URL is not charged this fee, since its object's own page was read because it was pasted.
maxItems	integer	20	The single cap on a run; stop after this many records. 0 = unlimited.
maxPages	integer	0	Safety bound on pages walked per source. 0 = no page limit.
resumeFromRunId	text	-	Continue an interrupted or capped run, skipping records it already collected.
incrementalMode	checkbox	false	Recurring monitoring: return only NEW, UPDATED and REAPPEARED records on later runs.
stateKey	text	-	Name the monitoring campaign (incremental mode only).
emitUnchanged	checkbox	false	Also return unchanged rows (billed).
emitExpired	checkbox	false	Also return records no longer found (billed, complete scans only).
mcpConnectors	connector list	-	Optional export into Notion, Linear, Airtable or Apify MCP apps.
notionParentPageUrl	text	-	Notion parent page for the Notion connector.
maxNotifyListings	integer	50	Cap on records written to each connector per run.
proxy	proxy object	default pool	Leave the default unless a run reports it could not read any results.

Output Example

Sample shape: values are illustrative placeholders, not from a live record.

{
  "recordId": "song:0000000000",
  "kind": "song",
  "id": "0000000000",
  "url": "https://play.anghami.com/song/0000000000",
  "coverArt": "https://artwork.anghcdn.co/webp/?id=000000000&size=400",
  "title": "Sample Song Title",
  "artist": "Sample Artist",
  "artistId": "000000",
  "album": "Sample Album Title",
  "albumId": "0000000000",
  "durationSec": 228,
  "year": 2026,
  "releasedate": "2026-01-01",
  "genre": "Pop - Sample",
  "plays": 13011686,
  "likes": 120000,
  "lyrics": true,
  "explicit": false,
  "isPodcast": false,
  "isAudiobook": false,
  "keywords": ["Sample Song Title", "Sample Artist"],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
  "changeType": "NEW",
  "firstSeenAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
  "lastSeenAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}

Album and podcast objects carry nbrSongs and, with the detail toggle on, songIds (the episode list) and curator. Artist rows carry isPodcaster and followers.

Send results into your apps (MCP connectors)

Optionally pipe results into the apps you already use via Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors. Authorize a connector under Apify > Settings > API & Integrations, then select it in the mcpConnectors input. Notion needs notionParentPageUrl (the page under which item pages are created) and creates one page per record; other connectors get a best-effort write. Each connector receives a condensed, human-readable summary per record (title plus key fields flattened to text), not the full record; the complete record always stays in the Apify dataset. maxNotifyListings caps how many records are written per connector per run. Leaving the connector fields empty skips the export entirely; nothing about the dataset output changes.

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