# FOSDEM Sponsor Company Directory (2025–2026) (`afkdigital/event-exhibitor-sponsor-directory`) Actor

Official FOSDEM 2025/2026 company sponsor lists with source links, sites and CC attribution. No attendees or other event organizers.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/afkdigital/event-exhibitor-sponsor-directory.md
- **Developed by:** [AFK Digital](https://apify.com/afkdigital) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$10.00 / 1,000 verified company sponsor results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## FOSDEM Sponsor Company Directory (2025–2026) — Licensed Public Sources

Convert **official public FOSDEM sponsor-company pages** into structured, source-attributed company-role records. This is a narrow, verifiable launch version, **not** a generic event scraper.

### Supported official URLs

- `https://fosdem.org/2025/` or `https://archive.fosdem.org/2025/about/sponsors/` (FOSDEM 2025)
- `https://fosdem.org/2026/` or `https://archive.fosdem.org/2026/about/sponsors/` (FOSDEM 2026)

**Scope:** company sponsors only. No exhibitors yet. No Eventbrite attendees, ticket buyers, private pages, participant databases, arbitrary organizers, authentication, CAPTCHA, proxies, personal data, LinkedIn crawling or contact enrichment. Unsupported URLs fail with an explanatory message and produce no misleading records.

Source attribution: FOSDEM 2025 is CC BY 2.0 Belgium; FOSDEM 2026 is CC BY 4.0 International. Source and license URLs appear in every output row. The Actor does not copy logos or sponsor biographies. See [docs/SOURCES.md](docs/SOURCES.md).

### Input

```json
{"eventUrl":"https://fosdem.org/2025/","maxResults":50}
```

- `eventUrl` (required): event home page or sponsor page from the two reviewed official editions.
- `maxResults`: integer, 1–250, default 100. Limits company-role dataset rows.

### Output — Dataset

Each row contains `eventName`, `eventStartDate`, `eventEndDate`, `companyName`, `role` (`sponsor` for v1), `companyId`, `directoryUrl` (official entry anchor), `sourceUrl`, `companyWebsite` (as published in official listing), `socialMediaUrls` (only links directly published in listing; otherwise `[]`), `sourceLicense`, `sourceLicenseUrl`, `attribution`, `fetchedAt`.

Dataset deduplication is by **normalized company + role**, preserving a company’s relationship to multiple roles when supported in later versions. The default key-value store `AUDIT` provides source, result count, time, page size and HTTP request count.

### Quality controls

- Strict official domain, year and path allowlist; never request user-specified arbitrary hosts.
- Check `robots.txt` and footer license every run, fail closed if prohibited/changed.
- Timeout, 1MB response cap, transparent errors for bad URL, blocked source and layout changes.
- Exactly one official sponsor page fetched per run (plus robots check); no third-party requests or stealth access.
- Unit tests: `python -m unittest discover -s tests -v`.
- Manual comparison: `python tests/live_compare.py`; compares all ten 2025 companies with official directory, four website spot checks, and writes a JSON report.

### Public paid pricing & measured cloud usage (2026-10-08)

**Live Apify Store listing:** https://apify.com/afkdigital/event-exhibitor-sponsor-directory. Pricing model: **pay per event**, `$0.01` per deduplicated dataset company-role record (`apify-default-dataset-item`), **no Actor-start charge**. Unsupported URLs write no data, so trigger 0 chargeable events. The charge event price is fixed in USD; subscription-tier discounts may affect actual billing. The API confirmed `isPublic=true`, `pricingModel=PAY_PER_EVENT` and the dataset-item event at `$0.01`.

Measured platform usage with 256 MB RAM:

- FOSDEM 2025: 10 records, `3.189s` cloud runtime, `0.000221458` compute units, platform usage **$0.00020015** (before PPE configured).
- FOSDEM 2026: 14 records, `2.080s` cloud runtime, `0.000144444` compute units, platform usage **$0.00020462**; **14 chargeable dataset events** (list price $0.14 before discounts).
- Unsupported URL: clear failure, `0` charged dataset events and no result dataset; platform usage **$0.00006917**.

Costs may change; these are observed Apify `usageTotalUsd` values, not guarantees or actual sales revenue. Two HTTP requests per valid run; no paid proxies or third-party APIs. Developer revenue from owner test runs is not assumed. Details: [docs/RELEASE.md](docs/RELEASE.md).

### Use

Docker base `python:3.12-slim` and Apify Python SDK. Actor accepts user input, stores results in the default dataset, and writes an `AUDIT` record to default key-value store. Source HTML changes or licenses being removed cause an error, not fabricated results.

License attribution: © FOSDEM, original pages credited in `sourceUrl` and `sourceLicenseUrl`. This Actor is independent of and not endorsed by FOSDEM.

# Actor input Schema

## `eventUrl` (type: `string`):

Supported: https://fosdem.org/2025/ or https://fosdem.org/2026/ (sponsor-directory URLs also work). All others fail clearly.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of eligible company-role rows returned.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "eventUrl": "https://fosdem.org/2026/",
  "maxResults": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `audit` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "eventUrl": "https://fosdem.org/2026/"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("afkdigital/event-exhibitor-sponsor-directory").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "eventUrl": "https://fosdem.org/2026/" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("afkdigital/event-exhibitor-sponsor-directory").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "eventUrl": "https://fosdem.org/2026/"
}' |
apify call afkdigital/event-exhibitor-sponsor-directory --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,afkdigital/event-exhibitor-sponsor-directory"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/TfqNAtTqi5TfxbE0o/builds/0JjjwpNcQUlpiTUid/openapi.json