Snapchat Profile Scraper

📌 Overview

The Snapchat Profile Scraper is an Apify actor designed to extract detailed information from Snapchat user profiles. By providing one or more Snapchat profile URLs, this actor fetches and parses publicly available data, including:

• Profile name and username
• Number of followers
• Associated website links
• Spotlight video link
• Engagement metrics (views, comments, shares)

This actor is ideal for social media analytics, influencer research, and competitive analysis.

⚙️ Input Schema

The actor accepts the following input fields:

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.snapchat.com/@username"],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false,
   
  }
}

Fields:

• startUrls: An array of Snapchat profile URLs to scrape.
• proxyConfiguration: Optional settings for proxy usage.

🛠️ How It Works

1. Input Parsing: The actor reads the provided startUrls and optional proxyConfiguration.

2. Fetching Data: For each URL:

   • Fetches the HTML content using the specified proxies (if any).
   • Parses the HTML to extract relevant profile information.

3. Data Output: The extracted data is saved to the default dataset in the following format:

{
  "name": "User Name",
  "username": "@username",
  "followers": "1234",
  "website": ["https://www.website.com"],
  "videolink": "https://www.snapchat.com/spotlight/video",
  "viewcount": "5678",
  "comments": "90",
  "share": "12",
  "fetched_url": "https://www.snapchat.com/@username",
  "http_status": 200
}

🧪 Example Usage

To run the actor, provide a JSON input like:

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.snapchat.com/@username"]
}

Optionally, include a proxyConfiguration to route requests through Apify's proxy service or your own proxies.

📦 Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• Apify SDK
• requests, parsel libraries

🔐 Proxy Configuration

To use Apify's proxy service, set "useApifyProxy": true. For custom proxies, provide the necessary details in the proxyConfiguration object.

📈 Output Dataset

The actor outputs a dataset with the following fields:

• name: Profile name
• username: Snapchat username
• followers: Number of followers
• website: Associated website links
• videolink: Spotlight video link
• viewcount: Number of views
• comments: Number of comments
• share: Number of shares
• fetched_url: The URL that was actually fetched
• http_status: HTTP status code of the request

🛠️ Development & Customization

To customize or extend the actor:

1. Clone the repository.
2. Modify main.py to adjust the scraping logic or data extraction methods.
3. Update actor.json to reflect any changes in input schema or metadata.
4. Rebuild and deploy the actor on Apify.