# Conference Speakers Scraper — Events & Trade Shows (MCP) (`amygraphics/conference-speakers-scraper`) Actor

Speakers, committees & chairs for any conference, summit, expo or trade show — worldwide. One URL in, clean rows out: name, role, company, email, phone, socials, photo, talks. Monitor new speakers. From $1.5 per 1 000 rows.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/amygraphics/conference-speakers-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Zakaria el bouami](https://apify.com/amygraphics) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation, MCP servers
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

Pay per event

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?

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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?

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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

## 🎤 Conference Speakers Scraper — Events, Summits & Trade Shows (MCP)

**Find every speaker, committee member and chair for any conference, summit, congress, expo or trade show — worldwide.** Paste one event URL (any website) and this Actor finds the speakers page itself, extracts names, talk topics, roles, companies, photos, social links and — when published — **emails & phones**. Built for lead generation, event research, PR outreach, competitive intelligence and AI agents (MCP-ready).

- 🌍 **Worldwide** — works in any language: English, Français, العربية, Español, Deutsch, 中文…
- 🎯 **One URL is enough** — auto-discovers the speakers page on any event site
- 🕵️ **Hard-to-get data** — programme committees, scientific chairs, academic reviewers
- 🔔 **Monitor mode** — returns only NEW speakers since your last run (schedule daily)
- 💸 **From $1.50 per 1,000 speakers** — fair per-row pricing, tested live before publishing

***

### ✨ 3 reasons to use it

1. **No competitor does this.** The top Store result for "conference speakers" is a Twitter scraper. This one is purpose-built.
2. **Any event site, not just one platform.** 4 engines in one Actor: on-page extraction (JSON-LD, speaker cards, profile links), free-text committee parsing, WikiCFP worldwide discovery, and the official Sessionize API (auto-detected).
3. **Lead-grade output.** Clean rows with `name`, `role`, `company`, `eventName`, `profileUrl`, `email`, `phone`, `socialLinks`, `photoUrl`, `bio`, `talks`, `personType` (`speaker` | `committee`).

***

### 🚀 How it works — pick a source

| Source | What you give it | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| **Auto** ⭐ | Any event / conference URL (home page or speakers page) | Finds the speakers page by itself and extracts the list |
| **Direct URL** | The exact speakers page you already have | Extracts, no discovery |
| **Discover (WikiCFP)** | A keyword: `artificial intelligence`, `dermatology`, `fintech`… | Finds upcoming conferences worldwide, then visits each official site and pulls its speakers |
| **Sessionize** | A `sessionize.com/e/<id>` link or event ID | Uses the official Sessionize JSON API (richest data: talk titles, bios, photos) |

> 💡 **Most runs need nothing but one URL.** The default input is a real, working example (WeAreDevelopers World Congress — 500+ speakers).

***

### 📥 Input (all optional except one URL *or* one keyword)

| Field | Type | Default | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| `mode` | enum | `extract` | `extract` = full list · `onlyNew` = only new speakers (monitor) |
| `source` | enum | `auto` | `auto`, `url`, `wikicfp`, `sessionize` |
| `startUrls` | array | working example | Event / conferences websites |
| `search` | string | — | Keyword for WikiCFP discovery |
| `sessionizeEventIds` | array | — | Sessionize event IDs / URLs |
| `maxSpeakers` | int | `200` | Hard cap (3 000+ possible on big congresses) |
| `maxEvents` | int | `5` | How many discovered conferences to visit |
| `extractCommittee` | bool | `true` | Also capture committees & chairs |
| `enrichProfiles` | bool | `false` | Visit each profile → photo, bio, socials |
| `extractEmails` | bool | `true` | Public emails & phones (needs enrichment) |
| `respectRobots` | bool | `true` | Keep robots.txt & crawl-delay (recommended) |

***

### 📤 Output — one clean row per person

```json
{
  "name": "Michael Kagan",
  "role": "CTO",
  "company": "NVIDIA",
  "eventName": "WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2027",
  "eventUrl": "https://www.wearedevelopers.com/world-congress",
  "eventDate": "2027-07-14/2027-07-16",
  "eventLocation": "Berlin, Germany",
  "talks": ["Beyond LLMs: reasoning engines at scale"],
  "bio": "Michael T. Kagan is CTO at NVIDIA…",
  "email": null,
  "phone": null,
  "socialLinks": ["https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-kagan", "https://x.com/mkagan"],
  "photoUrl": "https://cdn.simpleevent.com/…/kagan.jpg",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.wearedevelopers.com/world-congress/speakers/michael-kagan",
  "personType": "speaker",
  "source": "person-link",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-09T09:37:01Z",
  "isNew": false
}
```

Export as **JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS or HTML table** — or pipe straight to **Google Sheets, Airtable, n8n, Make, Zapier, Slack** with 40+ integrations.

***

### 🔔 Monitor mode — only what changed

Set `mode = "onlyNew"` and schedule the Actor (daily / weekly). It remembers every speaker it has already seen (stored in a persistent key-value store) and returns **only the new ones** — ideal to watch a competitor's partner list before a summit, or to be first to contact newly announced keynote speakers.

***

### 🤖 Built for AI agents (MCP)

Give your Claude / ChatGPT / Mistral agent a market and get structured speakers back:

```
https://mcp.apify.com?tools=amygraphics/conference-speakers-scraper
```

Ask things like: *"List the speakers of the WeAreDevelopers World Congress with their companies."* or *"Find me medical AI conferences in 2026 and their programme committees."*

***

### 💼 Use cases — who's this for

- **Lead generation** — pull 500 speakers of an industry summit and enrich them
- **Sales & partnership** — monitor a venue before your own event, find the real decision makers
- **Academic / research** — collect programme committees and scientific chairs
- **PR & comms** — find keynote speakers to invite, or to brief journalists
- **Competitive intelligence** — who sponsors / speaks at your competitor's conference?
- **Market research** — map the expert landscape of an industry in hours, not weeks

***

### 💸 Price

**$0.001** to start + **$1.50 per 1 000 speakers/committee members** extracted (billed as `speaker-extracted` event). That's one of the cheapest rates in the Store for contact-grade data.

***

### ⚖️ Fair use

- Respects `robots.txt` and per-site `Crawl-delay` (e.g. WikiCFP's 5 s rule) **by default** — keep `respectRobots` on.
- Only extracts **public** data shown on event websites.
- Emails & phones are only captured when the site itself publishes them.

***

### 🌐 Keywords

conference speakers · event speakers · summit speakers · trade show speakers · congress speakers · programme committee · scientific committee · keynote speakers · speaker list · event contacts · conférenciers · orateurs · intervenants · ponentes · conferencistas · Redner · Referenten · المتحدثون في المؤتمر · 会议演讲嘉宾 · speaker leads · B2B event leads · MCP · AI agent

***

*Built by [AmyGraphics](https://apify.com/amygraphics) — tested live on real conferences before publishing. Questions welcome, answers in English, Français, العربية or Darija.*

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

extract = pull the full speaker list. onlyNew = remember every speaker seen in previous runs and return only the new ones — perfect for a daily schedule.

## `source` (type: `string`):

auto = paste any event / conference URL and the actor finds the speakers page itself. url = you already know the exact speakers page. wikicfp = discover conferences worldwide by keyword (WikiCFP directory), then extract each one's speakers. sessionize = raw Sessionize event IDs / URLs.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

The event home page — OR the exact speakers page if you have it. Any conference, summit, congress, expo or trade-show website works. You can paste several URLs.

## `search` (type: `string`):

Topic used to discover conferences on WikiCFP — e.g. "artificial intelligence", "dermatology", "supply chain", "fintech". The actor then visits each conference's official site and extracts its speakers.

## `sessionizeEventIds` (type: `array`):

Sessionize event ID (e.g. "8z4npzla") — or a full https://sessionize.com/e/<id> URL. You can paste several.

## `maxSpeakers` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on the number of speakers / committee members extracted. Default 200. Raise it for large congresses (3 000+ speakers exist).

## `maxEvents` (type: `integer`):

How many discovered conferences to visit. Default 5. Each conference costs a few requests — keep it small for discovery runs.

## `extractCommittee` (type: `boolean`):

In addition to speakers, also capture the programme / organizing / scientific committees and chairs (rows get type="committee"). These are hard-to-find academic decision makers.

## `enrichProfiles` (type: `boolean`):

Visit every speaker profile page to fill photo, biography, social links (LinkedIn / X / GitHub) and — when published — email & phone. Costs one request per speaker.

## `extractEmails` (type: `boolean`):

When profile enrichment is on, also extract public email addresses and phone numbers shown on speaker pages / bios.

## `respectRobots` (type: `boolean`):

Keep robots.txt rules (recommended). WikiCFP asks for a 5-second crawl delay — the actor honours it automatically.

## `requestDelaySecs` (type: `number`):

Extra, polite pause between HTTP requests on top of the site's own crawl-delay. 0 = as fast as allowed.

## `requestTimeoutSecs` (type: `number`):

How long to wait for a slow event website before giving up on it.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Only needed for event sites that block datacenter IPs. Apify RESIDENTIAL proxy recommended in that case.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "extract",
  "source": "auto",
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.wearedevelopers.com/world-congress/speakers"
  ],
  "search": "artificial intelligence",
  "sessionizeEventIds": [],
  "maxSpeakers": 200,
  "maxEvents": 5,
  "extractCommittee": true,
  "enrichProfiles": false,
  "extractEmails": true,
  "respectRobots": true,
  "requestDelaySecs": 0,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 30,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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 = {
    "mode": "extract",
    "source": "auto",
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.wearedevelopers.com/world-congress/speakers"
    ],
    "search": "artificial intelligence",
    "enrichProfiles": false,
    "respectRobots": true
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("amygraphics/conference-speakers-scraper").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 = {
    "mode": "extract",
    "source": "auto",
    "startUrls": ["https://www.wearedevelopers.com/world-congress/speakers"],
    "search": "artificial intelligence",
    "enrichProfiles": False,
    "respectRobots": True,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("amygraphics/conference-speakers-scraper").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 '{
  "mode": "extract",
  "source": "auto",
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.wearedevelopers.com/world-congress/speakers"
  ],
  "search": "artificial intelligence",
  "enrichProfiles": false,
  "respectRobots": true
}' |
apify call amygraphics/conference-speakers-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,amygraphics/conference-speakers-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

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/MR5YX3Ve3A8yVd8CI/builds/k3cZzsEr2gR3Du2yT/openapi.json