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BeautifulSoup Scraper

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Crawls websites using raw HTTP requests. It parses the HTML with the BeautifulSoup library and extracts data from the pages using Python code. Supports both recursive crawling and lists of URLs. This Actor is a Python alternative to Cheerio Scraper.

Pricing

Pay per usage

Rating

4.2

(5)

Developer

Apify

Actor stats

Bookmarked

974

Total users

Monthly active users

a month ago

Last modified

Categories

Developer tools

Open source

You can access the BeautifulSoup Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

$echo '{
<  "startUrls": [
<    {
<      "url": "https://crawlee.dev"
<    }
<  ],
<  "maxCrawlingDepth": 1,
<  "requestTimeout": 10,
<  "linkSelector": "a[href]",
<  "linkPatterns": [
<    ".*crawlee\\\\.dev.*"
<  ],
<  "pageFunction": "from typing import Any\\nfrom crawlee.crawlers import BeautifulSoupCrawlingContext\\n\\n# See the context section in readme to find out what fields you can access \\n# https://apify.com/apify/beautifulsoup-scraper#context    \\ndef page_function(context: BeautifulSoupCrawlingContext) -> Any:\\n    url = context.request.url\\n    title = context.soup.title.string if context.soup.title else None\\n    return {'\''url'\'': url, '\''title'\'': title}\\n",
<  "soupFeatures": "html.parser",
<  "proxyConfiguration": {
<    "useApifyProxy": true
<  }
<}' |
<apify call apify/beautifulsoup-scraper --silent --output-dataset

BeautifulSoup Scraper API through CLI

The Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use BeautifulSoup Scraper locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install Apify CLI

Using installation script (macOS/Linux):

$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash

Using installation script (Windows):

$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex

Using Homebrew:

$brew install apify-cli

Using npm:

$npm install -g apify-cli

Other API clients include:

BeautifulSoup Scraper API in Python

BeautifulSoup Scraper API in JavaScript

BeautifulSoup Scraper OpenAPI definition

BeautifulSoup Scraper API

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