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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.

4.4 (5)

Pricing

Pay per usage

Total users

828

Monthly users

Runs succeeded

97%

Last modified

6 months ago

Developer tools

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\\n\\n# See the context section in readme to find out what fields you can access \\n# https://apify.com/vdusek/beautifulsoup-scraper#context    \\ndef page_function(context: Context) -> 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 the Apify CLI

$npm i -g apify-cli
$apify login

Other API clients include:

BeautifulSoup Scraper API in Python

BeautifulSoup Scraper API in JavaScript

BeautifulSoup Scraper OpenAPI definition

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