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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

839

Monthly users

Runs succeeded

96%

Last modified

7 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

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "startUrls": [
12        {
13            "url": "https://crawlee.dev"
14        }
15    ],
16    "maxCrawlingDepth": 1,
17    "requestTimeout": 10,
18    "linkSelector": "a[href]",
19    "linkPatterns": [
20        ".*crawlee\\.dev.*"
21    ],
22    "pageFunction": `from typing import Any
23        
24        # See the context section in readme to find out what fields you can access 
25        # https://apify.com/vdusek/beautifulsoup-scraper#context    
26        def page_function(context: Context) -> Any:
27            url = context.request['url']
28            title = context.soup.title.string if context.soup.title else None
29            return {'url': url, 'title': title}`,
30    "soupFeatures": "html.parser",
31    "proxyConfiguration": {
32        "useApifyProxy": true
33    }
34};
35
36// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
37const run = await client.actor("apify/beautifulsoup-scraper").call(input);
38
39// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
40console.log('Results from dataset');
41console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
42const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
43items.forEach((item) => {
44    console.dir(item);
45});
46
47// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

BeautifulSoup Scraper API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use BeautifulSoup Scraper API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

Other API clients include:

BeautifulSoup Scraper API in Python

BeautifulSoup Scraper API through CLI

BeautifulSoup Scraper OpenAPI definition

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