Cheerio Scraper
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Cheerio Scraper
apify/cheerio-scraper
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Crawls websites using raw HTTP requests, parses the HTML with the Cheerio library, and extracts data from the pages using a Node.js code. Supports both recursive crawling and lists of URLs. This actor is a high-performance alternative to apify/web-scraper for websites that do not require JavaScript.
The code examples below show how to run the Actor and get its results. To run the code, you need to have an Apify account. Replace <YOUR_API_TOKEN> in the code with your API token, which you can find under Settings > Integrations in Apify Console. Learn more
1# Set API token
2API_TOKEN=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>
3
4# Prepare Actor input
5cat > input.json <<'EOF'
6{
7 "startUrls": [
8 {
9 "url": "https://crawlee.dev"
10 }
11 ],
12 "globs": [
13 {
14 "glob": "https://crawlee.dev/*/*"
15 }
16 ],
17 "pseudoUrls": [],
18 "excludes": [
19 {
20 "glob": "/**/*.{png,jpg,jpeg,pdf}"
21 }
22 ],
23 "linkSelector": "a[href]",
24 "pageFunction": "async function pageFunction(context) {\n const { $, request, log } = context;\n\n // The \"$\" property contains the Cheerio object which is useful\n // for querying DOM elements and extracting data from them.\n const pageTitle = $('title').first().text();\n\n // The \"request\" property contains various information about the web page loaded. \n const url = request.url;\n \n // Use \"log\" object to print information to actor log.\n log.info('Page scraped', { url, pageTitle });\n\n // Return an object with the data extracted from the page.\n // It will be stored to the resulting dataset.\n return {\n url,\n pageTitle\n };\n}",
25 "proxyConfiguration": {
26 "useApifyProxy": true
27 },
28 "initialCookies": [],
29 "additionalMimeTypes": [],
30 "preNavigationHooks": "// We need to return array of (possibly async) functions here.\n// The functions accept two arguments: the \"crawlingContext\" object\n// and \"requestAsBrowserOptions\" which are passed to the `requestAsBrowser()`\n// function the crawler calls to navigate..\n[\n async (crawlingContext, requestAsBrowserOptions) => {\n // ...\n }\n]",
31 "postNavigationHooks": "// We need to return array of (possibly async) functions here.\n// The functions accept a single argument: the \"crawlingContext\" object.\n[\n async (crawlingContext) => {\n // ...\n },\n]",
32 "customData": {}
33}
34EOF
35
36# Run the Actor using an HTTP API
37# See the full API reference at https://docs.apify.com/api/v2
38curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/apify~cheerio-scraper/runs?token=$API_TOKEN" \
39 -X POST \
40 -d @input.json \
41 -H 'Content-Type: application/json'Developer
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- 417 monthly users
- 64 stars
- 99.9% runs succeeded
- Created in Apr 2019
- Modified about 1 month ago
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