Legacy PhantomJS Crawler
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Legacy PhantomJS Crawler
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Replacement for the legacy Apify Crawler product with a backward-compatible interface. The actor uses PhantomJS headless browser to recursively crawl websites and extract data from them using a piece of front-end JavaScript code.
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Get a demoYou can access the Legacy PhantomJS Crawler programmatically from your own Python 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.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9 "startUrls": [{
10 "key": "START",
11 "value": "https://www.example.com/",
12 }],
13 "crawlPurls": [{
14 "key": "MY_LABEL",
15 "value": "https://www.example.com/[.*]",
16 }],
17 "clickableElementsSelector": "a:not([rel=nofollow])",
18 "pageFunction": """function pageFunction(context) {
19 // called on every page the crawler visits, use it to extract data from it
20 var $ = context.jQuery;
21 var result = {
22 title: $('title').text(),
23 myValue: $('TODO').text()
24 };
25 return result;
26}
27""",
28 "interceptRequest": """function interceptRequest(context, newRequest) {
29 // called whenever the crawler finds a link to a new page,
30 // use it to override default behavior
31 return newRequest;
32}
33""",
34}
35
36# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
37run = client.actor("apify/legacy-phantomjs-crawler").call(run_input=run_input)
38
39# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
40print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
41for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
42 print(item)
43
44# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startLegacy PhantomJS Crawler - Crawl websites, extract data API in Python
The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Legacy PhantomJS Crawler API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
pip install apify-clientOther API clients include:
ApifyActor Metrics
101 monthly users
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21 stars
>99% runs succeeded
7.8 days response time
Created in Mar 2019
Modified 6 months ago
