Puppeteer Scraper

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Puppeteer Scraper

Puppeteer Scraper

apify/puppeteer-scraper

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Crawls websites with the headless Chrome and Puppeteer library using a provided server-side Node.js code. This crawler is an alternative to apify/web-scraper that gives you finer control over the process. Supports both recursive crawling and list of URLs. Supports login to website.

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 mode

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with API token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://crawlee.dev"
        }
    ],
    "globs": [
        {
            "glob": "https://crawlee.dev/*/*"
        }
    ],
    "pseudoUrls": [],
    "excludes": [
        {
            "glob": "/**/*.{png,jpg,jpeg,pdf}"
        }
    ],
    "linkSelector": "a",
    "pageFunction": async function pageFunction(context) {
        const { page, request, log } = context;
        const title = await page.title();
        log.info(`URL: ${request.url} TITLE: ${title}`);
        return {
            url: request.url,
            title
        };
    },
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    },
    "initialCookies": [],
    "waitUntil": [
        "networkidle2"
    ],
    "preNavigationHooks": `// We need to return array of (possibly async) functions here.
        // The functions accept two arguments: the "crawlingContext" object
        // and "gotoOptions".
        [
            async (crawlingContext, gotoOptions) => {
                const { page } = crawlingContext;
                // ...
            },
        ]`,
    "postNavigationHooks": `// We need to return array of (possibly async) functions here.
        // The functions accept a single argument: the "crawlingContext" object.
        [
            async (crawlingContext) => {
                const { page } = crawlingContext;
                // ...
            },
        ]`,
    "customData": {}
};

(async () => {
    // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
    const run = await client.actor("apify/puppeteer-scraper").call(input);

    // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
    console.log('Results from dataset');
    const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
    items.forEach((item) => {
        console.dir(item);
    });
})();
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  • 2.6M runs
  • Modified 8 days ago

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