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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.

5.0 (6)

Pricing

Pay per usage

Issues response

36 days

Last modified

21 days ago

Developer tools

Open source

You can access the Puppeteer 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/js"
14        }
15    ],
16    "globs": [
17        {
18            "glob": "https://crawlee.dev/js/*/*"
19        }
20    ],
21    "pseudoUrls": [],
22    "excludes": [
23        {
24            "glob": "/**/*.{png,jpg,jpeg,pdf}"
25        }
26    ],
27    "linkSelector": "a",
28    "respectRobotsTxtFile": true,
29    "pageFunction": async function pageFunction(context) {
30        const { page, request, log } = context;
31        const title = await page.title();
32        log.info(`URL: ${request.url} TITLE: ${title}`);
33        return {
34            url: request.url,
35            title
36        };
37    },
38    "proxyConfiguration": {
39        "useApifyProxy": true
40    },
41    "initialCookies": [],
42    "waitUntil": [
43        "networkidle2"
44    ],
45    "preNavigationHooks": `// We need to return array of (possibly async) functions here.
46        // The functions accept two arguments: the "crawlingContext" object
47        // and "gotoOptions".
48        [
49            async (crawlingContext, gotoOptions) => {
50                const { page } = crawlingContext;
51                // ...
52            },
53        ]`,
54    "postNavigationHooks": `// We need to return array of (possibly async) functions here.
55        // The functions accept a single argument: the "crawlingContext" object.
56        [
57            async (crawlingContext) => {
58                const { page } = crawlingContext;
59                // ...
60            },
61        ]`,
62    "customData": {}
63};
64
65// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
66const run = await client.actor("apify/puppeteer-scraper").call(input);
67
68// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
69console.log('Results from dataset');
70console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
71const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
72items.forEach((item) => {
73    console.dir(item);
74});
75
76// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

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