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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 (5)

Pricing

Pay per usage

139

Total users

6.7k

Monthly users

845

Runs succeeded

>99%

Issue response

3.7 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

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": [{ "url": "https://crawlee.dev/js" }],
10    "globs": [{ "glob": "https://crawlee.dev/js/*/*" }],
11    "pseudoUrls": [],
12    "excludes": [{ "glob": "/**/*.{png,jpg,jpeg,pdf}" }],
13    "linkSelector": "a",
14    "respectRobotsTxtFile": True,
15    "pageFunction": """async function pageFunction(context) {
16    const { page, request, log } = context;
17    const title = await page.title();
18    log.info(`URL: ${request.url} TITLE: ${title}`);
19    return {
20        url: request.url,
21        title
22    };
23}""",
24    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
25    "initialCookies": [],
26    "waitUntil": ["networkidle2"],
27    "preNavigationHooks": """// We need to return array of (possibly async) functions here.
28// The functions accept two arguments: the \"crawlingContext\" object
29// and \"gotoOptions\".
30[
31    async (crawlingContext, gotoOptions) => {
32        const { page } = crawlingContext;
33        // ...
34    },
35]""",
36    "postNavigationHooks": """// We need to return array of (possibly async) functions here.
37// The functions accept a single argument: the \"crawlingContext\" object.
38[
39    async (crawlingContext) => {
40        const { page } = crawlingContext;
41        // ...
42    },
43]""",
44    "customData": {},
45}
46
47# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
48run = client.actor("apify/puppeteer-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
49
50# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
51print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
52for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
53    print(item)
54
55# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

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