Puppeteer Scraper
Pricing
Pay per usage
Puppeteer Scraper
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
116
Monthly users
587
Runs succeeded
>99%
Response time
30 days
Last modified
10 months ago
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.
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" }],
10 "globs": [{ "glob": "https://crawlee.dev/*/*" }],
11 "pseudoUrls": [],
12 "excludes": [{ "glob": "/**/*.{png,jpg,jpeg,pdf}" }],
13 "linkSelector": "a",
14 "pageFunction": """async function pageFunction(context) {
15 const { page, request, log } = context;
16 const title = await page.title();
17 log.info(`URL: ${request.url} TITLE: ${title}`);
18 return {
19 url: request.url,
20 title
21 };
22}""",
23 "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
24 "initialCookies": [],
25 "waitUntil": ["networkidle2"],
26 "preNavigationHooks": """// We need to return array of (possibly async) functions here.
27// The functions accept two arguments: the \"crawlingContext\" object
28// and \"gotoOptions\".
29[
30 async (crawlingContext, gotoOptions) => {
31 const { page } = crawlingContext;
32 // ...
33 },
34]""",
35 "postNavigationHooks": """// We need to return array of (possibly async) functions here.
36// The functions accept a single argument: the \"crawlingContext\" object.
37[
38 async (crawlingContext) => {
39 const { page } = crawlingContext;
40 // ...
41 },
42]""",
43 "customData": {},
44}
45
46# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
47run = client.actor("apify/puppeteer-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
48
49# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
50print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
51for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
52 print(item)
53
54# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startPuppeteer Scraper for headless Chrome API in Python
The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Puppeteer Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
pip install apify-clientOther API clients include:
Pricing
Pricing model
Pay per usageThis Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage.
