# Public Document Finder — Domain & Company Files (`bakos_bence/public-document-finder`) Actor

Find public PDFs and files for a company, domain, or keyword — no logins, no API keys. Search, Google Drive, cloud shares, Wayback, GitHub, sitemaps, and site crawls. Deduped URLs with type, host, and channel for lead gen and recon.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/bakos\_bence/public-document-finder.md
- **Developed by:** [Bakos Bence](https://apify.com/bakos_bence) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Developer tools, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.38 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Public Document Finder — Domain & Company Files

Find **publicly discoverable** documents and data files for a company, domain, or keyword — PDFs, Office, CSV/JSON, archives, and more. No logins and **no vendor API keys** — discovery runs through HTTP automation only.

Use it for competitive research, vendor diligence, journalism, and authorized recon when you need a structured list of public file URLs (not private contents behind auth).

### What you get

Each dataset row is one unique document URL with:

| Field | Meaning |
|-------|---------|
| `url` | Direct or share URL |
| `title` | Best-effort title |
| `fileType` | Extension hint (`pdf`, `docx`, …) |
| `hostClass` | `website`, `google_drive`, `amazon_s3`, `wayback`, `github`, … |
| `channel` | Which discovery path found it |
| `interestScore` | 0–100 heuristic OSINT triage score (cloud shares, budgets, decks, etc. rank higher; `robots.txt`-style noise is skipped) |
| `snippet` | Search snippet when available |

### How to run

1. Enter a **domain** (`mozilla.org`) and/or **keyword** (`annual report`).
2. Keep **Maximum documents** at 5 for a cheap first run.
3. Click **Start**. Export JSON/CSV or call the API.

### Google / Bing filetype search

Builds grouped `filetype:` OR queries across documents, sheets, decks, archives, and data/config files, then collects matching public URLs from search HTML.

### Google Drive & Google Docs (public)

Searches for indexed **public** Drive/Docs share links tied to your brand or domain. Only links search engines already expose; nothing behind a Google login.

### Amazon S3 / open cloud objects

Looks for publicly indexed object URLs and share pages (S3-style hosts and similar) associated with your query. Useful when marketing sites or blogs link to files on cloud storage.

### Wayback Machine / Internet Archive

Queries Wayback CDX for historical captures whose URLs end in OSINT-relevant extensions (PDF, Office, CSV, ZIP, JSON, …) on the target domain tree (`matchType=domain`).

### GitHub public assets

Finds public GitHub-hosted files related to the brand via search pivots (no GitHub API token).

### Website sitemaps

Reads `robots.txt` sitemap pointers and walks sitemap indexes for document / data / archive file URLs published by the site itself.

### Well-known / agent-discovery files

Probes `/llms.txt`, `/llms-full.txt`, `/AGENTS.md`, `/.well-known/security.txt`, and related public discovery files. Rows get an `interestScore` plus optional `discoveryFlags` (e.g. `possibleAgentInstruction`) when the text looks like agent-facing policy or prompt-injection shaped language — useful for AI-security OSINT without logging in.

### Subdomains

When **Include subdomains** is on (default), the Actor discovers public hostnames under your apex domain via certificate transparency and free host-search pages (no API keys), then extends `site:` search queries, sitemaps, and shallow crawls to those hosts (capped by **Maximum subdomains**). Common Crawl and Wayback already query the whole domain tree via wildcard / `matchType=domain`.

### Sources

Additional channels used when enabled:

- Common Crawl public index (URL extension filter across the default OSINT file-type set)
- Shallow same-site crawl of docs/research/download-style paths
- Dropbox / OneDrive / SharePoint / Box public links (search-indexed only)
- Azure Blob / GCS style hosts when they appear in search
- SlideShare / SpeakerDeck when they match the query

Turn channels on/off with the **Discovery channels** input: `search`, `commonCrawl`, `wayback`, `sitemap`, `siteCrawl`, `cloudShares`, `wellKnown`.

### Input tips

- Prefer a **hostname** (`who.int`) over a long marketing URL.
- Add an **Extra keyword** to narrow (`strategy`, `transparency`, `pricing`).
- Increase **Maximum documents** after a successful 5-row smoke.
- Enable **Apify Proxy** if search HTML is empty from datacenter IPs.

### Output & pricing

Results land in the default dataset. Pricing is **pay per result** on the Store Pricing tab (Free vs paid plans differ). The Actor stops early if your run charge limit is reached.

### Limitations

- Only **public / indexed** material — not authenticated portals, paywalls, or private Drive folders.
- Search and archive sources can rate-limit or time out; try proxy or fewer channels.
- Titles/snippets are best-effort; always open the URL to verify.
- Unofficial tool — not affiliated with Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Internet Archive, or any site you query.

### Related

Pair with a PDF text extractor Actor if you already have URLs and need full text. This Actor **finds** public document URLs; it does not OCR or parse file bodies.

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Company domains (who.int, nasa.gov) and/or free-text keywords. Domains get site-scoped discovery; keywords run filetype search.

## `query` (type: `string`):

Optional single domain or keyword. Prefer Domains or keywords for bulk.

## `domain` (type: `string`):

Alias for a single domain query.

## `domains` (type: `array`):

Alias list of domains.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Optional full website URLs — hostnames are used as domains.

## `keyword` (type: `string`):

Optional brand or topic words combined with domain filetype queries (e.g. annual report).

## `includeSubdomains` (type: `boolean`):

Automatically discover subdomains (certificate transparency / public host lists) and extend site: search, sitemaps, and crawls to them.

## `maxSubdomains` (type: `integer`):

Cap how many discovered hosts to expand into (apex + www always prioritized).

## `channels` (type: `array`):

Leave empty for all. Options: search, commonCrawl, wayback, sitemap, siteCrawl, cloudShares, wellKnown.

## `fileTypes` (type: `array`):

Extensions to hunt (pdf, docx, xlsx, csv, zip, json, …). Leave empty / default for the full OSINT-relevant set.

## `fileType` (type: `string`):

Single file type alias of fileTypes.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Cap unique document rows. Prefill 5 for a cheap first run.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Alias of maxItems.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional. Enable Apify Proxy if search engines block datacenter IPs.

## `proxy` (type: `object`):

Alias for proxyConfiguration.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "who.int"
  ],
  "includeSubdomains": true,
  "maxSubdomains": 25,
  "maxItems": 5,
  "maxResults": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Default dataset items.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

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

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "queries": [
        "who.int"
    ],
    "includeSubdomains": true,
    "maxSubdomains": 25,
    "maxItems": 5,
    "maxResults": 5,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("bakos_bence/public-document-finder").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "queries": ["who.int"],
    "includeSubdomains": True,
    "maxSubdomains": 25,
    "maxItems": 5,
    "maxResults": 5,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("bakos_bence/public-document-finder").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "queries": [
    "who.int"
  ],
  "includeSubdomains": true,
  "maxSubdomains": 25,
  "maxItems": 5,
  "maxResults": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call bakos_bence/public-document-finder --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,bakos_bence/public-document-finder"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/ECI4uzQi9cL3iO51f/builds/YwpE7ZsN09SEdjCLC/openapi.json