Lowyat Scraper – Malaysia's Biggest Forum, Threads & Replies

Scrape Lowyat.NET (forum.lowyat.net), Malaysia's largest and most active online forum, without an API or login. Browse a section's latest topics (with an optional title-keyword filter), or pull any topic's full first post and every reply — for Malaysia social listening, brand monitoring and market research.

No account, no token, no browser automation — just fast public HTML endpoints. Output is clean, structured snake_case data (JSON / CSV / Excel), missing values are null (never dropped), and every row carries an ISO 8601 scraped_at.

Output fields

Field	Type	Description
topic_id	string	Lowyat topic id (the number in /topic/{id})
site	string	Always "lowyat"
forum	string | null	Section the row came from (forum mode); null in topic mode
title	string | null	Topic title
author	string | null	Topic starter (forum mode) or the post's author (topic main / reply)
reply_count	number | null	Reply count from the listing (forum mode)
view_count	number | null	View count from the listing (forum mode)
created_at	string | null	Topic start time / post time, ISO 8601 (Malaysia UTC+8 resolved to UTC)
last_reply_at	string | null	Last-activity time from the listing (forum mode)
topic_url	string | null	Canonical topic URL
content	string | null	Post body text — topic main post and each reply (topic mode)
content_images	array	Image URLs found in the post body
post_id	string	Reply rows only — the Lowyat post id
floor	number | null	Reply rows only — the post's #N floor number
source_mode	string	"forum" or "topic"
source_query	string	The section or topic id this row was scraped from
scraped_at	string	Scrape time, ISO 8601

Modes

Mode	What it does	Charged
forum (default)	Latest topics in one or more sections, paginated; optional title-keyword filter and dateFrom cut-off	search-listing per topic
topic	A topic's full first post + all replies, across all pages	product-detail (main post) + review-item (per reply)

Input fields

Field	Type	Default	Notes
mode	string	—	forum or topic (required)
forums	array	—	forum mode: section slugs (e.g. Kopitiam) or forum/{id}
topicIds	array	[]	topic mode: numeric topic ids
topicUrls	array	[]	topic mode: full topic URLs (id auto-extracted)
keywords	array	[]	forum mode: keep only topics whose title contains a keyword
bulkInput	string	—	one item per line; routed to the current mode's field
maxItems	integer	50	forum: max topics per section; topic: max topics (replies uncapped). Max 500
dateFrom	string	—	forum mode: 3d / 12h / 2w or MM/DD/YY; also stops paging early
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify datacenter	keep on to avoid shared-IP rate limiting

Examples

Latest topics in the Kopitiam (chit-chat) section:

{ "mode": "forum", "forums": ["Kopitiam"], "maxItems": 50 }

Brand monitoring — only topics mentioning a keyword, from the last week:

{ "mode": "forum", "forums": ["Kopitiam", "Celebrities"], "keywords": ["Maybank", "TNG"], "dateFrom": "7d" }

Full topic with every reply:

{ "mode": "topic", "topicIds": ["4718961"] }

Topic mode from URLs:

{ "mode": "topic", "topicUrls": ["https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/4718961/"] }

Notes

• Forum-section browsing, not full-site search. Lowyat's site-wide search is not publicly accessible, so this Actor monitors the sections you name and filters titles by keyword (the same approach as forum monitors for other boards). Pick the sections your topic lives in (e.g. Kopitiam, Celebrities, Announcements).
• Timestamps are Malaysia local time (UTC+8) converted to UTC. Listing "Today"/"Yesterday" values are resolved against the run time.
• Floor numbers come straight from Lowyat's own #N markers (continuous across pages); when a floor can't be read it is null rather than guessed.
• Pinned/announcement topics are returned but are exempt from the dateFrom filter and never trigger the early-stop.
• Keep proxyConfiguration on — running without a proxy shares egress IPs with other runs and invites rate limiting.

FAQ

Does it need a Lowyat account? No. Only public content is read.

Can it search all of Lowyat by keyword? Not in v1 — Lowyat's public search isn't accessible. Use forum mode on the relevant sections with a keywords title filter.

How do I find a section slug? It's the path in the section URL — forum.lowyat.net/Kopitiam → Kopitiam.

What about reply images/stickers? Image URLs in a post body are captured in content_images; the forum's own UI sprites are excluded.

Disclaimer

This Actor collects only publicly available content for research and analytics. You are responsible for complying with Lowyat.NET's terms and applicable laws (including data-protection rules) when using the data.

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