🔗 Advanced Social Links Extractor – Bulk Website Social Scraper

This Apify actor automatically crawls any website and extracts all social media links with high accuracy. It supports bulk URLs, renders JavaScript content using Playwright, blocks unnecessary resources for maximum speed, and intelligently detects social links even in complex or dynamic websites.

The output is a clean, flat JSON object containing the detected links for each platform.

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🚀 What It Does

For every website, the actor extracts:

• 📘 Facebook URLs
• 🐦 Twitter / X
• 📸 Instagram
• ▶️ YouTube channels / videos
• 💼 LinkedIn company / profile
• 📌 Pinterest
• 🎵 TikTok
• 💬 WhatsApp & WhatsApp Business
• 📱 Messenger
• 🎧 SoundCloud
• 🎨 Behance / Dribbble
• 🔗 Any other social profile URLs

It automatically normalizes, filters, and deduplicates social links.

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⚡ It Handles

• ✅ Bulk website lists (unlimited size)
• 🌐 Static + dynamic SPAs (React, Vue, Angular)
• 🧠 Smart detection of hidden social icons
• 🖼️ Blocks images, fonts, videos for faster scraping
• 🔄 Automatic retry handling
• 🚀 Playwright-based rendering for JavaScript sites
• 🧹 Purges old dataset before each run

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🧠 How It Works

The actor:

1. Loads your list of URLs
2. Uses PlaywrightCrawler to render each page
3. Blocks heavy resources (images, fonts, media)
4. Extracts the final rendered HTML
5. Uses a smart parser to detect all social links
6. Outputs clean JSON results into a dataset

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⚙️ Input Configuration

Field	Type	Description	Example Value
URLs to Scrape	Array	List of website URLs to scrape	["https://example.com", "https://shop.com"]

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🧩 Example Input

{
  "URLs to Scrape": [
    "https://colorlib.com",
    "https://w3layouts.com",
    "https://templatemo.com"
  ]
}

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📊 Example Output

{
  "scrapedUrl": "https://example.com",
  "facebook": "https://facebook.com/example",
  "instagram": "https://instagram.com/example",
  "twitter": "https://twitter.com/example",
  "youtube": "https://youtube.com/example",
  "linkedin": "https://linkedin.com/company/example",
  "pinterest": "https://pinterest.com/example",
  "tiktok": "https://tiktok.com/@example",
  "reddit": "https://reddit.com/user/example",
  "snapchat": "https://snapchat.com/add/example",
  "whatsapp": "https://wa.me/1234567890",
  "telegram": "https://t.me/example",
  "discord": "https://discord.gg/example",
  "wechat": "https://wechat.com/example",
  "skype": "skype:example?call",
  "github": "https://github.com/example",
  "gitlab": "https://gitlab.com/example",
  "behance": "https://behance.net/example",
  "dribbble": "https://dribbble.com/example",
  "medium": "https://medium.com/@example",
  "substack": "https://substack.com/@example",
  "vimeo": "https://vimeo.com/example",
  "flickr": "https://flickr.com/photos/example",
  "soundcloud": "https://soundcloud.com/example",
  "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/user/example",
  "mastodon": "https://mastodon.social/@example",
  "threads": "https://threads.net/@example",
  "xing": "https://xing.com/profile/example",
  "vk": "https://vk.com/example",
  "patreon": "https://patreon.com/example",
  "tumblr": "https://example.tumblr.com",
  "twitch": "https://twitch.tv/example",
  "email": "mailto:example@example.com",
  "tel": "tel:+1234567890"
}

If no links are found:

{
  "scrapedUrl": "https://example.com",
  "facebook": null,
  "instagram": null,
  "youtube": null
}

If the page fails to load:

{
  "scrapedUrl": "https://example.com",
  "error": "Failed to load page after 3 retries."
}

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🧠 Features

• 🔍 Detects 30+ social networks
• 🚀 Fast scraping with resource blocking
• 🧩 Works on any website (static or JS-heavy)
• 🛡️ Automatic retry logic
• 🧹 Purges dataset before each run
• 📦 Clean, flat output for CSV/Excel exports
• 🌍 Fully optimized for Apify infrastructure

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💡 Use Cases

• Lead generation (collect social links from business websites)
• Marketing enrichment (expand brand profiles)
• Data aggregation tools
• Competitor research
• Automation workflows
• SEO analysis
• eCommerce store scraping

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❓ FAQs

1. Does it work on JavaScript-heavy websites?

Yes — it renders the page using Playwright and waits until network idle.

2. Will it detect hidden or icon-only social buttons?

Yes — the extractor checks all href links, even if they have no text.

3. Does it block heavy resources?

Yes — images, videos, fonts are blocked for maximum speed.

4. Can I input 1000+ URLs?

Absolutely. Crawlee handles large lists efficiently.

5. What happens if a website does not have social links?

The actor returns null values for missing platforms.

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🧑‍💻 Developer Info

Author: codescraper Email: codescraper011@gmail.com

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🏷️ Tags

website-social-links-extractor . website-social-extractor . social-links-extractor . social-extractor · social-links · facebook · instagram · linkedin youtube · scraper · website-crawler · bulk-scraper · apify tiktok · twitter · marketing · automation · crawlee