Tapas Comics & Novels Scraper

Scrape Tapas.io — a webtoon and web-novel platform with tens of thousands of comics and novels. Browse genre rankings, daily update schedules, run keyword search across comics and novels, or fetch full series details by ID/URL. No login, no API key, no paid proxy.

What this actor does

• Four modes: ranking, daily, search, bySeriesIds
• Genre rankings — 11 genres × Comics/Novels × Popular/Newest sort
• Daily update schedule — which series update on which day of the week
• Keyword search — across comic and novel titles, authors, and descriptions
• Series lookup — full details (description, subscribers, views, episode count) by numeric ID, slug, or full URL
• Real counts — view count, subscriber count, like count, rank, badges (NEW / UP / WUF)
• Empty fields are omitted

Output per series

Depending on mode, records include a subset of:

• seriesId, title, seriesUrl
• category (Comics / Novels), mainGenre, genres[]
• authors[], publisher, description
• mature (boolean), seriesStatus, issueStatus, languageCode
• badges[] — e.g. WUF, NEW, UP
• viewCount, subscriberCount, likeCount, rank (ranking/daily modes — exact integers)
• viewCountLabel/viewCountApprox, subscriberCountLabel/subscriberCountApprox (series-lookup mode — Tapas only shows abbreviated counters like 160k on the series page, so we surface both the raw label and the derived approximate integer)
• episodeCount
• thumbnailUrl, bookCoverUrl, backgroundImageUrl
• startSaleAt, lastEpisodeAddedAt, createdAt, updatedAt
• onDiscount, discountRate
• recordType: "series", scrapedAt

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	select	ranking	ranking / daily / search / bySeriesIds
category	select	COMIC	COMIC or NOVEL (ranking/daily modes)
genre	select	ROMANCE	One of 11 genres or ALL (ranking mode)
sortBy	select	POPULAR	POPULAR or NEW (ranking mode)
dayOfWeek	select	MON	Day of week MON–SUN (daily mode)
searchQuery	string	romance	Free-text keyword (search mode)
searchContentType	select	COMICS	COMICS or NOVELS (search mode)
seriesIds	array	–	Numeric IDs, slugs, or full URLs (bySeriesIds mode)
matureOnly	boolean	false	Only emit mature-flagged series
excludeMature	boolean	false	Drop mature-flagged series
minViewCount	int	–	Drop series below this view count
minSubscriberCount	int	–	Drop series below this subscriber count
maxItems	int	50	Hard cap (1–1000)

Example: top romance comics

{
  "mode": "ranking",
  "category": "COMIC",
  "genre": "ROMANCE",
  "sortBy": "POPULAR",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: novels updating on Monday

{
  "mode": "daily",
  "category": "NOVEL",
  "dayOfWeek": "MON",
  "maxItems": 30
}

Example: keyword search across novels

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "vampire",
  "searchContentType": "NOVELS",
  "maxItems": 40
}

Example: lookup specific series

{
  "mode": "bySeriesIds",
  "seriesIds": ["313219", "Lets-Play-official", "https://tapas.io/series/100-day-romance"]
}

Use cases

• Content discovery — find trending webtoons/web-novels by genre
• Market research — track view/subscriber/like counts across genres over time
• Recommendation engines — feed genre + popularity signals into a recommender
• Publishing intelligence — monitor daily-update schedules and new-release velocity
• Fan tools — build a personal reading tracker or genre digest

FAQ

What's Tapas? A webtoon and web-novel publishing platform (tapas.io) hosting creator-uploaded comics and novels across romance, fantasy, action, drama, and more.

Is there a rate limit? No documented hard cap for normal browsing. The actor uses small delays between page requests to be polite.

What genres are available? Romance Fantasy, Romance, Action Fantasy, Action, Drama, Thriller/Horror, Comedy, Fantasy, BL, GL, LGBTQ+. Not every genre has novels published under it — a genre that legitimately has 0 results for Novels is expected, not a bug.

Why do ranking/daily records have exact viewCount while series-lookup records only have viewCountLabel/viewCountApprox? The ranking/daily JSON feed returns exact integers. The individual series page only displays a human-readable abbreviated counter (e.g. 160k views), so the actor derives an approximate integer from that label and keeps the original label for transparency.

What does mature mean? Tapas flags some series as mature (violence, mature themes). Use matureOnly/excludeMature to filter.

What's a "badge"? Tapas displays small status badges on series tiles: NEW (recently added), UP (recently updated), WUF ("Wait Until Free" — free episodes unlock after a wait period).

How fresh is the data? Real-time — every request hits Tapas's live ranking/search/series endpoints.