# Tapas Comics & Novels Scraper (`crawlerbros/tapas-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Tapas.io - browse comic/novel rankings by genre, daily update schedules, keyword search across comics & novels, and full series details by ID. Real view/subscriber/like counts, cover art, authors, genres, no login required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/crawlerbros/tapas-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Crawler Bros](https://apify.com/crawlerbros) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Developer tools, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#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.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Tapas Comics & Novels Scraper

Scrape [Tapas.io](https://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

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

#### Example: novels updating on Monday

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

#### Example: keyword search across novels

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

#### Example: lookup specific series

```json
{
  "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](https://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.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

What to fetch.

## `category` (type: `string`):

Comics or Novels (used by ranking and daily modes).

## `genre` (type: `string`):

Restrict to one genre. Leave as "All genres" to browse the mixed top-ranking feed.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

How ranking results are ordered.

## `dayOfWeek` (type: `string`):

Which day's update schedule to fetch.

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

Free-text keyword search across Tapas titles, authors and descriptions.

## `searchContentType` (type: `string`):

Limit keyword search to comics or novels.

## `seriesIds` (type: `array`):

Numeric Tapas series IDs, slugs, or full series URLs, e.g. `313219`, `Lets-Play-official`, `https://tapas.io/series/313219`.

## `matureOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only emit series flagged as mature content (ranking/daily modes).

## `excludeMature` (type: `boolean`):

Drop series flagged as mature content (ranking/daily modes).

## `minViewCount` (type: `integer`):

Drop series with fewer total views than this (ranking/daily modes).

## `minSubscriberCount` (type: `integer`):

Drop series with fewer subscribers than this (ranking/daily modes).

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

Hard cap on emitted records.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "ranking",
  "category": "COMIC",
  "genre": "ROMANCE",
  "sortBy": "POPULAR",
  "dayOfWeek": "MON",
  "searchQuery": "romance",
  "searchContentType": "COMICS",
  "seriesIds": [],
  "matureOnly": false,
  "excludeMature": false,
  "maxItems": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `series` (type: `string`):

Dataset containing all scraped Tapas series.

# 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 = {
    "mode": "ranking",
    "category": "COMIC",
    "genre": "ROMANCE",
    "sortBy": "POPULAR",
    "dayOfWeek": "MON",
    "searchQuery": "romance",
    "searchContentType": "COMICS",
    "seriesIds": [],
    "matureOnly": false,
    "excludeMature": false,
    "maxItems": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("crawlerbros/tapas-scraper").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 = {
    "mode": "ranking",
    "category": "COMIC",
    "genre": "ROMANCE",
    "sortBy": "POPULAR",
    "dayOfWeek": "MON",
    "searchQuery": "romance",
    "searchContentType": "COMICS",
    "seriesIds": [],
    "matureOnly": False,
    "excludeMature": False,
    "maxItems": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("crawlerbros/tapas-scraper").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 '{
  "mode": "ranking",
  "category": "COMIC",
  "genre": "ROMANCE",
  "sortBy": "POPULAR",
  "dayOfWeek": "MON",
  "searchQuery": "romance",
  "searchContentType": "COMICS",
  "seriesIds": [],
  "matureOnly": false,
  "excludeMature": false,
  "maxItems": 50
}' |
apify call crawlerbros/tapas-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,crawlerbros/tapas-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

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/C3jEDK2maf0dB44J0/builds/0fDxeOqUjcRggmF26/openapi.json