Fast Scraper
$5.00/month
Fast Scraper
$5.00/month
Fast Scraper is a blazingly fast web scraper powered by Rust on the backend. It allows you to scrape static HTML pages extremely quickly while using only <128 MB of memory. With this scraper, you can maximize the efficiency of your credits on Apify.
You can access the Fast Scraper programmatically from your own Python applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9 "requests": [
10 { "url": "https://www.scrapethissite.com/pages/simple/" },
11 {
12 "id": "forms",
13 "url": "https://www.scrapethissite.com/pages/simple/",
14 "extract": [{
15 "field_name": "extracted_html",
16 "selector": "#countries > div > div:nth-child(4) > div:nth-child(1)",
17 "extract_type": "HTML",
18 }],
19 },
20 {
21 "id": "hockey",
22 "url": "https://www.scrapethissite.com/pages/forms/",
23 "extract": [
24 {
25 "field_name": "year1",
26 "selector": "#hockey > div > table > tbody > tr:nth-child(2) > td.year",
27 "extract_type": "Text",
28 },
29 {
30 "field_name": "year2",
31 "selector": "#hockey > div > table > tbody > tr:nth-child(3) > td.year",
32 "extract_type": "Text",
33 },
34 {
35 "field_name": "class_name",
36 "selector": "#hockey > div > table > tbody > tr:nth-child(2) > td.year",
37 "extract_type": { "Attribute": "class" },
38 },
39 ],
40 },
41 ],
42 "proxy_settings": { "useApifyProxy": True },
43}
44
45# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
46run = client.actor("danielherman/fast-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
47
48# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
49print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
50for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
51 print(item)
52
53# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start
Fast Scraper API in Python
The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Fast Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
pip install apify-client
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