# Cameo Talent Listings Scraper (`devilscrapes/cameo-talent-listings-scraper`) Actor

Search Cameo's talent marketplace by name and get structured rows: video, DM, rush, and business price tiers, category tags, star rating, booking activity, and availability, pulled from Cameo's own search API. Built for talent-booking agencies and marketing competitive-intel teams.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/devilscrapes/cameo-talent-listings-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [DevilScrapes](https://apify.com/devilscrapes) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#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".

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

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# README

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## Cameo Talent Listings Scraper

**💰 $1.25 / 1 000 results**  ·  pay only for results  ·  no credit card to try

*We do the dirty work so your dataset stays clean.* 😈

Search Cameo's talent marketplace by name and get structured rows: video, DM, rush, and business price tiers, category tags, star rating, booking activity, and availability, pulled from Cameo's own search API. Built for talent-booking agencies and marketing competitive-intel teams.

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### 🎯 What this scrapes

Cameo (cameo.com) lists roughly 60,000 celebrities and creators selling personalized video shout-outs. This Actor queries Cameo's own JSON search backend by name and returns one structured row per matched talent — no HTML parsing, no browser, just the same API the cameo.com search box calls.

### 🔥 What we handle for you

- 🛡️ **Browser fingerprint rotation** — `curl-cffi` impersonates real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes so the target sees a browser, not Python.
- 🌐 **Residential proxy rotation** via Apify Proxy — fresh session and exit IP on every block.
- 🔁 **Retries with exponential backoff** on `408 / 429 / 5xx` — up to 5 attempts per page, `Retry-After` honoured.
- 🧱 **Rate-limit-aware pacing** — when the target pushes back, we slow down instead of getting banned.
- 🧊 **Clean, typed dataset rows** — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
- 💰 **Pay-Per-Event pricing** — you only pay for results that hit your dataset. No data, no charge.

### 💡 Use cases

- Talent-booking agencies — build a searchable roster of Cameo talent with current pricing before pitching clients.
- PR / marketing competitive intel — track which creators and celebrities are active on Cameo and how they're priced.
- Pricing research — benchmark video, DM, rush, and business-tier prices across a category of talent.
- Availability monitoring — re-run a saved query list to catch when a talent becomes bookable again.

### ⚙️ How to use it

1. Click **Try for free** at the top of the page.
2. Fill in the input form — most fields have sensible defaults.
3. Click **Start**. Output streams into the run's dataset.
4. Export from **Storage → Dataset** as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

### 📥 Input

| Field | Type | Required | Default | Notes |
|---|---|:--:|---|---|
| `queries` | `array` | **yes** | \['MrBeast'] | One or more free-text search terms (talent names, handles, or keywords). Each entry is queried against Cameo's talent… |
| `sortBy` | `string` | no | 'featured' | Maps to Cameo's underlying search index. Only <code>featured</code> is verified against production; the others fall… |
| `maxResultsPerQuery` | `integer` | no | 60 | Upper bound on rows returned per input query, after dedup across pages for that query. |
| `hitsPerPage` | `integer` | no | 60 | Page size sent to Cameo's API per request. Capped at 100 — the highest value confirmed working in live testing. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | `object` | no | {'useApifyProxy': True} | Apify Proxy — wired per house anti-blocking rule. Cameo's search API has needed no proxy in local testing to date, but… |

#### Example input

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "Snoop Dogg"
  ],
  "sortBy": "featured",
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 5,
  "hitsPerPage": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

### 📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

| Field | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `id` | `string` | Cameo talent ID (`hits[]._id`). |
| `name` | `string` | Talent display name. |
| `username` | `string` | Cameo username / URL slug. |
| `profile_url` | `string` | Public Cameo profile URL, derived from `username`. |
| `image_url` | `string` | Profile image URL, derived from `imageUrlKey` + the Cameo CDN base. `null` when `imageUrlKey` is absent. |
| `profession` | `string` | Talent's stated profession / one-liner. |
| `price_usd` | `number` | Standard video price in dollars, converted from Cameo's raw cents. |
| `dm_price_usd` | `number` | Direct-message price in dollars. `0.0` means offered free; `null` means not offered. |
| `ios_price_usd` | `number` | In-app (iOS) price in dollars. |
| `business_price_usd` | `number` | Business-tier booking price in dollars. |
| `tags` | `array` | Category / interest tags. Always an array, empty when Cameo returns none. |
| `average_rating` | `number` | Average customer rating, 0-5. |
| `num_ratings` | `integer` | Number of ratings received. Defaults to 0. |
| `temporarily_unavailable` | `boolean` | Whether the talent is currently marked unavailable for booking. |
| `is_available_for_business` | `boolean` | Whether business-tier bookings are open for this talent. |
| `booking_last_24h` | `integer` | Bookings in the last 24 hours, per Cameo's own booking-activity metric. |
| `booking_last_7d` | `integer` | Bookings in the last 7 days, per Cameo's own booking-activity metric. |
| `matched_queries` | `array` | Every distinct input query that surfaced this talent in this run, in first-match order. |

#### Example output

```json
{
  "id": "5de2b2ab0e7204016ccde9b5",
  "name": "Chris Gronkowski",
  "username": "chrisgronkowski",
  "profile_url": "https://www.cameo.com/chrisgronkowski",
  "image_url": "https://cdn2.cameo.com/NDEu87dGE_avatar-G8LV2b3Td.jpg",
  "profession": "Former NFL Fullback",
  "price_usd": 30.0,
  "dm_price_usd": 0.0,
  "ios_price_usd": 42.85,
  "business_price_usd": 500.0,
  "tags": [
    "Promotional",
    "Athletes"
  ],
  "average_rating": 4.9,
  "num_ratings": 181,
  "temporarily_unavailable": false,
  "is_available_for_business": true,
  "booking_last_24h": 0,
  "booking_last_7d": 1,
  "matched_queries": [
    "Gronk"
  ]
}
```

### 💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

| Event | USD | What it is |
|---|---:|---|
| `actor-start` | $0.05 | One-off warm-up charge per run |
| `result-row` | $0.0012 | Per unique dataset item |

Example: 1 000 results at the rates above ≈ **$1.25**. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.

### 🚧 Limitations

- Covers Cameo's public search/listing surface only — no individual profile-page bio text, video samples, or review content.
- No booking or purchase automation.
- No historical price tracking across runs in v1 — each run is a point-in-time snapshot.
- Non-featured sort orders (`price_asc`, `price_desc`, `newest`, `alpha`) fall back to the default `featured` order if Cameo rejects the underlying index.

### ❓ FAQ

**Is this legal?**

We only fetch content the source makes publicly available. Respect any platform terms of service before using output commercially.

**How do I export to Sheets?**

After the run, click *Storage → Dataset → Export* and pick CSV. Google Sheets imports it directly.

**Why is my run slow?**

Some sources rate-limit aggressively. The Actor backs off automatically. Lower the `maxResults` setting if you're testing.

### 💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an
issue on the Actor's **Issues** tab on Apify Console — we ship
fixes weekly and we read every report.

***

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Built by **[Devil Scrapes](https://apify.com/DevilScrapes)** 😈 — a small fleet of
opinionated public-data Actors. Honest pricing, real engineering, zero fine print.

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# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

One or more free-text search terms (talent names, handles, or keywords). Each entry is queried against Cameo's talent index separately; results are deduped by talent ID across all queries. Empty or blank-only entries are rejected.

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

Maps to Cameo's underlying search index. Only <code>featured</code> is verified against production; the others fall back to <code>featured</code> automatically if Cameo rejects the request.

## `maxResultsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Upper bound on rows returned per input query, after dedup across pages for that query.

## `hitsPerPage` (type: `integer`):

Page size sent to Cameo's API per request. Capped at 100 — the highest value confirmed working in live testing.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy — wired per house anti-blocking rule. Cameo's search API has needed no proxy in local testing to date, but this keeps the run resilient if that changes.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "MrBeast",
    "Snoop Dogg"
  ],
  "sortBy": "featured",
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 60,
  "hitsPerPage": 60,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `datasetItems` (type: `string`):

All dataset items as JSON.

## `datasetItemsCsv` (type: `string`):

Same data exported to CSV.

## `datasetView` (type: `string`):

Open the run dataset in the Console.

# 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 = {
    "queries": [
        "MrBeast"
    ],
    "sortBy": "featured",
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 60,
    "hitsPerPage": 60,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("devilscrapes/cameo-talent-listings-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 = {
    "queries": ["MrBeast"],
    "sortBy": "featured",
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 60,
    "hitsPerPage": 60,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("devilscrapes/cameo-talent-listings-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 '{
  "queries": [
    "MrBeast"
  ],
  "sortBy": "featured",
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 60,
  "hitsPerPage": 60,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call devilscrapes/cameo-talent-listings-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,devilscrapes/cameo-talent-listings-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/XPAAyv1dqyyS5nWaT/builds/PGZRIBEDe5fsZ8K7b/openapi.json
