My Actor 2
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JavaScript Crawlee & CheerioCrawler template
This template example was built with Crawlee to scrape data from a website using Cheerio wrapped into CheerioCrawler.
Included features
- Apify SDK - toolkit for building Actors
- Crawlee - web scraping and browser automation library
- Input schema - define and easily validate a schema for your Actor's input
- Dataset - store structured data where each object stored has the same attributes
- Cheerio - a fast, flexible & elegant library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML
How it works
This code is a JavaScript script that uses Cheerio to scrape data from a website. It then stores the website titles in a dataset.
- The crawler starts with URLs provided from the input
startUrls
field defined by the input schema. Number of scraped pages is limited bymaxPagesPerCrawl
field from the input schema. - The crawler uses
requestHandler
for each URL to extract the data from the page with the Cheerio library and to save the title and URL of each page to the dataset. It also logs out each result that is being saved.
Resources
- Video tutorial on building a scraper using CheerioCrawler
- Written tutorial on building a scraper using CheerioCrawler
- Web scraping with Cheerio in 2023
- How to scrape a dynamic page using Cheerio
- Integration with Zapier, Make, Google Drive and others
- Video guide on getting data using Apify API
- A short guide on how to create Actors using code templates:
Getting started
For complete information see this article. In short, you will:
- Build the Actor
- Run the Actor
Pull the Actor for local development
If you would like to develop locally, you can pull the existing Actor from Apify console using Apify CLI:
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Install
apify-cli
Using Homebrew
brew install apify-cli
Using NPM
npm -g install apify-cli
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Pull the Actor by its unique
<ActorId>
, which is one of the following:- unique name of the Actor to pull (e.g. "apify/hello-world")
- or ID of the Actor to pull (e.g. "E2jjCZBezvAZnX8Rb")
You can find both by clicking on the Actor title at the top of the page, which will open a modal containing both Actor unique name and Actor ID.
This command will copy the Actor into the current directory on your local machine.
apify pull <ActorId>
Documentation reference
To learn more about Apify and Actors, take a look at the following resources:
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