Gab Groups Scraper 🔍

🤖 What does Gab Groups Scraper do?

This actor allows you to extract detailed information about groups from Gab.com based on your search keywords. It's perfect for researchers, marketers, and analysts who need to gather insights about social communities on Gab.

✨ Key Features

• 🎯 Search groups by keywords
• 📊 Extract comprehensive group details including:
  • Group title and description
  • Member count
  • Creation date
  • Verification status
  • Group category
  • Privacy settings
  • Moderation status
  • Cover images
• ⚡ Fast and efficient scraping with built-in smart pagination
• 🔄 Automatic retry mechanism for failed requests
• 🌐 Proxy support for reliable data collection
• 🎨 Clean and structured JSON output

💡 Use Cases

• Market Research: Analyze social communities and their growth
• Content Analysis: Study group descriptions and rules
• Community Mapping: Track group sizes and engagement
• Social Research: Understand community formation and dynamics

📝 Input Parameters

The actor accepts the following input parameters:

• keywords: Array of search terms to find relevant groups
• maxItems: Maximum number of groups to scrape (optional)
• proxyConfiguration: Proxy settings (optional)

📦 Output

The actor outputs detailed group information in JSON format, including:

• Group ID and title
• Detailed description (both plain text and HTML)
• Member count
• Creation date
• Verification and moderation status
• Group category
• Privacy settings
• Cover image URLs

💪 Limitations

• Respects Gab.com's rate limits and terms of service
• Some groups might be private and inaccessible
• Results depend on the accuracy of search keywords

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

{
    "keywords": [
        "trump"
    ],
    "maxItems": 30
}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

[
    {
        "keyword": "trump",
        "id": "981",
        "title": "Trump 2024 🇺🇸 ",
        "description": "Post and discuss the latest news about Donald J. Trump, arguably the best President of our lifetime. 🎖️ And the most America 1st President in 30 years! 🇺🇸 Like his campaign, this group is a 🎪 \"Big tent\", with room for any and all Patriots!.🃏 If you plan to be dead (vote early),  or are 💀 dead but are still 🗳️ voting Trump you are also all welcome.   \r\n\r\n🚫 🐸 **Threats and harassment are not protected by the First Amendment, and they aren’t protected by Gab’s terms of service. \r\n **  🐸 Appropriateness is determined solely by the groups' 👑 👸 🤴 admin community as well as reports from 🎪 group members when we are tagged in a comment (ex. \"@BetterNot2Know\" or  \"@TheDeanno.\") \r\n________________  \r\n**Welcome all Patriots! This group is:**💠- Nonpartisan 👨‍👩‍👦- America first 🇺🇸- Constitution supporting 📜- Believe in sovereign borders 🚧- Legal immigration only 🛃- Minimal government 🔸- Lower taxes 💵- Non-Racist 🎨\r\n________________        \r\n 🔑 If **password** required, enter: **\"trump2024\"** without quotes  \r\n_____________   \r\n🚫 No overtly  violent posts.  🚫 No degrading of **The Office of the President (occupants, OK)**🚫 No accounts with, only default avatar🚫 No non *topic related *posts w/o admin approval, 🚫 No abusive posts directed at other members, and... 🚫 No off-topic or Racist posts, please. 🚫 No advertising or promotion without prior approval by an admin please.   \r\n _____________  \r\n😉 Hint: Adding a description or caption to your post helps increase its effectiveness and likes.  Interacting with group members is as important as liking.  So, we encourage commenting!  \r\n_____________  \r\n💡 If you have thoughts or ideas to help improve this group, just tag me @BetterNot2Know  -or- @TheDeanno \r\n _____________  \r\n ⚠️ If a moderator is blocked from seeing your posts for ANY reason (blocked, private, etc.), you will be bounced from the group, period! No \"Ghost Posting\" or Subscribe, Post, Unsubscribe attempts, they will not be tolerated.   _____________",
        "description_html": "<p>Post and discuss the latest news about Donald J. Trump, arguably the best President of our lifetime. 🎖️ And the most America 1st President in 30 years! 🇺🇸 Like his campaign, this group is a 🎪 &quot;Big tent&quot;, with room for any and all Patriots!.🃏 If you plan to be dead (vote early),  or are 💀 dead but are still 🗳️ voting Trump you are also all welcome.   </p><p>🚫 🐸 *<em>Threats and harassment are not protected by the First Amendment, and they aren’t protected by Gab’s terms of service. <br /> *</em>  🐸 Appropriateness is determined solely by the groups&#39; 👑 👸 🤴 admin community as well as reports from 🎪 group members when we are tagged in a comment (ex. &quot;<a data-focusable=\"true\" role=\"link\" href=\"https://gab.com/BetterNot2Know\" class=\"mention\">@BetterNot2Know</a>&quot; or  &quot;<a data-focusable=\"true\" role=\"link\" href=\"https://gab.com/Thedeanno\" class=\"mention\">@Thedeanno</a>.&quot;) </p><br /><hr><br /><p><strong>Welcome all Patriots! This group is:</strong>💠- Nonpartisan 👨‍👩‍👦- America first 🇺🇸- Constitution supporting 📜- Believe in sovereign borders 🚧- Legal immigration only 🛃- Minimal government 🔸- Lower taxes 💵- Non-Racist 🎨</p><br /><hr><br /><p> 🔑 If <strong>password</strong> required, enter: <strong>&quot;trump2024&quot;</strong> without quotes  </p><br /><hr><br /><p>🚫 No overtly  violent posts.  🚫 No degrading of <strong>The Office of the President (occupants, OK)</strong>🚫 No accounts with, only default avatar🚫 No non *topic related *posts w/o admin approval, 🚫 No abusive posts directed at other members, and... 🚫 No off-topic or Racist posts, please. 🚫 No advertising or promotion without prior approval by an admin please.   </p><br /><hr><br /><p>😉 Hint: Adding a description or caption to your post helps increase its effectiveness and likes.  Interacting with group members is as important as liking.  So, we encourage commenting!  </p><br /><hr><br /><p>💡 If you have thoughts or ideas to help improve this group, just tag me <a data-focusable=\"true\" role=\"link\" href=\"https://gab.com/BetterNot2Know\" class=\"mention\">@BetterNot2Know</a>  -or- <a data-focusable=\"true\" role=\"link\" href=\"https://gab.com/Thedeanno\" class=\"mention\">@Thedeanno</a> </p><br /><hr><br /><p> ⚠️ If a moderator is blocked from seeing your posts for ANY reason (blocked, private, etc.), you will be bounced from the group, period! No &quot;Ghost Posting&quot; or Subscribe, Post, Unsubscribe attempts, they will not be tolerated.   _____________</p>",
        "cover_image_url": "https://m3.gab.com/groups/cover_images/000/000/981/original/3fc8427c68a39aa0.jpeg",
        "cover_image_thumbnail_url": "https://m3.gab.com/groups/cover_images/000/000/981/original/3fc8427c68a39aa0.jpeg",
        "cover_image_medium_url": "https://m3.gab.com/groups/cover_images/000/000/981/original/3fc8427c68a39aa0.jpeg",
        "is_archived": false,
        "member_count": 279378,
        "is_verified": true,
        "is_moderated": true,
        "created_at": "2018-07-30T21:44:21.000Z",
        "is_private": false,
        "is_visible": true,
        "slug": null,
        "url": "/groups/981",
        "group_category": {
            "id": 3,
            "created_at": "2020-08-08T15:47:39.761Z",
            "updated_at": "2020-08-08T15:47:39.761Z",
            "text": "Politics"
        },
        "password": null,
        "has_password": false,
        "is_paused": false,
        "theme_color": null,
        "rules": null,
        "is_admins_visible": true,
        "is_members_visible": false,
        "is_media_visible": false,
        "is_links_visible": true,
        "allow_quotes": true
    },
    ...
]

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