Snapchat Spotlight Scraper 🎯

Extracts detailed metadata from Snapchat Spotlight videos efficiently and reliably. This actor helps you gather valuable insights about Snapchat content, creators, and engagement metrics.

🎯 Use Cases

• Social media research and analysis
• Content creator performance tracking
• Engagement metrics collection
• Trend analysis and monitoring
• Marketing research and competitor analysis

✨ Features

• 🎥 Detailed video metadata extraction
• 👤 Creator information retrieval
• 📊 Engagement metrics (views, shares)
• 🕒 Upload date and duration details
• 📱 Video dimensions and quality information
• 🔍 Content description and hashtags parsing

🔢 Output

The actor provides detailed JSON output for each Spotlight video, including:

• Video metadata (name, description, thumbnailUrl, contentUrl)
• Creator information (username, profile URL)
• Engagement metrics (view count, share count)
• Technical details (duration, dimensions)
• Upload timestamp
• Page metadata and sharing information

💡 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
spotlightUrls	Array	List of Snapchat Spotlight video URLs to scrape
proxyConfiguration	Object	Optional proxy settings for reliable scraping

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2    "spotlightUrls": [
3        "https://www.snapchat.com/spotlight/W7_EDlXWTBiXAEEniNoMPwAAYdW94bXd5dmF5AYv9OiSkAYv9OiP4AAAAAQ"
4    ]
5}

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.

1[
2	{
3		"videoMetadata": {
4			"name": "Spotlight Snap",
5			"description": "#birdvideos #birds #miketyson #pigeons",
6			"thumbnailUrl": "https://cf-st.sc-cdn.net/d/9I7Kkrsd2CA9Jb6iCshQ0.256.IRZXSOY?mo=GkcaDRoAGgAyAQRIAlAuYAFaEERmTGFyZ2VUaHVtYm5haWyiARAIgAIiCxIAKgdJUlpYU09ZogEQCJoKIgsSACoHSVJaWFNPWQ%3D%3D&uc=46",
7			"viewCount": "3134354",
8			"contentUrl": "https://cf-st.sc-cdn.net/d/9I7Kkrsd2CA9Jb6iCshQ0.27.IRZXSOY?mo=GmkaDRoAGgAyAQRIAlAuYAFaEFNwb3RsaWdodFNoYXJpbmeiAUUIGxI0CjIgAUouCinyAYYBlAGBAakBhwGaAYwBhgGFAS8zJiAUGxgWFxMRGRQQExMUEhUTFBD0AyILEgAqB0lSWlhTT1k%3D&uc=46",
9			"creator": {
10				"$case": "personCreator",
11				"personCreator": {
12					"username": "Mike Tyson",
13					"url": "https://www.snapchat.com/add/Mike%20Tyson",
14					"name": ""
15				}
16			},
17			"durationMs": "15650",
18			"width": 540,
19			"height": 960,
20			"keywords": [],
21			"shareCount": "0",
22			"uploadDate": "2023-11-23T17:28:47.864Z"
23		},
24		"pageMetadata": {
25			"pageType": 11,
26			"pageTitle": "miketyson | Spotlight on Snapchat",
27			"pageDescription": {
28				"value": "Watching my birds fly #pigeons #birds #birdvideos #miketyson | Check out the best music, lenses, memes and videos in all the latest Spotlight snaps, brought to you by Snapchat."
29			},
30			"shareId": ""
31		},
32		"spotlightUrl": "https://www.snapchat.com/spotlight/W7_EDlXWTBiXAEEniNoMPwAAYdW94bXd5dmF5AYv9OiSkAYv9OiP4AAAAAQ"
33	},
34    ...
35]