Wattpad Story Scraper 📚

Powerful scraper for extracting detailed story information from Wattpad search results. Get comprehensive data about stories, authors, engagement metrics and more!

🎯 Use Cases

• Content research and analysis
• Story discovery and monitoring
• Author performance tracking
• Genre and tag analysis
• Market research for writers and publishers
• Engagement metrics collection

✨ Features

• Search-based story extraction
• Detailed story metadata collection
• Engagement metrics (votes, reads, comments)
• Author information
• Story categorization and tagging
• Support for mature content filtering
• Customizable results limit
• Proxy support for reliable scraping

📊 Output Data

For each story, the scraper extracts:

• Story ID and URL
• Title and description
• Author information
• Publication status and dates
• Number of parts/chapters
• Engagement metrics (votes, reads, comments)
• Cover image URL
• Tags and categories
• Content rating (mature/non-mature)
• Story length
• Language information
• Paywall status

💡 Input Parameters

• keywords: List of search terms to scrape stories for
• maxItems: Maximum number of stories to collect (optional)
• proxyConfiguration: Proxy settings for reliable scraping (optional)

📌 Limitations

• Respects Wattpad's terms of service
• Rate limiting applied to prevent overloading
• Some premium content may not be accessible

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2    "keywords": [
3        "world"
4    ],
5    "maxItems": 30
6}

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        "keyword": "world",
4        "id": "385788708",
5        "title": "DANDYS WORLD SPROUT X COSMO LOLL",
6        "description": "Warning: swearing, romance, and gayness",
7        "user": {
8            "name": "DANDYSWORLDXX"
9        },
10        "completed": false,
11        "numParts": 16,
12        "lastPublishedPart": {
13            "createDate": "2025-02-14 19:51:58"
14        },
15        "voteCount": 59,
16        "readCount": 10928,
17        "commentCount": 315,
18        "cover": "https://img.wattpad.com/cover/385788708-256-k562718.jpg",
19        "mature": false,
20        "url": "https://www.wattpad.com/story/385788708-dandys-world-sprout-x-cosmo-loll",
21        "tags": [
22            "dandysworld",
23            "gay"
24        ],
25        "isPaywalled": false,
26        "paidModel": null,
27        "length": 19663,
28        "language": 1,
29        "tagMeta": {
30            "tags": [
31                "dandysworld",
32                "gay"
33            ],
34            "storyId": "385788708",
35            "numShown": 3
36        },
37        "reactName": "storyTags-385788708",
38        "category": null,
39        "rank": null
40    },
41    ...
42]