You can access the PDF Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

$echo '{}' |
<apify call joeextract/pdf-scraper --silent --output-dataset

PDF Scraper API through CLI

The Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use PDF Scraper locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the Apify CLI

$npm i -g apify-cli
$apify login

Other API clients include:

PDF Scraper API in Python

PDF Scraper API in JavaScript

PDF Scraper OpenAPI definition

PDF Scraper API

PDF Text Extractor

sami_apify/PDF-Text-Extractor

This actor downloads PDFs from provided URLs, extracts text content from them, and saves the extracted data into an Apify dataset. It’s ideal for scraping and processing PDFs available online.

sami

PDF Scraper

onidivo/pdf-scraper

Scrape and extract text from PDF links.

Onidivo Technologies

376

PDF Text Extractor

jirimoravcik/pdf-text-extractor

PDF Text Extractor allows you to extract text from PDF files. It also supports chunking of the text to prepare the data for usage with large language models.

Jiří Moravčík

726

5.0

PDF Extractor 2.0

jupri/pdf-extractor-2-0

💫 Extract PDF Document Contents including Metadata, Images, Pages, Tables, Attachments, etc.

cat

101

Google Keyword Suggestions by URL Scraper

powerai/google-keywords-suggest-by-url-scraper

Scrape Google keyword suggestions based on a specific URL using our API wrapper service

PowerAI

5.0

Website Content Crawler

apify/website-content-crawler

Crawl websites and extract text content to feed AI models, LLM applications, vector databases, or RAG pipelines. The Actor supports rich formatting using Markdown, cleans the HTML, downloads files, and integrates well with 🦜🔗 LangChain, LlamaIndex, and the wider LLM ecosystem.

Apify

66K

4.3

Wer Liefert Was B2B Marketplace Scraper

codebyte/wer-liefert-was-b2b-marketplace

Wer-Liefert-Was (WLW) web scraper for Europe's leading B2B marketplace. Extract company profiles, contact information and product listings. Perfect for market research, lead generation, and competitive analysis.

Codebyte

Threads Scraper

red.cars/threads-scraper

Threads Scraper is a powerful Apify actor that extracts public profile and post data from Meta's Threads platform. Get comprehensive user profiles, posts, and engagement metrics without authentication or API keys.

AutomateLab

Europages B2B Scraper

codebyte/europages-b2b-scraper

Europages B2B lead finder. Extract business leads and company information from Europages - Europe's largest B2B platform. Find potential business partners, suppliers, and clients across Europe. Research competitors in your industry.

Codebyte

arXiv Search Scraper 📚

easyapi/arxiv-search-scraper

Extract comprehensive research paper data from arXiv search results. Get detailed metadata including titles, authors, abstracts, categories and more. Perfect for academic research monitoring, trend analysis and building paper databases. 🎓📚