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ACE Exercise Library Scraper

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ACE Exercise Library Scraper

ACE Exercise Library Scraper

Scrapes the ACE public exercise library. Extracts professionally-authored exercises with step-by-step instructions, body parts, equipment, difficulty, images, and attribution. For fitness apps, RAG systems, and health pipelines that require provenance-verified exercise content.

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Scrape the full American Council on Exercise (ACE) public exercise library — professionally authored exercises with step-by-step instructions, target body parts, equipment, difficulty levels, images, and authoritative ACE attribution.

What It Does

This actor crawls acefitness.org/resources/everyone/exercise-library/ — ACE's curated database of several hundred exercises, categorised by body part and equipment. For each exercise it extracts:

  • Name — exercise title as authored by ACE
  • Body Part — target body part(s) (e.g. "Abs, Back, Butt/Hips")
  • Equipment — required equipment (e.g. "No Equipment", "Dumbbells", "Resistance Band")
  • Difficulty — level (Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced)
  • Steps — full ordered step-by-step instructions
  • Image URLs — exercise photographs
  • Source URL — canonical page URL
  • Author Attribution — always "American Council on Exercise (ACE)"

Use Cases

  • Fitness apps — populate structured, professionally authored exercise databases
  • RAG / LLM pipelines — ingest provenance-verified exercise content (ACE is a named certification body; its content carries more credibility than crowd-sourced datasets)
  • Health content platforms — authoritative how-to descriptions authored by certified fitness professionals
  • Personal trainer tools — program-building databases with credible sourcing

Input

FieldTypeDefaultDescription
maxItemsinteger10Maximum number of exercises to scrape. Leave unset to scrape all exercises (typically 400+).

Output

Each item in the dataset contains:

{
"exercise_id": "14",
"name": "Bird-dog",
"body_part": "Abs, Back, Butt/Hips",
"equipment": "No Equipment",
"difficulty": "Intermediate",
"steps": "Step 1 Starting Position: ... | Step 2 ... | Step 3 ...",
"image_urls": "https://ik.imagekit.io/02fmeo4exvw/exercise-library/large/14-1.jpg",
"source_url": "https://www.acefitness.org/resources/everyone/exercise-library/14/bird-dog/",
"author_attribution": "American Council on Exercise (ACE)"
}

About ACE

The American Council on Exercise (ACE) is a non-profit fitness certification organisation. Its exercise library is authored by certified fitness professionals and reviewed for accuracy — making it distinctively suited for applications where exercise content provenance matters.


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