ACE Exercise Library Scraper

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

Field	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	10	Maximum 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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