# CUC China Media University — Dance & Performing Arts Scraper (`jungle_synthesizer/cuc-china-media-university-dance-program-scraper`) Actor

Scrapes faculty rosters, admissions announcements, news, and program pages from Communication University of China (中国传媒大学 / CUC). Covers the dance and performing-arts pipeline that feeds CCTV, Mango TV, and provincial state broadcasters.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/jungle_synthesizer/cuc-china-media-university-dance-program-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [BowTiedRaccoon](https://apify.com/jungle_synthesizer) (community)
- **Categories:** Education, News, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 5.00 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

from $0.80 / 1,000 record scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## CUC China Media University — Dance & Performing Arts Scraper

Scrapes faculty rosters, admissions announcements, program pages, and news from Communication University of China (中国传媒大学 / CUC). The school that trains CCTV anchors, Mango TV hosts, and the performers you see at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.

CUC runs one of China's top performing-arts programs. Its alumni pipeline feeds state broadcasters, provincial TV networks, and the national competition circuit. This actor pulls that pipeline data — structured, paginated, and in UTF-8 — so you don't have to navigate a WebPlus CMS manually.

### What It Scrapes

Four configurable section categories, all from `www.cuc.edu.cn`:

| Category     | Content                                                               |
|--------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `admissions` | 招生就业 — enrollment notices, admission policies, exam requirements      |
| `faculty`    | Leadership rosters, special collections, departmental faculty pages   |
| `programs`   | Academic affairs notices, curriculum docs, departmental announcements |
| `news`       | Main news feed, school of arts culture network, academic exchanges    |

Articles follow a predictable URL pattern (`/YYYY/MMDD/c<channel>a<id>/page.htm`). Pagination uses numbered `.psp` pages.

### Output Fields

| Field          | Type   | Description                                                                |
|----------------|--------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `page_url`     | String | Canonical URL of the scraped page                                          |
| `title`        | String | Article or page title (Chinese characters preserved)                       |
| `title_zh`     | String | Chinese title — identical to `title` for CUC pages                         |
| `category`     | String | Section: `admissions`, `faculty`, `programs`, or `news`                    |
| `publish_date` | String | Publication date as shown on the page (e.g. `2024-05-10`)                  |
| `body_html`    | String | Full article HTML including embedded content references                    |
| `body_text`    | String | Plain-text article body                                                    |
| `department`   | String | Channel code identifying the originating department                        |
| `attachments`  | String | PDF/DOC attachment URLs, pipe-separated (admissions docs, curriculum PDFs) |
| `source_url`   | String | Originating article URL                                                    |
| `scrapedAt`    | String | ISO-8601 timestamp of the scrape                                           |

Faculty name-card pages have `body_html` and `body_text` empty by design — the page contains only a name and date. The title and department fields are always populated.

### Input Parameters

| Parameter    | Type    | Default  | Description                                                          |
|--------------|---------|----------|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `maxItems`   | Integer | 10       | Maximum number of article pages to scrape (0 = unlimited)            |
| `categories` | Array   | all four | Which sections to crawl: `admissions`, `faculty`, `programs`, `news` |

Run with `maxItems: 0` and all four categories for a full archive crawl. The main news channel alone has hundreds of pages going back several years.

### How It Works

The actor uses a hierarchical crawl. It seeds from the section entry points (`/zsjy/list.htm`, `/9996/list.htm`, etc.), follows pagination forward, and enqueues every article URL it finds. Article pages get a full extraction pass — title, date, body content, and any PDF attachments.

Concurrency is kept at 5 to stay polite with a university web server.

### Use Cases

- Chinese-language NLP training corpora (performing arts domain)
- Talent-pipeline research tracking which departments feed CCTV and Mango TV
- Competitive analysis for Chinese broadcasting education programs
- Admissions document archives for research on Chinese university policy

### Notes

The site CMS (WebPlus) uses numeric channel codes for some departments. The `department` field preserves the raw channel code. Map to human-readable names using the [CUC department directory](https://www.cuc.edu.cn/) as needed.

CUC's admissions section includes PDFs of curriculum plans and judging panel documents for performance programs. These appear as pipe-separated URLs in the `attachments` field.

***

*Part of the OrbTop Chinese media education dataset — companion to the BDA Beijing Dance Academy Scraper.*

# Actor input Schema

## `sp_intended_usage` (type: `string`):

What will this data feed? E.g. lead lists, KYB checks, price tracking.

## `sp_improvement_suggestions` (type: `string`):

Provide any feedback or suggestions for improvements.

## `sp_contact` (type: `string`):

We'll personally help with your use case. No spam.

## `resumeCursor` (type: `string`):

Leave empty for a fresh crawl. To CONTINUE a previous run where it stopped — without paying again for records you already received — paste the `resumeCursor` value from that run's Output (the run's OUTPUT key). Resume promptly: the previous run's data expires with your account's retention window (free tier: your ~10 most recent runs).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of article pages to scrape (0 = unlimited)

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Which sections to crawl: admissions, faculty, programs, news (default: all)

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...",
  "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...",
  "sp_contact": "Share your email here...",
  "maxItems": 10,
  "categories": [
    "admissions",
    "faculty",
    "programs",
    "news"
  ]
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...",
    "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...",
    "sp_contact": "Share your email here...",
    "maxItems": 10,
    "categories": [
        "admissions",
        "faculty",
        "programs",
        "news"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("jungle_synthesizer/cuc-china-media-university-dance-program-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...",
    "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...",
    "sp_contact": "Share your email here...",
    "maxItems": 10,
    "categories": [
        "admissions",
        "faculty",
        "programs",
        "news",
    ],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("jungle_synthesizer/cuc-china-media-university-dance-program-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...",
  "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...",
  "sp_contact": "Share your email here...",
  "maxItems": 10,
  "categories": [
    "admissions",
    "faculty",
    "programs",
    "news"
  ]
}' |
apify call jungle_synthesizer/cuc-china-media-university-dance-program-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,jungle_synthesizer/cuc-china-media-university-dance-program-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/4vhYLQ5UNGKM761HB/builds/hv1y2DATYU325aB1Y/openapi.json