Official Charts UK Singles & Albums Chart Scraper

Scrape weekly chart data from the Official UK Charts — the UK's authoritative chart body. Retrieve current or historical chart positions for singles, albums, and genre/format charts with full position metadata: rank, artist, title, movement, peak position, and weeks on chart.

Features

• Scrapes any Official Charts chart: singles, albums, dance, indie, classical, and more (40+ charts available)
• Current week or full historical archive back to 1952 via dated archive URLs
• Captures rank, title, artist, movement (new / up / down / non-mover / re-entry), peak position, and weeks on chart
• Date-range walk: fetch multiple weeks in one run
• Respects maxItems limit for budget control

How it works

The actor uses a two-phase hierarchical crawl:

1. Chart discovery — fetches the current chart page to identify the chart ID and most-recent published date
2. Chart extraction — fetches weekly archive pages (/charts/<slug>/YYYYMMDD/<chart-id>/) and extracts all 100 chart entries per page

Chart pages are server-rendered HTML; no browser automation required.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
charts	array	["singles-chart", "albums-chart"]	List of chart slugs to scrape
startDate	string	(current week)	Earliest chart date to fetch, format YYYY-MM-DD
endDate	string	(current week)	Latest chart date to fetch, format YYYY-MM-DD
maxItems	integer	15	Maximum total records across all charts and weeks

Available chart slugs (sample)

singles-chart, albums-chart, dance-singles-chart, dance-albums-chart, indie-singles-chart, indie-albums-chart, classical-chart, irish-singles-chart, irish-albums-chart, afrobeats-chart, country-artists-albums-chart, folk-albums-chart

Output schema

Each record contains:

Field	Type	Description
chart	string	Chart slug (e.g. singles-chart)
chart_date	string	Chart week date (YYYY-MM-DD)
rank	integer	Chart position (1–100)
title	string	Track or album title
artist	string	Artist name
last_week	integer	Position last week (null for new entries)
peak_position	integer	All-time peak chart position
weeks_on_chart	integer	Number of weeks on the chart
is_new	boolean	True if this is a new entry this week
movement	string	new / re-entry / up / down / non-mover
officialcharts_url	string	URL to the song/album page on officialcharts.com

Example output

{
  "chart": "singles-chart",
  "chart_date": "2026-05-22",
  "rank": 1,
  "title": "REIN ME IN",
  "artist": "SAM FENDER & OLIVIA DEAN",
  "label": null,
  "last_week": 1,
  "peak_position": 1,
  "weeks_on_chart": 49,
  "is_new": false,
  "movement": "non-mover",
  "officialcharts_url": "https://www.officialcharts.com/songs/sam-fender-rein-me-in/"
}

Use cases

• Music analytics and chart history research
• UK chart performance tracking for labels and artists
• Building UK chart datasets as a complement to Billboard US chart data
• Automated weekly chart monitoring

Notes

• Label information is not included — the Official Charts site requires JavaScript to load the expanded detail panel containing label data
• Charts publish weekly, generally on Fridays; the date navigator on each chart page reveals the most-recent published date
• Archive coverage depends on the chart; the main singles and albums charts have data back to 1952