Deezer Artist Scraper

Welcome to the Deezer Artist Scraper! This actor searches Deezer's public catalogue, navigates the available artist endpoints, and returns structured artist profiles including IDs, fan counts, bios, images, social links, on-tour status, and more. Use it to enrich music catalogues, power discovery tools, or monitor artists at scale.

Introduction

The scraper takes either Deezer search terms or artist links, discovers matching profiles, and captures the full public metadata for each artist in a structured format. It keeps track of pagination behind the scenes and respects the maxItems limit you set, so runs finish quickly and predictably.

Use Cases

• Music catalogue enrichment – Combine Deezer IDs with your internal database to add fan metrics, bios, and social presence.
• Artist discovery dashboards – Track on-tour status, smart-radio availability, or social presence for curated lists.
• Market research – Compare fan counts and engagement signals across multiple artists.
• Monitoring & alerting – Re-run on a schedule to detect changes in status, biography updates, or social links.

Input

Provide any of the following fields (see .actor/input.json for UI metadata):

• startUrls (array, optional): Deezer search or artist detail URLs to seed the crawl (e.g., https://www.deezer.com/search/taylor-swift, https://www.deezer.com/artist/546).
• query (string, optional): Keyword used in Deezer instant search to discover artist IDs.
• maxItems (integer, required by schema, default: 20): Hard limit for artist profiles to output (though each Deezer query only returns up to 10 artists per page).
• proxyConfiguration (object, optional): Standard Apify proxy configuration. Useful if Deezer rate-limits your IPs.

Notes

• Provide at least one of startUrls or query. Including both is allowed, and all discovered artists share the same maxItems cap.
• Each search request only yields 10 artists (one page) given Deezer's pagination cap, so provide additional queries or start URLs if you need broader coverage.
• Deezer's public artist search only exposes one page of results (10 items, offset 10), so maxItems values above 10 may not yield additional artists when you rely on pagination alone.

Input Example 1: Start URLs (search + detail)

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.deezer.com/search/gale" },
    { "url": "https://www.deezer.com/en/artist/5195381" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 10
}

Input Example 2: Query mode

{
  "query": "aziz",
  "maxItems": 5
}

Output

Each dataset item looks like:

{
  "url": "https://deezer.com/en/artist/5195381",
  "name": "Galena",
  "id": "5195381",
  "fansCount": 34152,
  "hasSmartRadio": true,
  "images": [
    "https://cdn-images.dzcdn.net/images/artist/e84651f442eacaf4873537281bd346d5/100x100-000000-80-0-0.jpg"
  ],
  "bio": "Галена е една от най-успешните певици в България.\n\nМоже да се похвали с една от най-многобройните фен бази, излизаща и извън границите на страната ни.\n\nИмето й се превръща в еталон за качество, хитовост и нулев компромис.",
  "social": {
    "twitter": null,
    "facebook": "https://www.facebook.com/GalenaMusic",
    "website": null
  },
  "onTour": false,
  "status": "Опа... Опа, опа, опа..."
}

Why use the Deezer Artist Scraper?

• Flexible – Start from existing artist URLs or wide keyword searches.
• Fast – Stateless HTTP crawler with payload reuse and automatic pagination.
• Apify-native – Ready for scheduling, datasets, key-value storage, and webhooks.

FAQ

• How many artists can it collect?
  As many as Deezer lists for your queries. Set maxItems to control quota usage; the crawler stops once the limit is reached.
• What if the website changes?
  Site changes may require updates. Please report issues or request updates.

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