🕵️ Dark Web Scraper – Onion Search Engine & .onion Page Extractor

Search the dark web by keyword and turn any .onion page into clean, structured data — Markdown, JSON, HTML or plain text — in one click. No Tor Browser, no setup, no logins.

The Dark Web Scraper is the fastest, most reliable way to run dark web searches and onion page extraction at scale. Type a keyword and get a ranked list of matching onion sites, or drop in a list of .onion URLs and receive fully parsed, LLM-ready content with rich metadata. Everything runs safely in the cloud — you never touch the Tor network yourself.

⚡ Two modes, one Actor: Dark Web Search and Onion Page Extraction.

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✅ Why use this Actor?

• 🔎 Keyword search across the dark web — discover onion sites, marketplaces, forums and leak pages by keyword.
• 📄 Onion page to Markdown / JSON / HTML / Text — perfect for AI pipelines, archiving and analysis.
• 🧠 LLM-ready output — clean Markdown and structured JSON built for RAG, ChatGPT, Claude and vector databases.
• 🛡️ Zero setup & zero risk — no Tor Browser, no VPN, no configuration. It just works.
• 🔐 No login required — you never authenticate with any external platform.
• ⚙️ Built for scale — search hundreds of keywords or extract thousands of pages in a single run.
• 💸 Cost-efficient — optimized to deliver more results for less compute.
• 📊 Rich, consistent dataset — every result comes with titles, descriptions, onion domains, word counts, links, emails and more.

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👥 Who is it for?

• Cyber threat intelligence & SOC teams monitoring the dark web for threats.
• Brand protection & anti-fraud teams hunting for leaks, counterfeits and impersonation.
• OSINT investigators, journalists & researchers exploring hidden services.
• Data & AI engineers feeding dark web content into LLMs, RAG systems and dashboards.
• Compliance, risk & due-diligence professionals tracking exposure.

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💡 Popular use cases

Use case	What you get
Dark web monitoring	Track keywords (brands, domains, emails, product names) across onion sites.
Data breach & leak discovery	Surface leak pages and paste sites mentioning your assets.
Threat intelligence enrichment	Pull structured content from onion sources into your TIP or SIEM.
Marketplace & forum research	Explore listings, vendors and discussions by keyword.
Onion content archiving	Snapshot .onion pages as clean Markdown or HTML for records.
AI / RAG knowledge bases	Convert onion pages into LLM-ready text for question answering.
Academic & investigative research	Collect reproducible, structured datasets from hidden services.

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🚀 How it works (3 steps)

1. Choose a mode — Search the dark web by keywords or Extract content from .onion URLs.
2. Enter your input — keywords (with a results limit) or a list of .onion URLs, and pick your content format.
3. Run & download — get a clean dataset in JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML or via API.

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📥 Input examples

Search mode — find onion pages by keyword

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchTerms": ["data breach", "crypto marketplace"],
  "maxResultsPerTerm": 25,
  "extractResultPages": false
}

Search + extract — find pages and pull their full content

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchTerms": ["ransomware leak"],
  "maxResultsPerTerm": 15,
  "extractResultPages": true,
  "outputFormat": "markdown"
}

Extract mode — convert specific onion URLs to structured content

{
  "mode": "extract",
  "startUrls": [
    "http://your-target-address.onion/",
    "http://another-address.onion/page"
  ],
  "outputFormat": "json"
}

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📤 Output examples

Search result

{
  "resultType": "search_result",
  "searchTerm": "data breach",
  "rank": 1,
  "title": "Example Leak Index",
  "url": "http://your-target-address.onion/",
  "onionDomain": "your-target-address.onion",
  "description": "Short snippet describing the page…",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-02T10:00:00.000Z"
}

Extracted page

{
  "resultType": "page",
  "url": "http://your-target-address.onion/",
  "onionDomain": "your-target-address.onion",
  "title": "Example Hidden Service",
  "description": "A short meta description of the page.",
  "language": "en",
  "format": "markdown",
  "content": "# Example Hidden Service\n\nClean, structured content ready for analysis…",
  "textContent": "Example Hidden Service Clean, structured content…",
  "wordCount": 842,
  "headings": [{ "level": 1, "text": "Example Hidden Service" }],
  "onionLinks": ["http://another-address.onion/"],
  "emails": ["contact@example.onion"],
  "imageCount": 4,
  "httpStatusCode": 200,
  "contentType": "text/html; charset=utf-8",
  "responseTimeMs": 3120,
  "pageSizeBytes": 18540,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-02T10:00:05.000Z"
}

Export any run as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML table or XML, or pull it live from the Apify API.

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🔌 Integrations & automation

Connect the Dark Web Scraper to your stack in minutes — no code required:

• n8n – trigger scans on a schedule and route alerts to Slack, email or a database.
• Make (Integromat) – build dark web monitoring workflows with hundreds of apps.
• Zapier – push new results into Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion or your CRM.
• Apify API & Webhooks – integrate results directly into your SIEM, TIP or data warehouse.
• LLMs & vector DBs – feed Markdown/JSON straight into ChatGPT, Claude, Pinecone or Weaviate.

Set it on a schedule to continuously monitor keywords and get notified the moment something new appears.

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❓ FAQ

Do I need the Tor Browser or a VPN? No. Everything runs in the cloud. You only provide keywords or URLs.

Do I need to log in to anything? No. The Actor requires no external accounts or authentication.

Which output formats are supported? Markdown (LLM-ready), JSON (structured), HTML (cleaned) and plain text.

Can I monitor keywords continuously? Yes — schedule the Actor and connect webhooks to get alerts on new results.

Is the output structured and consistent? Yes. Every record follows a clean, predictable schema ideal for automation and analytics.

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🔗 You may also like

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• Watson – Username Finder — discover accounts across the web by username.
• Website to Markdown Converter — turn any web page into clean, LLM-ready Markdown.

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⚖️ Responsible use

This Actor is intended for legitimate security research, threat intelligence, brand protection, OSINT and academic use. You are responsible for ensuring your usage complies with all applicable laws, regulations and the Apify Terms of Service.

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