AllPoetry Scraper

Scrape poems from AllPoetry.com, the largest online poetry community. Search by poet name or topic to extract full poem text, author info, engagement metrics, and metadata.

Features

• Poet search: Search for any poet by name (e.g., "Robert Frost", "Emily Dickinson") and scrape all their poems
• Topic search: Search by topic (e.g., "love", "nature", "death") to find poems in that category
• Full text extraction: Get the complete poem text, cleaned and formatted
• Engagement metrics: Likes count, comment count for each poem
• Topic tags: Extract topic/category tags assigned to each poem
• Pagination support: Automatically follows AJAX pagination for large collections

Input

Field	Type	Description	Default
searchQueries	string[]	Poet names or topics to search	["Robert Frost"]
maxListings	integer	Max poems per query (1-500)	50
scrapeDetails	boolean	Visit each poem page for full details	true
proxyConfiguration	object	Optional proxy settings	-

Search query format

• Poet names (contain spaces or uppercase): "Robert Frost", "Emily Dickinson", "Maya Angelou"
• Topics (single lowercase word): "love", "nature", "death", "hope", "haiku"

Output

Each poem record contains:

Field	Type	Description
title	string	Poem title
author	string	Author/poet name
authorUrl	string	Link to author's AllPoetry profile
poemText	string	Full poem text (plain text, newlines preserved)
form	string	Poetic form if detected (sonnet, haiku, etc.)
topics	string[]	Topic/category tags
likes	number	Number of likes
comments	number	Number of comments
publishedAt	string	Publication date (ISO 8601)
sourceUrl	string	Direct link to the poem
searchQuery	string	The query that found this poem
scrapedAt	string	When the data was scraped (ISO 8601)

Example output

{
    "title": "The Road Not Taken",
    "author": "Robert Frost",
    "authorUrl": "https://allpoetry.com/Robert-Frost",
    "poemText": "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,\nAnd sorry I could not travel both\nAnd be one traveler, long I stood...",
    "form": null,
    "topics": null,
    "likes": 1752,
    "comments": 27,
    "publishedAt": "2018-08-31T16:59:42-07:00",
    "sourceUrl": "https://allpoetry.com/The-Road-Not-Taken",
    "searchQuery": "Robert Frost",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-26T08:00:00.000Z"
}

Usage tips

• Classic/famous poets have their poems listed on profile pages at allpoetry.com/{Poet-Name}
• Community poets have poems loaded via AJAX pagination
• Setting scrapeDetails: true visits each poem page individually for the most complete data (likes, comments, form detection)
• Setting scrapeDetails: false extracts inline data from listing pages (faster, but fewer fields)
• Topic searches scrape the most recent poems in that category

Cost

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing. You are charged $0.005 per poem scraped.