🧭 Atlas Obscura Location Detail Scraper

This Apify actor extracts rich structured data from individual Atlas Obscura place detail pages. It collects key data such as visitor counts, rarity rankings, GPS coordinates, tags, and image thumbnails. Perfect for building travel datasets, powering cultural heritage applications, developing exploration apps, or analyzing unusual and rare destinations around the world 🌍.

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✨ Features

• 📍 Title and location name
• 🔢 Visitor counts ("Been There" and "Want to Visit")
• 🔥 Rarity classification:
  • legendary, epic, rare, common (based on a scoring formula)
• 🏷️ Tags (e.g. "urban legends", "historical", "museums")
• 📸 Image URL (sample photo of the location)
• 🌐 GPS coordinates (latitude & longitude)
• 🔗 Page URL

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📥 Input

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-museum-of-alchemists-and-magicians-of-old-prague-prague-czechia" },
    { "url": "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/strahov-monastery-me" },
    { "url": "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/idiom-installation" },
    { "url": "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/dripstone-wall-2" },
    { "url": "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/speculum-alchemiae" },
    { "url": "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/prague-astronomical-clock" },
    { "url": "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/olsany-cemetery" },
    { "url": "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sedlec-ossuary" }
  ]
}

Input Fields:

Field	Type	Description
startUrls	array	List of Atlas Obscura place detail URLs (/places/...) to scrape

⚠️ Only pass direct /places/... URLs. Do not use listing, search, or region URLs.

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📤 Output

Each extracted location is stored in the dataset as a structured object:

{
  "title": "Strahov Monastery",
  "place": "Prague, Czechia",
  "latitude": 50.086148,
  "longitude": 14.389252,
  "rarity": "common",
  "rarityParameter": 2443.8,
  "tags": [
    "Wonder Cabinets",
    "Sacred Spaces",
    "Repositories Of Knowledge"
  ],
  "image": "https://img.atlasobscura.com/8xz9QfLvDBgdY...jpg",
  "url": "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/strahov-monastery-me"
}

🧮 Rarity Calculation Formula

rarityParameter = beenThere + (wantToVisit * 0.3)

rarity = 
  rarityParameter < 50    → "legendary"
  rarityParameter < 150   → "epic"
  rarityParameter < 450   → "rare"
  otherwise               → "common"

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🧠 Best Practices

• Use small to medium-sized batches for best performance
• Use together with the Atlas Obscura URLs Scraper to first collect place URLs

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👉 Use the companion actor to gather URLs

🔗 Atlas Obscura URLs Scraper

This actor lets you extract all /places/... URLs from listing pages like:

• 🇨🇿 https://www.atlasobscura.com/things-to-do/czechia/places
• 🇯🇵 https://www.atlasobscura.com/things-to-do/japan/places
• 🗽 https://www.atlasobscura.com/things-to-do/new-york/places

⚙️ How to use:

1. Run the URLs Scraper with your target country or city listing URL.
2. Export or connect its dataset to this Location Detail Scraper.
3. Get rich detail data (coordinates, tags, rarity, etc.) for every place found.

💰 Cost of Usage

Usage of this Apify scraper is available from 10 EUR per month. With this subscription, you can scrape data for unlimited locations. A three-day free trial is also available.

📣 Feedback

I would love to hear from you! If you have any feedback, suggestions, or issues, feel free to reach out. Your input helps me improve the tool and deliver the best experience for all users. Do not hesitate and write me an email in majanez78@gmail.com.