# Snapchat Profile Scraper (`mina_safwat/snapchat-profile-scraper`) Actor

Scrapes public Snapchat profiles — subscriber count, bio, story snaps, Spotlight posts with view counts, and lenses

- **URL**: https://apify.com/mina\_safwat/snapchat-profile-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Mina](https://apify.com/mina_safwat) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Developer tools, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Snapchat Profile Scraper

Collect public Snapchat profiles — subscriber counts, bios, story snaps,
Spotlight posts with their view counts, and the lenses a creator has published.

### How to use it

1. Put the accounts you want into **Snapchat profiles**, one per line.
2. A plain username works. So does a link copied from your browser.
3. Run the Actor.

### What you get

For every profile:

- Username, display name and whether Snapchat marks it an official account
- Subscriber count, bio, website and category
- Profile picture, hero image and Snapcode
- Story snaps currently public, with media links and when each was posted
- Spotlight posts, each with its view count, upload date, length and video link
- Highlights, with how many snaps each contains
- Lenses the account has published, with preview images and videos
- Related accounts Snapchat suggests alongside the profile

Use **Max items per section** to cap how many snaps, posts and lenses come back
per profile.

### What you can do with it

- Track a creator's subscriber count and Spotlight views over time
- Compare creators before choosing who to work with
- Watch what a competitor posts and how well it performs
- Collect the lenses a brand has published
- Map out related accounts in a niche

### Good to know

Snapchat has two kinds of profile. Creator and brand accounts publish the full
picture — subscribers, Spotlight, lenses. Ordinary personal accounts publish
only a display name and Snapcode, so most fields come back empty for them. The
`is_public_profile` field tells you which kind you got.

Some Spotlight posts do not disclose a view count. Those come through empty
rather than as a zero, so your averages stay honest.

Profiles that do not exist are still written to the results with `exists` set
to false, so a missing account is visible rather than silently absent.

Media links point at Snapchat's own servers and are time-limited, so download
anything you need soon after the run.

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# Actor input Schema

## `profiles` (type: `array`):

Usernames or profile links, one per line. A bare username works, and so does a link copied from the address bar in either form Snapchat uses.

## `max_items_per_section` (type: `integer`):

Caps how many story snaps, Spotlight posts, highlights and lenses are collected for each profile. Lower it if you only want the profile figures.

## `proxy_country` (type: `string`):

A 2-letter country code to browse from. Snapchat tailors some pages by country.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "profiles": [
    "kyliejenner",
    "nba",
    "https://www.snapchat.com/add/teamsnapchat"
  ],
  "max_items_per_section": 50,
  "proxy_country": "US"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

One row per profile, with its story snaps, Spotlight posts and lenses.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "profiles": [
        "kyliejenner",
        "nba",
        "https://www.snapchat.com/add/teamsnapchat"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("mina_safwat/snapchat-profile-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "profiles": [
        "kyliejenner",
        "nba",
        "https://www.snapchat.com/add/teamsnapchat",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("mina_safwat/snapchat-profile-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "profiles": [
    "kyliejenner",
    "nba",
    "https://www.snapchat.com/add/teamsnapchat"
  ]
}' |
apify call mina_safwat/snapchat-profile-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,mina_safwat/snapchat-profile-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/C6WbZAmdbKOAo6QOT/builds/T4qS5188RiONH0BXV/openapi.json