# Imgur Viral Gallery Scraper (`moving_beacon-owner1/imgur-viral-gallery-scraper`) Actor

Imgur Viral Gallery Scraper extracts posts from Imgur's hot/viral gallery, returning titles, links, points, views, tags, and post types with configurable date range and item limits.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/moving_beacon-owner1/imgur-viral-gallery-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Jamshaid Arif](https://apify.com/moving_beacon-owner1) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Social media, Automation
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 1 monthly users, 92.3% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $9.99 / 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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Imgur Viral Gallery Scraper

An [Apify actor](https://apify.com/actors) that scrapes Imgur's **hot / viral
gallery** feed and returns each post — title, link, points, tags, type, and views.

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| `maxDays` | integer | `1` | Days of the viral gallery to crawl (1 = today only). |
| `maxItems` | integer | `200` | Hard cap on posts collected. |
| `requestDelaySecs` | integer | `1` | Delay between requests. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | proxy | Residential | Recommended. |

#### Example input

```json
{
  "maxDays": 1,
  "maxItems": 200,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}
```

### Output

```json
{
  "title": "DUMP! (Reddit is leaking again...) (number 68)",
  "url": "https://imgur.com/gallery/DFVYZmk",
  "points": "190",
  "tags": "dank memes,dump,funny,meme dump,memes",
  "type": "album",
  "views": "5,423"
}
```

`tags` is a comma-separated string; `points` and `views` are kept as strings
(views may contain thousands separators, e.g. `5,423`).

# Actor input Schema

## `maxDays` (type: `integer`):

How many days of the viral gallery to crawl. 1 = today's viral feed only.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of posts to collect across all crawled days.

## `requestDelaySecs` (type: `integer`):

Politeness delay between paginated requests.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Route requests through Apify Proxy. Defaults to residential proxies, which are the most reliable against Imgur's blocking; you can switch to datacenter here if you prefer.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxDays": 1,
  "maxItems": 200,
  "requestDelaySecs": 1,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# 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 = {
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("moving_beacon-owner1/imgur-viral-gallery-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 = { "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    } }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("moving_beacon-owner1/imgur-viral-gallery-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 '{
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call moving_beacon-owner1/imgur-viral-gallery-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,moving_beacon-owner1/imgur-viral-gallery-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/YT2S1LvvOtP1ccn9U/builds/VZ78CZL0fFdyASR3D/openapi.json