Vanilla JS Scraper
Pricing
Pay per usage
Vanilla JS Scraper
Scrape the web using familiar JavaScript methods! Crawls websites using raw HTTP requests, parses the HTML with the JSDOM package, and extracts data from the pages using Node.js code. Supports both recursive crawling and lists of URLs. This actor is a non jQuery alternative to CheerioScraper.
0.0 (0)
Pricing
Pay per usage
4
Total users
460
Monthly users
14
Runs succeeded
>99%
Last modified
2 years ago
You can access the Vanilla JS Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "requests": [12 {13 "url": "https://apify.com"14 }15 ],16 "pseudoUrls": [17 {18 "purl": "https://apify.com[(/[\\w-]+)?]"19 }20 ],21 "linkSelector": "a[href]",22 "pageFunction": async function pageFunction(context) {23 const { window, document, crawler, enqueueRequest, request, response, userData, json, body, kvStore, customData } = context;24 25 const title = document.querySelector('title').textContent26 27 const responseHeaders = response.headers28 29 return {30 title,31 responseHeaders32 };33 },34 "preNavigationHooks": `// We need to return array of (possibly async) functions here.35 // The functions accept two arguments: the "crawlingContext" object36 // and "requestAsBrowserOptions" which are passed to the `requestAsBrowser()`37 // function the crawler calls to navigate..38 [39 async (crawlingContext, requestAsBrowserOptions) => {40 // ...41 }42 ]`,43 "postNavigationHooks": `// We need to return array of (possibly async) functions here.44 // The functions accept a single argument: the "crawlingContext" object.45 [46 async (crawlingContext) => {47 // ...48 },49 ]`,50 "proxy": {51 "useApifyProxy": true52 },53 "additionalMimeTypes": [],54 "customData": {}55};56
57// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish58const run = await client.actor("mstephen190/vanilla-js-scraper").call(input);59
60// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)61console.log('Results from dataset');62console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);63const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();64items.forEach((item) => {65 console.dir(item);66});67
68// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsVanilla JS Scraper API in JavaScript
The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Vanilla JS Scraper API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include:
