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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.
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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.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "requests": [{ "url": "https://apify.com" }],10 "pseudoUrls": [{ "purl": "https://apify.com[(/[\\w-]+)?]" }],11 "linkSelector": "a[href]",12 "pageFunction": """async function pageFunction(context) {13 const { window, document, crawler, enqueueRequest, request, response, userData, json, body, kvStore, customData } = context;14
15 const title = document.querySelector('title').textContent16
17 const responseHeaders = response.headers18
19 return {20 title,21 responseHeaders22 };23}""",24 "preNavigationHooks": """// We need to return array of (possibly async) functions here.25// The functions accept two arguments: the \"crawlingContext\" object26// and \"requestAsBrowserOptions\" which are passed to the `requestAsBrowser()`27// function the crawler calls to navigate..28[29 async (crawlingContext, requestAsBrowserOptions) => {30 // ...31 }32]""",33 "postNavigationHooks": """// We need to return array of (possibly async) functions here.34// The functions accept a single argument: the \"crawlingContext\" object.35[36 async (crawlingContext) => {37 // ...38 },39]""",40 "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": True },41 "additionalMimeTypes": [],42 "customData": {},43}44
45# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish46run = client.actor("mstephen190/vanilla-js-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)47
48# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)49print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])50for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():51 print(item)52
53# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Vanilla JS Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: