# PDF & Document Link Finder (`niche_lens/pdf-document-link-finder`) Actor

Find PDFs, DOCX files, spreadsheets, forms, reports, menus, packets, and other public document links on websites.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/niche\_lens/pdf-document-link-finder.md
- **Developed by:** [Niche Lens](https://apify.com/niche_lens) (community)
- **Categories:** Marketing, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$20.00 / 1,000 document link founds

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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## 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.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

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

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## PDF & Document Link Finder

Find public document links on websites and return them as clean, deduplicated records.

### What it does

This Actor crawls a website and extracts links to public documents including:

- PDF, DOC, DOCX
- XLS, XLSX, CSV
- PPT, PPTX
- forms, packets, reports, agendas, minutes, menus, brochures, applications, RFPs, sponsorship packets, and related files

Each result includes the document URL, file extension, filename, source page, nearby context, matched keywords, and a document category.

### Billing

This Actor uses Apify Pay Per Event pricing.

- **Paid event:** `DOCUMENT_LINK`
- **Price:** **$0.02 per billable document link** / **$20 per 1,000 extracted document links**
- You are charged only for real document-link records.

No-document/status rows are not emitted with the paid event.

### Good inputs

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://example.org" }
  ],
  "maxPagesPerSite": 25,
  "maxDepth": 2,
  "documentKeywords": ["application", "packet", "agenda", "report", "rfp", "sponsorship"]
}
```

### Output quality notes

The Actor deduplicates document URLs across crawled pages, classifies documents from URL/filename/link/context clues, and preserves enough source context to let you validate why a document was captured.

### Limits and responsible use

It finds links to public files. It does not bypass authentication, paywalls, or robots.txt restrictions.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

One or more public website URLs to scan for document links.

## `maxPagesPerSite` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of same-domain HTML pages to crawl for each start URL.

## `maxDepth` (type: `integer`):

How many internal link hops from the start page to follow.

## `fileExtensions` (type: `array`):

Document/file extensions to collect from page links.

## `documentKeywords` (type: `array`):

Keywords to flag in link text, URLs, filenames, and nearby text.

## `respectRobotsTxt` (type: `boolean`):

Best-effort robots.txt check for safer marketplace use.

## `requestDelayMillis` (type: `integer`):

Politeness delay per site in milliseconds.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.icgov.org/"
    }
  ],
  "maxPagesPerSite": 25,
  "maxDepth": 2,
  "fileExtensions": [
    "pdf",
    "doc",
    "docx",
    "xls",
    "xlsx",
    "csv",
    "ppt",
    "pptx"
  ],
  "documentKeywords": [
    "form",
    "application",
    "packet",
    "menu",
    "flyer",
    "brochure",
    "report",
    "minutes",
    "agenda",
    "rfp",
    "bid",
    "proposal",
    "permit",
    "sponsorship",
    "donation",
    "registration",
    "calendar"
  ],
  "respectRobotsTxt": true,
  "requestDelayMillis": 500
}
```

# 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 = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.icgov.org/"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("niche_lens/pdf-document-link-finder").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 = { "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.icgov.org/" }] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("niche_lens/pdf-document-link-finder").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 '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.icgov.org/"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call niche_lens/pdf-document-link-finder --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,niche_lens/pdf-document-link-finder"
        }
    }
}

```

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/1DJhHgaWvOZbjJXaO/builds/2R0yLuRsEZcxTfebU/openapi.json