# Star Wars Data Scraper (SWAPI) (`ninhothedev/star-wars-scraper`) Actor

$0.5/1K 🔥 Fast Star Wars scraper (SWAPI)! Characters, planets, films, starships & more. No key. JSON, CSV, Excel or API in seconds. Pick a resource & pull the full galaxy for apps, datasets & demos ⚡

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ninhothedev/star-wars-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ninhothedev](https://apify.com/ninhothedev) (community)
- **Categories:**
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.50 / 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?

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

## Star Wars Data Scraper (SWAPI) 🌌

Scrape the **entire Star Wars universe** as clean, structured JSON — characters,
planets, films, starships, vehicles and species — with a single click. No API
key, no login, no proxy required. Datacenter-friendly and fast.

This actor pulls from the maintained static [SWAPI](https://swapi.info/) mirror,
which returns the **full array** for every resource, so you always get the
complete, de-duplicated dataset.

### What you get

Pick a **resource** and the actor emits one clean, typed record per entity, with
a `type`, a `name`, a canonical `url`, `scraped_at`, and the important fields for
that resource (plus handy `*_count` roll-ups of related entities).

| Resource   | Items | Example fields |
|------------|-------|----------------|
| people     | 82    | height, mass, birth\_year, gender, homeworld, films\_count |
| planets    | 60    | climate, terrain, population, diameter, gravity |
| films      | 6     | episode\_id, director, producer, release\_date, characters\_count |
| starships  | 36    | model, manufacturer, cost\_in\_credits, crew, starship\_class |
| vehicles   | 39    | model, manufacturer, cost\_in\_credits, crew, vehicle\_class |
| species    | 37    | classification, designation, language, average\_height |

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `mode` | select | Scraping mode. `resource` emits all items of one resource. |
| `resource` | select | `people`, `planets`, `films`, `starships`, `vehicles`, `species`. |
| `maxItems` | integer | Cap on items pushed (1–1000, default 100). |

#### Example input

```json
{
  "mode": "resource",
  "resource": "people",
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

### Example output (people)

```json
{
  "type": "people",
  "name": "Luke Skywalker",
  "height": 172,
  "mass": 77,
  "birth_year": "19BBY",
  "gender": "male",
  "homeworld": "https://swapi.info/api/planets/1",
  "films_count": 4,
  "url": "https://swapi.info/api/people/1",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-18T08:00:00+00:00"
}
```

### Pricing

Runs are tiny and cheap — the whole Star Wars dataset fits in one HTTP request
per resource. Expect roughly **~$0.5 per 1,000 items** on the Apify platform,
so a full people/planets/films pull typically costs a fraction of a cent.

### Use cases

- **Fan apps & bots** — power a Star Wars trivia bot, Discord bot or wiki.
- **Datasets** — ready-made, clean CSV/JSON for analysis or ML demos.
- **Demos & prototypes** — a reliable, free-shaped API surface for testing.
- **Education** — teach data pipelines, JSON, and APIs with familiar data.

### Why this actor (comparison)

- **Full arrays, not paginated stubs** — unlike the deprecated `swapi.dev`,
  the static mirror returns every item at once, so you never miss records.
- **Typed & cleaned** — numeric fields are parsed to numbers and `unknown`/`n/a`
  placeholders become `null`, so downstream code stays simple.
- **No key, no proxy** — works on the cheapest datacenter runs.
- **Fail-loudly** — the run errors if zero items come back, so silent failures
  never sneak into your dataset.

### Related actors

- [Pokémon Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/pokemon-scraper)
- [Rick and Morty Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/rick-and-morty-scraper)
- [Kitsu Anime Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/kitsu-anime-scraper)
- [TVmaze TV Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/tvmaze-tv-scraper)

### Keywords

star wars, swapi, star wars api, characters, planets, films, starships,
vehicles, species, dataset, json api, fan app, sci-fi data, no-key api.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Scraping mode. Currently 'resource' emits every item of the selected Star Wars resource.

## `resource` (type: `string`):

Which Star Wars resource to scrape. Each option returns the complete set of items for that resource.

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

Maximum number of items to push to the dataset (1-1000). The full dataset is small, so the default of 100 usually returns everything.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "resource",
  "resource": "people",
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ninhothedev/star-wars-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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ninhothedev/star-wars-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 '{}' |
apify call ninhothedev/star-wars-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,ninhothedev/star-wars-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/Ovqykzra9eyrtvx5P/builds/VdnUFfYQ3HvflfRIz/openapi.json