# Studio Ghibli Scraper - Films, People & More (`ninhothedev/studio-ghibli-scraper`) Actor

$0.5/1K 🔥 Fast Studio Ghibli scraper! Films, people, species & locations — director, score & description. No key. JSON, CSV, Excel or API in seconds. Pull the full Ghibli catalog for apps & datasets ⚡

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ninhothedev/studio-ghibli-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

## Studio Ghibli Scraper 🌿

Scrape the **entire Studio Ghibli universe** as clean, structured JSON — **films, people, species, locations and vehicles** — with no API key, no login, and no proxy required. Datacenter-friendly and fast.

Whether you are building a fan app, an anime dataset, an educational project, or content for a blog, this actor gives you ready-to-use, typed data in seconds.

***

### ✨ What it scrapes

Pick one **resource** and the actor emits every record for it:

| Resource | Example fields |
|----------|----------------|
| **Films** | title, original title, description, director, producer, release date, running time, Rotten Tomatoes score, image |
| **People** | name, gender, age, eye color, hair color |
| **Species** | name, classification, eye colors, hair colors |
| **Locations** | name, climate, terrain, surface water |
| **Vehicles** | name, description, vehicle class, length |

Every record is flat, typed, and **fully nullable** — missing values become `null`, so your schema is stable no matter what.

***

### 🚀 Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|-------|------|---------|-------------|
| `mode` | select | `resource` | Scraping mode (emit all records of a resource). |
| `resource` | select | `films` | `films`, `people`, `species`, `locations` or `vehicles`. |
| `maxItems` | integer | `100` | Max items to return (1–1000). |

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

***

### 📦 Example output (film)

```json
{
  "type": "film",
  "id": "dc2e6bd1-8156-4886-adff-b39e6043af0c",
  "title": "Spirited Away",
  "original_title": "千と千尋の神隠し",
  "description": "A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits...",
  "director": "Hayao Miyazaki",
  "producer": "Toshio Suzuki",
  "release_date": "2001",
  "running_time": "125",
  "rt_score": "97",
  "image": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/...jpg",
  "url": "https://ghibliapi.vercel.app/films/dc2e6bd1-8156-4886-adff-b39e6043af0c",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-18T08:00:00+00:00"
}
```

***

### 💰 Pricing

This actor is extremely cheap to run. The Ghibli catalog is small and served as clean JSON, so a full scrape costs roughly **~$0.5 per 1,000 runs** in platform usage — most people scrape the whole thing in a single, near-free run.

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### 🎯 Use cases

- **Fan apps** — power Ghibli quizzes, wikis, and recommendation widgets.
- **Datasets** — build tidy CSV/JSON datasets for analysis or ML experiments.
- **Education** — teach data, film studies, or Japanese culture with real data.
- **Content** — generate blog posts, listicles, and social content about the films.

***

### 🆚 Why this actor

- ✅ No API key, no login, no proxy — runs on cheap datacenter infrastructure.
- ✅ Typed, nullable, flattened output — no nested URL arrays to untangle.
- ✅ All five resources from one actor.
- ✅ Fails loudly on zero results, so you always know when something's wrong.

***

### 🔗 Related actors by ninhothedev

- [Kitsu Anime Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/kitsu-anime-scraper)
- [Anime Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/anime-scraper)
- [Star Wars Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/star-wars-scraper)
- [TVmaze TV Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/tvmaze-tv-scraper)

***

#### Keywords

studio ghibli, ghibli api, ghibli scraper, anime scraper, miyazaki, spirited away, totoro, films dataset, anime dataset, ghibli films, json api, no api key, fan app data, anime characters, ghibli locations

# Actor input Schema

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

Scraping mode. Currently 'resource' emits every record of the selected resource.

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

Which Studio Ghibli resource to scrape: films, people, species, locations or vehicles.

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

Maximum number of items to scrape (1-1000). The full catalog is small, so 100 usually covers a resource.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "resource",
  "resource": "films",
  "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/studio-ghibli-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/studio-ghibli-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/studio-ghibli-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,ninhothedev/studio-ghibli-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/5cNSqqbxA1MDPWzKh/builds/H63dS66KqBUe6TKOD/openapi.json