🪐 SWAPI Star Wars Scraper

🚀 Export the entire Star Wars universe in seconds. Pull every character, planet, starship, vehicle, species, and film from SWAPI as clean JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML. No API key, no rate-limit math, no manual paging.

The SWAPI Star Wars Scraper turns the Star Wars REST API into a one-click dataset export. Pick the categories you want, hit Run, and download a flat, well-named table covering 82 characters, 60 planets, 36 starships, 39 vehicles, 37 species, and the 6 saga films. Every record carries the original SWAPI identifiers, all canonical attributes (height, mass, climate, hyperdrive rating, episode number, opening crawl, the works), and the cross-reference URLs that tie the universe together. You skip building pagination loops, retry logic, and TLS workarounds, and you get the dataset in the format your downstream tool actually consumes.

The dataset is ideal for fan apps, tutorials, conference demos, and AI-assistant training corpora. Every column maps 1:1 to a documented SWAPI field, so anything you build is portable and reproducible. The actor handles the upstream's expired-certificate quirk on your behalf, supports optional URL-to-name resolution so you do not have to chase reference links yourself, and works equally well as a one-shot pull or a scheduled re-snapshot. Whether you are building a Star Wars Trivia API, generating a teaching dataset for a Python workshop, or seeding a vector database for a fandom chatbot, this Actor gives you the canonical answer with a single run.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Educators teaching REST, JSON, and pagination	Build classroom datasets for data-analysis homework
Indie devs prototyping fan apps and bots	Seed a Star Wars Trivia API, Discord bot, or quiz app
AI/ML engineers building demo corpora	Fine-tune small models or RAG demos on a famous public dataset
Data analysts and visualization tinkerers	Produce timelines, heatmaps, and character network graphs
Workshop organizers and tutorial authors	Ship a reproducible example dataset alongside your blog post
Researchers on pop-culture and narrative data	Quantitative studies on franchise expansion, character demographics, ship classes

📋 What the SWAPI Star Wars Scraper does

• 🪐 Six categories, one Run. Toggle any combination of people, planets, starships, vehicles, species, and films and the Actor handles per-endpoint pagination for you.
• 🔍 Every canonical field. Heights, masses, hyperdrive ratings, orbital periods, opening crawls, episode IDs, residents, pilots, characters - all of it, never trimmed.
• 🔗 Optional reference resolution. Flip a checkbox and every URL reference (homeworld, films, residents, pilots) is enriched with the linked record's name, ready to drop into a UI.
• 🧱 Stable, flat schema. Records share a common header (category, uid, name, url, summary) so downstream joins, filters, and group-bys work out of the box.
• 🛰 TLS-quirk-proof. Transparently handles the upstream's expired certificate so your runs never break on a TLS error you cannot fix yourself.
• ⏱ Quick exports. Most full-universe pulls finish in under a minute, well below typical timeout budgets in classroom and CI contexts.

Each record is a single, deeply attributed row: a person carries height, mass, hair color, skin color, eye color, birth year, gender, homeworld, and the films, species, vehicles, and starships they appear in. A planet carries rotation period, orbital period, diameter, climate, gravity, terrain, surface water, population, residents, and films. A film carries episode_id, opening crawl, director, producer, release date, and the full cast and ship roster. Every record also has category, uid, summary, scrapedAt, and error columns so you can sort, group, and audit without a second pass.

💡 Why it matters: SWAPI is the canonical free Star Wars dataset, but the upstream API ships expired TLS, no built-in CSV/Excel export, and per-endpoint pagination. This Actor turns those rough edges into a single Run that ends with a clean spreadsheet, JSON file, or piped API response your app or notebook can consume directly.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: category, name, results, scrapedAt, summary, uid, url. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 🆕 Sign up. Create a free Apify account at console.apify.com/sign-up. No credit card required for the free tier.
2. 🛒 Open the Actor. Visit the SWAPI Star Wars Scraper on Apify Store and click Try for free.
3. 🪐 Pick categories. Tick people, planets, starships, vehicles, species, or films. Pick one for a focused pull or all six for a full snapshot.
4. ▶️ Run. Hit Start. Most runs finish in under a minute even with resolveReferences enabled.
5. 📥 Download. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML, or call the Apify API to pipe it directly into your downstream system.

⏱️ Total time: about 2 minutes from sign-up to a downloadable Star Wars dataset on your machine.

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💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more free, well-documented public-data scrapers.

⚠️ Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool, not affiliated with Lucasfilm, Disney, or SWAPI. Only publicly available data is collected. Star Wars and all related names are trademarks of their respective owners.

🆘 Need Help?

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