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Universal Web Scraper & Change Monitor

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Universal Web Scraper & Change Monitor

Universal Web Scraper & Change Monitor

Production-ready Playwright web scraper and change detection engine.

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Pay per usage

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Paul Shonowo

Paul Shonowo

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A production-grade, headless browser web scraping and visual change monitoring engine built with Python and Playwright. Designed for enterprise data extraction, automated monitoring, and seamless cloud pipeline integration.

Key Features

  • Dynamic Content Handling: Full Playwright rendering supports JavaScript-heavy Single Page Applications (SPAs), React, Vue, and Angular sites.
  • Change Detection Engine: Tracks DOM structural and content modifications over time with high precision.
  • Cloud-Native & Production-Ready: Designed for cloud execution with minimal memory footprint and fast startup times.
  • Structured JSON Dataset Output: Outputs clean, normalized JSON records with standard execution timestamps.

Input Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
startUrlsArrayYesList of web pages to scrape and monitor.
maxDepthIntegerNoMaximum link navigation depth (default: 1).
extractSelectorsObjectNoCustom CSS selectors mapped to target data keys.

Output Data Format

The Actor outputs structured JSON objects to the default Apify Dataset containing execution timestamps, target URLs, page titles, and extracted data payloads.

Integration & Export

Data can be exported via Apify API, webhooks, or direct Google Cloud Storage / BigQuery connectors in standard formats (JSON, CSV, Excel).