# Snapchat Spotlight Scraper (`piotrv1001/snapchat-spotlight-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Snapchat Spotlight videos by hashtag, video URL or creator. Get views, shares, comment counts and top comments, captions, hashtags, sound, transcripts and direct MP4 links. No login. Ideal for trend research, creator discovery and tracking video performance.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/piotrv1001/snapchat-spotlight-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [FalconScrape](https://apify.com/piotrv1001) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Videos
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 videos

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?

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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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## 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.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

### 🚀 Snapchat Spotlight Scraper

Easily extract Snapchat Spotlight videos without an account. The **Snapchat Spotlight Scraper** collects the Spotlight videos for any hashtag, any list of video URLs, or any creator, and returns each video's views, shares, comment count, top comments, caption, hashtags, sound, spoken-word transcript and direct MP4 link, ready as JSON, CSV or Excel.

### ✨ Features

- \#️⃣ **Hashtag discovery**: enter `basketball` or `#skincare` and get the Spotlight videos Snapchat shows for that hashtag.
- 🔗 **Video tracking**: paste Spotlight video URLs to record their current views, shares and comments, ideal for scheduled runs that track performance over time.
- 👤 **Creator videos**: add a handle and get the creator's most recent Spotlight videos.
- 📈 **Engagement data**: views, shares and total comment count per video, plus the top comments with author, date, likes and reply count.
- 🗣️ **Transcripts**: the spoken words of each video as plain text, whenever Snapchat provides them.
- 🎬 **Media & metadata**: direct MP4 and thumbnail URLs, caption, hashtags, sound, duration, resolution, upload date and Snapchat's descriptive video title.
- 🧹 **No duplicates**: a video found through several hashtags, URLs or creators is saved and charged once.
- ⚡ **No login, no browser**: fast and light.

### 🛠️ How It Works

1. **Add hashtags, video URLs or creators** – any mix, one per line. Hashtags work with or without `#`; creators as `nba`, `@nba` or a profile URL.
2. **Set Max videos** – the cap for the whole run (default 50). Videos are taken from your hashtags, URLs and creators in turn, so a single hashtag can't use up the whole limit.
3. **Run the scraper** – one row per video lands in the dataset, ready to download or to fetch via API, webhook or a scheduled run.

### 📥 Input

| Field | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `hashtags` | Hashtags, e.g. `basketball`, `#skincare` or `https://www.snapchat.com/tag/basketball`. |
| `videoUrls` | Spotlight video URLs, e.g. `https://www.snapchat.com/spotlight/W7_EDlX…`. |
| `usernames` | Creators: `nba`, `@nba` or `https://www.snapchat.com/@nba`. |
| `maxItems` | Maximum videos across the whole run (default 50, `0` = no limit). |

```json
{
    "hashtags": ["basketball", "skincare"],
    "usernames": ["nba"],
    "maxItems": 100
}
```

### 💵 Pricing

Pay only for the videos you get, with no monthly fee:

| Event | Price |
| --- | --- |
| Video | $0.001 per video ($1 per 1,000) |
| Actor start | $0.00005 per run (per GB of memory) |

A hashtag's full set of videos (about 32) costs about $0.03; tracking 500 video URLs costs about $0.50 per run. Comments, transcripts and media links are included in the video price.

### 📊 Sample Output Data

One row per video. Example (comments and transcript shortened):

```json
{
    "id": "W7_EDlXWTBiXAEEniNoMPwAAYZXBydnRnZmRmAZy1e_I5AZy1eqM6AAAAAQ",
    "url": "https://www.snapchat.com/spotlight/W7_EDlXWTBiXAEEniNoMPwAAYZXBydnRnZmRmAZy1e_I5AZy1eqM6AAAAAQ",
    "title": null,
    "aiTitle": "7'5\" Basketball Player's Epic Dunk Attempt That Backfires",
    "description": "Bro Gave Up… 😂💀 #basketball #aau #memes #snapchatspotlight #spotlight",
    "hashtags": ["basketball", "aau", "memes", "snapchatspotlight", "spotlight"],
    "views": 3158064,
    "shares": 1995,
    "commentCount": 1187,
    "postedAt": "2026-03-03T20:53:59.226Z",
    "durationMs": 10500,
    "width": 540,
    "height": 960,
    "videoUrl": "https://cf-st.sc-cdn.net/d/ZhSz6v1dbAmqPjl5ch3fP.27.IRZXSOY?mo=…",
    "thumbnail": "https://cf-st.sc-cdn.net/d/ZhSz6v1dbAmqPjl5ch3fP.256.IRZXSOY?mo=…",
    "sound": "Just A Girl",
    "creatorUsername": "ytcg_1",
    "creatorName": "YTCG",
    "creatorUrl": "https://www.snapchat.com/@ytcg_1",
    "creatorFollowers": null,
    "transcript": "Every time I pop out one in the morning, I got going on my mind…",
    "comments": [
        { "text": "67", "author": "Tyler", "postedAt": "2026-03-04T10:56:18.737Z", "likes": 2022, "replies": 46 },
        { "text": "Um sorry but.....66666666667777777!!!!!", "author": "Asya Atmaca", "postedAt": "2026-03-04T14:22:42.363Z", "likes": 935, "replies": 26 }
    ],
    "source": "hashtag",
    "sourceQuery": "basketball",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-04T09:54:19.961Z"
}
```

| Field | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `views`, `shares`, `commentCount` | Engagement at the time of the run. `commentCount` is the total; `comments` holds the top ~25. |
| `title` / `aiTitle` | The creator's title (often empty) and Snapchat's descriptive title for the video. |
| `description`, `hashtags`, `sound` | Caption, hashtags without `#`, and the sound used. |
| `transcript` | Spoken words as text, when Snapchat provides them (otherwise `null`). |
| `videoUrl`, `thumbnail` | Direct media links. They are signed and expire after a while, so download what you need soon after the run. |
| `creatorFollowers` | `null` when the creator hides it. |
| `source`, `sourceQuery` | How the video was found: `hashtag`, `url` or `profile`, and which hashtag or creator. |

### 💡 Good to Know

- **Snapchat shows about 32 videos per hashtag and about 30 per creator.** For more videos on a topic, add related hashtags. The run's status message tells you when it stopped because the hashtags and creators ran out rather than at your limit.
- **Some videos are not available on the web.** Roughly 1 in 5 hashtag videos can't be opened on snapchat.com (removed, private or app-only). They are skipped and **not charged**, and the status message reports how many.
- **Tracking performance:** save your video URLs in a task and schedule it daily; each run records fresh view, share and comment counts with a `scrapedAt` timestamp.

### 🔗 More Snapchat Actors

Same data source, different slice:

- [Snapchat Profile Scraper](https://apify.com/piotrv1001/snapchat-profile-scraper) — public profiles with subscriber counts, bios, categories, stories, highlights and lenses, plus keyword search for creators.
- [Snapchat Ads Scraper](https://apify.com/piotrv1001/snapchat-ads-scraper) — ads from Snapchat's Ads Gallery by advertiser, with EU impressions per country, age and gender targeting, media and landing pages.

Discover what's trending on Snapchat with **Snapchat Spotlight Scraper** today! 🚀

# Actor input Schema

## `hashtags` (type: `array`):

Hashtags to collect Spotlight videos for, one per line: basketball, #skincare or a https://www.snapchat.com/tag/… link. Snapchat shows about 32 videos per hashtag.

## `videoUrls` (type: `array`):

Specific Spotlight videos, one per line (https://www.snapchat.com/spotlight/…). Use this to track the views, shares and comments of known videos.

## `usernames` (type: `array`):

Creators whose Spotlight videos you want, one per line: a handle (nba, @nba) or a profile URL. Snapchat shows a creator's ~30 most recent Spotlight videos.

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

Maximum number of videos to save across all hashtags, URLs and creators. Set 0 for no limit.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

The default works; residential proxies are not needed.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "hashtags": [
    "basketball"
  ],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# 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 = {
    "hashtags": [
        "basketball"
    ],
    "maxItems": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("piotrv1001/snapchat-spotlight-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 = {
    "hashtags": ["basketball"],
    "maxItems": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("piotrv1001/snapchat-spotlight-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 '{
  "hashtags": [
    "basketball"
  ],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call piotrv1001/snapchat-spotlight-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,piotrv1001/snapchat-spotlight-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/aHItjaT1kbocmBqkf/builds/IfjpwuL3gsUCqqNHB/openapi.json