Software Advice Products Scraper

This actor allows you to scrape product listings from SoftwareAdvice.com by providing a category URL. It automatically handles pagination and extracts comprehensive product information including ratings, reviews, features, and integrations.

Features

• URL-based Scraping: Extract products by providing a complete Software Advice category URL
• Automatic Pagination: Automatically scrolls and loads more products until reaching the end or max items limit
• Comprehensive Product Data: Extract detailed information about each product including:
  • Product name and description
  • Logo image URL
  • Rating and review count
  • Product profile URL
  • FrontRunner badge status
  • Free trial and free version availability
  • Integration information
  • Best and worst rated features
  • Call-to-action URLs

Input Parameters

Field	Type	Required	Description
searchUrl	string	Yes	Complete Software Advice category URL to scrape
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum number of products to fetch

Output

The output is a main list of product objects, each containing:

• id: Unique product identifier
• name: Name of the product
• description: Product description
• logoUrl: URL of the product logo image
• rating: Product rating score
• reviewCount: Number of reviews
• productUrl: URL to the product profile page
• fullDescriptionUrl: URL to read full product description
• isFrontrunner: Whether the product has FrontRunner badge
• hasFreeTrial: Whether free trial is available
• hasFreeVersion: Whether free version is available
• integrations: List of integration names
• integrationsCountText: Text showing additional integrations count
• bestFeatures: List of best rated features with scores
• worstFeatures: List of worst rated features with scores
• ctaUrl: Call-to-action button URL
• searchUrl: The original search URL used
• scrapedAt: Timestamp of when the product was scraped

Example output:

[
  {
    "id": "28433",
    "name": "Newfies-Dialer",
    "description": "Newfies-Dialer is a cloud-based voice broadcasting, autodialer and phone survey solution that helps users manage concurrent call...",
    "logoUrl": "https://gdm-catalog-fmapi-prod.imgix.net/ProductLogo/9f4bcc5b-73a8-499c-8fd0-b8bda3a90a1e.png",
    "rating": "5.0",
    "reviewCount": "4",
    "productUrl": "",
    "fullDescriptionUrl": "https://www.softwareadvice.com/call-center/newfies-dialer-profile/",
    "isFrontrunner": false,
    "hasFreeTrial": true,
    "hasFreeVersion": true,
    "integrations": [],
    "integrationsCountText": "",
    "bestFeatures": [],
    "worstFeatures": [],
    "ctaUrl": "https://www.capterra.com/ppc/clicks/collect/SA/directory/caf55c6a-bd31-45a3-bf44-a6d200b7e1c5/destination?country=CN&language=en",
    "searchUrl": "https://www.softwareadvice.com/call-center/",
    "scrapedAt": "2025-02-06T10:30:00.000Z"
  }
]

Use Cases

• Product research and comparison
• Market analysis and competitive intelligence
• Software discovery and evaluation
• Integration research
• Feature comparison analysis

Notes

• The actor uses real browser automation to handle dynamic content
• Results are automatically paginated until reaching the end or max items limit
• All data is extracted from the public product listings
• The actor includes random delays between actions to avoid rate limiting

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