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Generic scraper for phpBB-powered forums. Crawls forums, topics and posts, and outputs structured post data.

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Forum URL

forumUrl

Optional

Base URL of any phpBB-powered forum, e.g. https://forum.cyclos.org

Type:string

Mode

mode

Required

What to crawl. 'forums' lists the board's forums/sub-forums (use this to discover a forumId for mode=forum). 'latest' pulls the board's active-topics list, 'forum' pulls one forum, 'search' pulls search results, 'topicUrls' scrapes only the topics you list.

Type:string

Default:latest

Options:

forumslatestforumsearchtopicUrls

Forum ID or URL

forumId

Optional

Required when mode=forum. The forum's numeric id (the 'f=' value), or a full viewforum.php URL.

Type:string

Search query

searchQuery

Optional

Required when mode=search. Uses the board's search.php?keywords= endpoint.

Type:string

Topic URLs

topicUrls

Optional

Required when mode=topicUrls. Direct URLs to phpBB topics (viewtopic.php).

Type:array

Default:

[]

Include full posts

includePosts

Optional

If true, fetch every topic's full post stream (original post + all replies) in addition to the topic metadata. If false, only topic-level metadata is scraped (much faster, fewer requests).

Type:boolean

Default:true

Max topics

maxTopics

Optional

Maximum number of topics to scrape. 0 = unlimited.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:100

Max posts per topic

maxPostsPerTopic

Optional

Maximum number of posts to fetch per topic (only used when includePosts is true). 0 = unlimited.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:0

Max HTTP requests

maxRequestsPerCrawl

Optional

Safety cap on the total number of HTTP requests made during the run. 0 = unlimited.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:2000

Delay between requests (seconds)

requestDelaySecs

Optional

Polite delay between outgoing requests to avoid overloading the forum's server.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Default:1

Max concurrency

maxConcurrency

Optional

Maximum number of concurrent HTTP requests.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:20

Default:3

Proxy configuration

proxyConfiguration

Optional

Proxy settings. Recommended if scraping many pages, or if the target forum blocks/geo-restricts direct traffic.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "useApifyProxy": true
}

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