# Yappy Scraper (`sashaebashu/yappy-scraper`) Actor

Scrape the Yappy short-video app: the public feed and trends, individual videos with view/like/comment counts, video comments, and creator profiles with their videos.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sashaebashu/yappy-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Sasha Ebashu](https://apify.com/sashaebashu) (community)
- **Categories:** Videos, Social media, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $15.00 / 1,000 results

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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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Yappy Scraper — Videos, Creators & Comments

Yappy is a Russian short-video app (the format is TikTok's). This Actor reads it: the public feed and
trending stream, individual videos with their view, like, comment, share and favourite counts, the
comments themselves, and creator profiles with their latest videos.

No key, no login. The cheap datacenter proxy is enough.

### One clean JSON call per page

Yappy's own web API returns everything as JSON — no HTML to scrape and no per-video second request for
the counts. **A feed page carries the full video record: 36 fields including views, likes, comments,
shares, favourites, the creator, the audio track and the direct video link.**

### Three modes

| Mode | What you get |
|---|---|
| **Feed** | The public stream — **main** or **trending** — paged until your limit |
| **Videos** | Specific videos by link or id, optionally with their comments |
| **Creators** | A profile and its latest videos |

### What you get per video

| | |
|---|---|
| **Counts** | Views, likes, comments, shares, favourites, dislikes |
| **Identity** | Video id and link, description, publish date, SEO title |
| **Creator** | Creator id, nickname and name |
| **Media** | Direct video URL (incl. Full HD), thumbnail, audio track id and title |
| **More** | Challenge, external link and its label |

Comments come with the text, author, like count, creation date, and whether the video's author liked
them. Profiles carry nickname, name, bio, avatar and background.

### Notes & limits

Properties of the source, measured rather than assumed:

- **The feed serves a few videos per page** and signals more with a boolean flag rather than a cursor,
  so it is paged by number until your limit or an empty page — not by a `next` link.
- **Comments page by number**; the listing ends when the page comes back empty.
- **A creator's video listing returns the latest videos in a single page and ignores paging** — page,
  cursor and offset parameters all return the same first page. So Creators mode reads the latest
  videos for a profile, not its entire back catalogue. Deeper history is not offered rather than
  faked.
- **Ids are 32-character hex.** A link or a bare id is accepted for videos and creators; the id is
  taken from wherever it appears in the input.
- **The public feed has no fixed order between runs** — it is the app's stream, so two runs return
  overlapping but not identical sets. Within a run, videos are de-duplicated by id.
- The Actor honours your **Maximum cost per run** and stops when the cap is reached.

### Input

| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| **What to scrape** | Feed, Videos or Creators. |
| **Feed type** | Main or trending (Feed mode). |
| **Video links or IDs** | For Videos mode. |
| **Creator links or IDs** | For Creators mode. |
| **Include comments** | Also pull comments for each video. |
| **Maximum items** | Caps total rows — videos, profiles and comments together. |
| **Maximum comments per video** | Used only when comments are included. |

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Feed pulls the public stream; Videos takes specific links; Creators takes profiles and their videos.

## `feedType` (type: `string`):

Which feed to read in Feed mode.

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

For Search mode. One keyword or phrase per line.

## `searchTarget` (type: `string`):

For Search mode: match videos or creator profiles.

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

For Videos mode. A yappy.media/video/<id> link or a bare 32-character id, one per line.

## `creatorUrls` (type: `array`):

For Creators mode. A profile link or a bare creator id, one per line.

## `includeComments` (type: `boolean`):

Also pull comments for every video (an extra request per page of comments).

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

Caps the total rows written (videos, profiles and comments together).

## `maxCommentsPerVideo` (type: `integer`):

Only used when comments are included.

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

The API answers from Apify datacenter addresses; the proxy is only for IP rotation.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "feed",
  "feedType": "main",
  "searchQueries": [],
  "searchTarget": "videos",
  "videoUrls": [],
  "creatorUrls": [],
  "includeComments": false,
  "maxItems": 200,
  "maxCommentsPerVideo": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `videos` (type: `string`):

No description

## `comments` (type: `string`):

No description

## `profiles` (type: `string`):

No description

## `full` (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 = {
    "searchQueries": [],
    "videoUrls": [],
    "creatorUrls": []
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("sashaebashu/yappy-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 = {
    "searchQueries": [],
    "videoUrls": [],
    "creatorUrls": [],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("sashaebashu/yappy-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 '{
  "searchQueries": [],
  "videoUrls": [],
  "creatorUrls": []
}' |
apify call sashaebashu/yappy-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,sashaebashu/yappy-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/yYpBw0ATpI2nZ07WT/builds/7aFo1wkZ6jGffFKhX/openapi.json