Perplexity Discover Scraper
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Perplexity Discover Scraper
Scrapes trending stories, summaries, and topics from Perplexity Discover (perplexity.ai/discover). Extracts story titles, descriptions, publication timestamps, source counts, category tags, and discover URLs.
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Collect current, source-backed stories from Perplexity Discover. Version 3 uses the public structured feed loaded by the website and retains a current DOM fallback when that response changes.
Input
categoryselects one category;categoriesadds a fair batch of up to five.- Supported categories are Top, Tech & Science, Business, Arts & Culture, Sports, and Entertainment.
maxItemsis the global output limit;maxItemsPerCategoryrequests up to 100 candidates per category in one response.- Filter with
minSourceCount,includeKeywords,excludeKeywords,publishedAfter, andpublishedBefore. - Sort by Discover order, newest, oldest, most sources, or most viewed.
proxyConfigurationsupports optional authorized Apify or custom proxies.GOOGLE_SERPis rejected because it is limited to Google HTTP Search/Shopping traffic.
{"categories": ["Top", "Tech & Science"],"maxItems": 40,"minSourceCount": 3,"sortBy": "feedOrder","proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }}
Run locally with apify run --purge --input-file qa-inputs/baseline.json.
Output
Each dataset item contains stable identity and ranking, current category membership, ISO timestamps, headline and multiple summaries, featured-image metadata, reported source/social counts, and normalized supporting source articles with titles, public URLs, domains, snippets, dates, authors, and images when Perplexity exposes them. Optional unavailable values are omitted; nulls, empty strings/arrays, opaque continuation tokens, cookies, headers, and raw transport payloads are never stored.
The Actor detects challenge pages and fails closed. It does not solve CAPTCHAs, bypass authentication, or access private content.