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Presearch Search Scraper

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Presearch Search Scraper

Presearch Search Scraper

Under maintenance

Scrapes normalized Presearch web results with snippets, source metadata, dates, links, safe search, API extraction, and DOM fallback.

Pricing

from $1.99 / 1,000 search results

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Search API

Search API

Maintained by Community

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Total users

1

Monthly active users

15 days ago

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This Actor searches Presearch Web and publishes normalized public result records.

Input

  • query (required): web-search keywords.
  • maxItems: maximum records across all requested pages, from 1 to 500.
  • maxPages: number of Presearch result pages to request, from 1 to 50.
  • safeSearch: enables Presearch's explicit-content filter; enabled by default.
  • maxRequestRetries: bounded navigation retries, from 0 to 5 (default 2).
  • proxyConfiguration: Apify Proxy or custom proxy configuration.

Dataset records

Records include a stable ID, query, sequential position, title, canonical URL, displayed URL, domain, description/snippet, source/provider, source domain, favicon, breadcrumbs, sitelinks, author, ISO-8601 publication time plus the original source time, thumbnail, ad/sponsored flags, page number, and scrape timestamp. Optional values are omitted when unavailable. Canonical URLs are validated and deduplicated across pages.

The Actor captures the structured /results response before navigation, validates status and content type, maps only known public fields, and uses rendered result cards as a bounded fallback. Challenge pages, malformed payloads, and empty result sets fail instead of publishing placeholders.

Local validation

npm test
apify validate-schema
apify run --purge

Presearch currently applies Cloudflare access controls. Use an authorized Residential proxy for cloud validation where available. Challenge and error responses fail closed and are never stored as search results.