Spotlight Multi Scrapping System

📊 Spotlight Multi Scraping System

Spotlight Multi Scraping System is a powerful Apify Actor designed to extract public posts, comments, replies, and discussions from social media platforms and websites — without API keys, login tokens, or cookie management.

It enables teams to collect structured, NLP-ready data for sentiment analysis, trend discovery, social listening, competitive research, and lead generation across multiple platforms from a single workflow.

🚀 Why Use Spotlight Multi Scraping System?

Modern platforms restrict APIs, enforce rate limits, and require complex authentication. Spotlight removes those barriers.

What this Actor solves

Scrape public social and web data without APIs or credentials

Avoid rate-limit headaches and fragile authentication flows

Collect clean, structured datasets ready for analysis or AI pipelines

Who it’s for

📊 Data analysts & researchers

🤖 AI / NLP engineers

🧠 Growth & marketing teams

🧑‍💻 Developers building dashboards or automation

Business benefits

📈 Faster access to real-world conversation data

🛠️ Scalable crawling for small or large datasets

🤖 NLP-friendly output for sentiment & topic modeling

📦 Easy integration with Python, R, Excel, Power BI, and Google Sheets

🧠 Key Features ✨ Multi-Platform Data Extraction

Scrape posts, comments, replies, and discussions from:

Reddit

Instagram

YouTube

Facebook (public content)

Blogs & websites

Forums and comment sections

🔄 Recursive Comment Crawling

Extract full comment threads

Capture nested replies and discussion depth

Not limited to top-level comments

👤 User & Post Metadata

Collect useful context such as:

Author / username

Timestamps

Engagement metrics

Source URLs

Platform identifiers

⏱️ Flexible Filters

Control your crawl with:

Sort options: hot / new / top / rising

Time-range filters for historical or recent data

Crawl depth limits

📈 Proxy & Pagination Support

Designed for large-scale crawling

Works with Apify Proxy for reliability

Handles pagination automatically

📦 NLP-Ready Output

Output schema is optimized for:

Sentiment analysis

Topic modeling

Text classification

Summarization

Trend detection

🚀 How It Works

Provide target URLs or queries (e.g., subreddit, Instagram profile, YouTube video, blog page)

Configure crawl options (platforms, depth, sorting, limits)

Run the Actor Spotlight extracts structured data in real time

Download results Use the dataset in JSON, CSV, or Excel for analytics or ML workflows 🧪 Real Data Extraction Input [ { "title": "Ayilola Ayotomiwa (@silverpeny) • Instagram photos and videos", "url": "https://www.instagram.com/silverpeny/" }, { "title": "Public Form Discussion", "url": "https://l.instagram.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.gle%2F7sMf1WY5dGz6qNCj7" } ]

📌 Output Formats

Download your results in multiple formats:

📁 JSON — best for automation and ML pipelines

📊 CSV — ideal for spreadsheets and BI tools

📈 Excel — quick reporting and visualization

⚙️ Tips & Advanced Usage

🔍 Use time filters to reduce crawl cost and noise

🔁 Combine with Apify Scheduler for recurring monitoring

🔗 Connect via Apify API for dashboards or automated pipelines

🧠 Feed output directly into sentiment or NLP models

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❓ FAQ & Support Is it legal to scrape this data?

This Actor only collects publicly available content. You are responsible for complying with platform terms and applicable laws (e.g., GDPR, local data-protection regulations).

Troubleshooting

🔧 If a website layout changes, update scraping selectors

🚦 If you encounter rate limits, enable proxy rotation or reduce crawl speed

🐞 Check run logs for detailed error messages

Need help?

Use the Issues tab on the Actor page

Contact support through Apify

Review run logs for debugging details

🌟 Summary

Spotlight Multi Scraping System gives you a single, scalable solution to monitor, analyze, and understand online conversations — without APIs, logins, or friction.

👉 Ideal for data-driven teams, AI workflows, and market intelligence.