Beautiful Soup Cloud Runner
Pricing
from $2.50 / 1,000 scraped pages
Beautiful Soup Cloud Runner runs Python BS4 scraping tasks on Apify. Use CSS extraction rules or custom scripts to scrape static HTML pages, follow links, use proxies, save CSV exports, trigger webhooks, and export compact datasets.
You can access the Beautiful Soup Cloud Runner programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "mode": "builtin",12 "startUrls": [13 "https://example.com/"14 ],15 "maxDepth": 0,16 "maxRequestsPerCrawl": 100,17 "sameOriginOnly": true,18 "includeLinks": true,19 "includeHtml": false,20 "parser": "lxml",21 "requestDelaySecs": 0,22 "maxRetries": 2,23 "retryDelaySecs": 3,24 "timeoutSecs": 60,25 "saveCsvToKeyValueStore": false,26 "webhookCallbackUrl": "",27 "scriptModule": "",28 "scriptSource": "",29 "entryFunction": "run",30 "scriptArgs": {},31 "cookies": "",32 "headers": {}33};34
35// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish36const run = await client.actor("sovanza.inc/beautiful-soup-cloud-runner").call(input);37
38// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)39console.log('Results from dataset');40console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);41const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();42items.forEach((item) => {43 console.dir(item);44});45
46// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Beautiful Soup Cloud Runner API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: