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.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "mode": "builtin",10 "startUrls": ["https://example.com/"],11 "maxDepth": 0,12 "maxRequestsPerCrawl": 100,13 "sameOriginOnly": True,14 "includeLinks": True,15 "includeHtml": False,16 "parser": "lxml",17 "requestDelaySecs": 0,18 "maxRetries": 2,19 "retryDelaySecs": 3,20 "timeoutSecs": 60,21 "saveCsvToKeyValueStore": False,22 "webhookCallbackUrl": "",23 "scriptModule": "",24 "scriptSource": "",25 "entryFunction": "run",26 "scriptArgs": {},27 "cookies": "",28 "headers": {},29}30
31# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish32run = client.actor("sovanza.inc/beautiful-soup-cloud-runner").call(run_input=run_input)33
34# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)35print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])36for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():37 print(item)38
39# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Beautiful Soup Cloud Runner API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: