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Selenium Cloud Runner scrapes JavaScript-heavy websites using Selenium and headless Chrome. It extracts data with CSS or XPath rules, supports scrolling, popup handling, screenshots, proxies, retries, and structured dataset exports.

Pricing

from $8.00 / 1,000 scraped pages

Rating

5.0

(2)

Developer

Sovanza

Actor stats

Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

25 days ago

Last modified

Categories

Developer tools

Automation

Start URLs

urls

Required

One or more URLs to open in Selenium and extract data from (one per line).

Type:string[]

Max retries per URL

maxRetries

Optional

How many times to retry a URL if navigation/extraction fails.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:10

Default:2

Retry delay (seconds)

retryDelaySecs

Optional

Sleep between retries.

Type:number

Minimum:0

Maximum:60

Default:3

Headless mode

headless

Optional

Run Chrome in headless mode (recommended on Apify).

Type:boolean

Default:true

Page load timeout (seconds)

pageLoadTimeoutSecs

Optional

Maximum time to wait for page navigation.

Type:integer

Minimum:5

Maximum:300

Default:60

Wait for selector (CSS or XPath)

waitForSelector

Optional

Optional selector to wait for after navigation. If it starts with // or (.// it is treated as XPath; otherwise CSS.

Type:string

Default:body

Wait timeout (seconds)

waitTimeoutSecs

Optional

Maximum time to wait for waitForSelector.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:180

Default:25

Close popups (CSS selectors)

closeSelectors

Optional

CSS selectors to click (best-effort) to close popups/modals after page load.

Type:string[]

Default:

[]

Scrolling / infinite scroll

scroll

Optional

Optional scrolling behavior for pages that load content dynamically.

Type:object

Default:

{
  "enabled": false,
  "maxRounds": 10,
  "scrollBy": 900,
  "pauseSecs": 1,
  "stopOnNoNewHeightRounds": 2
}

Extraction rules

extract

Optional

Flexible extraction config. Each rule uses CSS or XPath and extracts text/HTML/attributes.

Type:object[]

Default:

[
  {
    "name": "title",
    "selector": "title",
    "type": "text",
    "all": false
  },
  {
    "name": "h1",
    "selector": "h1",
    "type": "text",
    "all": false
  }
]

Include full HTML

includeHtml

Optional

If enabled, store full page HTML in the dataset item (can be large).

Type:boolean

Default:false

Include visible text

includeVisibleText

Optional

If enabled, store visible page text (body.innerText).

Type:boolean

Default:true

Take screenshot

takeScreenshot

Optional

If enabled, takes a PNG screenshot and stores it in the default key-value store (key includes index).

Type:boolean

Default:false

Save CSV (key-value store)

saveCsvToKeyValueStore

Optional

If enabled, writes a CSV summary of dataset items to the default key-value store as OUTPUT.csv.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Proxy configuration

proxyConfiguration

Optional

Apify proxy settings (recommended for tougher targets).

Type:object

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