Conference Agenda & Speaker Scraper

Turn a published Pretalx agenda into a session table for event research, sponsor planning, speaker programming analysis, and schedule comparisons. Each row includes the title, speakers, time, room, track, session link, and original schedule export. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Quick start

Paste a public Pretalx event URL or its schedule.json export URL:

{
  "eventUrls": ["https://pretalx.com/juliacon-local-paris-2025/"],
  "maxSessionsPerEvent": 10
}

A session from that published agenda looks like this:

{
  "event": "JuliaCon Local Paris 2025",
  "title": "Opening",
  "session_id": "UWYT8L",
  "speakers": ["Guillaume Dalle"],
  "abstract": "-",
  "description": "-",
  "start": "2025-10-02T08:50:00+02:00",
  "end": "2025-10-02T09:00:00+02:00",
  "time_zone": "Europe/Paris",
  "room": "Jean-Baptiste Say Amphitheater",
  "track": "General",
  "language": "en",
  "session_url": "https://pretalx.com/juliacon-local-paris-2025/talk/UWYT8L/",
  "source_url": "https://pretalx.com/juliacon-local-paris-2025/schedule/export/schedule.json",
  "cancelled": false
}

Inputs and coverage

• eventUrls: 1–10 public HTTPS Pretalx event homepages, schedule pages, or direct schedule.json export URLs. The Actor reads a published Frab-compatible JSON schedule export. A source must expose this public export; a private or unreleased schedule has no rows to collect.
• maxSessionsPerEvent: 1–3,000 saved sessions per event; defaults to 10 for a quick preview.
• dateFilter: optional exact event date such as 2025-10-02.
• trackFilter: optional exact track name; letter case is ignored.

This Actor reads Pretalx's published Frab-compatible JSON shape. It does not collect arbitrary conference websites, generic Frab instances without a verified export, attendee lists, private APIs, or speaker email/contact details. A public export over 4 MiB is outside the current input limit. Schedule facts reflect the source at run time; organizers can later change or cancel sessions.

Results and billing

The default dataset has one row per distinct saved session. Timestamps retain their source UTC offsets; time_zone contains the schedule's named zone when supplied. Missing fields are null, and sessions without a speaker have speakers: []. A source cancellation flag appears as cancelled.

Open Run summary for per-event fetched, saved, skipped, errors, and limit reasons. An event may return fewer rows than its schedule because of your filters, the per-event cap, an unavailable export, or the run's spending limit. Failed exports and summaries appear only in the run summary, never as session rows. Under per-result pricing, the billing unit is a saved session row; review the current Store price and run spending limit before running.