Snapchat Profile & Spotlight Scraper

Track Snapchat public profiles and Spotlight performance as flat rows for a spreadsheet or a monitoring pipeline.

$1.50 per 1,000 delivered rows on Free ($1.05 on Gold), plus $0.001 per run, with platform usage included. Collect the first public page of profiles or hashtags and individual Spotlight videos. No Snapchat account or login is needed.

What you get

Usernames and profile links produce profile and/or spotlight rows. Individual Spotlight links produce one video row. Hashtags find videos on the first public hashtag page and open their individual pages for playable media and engagement data. Each row is flat; keywords and hashtags are simple lists.

Fields	Contents
type, id, url	profile or spotlight, the record ID and canonical page URL
username, displayName	Creator handle and displayed name
subscriberCount, bio, websiteUrl	Public profile fields; null on video rows
avatarUrl, snapcodeUrl, badge, category	Public profile images, Snapchat's numeric badge and raw category identifier
createdAt, updatedAt	Public profile timestamps, when present
caption, hashtags	Spotlight caption and tags
viewCount, shareCount, commentCount, boostCount, recommendCount	Public engagement counts, null when unavailable
durationSeconds, width, height, publishedAt	Video length, pixel dimensions and upload timestamp
mediaUrl, thumbnailUrl	Playable video and cover URLs
title, description, keywords, language	Snapchat's generated title, description, topic keywords and detected language, when supplied
source, scrapedAt	Input source and UTC capture time

Generated titles and descriptions belong to Snapchat. They can be absent or inaccurate. A blank field stays null; an absent count is never invented as zero. Empty Spotlight cards add no rows. A video's page may include recommendations, but an individual link returns only the requested video.

Examples

The prefill requests FC Barcelona's public profile and available videos, with a total cap:

{
  "usernames": ["fcbarcelona"],
  "maxResults": 10
}

Profile snapshots for tracking subscriber counts over time:

{
  "usernames": ["nasa", "https://www.snapchat.com/@fcbarcelona"],
  "resultType": "profiles",
  "maxResults": 20
}

Find videos for a hashtag:

{
  "hashtags": ["#funny"],
  "maxResults": 20,
  "maxSpotlightsPerSource": 20
}

Collect videos from a creator list and skip IDs delivered by earlier runs:

{
  "usernames": ["fcbarcelona"],
  "resultType": "spotlights",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "monitorKey": "football-videos"
}

For individual videos, put canonical https://www.snapchat.com/spotlight/<id> or user-scoped https://www.snapchat.com/@<username>/spotlight/<id> URLs in spotlightUrls. Replace placeholders with real links. App share links, topic pages and general search are unsupported.

Inputs

Field	Effect
usernames	Usernames, /add/username, /@username, or /@username/spotlight profile links
spotlightUrls	Individual Spotlight URLs; each returns a video regardless of resultType
hashtags	Bare tags, #tags or /tag/tag URLs; returns videos regardless of resultType
resultType	profiles, spotlights, or both for profile sources; default both
maxResults	Total cap across all delivered row types; default 100, maximum 10,000
maxSpotlightsPerSource	Maximum videos considered from each available profile/hashtag page; default 30
onlyNew	Suppress previously delivered profile/video IDs; default false
monitorKey	History namespace within your Apify account; default default

Inputs combine. Sources are processed in order: profiles, explicit video links, then hashtags. A small total cap can leave later sources unstarted. Up to 200 distinct sources per run. The runtime also accepts scalar, comma/newline separated strings and obvious URL/username objects; Apify's form schema expects lists.

Monitoring and completeness

Leave onlyNew off for subscriber and engagement snapshots. Turn it on for discovery of previously unseen IDs. The same profile ID is suppressed even if its follower count changed. History is saved after successful billing and dataset delivery, retains the most recent 50,000 IDs, and is scoped by monitorKey in the named snapchat-scraper-monitor store. Avoid overlapping runs sharing a key. Storage is not transactional across concurrent runs; an interrupted delivery before history persistence may be repeated later.

First public page only. Profiles and hashtags return the public window embedded in their pages. A profile continuation cursor did not produce additional videos in platform tests; the site's story-player continuation returned temporary placeholders. This actor does not collect a full upload history. Raising a cap does not make older pages available. The run summary states AVAILABLE_WINDOW and names the pagination limitation.

Missing profiles (NOT_FOUND), add-user cards without a public profile (NO_PUBLIC_PROFILE), restricted videos (RESTRICTED), unreadable pages (MARKUP_CHANGED), refusals (REFUSED) and run deadlines (CLOCK_STOPPED) remain distinct. A run that delivers some rows succeeds and names any unfinished sources. A zero-row run succeeds when every source is already delivered or proven empty. It also succeeds when those proven sources accompany missing or non-public profiles, naming each source and its outcome. All-missing lists and zero-row runs with refused, errored, unresolved, clock-stopped or charge-limited work fail with named reasons. Invalid input fails with BAD_INPUT and makes no Snapchat requests.

RUN_SUMMARY in the run's key-value store records per-source outcomes, row counts and fetch diagnostics. It is operational metadata, not a billable dataset row.

Pricing

Plan	Price per 1,000 delivered rows
Free	$1.50
Bronze	$1.35
Silver	$1.20
Gold	$1.05

Plus $0.001 per run, including invalid-input and zero-delivery runs. Platform usage is included. The custom events are result and actor-start. Only delivered rows incur a result charge.

Who this is for

Creator agencies can compare public subscriber and Spotlight engagement snapshots. Social teams can collect campaign examples by creator or hashtag. Researchers can export captions, topic keywords and capture timestamps for public videos. The flat rows export through Apify datasets as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Questions

Can it scrape private Snapchat accounts or friends-only stories? Only information on logged-out public pages is used. The actor collects profiles and Spotlight. Stories and messages are excluded.

Does it need a Snapchat login or API key? The routes use logged-out public pages without an account, login or API key, verified on Apify direct and datacenter exits.

Does it download Snapchat videos? It returns public media URLs. It does not fetch media files. Links can expire or stop playing when Snapchat removes a clip.

Why are there fewer rows than requested? A cap is an upper bound. The available page may be short, contain empty cards, repeat an ID, or have only records already delivered. The summary names these outcomes. There is no fabricated error row to pad the count.

Can I monitor new Spotlights? Turn on onlyNew and reuse the same monitorKey across runs. Keep it off to receive updated counts for videos you already know. When Snapchat's selected public records were all delivered earlier, the run succeeds with NO_NEW, names the sources and charges only the $0.001 run start. An origin-proven empty page also succeeds with PROVEN_EMPTY. Missing accounts are named alongside proven quiet sources; an entirely missing list or unresolved work still fails.

What is excluded? No emails or phone numbers are extracted, no comments or transcripts are collected, and no login-only data is requested.

For other public video sources, see Bilibili Scraper and YouTube Channel Scraper.

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