SourceForge Software Category Pages Actor

Scrapes SourceForge category pages and integration-filter pages into structured product rows.

What it extracts

• Category URL and category name
• Product name and SourceForge product URL
• Vendor website URL when visible
• Summary text
• Rating and review count when visible
• Sponsored flag
• Page rank/order
• Visible filter facet sections and counts

Use cases

1. Track the ranked CRM software landscape on SourceForge over time.
2. Monitor category and integration filters for competitor research.
3. Export public software listing metadata into CSV-ready JSON for analysis pipelines.

Input

• startUrls: one or more SourceForge category pages
• maxItems: cap on total rows
• maxPages: cap on pages followed per run
• pageLoadTimeoutSecs: navigation timeout
• delaySeconds: pause between requests
• headless: run the browser headless

Output fields

Field	Description
categoryUrl	Source page URL
categoryName	Visible category heading
productName	Listing title
productUrl	SourceForge product page
websiteUrl	External vendor site if exposed
vendorName	Vendor/publisher name if visible
summary	Listing description
rating	Visible star rating
reviewCount	Ratings count
sponsored	Sponsored label indicator
pageRank	Listing order on the page
facets	Sectioned filter counts seen on the page
sourceUrl	Exact URL scraped

Pricing

$5.00 per 1,000 results ($0.005 per result) Set a max cost limit when starting a run to control your spending. The Actor stops automatically when your limit is reached.

Example costs

100 results = $0.50 500 results = $2.50 1,000 results = $5.00 5,000 results = $25.00

Example output

{
  "categoryUrl": "http://127.0.0.1:8899/crm.html",
  "categoryName": "Best CRM Software for Drupal",
  "productName": "Zendesk",
  "productUrl": "http://127.0.0.1:8899/software/product/Zendesk/",
  "websiteUrl": "https://www.zendesk.com/",
  "vendorName": null,
  "summary": "Zendesk is an AI-powered service solution that’s easy to set up, use, and scale.",
  "rating": 4.8,
  "reviewCount": 7920,
  "sponsored": true,
  "pageRank": 1,
  "facets": {
    "Deployment": [
      { "label": "Cloud", "count": 28 },
      { "label": "Android", "count": 11 }
    ]
  },
  "sourceUrl": "http://127.0.0.1:8899/crm.html"
}