JavaScript web scraping templates
Build web scrapers in seconds with over half a dozen JavaScript code templates
JavaScript templates
Scrape single page with provided URL with Axios and extract data from page's HTML with Cheerio.
A scraper example that uses Cheerio to parse HTML. It's fast, but it can't run the website's JavaScript or pass JS anti-scraping challenges.
Example of a Puppeteer and headless Chrome web scraper. Headless browsers render JavaScript and are harder to block, but they're slower than plain HTTP.
Web scraper example with Crawlee, Playwright and headless Chrome. Playwright is more modern, user-friendly and harder to block than Puppeteer.
Web scraper example with Crawlee, Playwright and Camoufox. Camoufox is a custom stealthy fork of Firefox. Try this template if you're facing anti-scraping challenges.
Skeleton project that helps you quickly bootstrap `CheerioCrawler` in JavaScript. It's best for developers who already know Apify SDK and Crawlee.
Example of running Cypress tests and saving their results on the Apify platform. JSON results are saved to Dataset, videos to Key-value store.
Empty template with basic structure for the Actor with Apify SDK that allows you to easily add your own functionality.
Template with basic structure for an Actor using Standby mode that allows you to easily add your own functionality.
Example of how to use LangChain.js with Apify to crawl the web data, vectorize them, and prompt the OpenAI model.
LangGraph agent in JavaScript for answering questions via web search.
Actorize a CLI utility with the Apify Actor CLI
Apify Universal Scrapers
Universal Scrapers provide you with a solid boilerplate to build fully functioning scrapers directly on the Apify platform. Configure and run your web scrapers manually in a user interface or programmatically via an API.
Cheerio Scraper
apify/cheerio-scraper
Crawls websites using raw HTTP requests, parses the HTML with the Cheerio library, and extracts data from the pages using a Node.js code. Supports both recursive crawling and lists of URLs. This actor is a high-performance alternative to apify/web-scraper for websites that do not require JavaScript.
Apify
6.8k
4.7/5
Web Scraper
apify/web-scraper
Crawls arbitrary websites using the Chrome browser and extracts structured data from web pages using a provided JavaScript function. The Actor supports both recursive crawling and lists of URLs, and automatically manages concurrency for maximum performance.
Apify
78.5k
4.5/5
Puppeteer Scraper
apify/puppeteer-scraper
Crawls websites with the headless Chrome and Puppeteer library using a provided server-side Node.js code. This crawler is an alternative to apify/web-scraper that gives you finer control over the process. Supports both recursive crawling and list of URLs. Supports login to website.
Apify
5.8k
5.0/5
Playwright Scraper
apify/playwright-scraper
Crawls websites with the headless Chromium, Chrome, or Firefox browser and Playwright library using a provided server-side Node.js code. Supports both recursive crawling and a list of URLs. Supports login to a website.
Apify
1.1k
4.3/5
Vanilla JS Scraper
mstephen190/vanilla-js-scraper
Scrape the web using familiar JavaScript methods! Crawls websites using raw HTTP requests, parses the HTML with the JSDOM package, and extracts data from the pages using Node.js code. Supports both recursive crawling and lists of URLs. This actor is a non jQuery alternative to CheerioScraper.
Matthias Stephens
447
BeautifulSoup Scraper
apify/beautifulsoup-scraper
Crawls websites using raw HTTP requests. It parses the HTML with the BeautifulSoup library and extracts data from the pages using Python code. Supports both recursive crawling and lists of URLs. This Actor is a Python alternative to Cheerio Scraper.
Apify
796
4.4/5