Traffic Generator Actor

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Description

A traffic-generation tool that simulates user visits and interactions to increase pageviews and view counts across web pages, video platforms, and online profiles (examples: websites, YouTube videos, Etsy shops, Behance profiles).

Powered by Playwright (a real browser engine), each session loads pages, executes JavaScript, and simulates human-like behavior including scrolling, mouse movements, and clicks. This makes every visit indistinguishable from a real user.

Features

• Pageview simulation – Visit any URL with a real browser engine
• Human-like behavior – Random scrolling, mouse movements, clicks, and delays
• YouTube auto-play – Plays videos briefly to register view counts
• Internal link crawling – Follows internal links for a natural browsing pattern
• Concurrent sessions – Configurable number of simultaneous visitors
• Session duration control – Variable session lengths (min/max)
• Run timeout – Global limit on total run duration
• Browser fingerprinting – Varying device/OS fingerprints, WebRTC leak mitigation
• Proxy rotation – Configurable per-session or per-request proxy rotation
• Resource blocking – Optionally block images, fonts, media for faster loads
• Custom viewport – Configurable or random browser window sizes

Use Cases

• Increase organic traffic and pageviews for SEO purposes on targeted web pages
• Boost YouTube video view counts
• Generate visits to online stores (Etsy) and portfolio sites (Behance)
• Prepare websites for high-traffic events or campaigns via load and stress testing
• Test website limits and stability for developers (stress/load testing)
• Enhance web analytics signals for digital marketing analysis
• Scale traffic generation across many pages or runs by duplicating and running parallel sessions

Input Configuration

Field	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	array	required	Target URLs to visit
maxSessions	integer	10	Number of concurrent browser sessions
sessionDurationMin	integer	30	Minimum session duration (seconds)
sessionDurationMax	integer	120	Maximum session duration (seconds)
maxPagesPerSession	integer	5	Max pages visited per session
crawlInternalLinks	boolean	true	Follow internal links on pages
maxRunTimeSecs	integer	3600	Total run timeout (seconds)
maxResults	integer	0 (unlimited)	Max total pages visited
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy	Proxy groups and country
useFingerprinting	boolean	true	Browser fingerprinting
humanLikeBehavior	boolean	true	Simulate human interaction
youTubeAutoPlay	boolean	true	Auto-play YouTube for view counting
blockResourceTypes	array	["font"]	Resource types to block
blockUrls	array	[]	URL patterns to block
viewportWidth	integer	0 (random)	Browser viewport width
viewportHeight	integer	0 (random)	Browser viewport height
gotoTimeoutSecs	integer	120	Page load timeout (seconds)
waitUntil	string	domcontentloaded	When navigation is considered done: load, domcontentloaded, networkidle, commit

Output

The actor pushes one dataset entry per visited page:

{
  "url": "https://example.com/page",
  "status": 200,
  "durationSec": 45,
  "session": "a1b2c3d4",
  "timestamp": "2026-07-14T12:00:00.000Z",
  "pageType": "generic"
}

Technical Details

• Built with Crawlee + Playwright (Chromium headless)
• Uses Apify Proxy for IP rotation (or custom proxies)
• Fingerprinting injects spoofed navigator/screen/WebGL properties per session
• WebRTC leaks are mitigated by disabling RTCPeerConnection
• Runs on Apify platform with 4096 MB default memory allocation