Meta Threads Scraper

tiger_king/meta-threads-scraper

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Scrap a specific thread by input a thread url. Such as "https://www.threads.net/t/CuZsgfWLyiI".

.actor/Dockerfile

# Specify the base Docker image. You can read more about
# the available images at https://crawlee.dev/docs/guides/docker-images
# You can also use any other image from Docker Hub.
FROM apify/actor-node-playwright-chrome:16

# Copy just package.json and package-lock.json
# to speed up the build using Docker layer cache.
COPY --chown=myuser package*.json ./

# Install NPM packages, skip optional and development dependencies to
# keep the image small. Avoid logging too much and print the dependency
# tree for debugging
RUN npm --quiet set progress=false \
    && npm install --omit=dev --omit=optional \
    && echo "Installed NPM packages:" \
    && (npm list --omit=dev --all || true) \
    && echo "Node.js version:" \
    && node --version \
    && echo "NPM version:" \
    && npm --version \
    && rm -r ~/.npm

# Next, copy the remaining files and directories with the source code.
# Since we do this after NPM install, quick build will be really fast
# for most source file changes.
COPY --chown=myuser . ./


# Run the image. If you know you won't need headful browsers,
# you can remove the XVFB start script for a micro perf gain.
CMD ./start_xvfb_and_run_cmd.sh && npm start --silent

.actor/actor.json

{
    "actorSpecification": 1,
    "name": "my-actor",
    "title": "Project Playwright Crawler JavaScript",
    "description": "Crawlee and Playwright project in JavaScript.",
    "version": "0.0",
    "meta": {
        "templateId": "js-crawlee-playwright-chrome"
    },
    "input": "./input_schema.json",
    "dockerfile": "./Dockerfile",
    "storages": {
        "dataset": {
            "actorSpecification": 1,
            "views": {
                "overview": {
                    "title": "Result",
                    "transformation": {
                        "fields": [
                            "containing_thread",
                            "reply_threads"
                        ]
                    },
                    "display": {
                        "component": "table",
                        "properties": {
                            "containing_thread": {
                                "label": "containing_thread",
                                "format": "array"
                            },
                            "reply_threads": {
                                "label": "containing_thread",
                                "format": "array"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

.actor/input_schema.json

{
    "title": "PlaywrightCrawler Template",
    "type": "object",
    "schemaVersion": 1,
    "properties": {
        "target": {
            "title": "target Threads URLs",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "URLs to crawl",
            "editor": "textfield",
            "default": "https://www.threads.net/t/CuZsgfWLyiI"
        }
    }
}

src/main.js

/**
 * This template is a production ready boilerplate for developing with `PlaywrightCrawler`.
 * Use this to bootstrap your projects using the most up-to-date code.
 * If you're looking for examples or want to learn more, see README.
 */

// For more information, see https://docs.apify.com/sdk/js
import { Actor } from 'apify';
// For more information, see https://crawlee.dev
import { PlaywrightCrawler, RequestQueue } from 'crawlee';

// Initialize the Apify SDK
await Actor.init();
const input = await Actor.getInput();
console.log(111, JSON.stringify(input))

const requestQueue = await RequestQueue.open();
await requestQueue.addRequest({ url: input.target || '' });
console.log(222)

const proxyConfiguration = await Actor.createProxyConfiguration();
const crawler = new PlaywrightCrawler({
    proxyConfiguration,
    requestQueue,
    async requestHandler({ request, page, log }) {
        log.info(`Processing ${request.url}...`);
        const title = await page.title();
        log.info(`${title}`, { url: request.loadedUrl });
        page.on('response', async req => {
            console.log(req.url())
            if (req.url() === 'https://www.threads.net/api/graphql') {
                const data = await req.json()
                log.info(JSON.stringify())
                await Actor.pushData(data.data.data)
                console.log('success, waiting to exit')
                await Actor.exit();
            }
        });
        await page.waitForTimeout(6000)
    },
});

await crawler.run();

// Exit successfully
await Actor.exit();

src/routes.js

import { Dataset, createPlaywrightRouter } from 'crawlee';

export const router = createPlaywrightRouter();

router.addDefaultHandler(async ({ enqueueLinks, log }) => {
    log.info(`enqueueing new URLs`);
    await enqueueLinks({
        globs: ['https://apify.com/*'],
        label: 'detail',
    });
});

router.addHandler('detail', async ({ request, page, log }) => {
    const title = await page.title();
    log.info(`${title}`, { url: request.loadedUrl });

    await Dataset.pushData({
        url: request.loadedUrl,
        title,
    });
});

.dockerignore

# configurations
.idea

# crawlee and apify storage folders
apify_storage
crawlee_storage
storage

# installed files
node_modules

# git folder
.git

.editorconfig

root = true

[*]
indent_style = space
indent_size = 4
charset = utf-8
trim_trailing_whitespace = true
insert_final_newline = true
end_of_line = lf

.eslintrc

{
    "extends": "@apify",
    "root": true
}

.gitignore

# This file tells Git which files shouldn't be added to source control

.DS_Store
.idea
dist
node_modules
apify_storage
storage

package.json

{
    "name": "crawlee-playwright-javascript",
    "version": "0.0.1",
    "type": "module",
    "description": "This is an example of an Apify actor.",
    "dependencies": {
        "apify": "^3.0.0",
        "crawlee": "^3.0.0",
        "playwright": "*"
    },
    "devDependencies": {
        "@apify/eslint-config": "^0.3.1",
        "eslint": "^8.36.0"
    },
    "scripts": {
        "start": "node src/main.js",
        "lint": "eslint ./src --ext .js,.jsx",
        "lint:fix": "eslint ./src --ext .js,.jsx --fix",
        "test": "echo \"Error: oops, the actor has no tests yet, sad!\" && exit 1"
    },
    "author": "It's not you it's me",
    "license": "ISC"
}