Snapchat Public Publisher and Discover Scraper

Snapchat Public Publisher and Discover Scraper extracts bounded public publisher, show, story, and profile records from Snapchat Discover or public profile URLs.

The Actor reads public server-rendered page state only. It does not log in, access private APIs or viewer data, download media, solve CAPTCHAs, or bypass access controls. Direct public HTTPS is used by default; standard Apify Proxy can be enabled as a transparent transport when justified.

Input

Field	Default	Limits
startUrls	Snapchat Discover	1–50 public Snapchat HTTPS URLs
publisherUrls	[]	Up to 50 additional public profile URLs
query	empty	Local case-insensitive filter, up to 200 characters
maxItems	10	1–100 unique publisher/show records
maxEpisodes	10	1–100 nested public episodes per record
includeProfiles	true	Enrich Discover candidates from their public profile page
requestDelayMs	250	0–30,000 ms before each request
timeoutSecs	45	5–60 seconds per request
maxResponseBytes	5000000	100,000–10,000,000 bytes
proxyConfiguration	Direct (useApifyProxy: false)	Optional standard Apify proxy configuration

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.snapchat.com/@brentrivera" }],
  "maxItems": 1,
  "maxEpisodes": 5,
  "includeProfiles": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }
}

Output

The default dataset contains successful snapchat-publisher-story and snapchat-premium-show rows only. Records include stable identity, publisher/profile fields, bounded episode or highlight metadata, source provenance, request evidence, and transport details. Optional values are omitted when the public page does not expose them.

Diagnostics stay in OUTPUT_SUMMARY and its OUTPUT compatibility alias; blocked and unavailable targets therefore produce an empty valid dataset instead of fake rows. SOURCE_METADATA describes the public source and access policy. Raw server-rendered payloads and viewer state are not stored.

Requests use one attempt with library retries disabled. Redirects are limited to three hops and must remain on public Snapchat HTTPS hosts.

Local verification

npm test
npm run lint
apify validate-schema
apify run --purge --input-file qa-inputs/local.json
npm run validate

Snapchat’s public layout, content availability, and access controls can change. Use this Actor only for lawful public-data collection and respect platform terms, privacy rights, content ownership, rate limits, and applicable data-protection requirements.