🇫🇷 French Residential Web Scraper

Scrape any URL through a real French residential IP + a real headless Chrome browser. Reach pages that block AWS / GCP / Azure and other datacenter ranges, and geo-restricted French content — the same job Firecrawl and ScrapingBee charge much more for.

Most scrapers run from cloud datacenters, so anti-bot systems flag them instantly. This one runs the browser behind a French residential connection, so target sites see the exact page a real visitor in France would see.

✨ What it does

Give it a URL and pick an output mode:

mode	Returns
extract	Clean Markdown of the main content (JavaScript rendered)
render	Full HTML after JavaScript execution
screenshot	PNG image (optionally full-page)
pdf	A4 PDF of the page
links	Deduplicated links (internal / external + anchor text)
meta	SEO metadata: title, description, OpenGraph, canonical, JSON-LD

🎯 When to use it

• Sites that block or degrade datacenter IPs (many FR e-commerce, media, public services)
• Geo-restricted French content that only loads from a FR connection
• Pages behind JavaScript rendering or light anti-bot protection
• Turning any page into clean Markdown for LLMs / RAG

📥 Input

{
  "url": "https://www.service-public.fr",
  "mode": "extract"
}

Field	Type	Required	Description
url	string	✅	Page URL to fetch through the French residential IP
mode	string	–	extract (default), render, screenshot, pdf, links, meta
fullPage	boolean	–	Full-page screenshot (only for screenshot mode)

📤 Output

One dataset item per run:

{
  "url": "https://www.service-public.fr",
  "mode": "extract",
  "servedByResidentialIp": true,
  "result": {
    "title": "Accueil | Service Public",
    "markdown": "# Bienvenue sur le site officiel..."
  }
}

For screenshot and pdf, the binary file is saved to the run's key-value store and referenced by fileKey.

The servedByResidentialIp flag confirms the request went through the residential path.

💡 Tips

• Start with extract for LLM-ready Markdown, switch to render if you need raw HTML.
• Use meta for cheap link-preview / SEO checks before a full scrape.
• One run = one page = one result.

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Built on a dedicated French residential node. Questions or a bulk use case? Reach out via the Apify profile.