Snapchat Topic Scraper

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Extract Spotlight videos by topic from Snapchat — no login required. Browse trending content under any of Snapchat's built-in topic categories such as food, humor, travel, gaming, and more. Each record includes video URLs, creator details, engagement stats, AI-generated metadata, and optional S2I content classification tags.

What This Actor Does

• Accepts topic IDs (e.g. food, humor) or full topic URLs (https://www.snapchat.com/topic/food)
• Returns up to 32 Spotlight videos per topic per run (Snapchat's maximum per page)
• Extracts AI-generated titles, descriptions, and keyword arrays from each video
• Optionally includes related S2I content tags with hierarchy scores
• Works without login or cookies — uses Snapchat's public topic pages

Supported Input Formats

Input

Example Input

{
"topics":["food","humor","https://www.snapchat.com/topic/travel"],
"maxResultsPerTopic":32,
"includeRelatedTags":true
}

Output

Each record represents one Spotlight video under the given topic.

Example Output

{
"topicId":"technology",
"topicDisplayName":"Technology",
"snapId":"W7_EDlXWTBiXAEEniNoMPwAAYbGNxbnVlY2ptAZezrfS6AZezrfMbAAAAAQ",
"storyId":"35::W7_EDlXWTBiXAEEniNoMPwAAYbGNxbnVlY2ptAZezrfS6AZezrfMbAAAAAQ::0",
"compositeStoryId":{
"corpus":35,
"id":"W7_EDlXWTBiXAEEniNoMPwAAYbGNxbnVlY2ptAZezrfS6AZezrfMbAAAAAQ",
"version":"0"
},
"snapUrl":"https://www.snapchat.com/spotlight/W7_EDlXWTBiXAEEniNoMPwAAYbGNxbnVlY2ptAZezrfS6AZezrfMbAAAAAQ",
"videoUrl":"https://cf-st.sc-cdn.net/d/kAEZhCauQoCWxONAnECsR...",
"videoUrlUnwatermarked":"https://cf-st.sc-cdn.net/d/kAEZhCauQoCWxONAnECsR...",
"thumbnailUrl":"https://cf-st.sc-cdn.net/d/kAEZhCauQoCWxONAnECsR...",
"durationSeconds":57.6,
"creatorUsername":"tinytexts",
"creatorDisplayName":"Tiny Texts",
"creatorProfileUrl":"https://www.snapchat.com/@tinytexts",
"viewCount":1466990,
"likeCount":60914,
"shareCount":2129,
"commentCount":764,
"recommendCount":6467,
"description":"tag your yellow heart 💛",
"llmTitle":"How to Handle a Parent's Phone Texting Mistake",
"llmDescription":"This text-based conversation shows a humorous exchange where a dad realizes he's texting his child from his own phone after claiming the child left theirs at home.",
"llmKeywords":["funny parent moments","texting my dad","parenting humor","text message prank"],
"isFeatured":false,
"storySubtype":0,
"uploadedAt":"2025-06-27T23:16:51.099000+00:00",
"remainingSpotlightCount":25,
"relatedTags":[
{"tagName":"Science","score":0,"level":0},
{"tagName":"Device","score":0,"level":0},
{"tagName":"AI","score":0,"level":0}
],
"scrapedAt":"2026-06-28T06:46:41.956315+00:00"
}

Use Cases

• Trend research — monitor which Spotlight videos are rising under specific topic categories
• Content strategy — analyze what formats, lengths, and styles perform well per topic
• Competitive analysis — track creators active in a given topic and their engagement metrics
• AI keyword research — leverage Snapchat's LLM-generated keyword arrays for SEO and content planning
• Data journalism — map viral content themes across Snapchat's topic taxonomy

FAQ

Do I need a Snapchat account to use this actor? No. Topic pages and Spotlight videos are publicly accessible on Snapchat's website. No login, cookies, or authentication is required.

What topic IDs can I use? Any of Snapchat's built-in topic slugs such as food, humor, travel, gaming, beauty, sports, technology, music, pets, and dance. You can also paste a full topic URL like https://www.snapchat.com/topic/food.

Why is there a 32-video limit per topic? Snapchat's public topic pages serve a fixed batch of up to 32 Spotlight videos. This actor returns all available videos in that batch. Running the actor again may return a different set of trending videos.

What are llmTitle, llmDescription, and llmKeywords? These fields are generated by Snapchat's own AI system and are embedded in the page data. They summarize and tag the video content automatically — useful for downstream analysis without additional AI API calls.

What are relatedTags? Related tags are Snapchat's S2I (Subject-to-Image) content classification labels associated with the topic. Each tag has a tagName, a relevance score, and a hierarchy level. These can be used to build a fine-grained content taxonomy.

Can I scrape multiple topics in a single run? Yes. Provide multiple topic IDs or URLs in the topics array. The actor processes them sequentially and outputs records for all topics in a single dataset, each identified by topicId and topicDisplayName.

What is remainingSpotlightCount? This field indicates how many additional Spotlight video IDs Snapchat has available for the topic beyond the current batch. It can be used to gauge topic popularity and overall content volume.

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