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Headless Browser HTML Scraper

Render any URL in a real headless browser and return the fully-rendered HTML, the page text, or a selected area by CSS selector. Scroll for lazy content, wait for elements, and capture screenshots. A browserless-style HTML API on Apify.

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πŸ‘ Dev Patel

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A generic, browserless-style HTML API. Give it any URL and it opens a real headless Chromium browser, fully renders the JavaScript, optionally scrolls and waits, then returns the full rendered HTML β€” or just a selected area by CSS selector.

Think of it as a self-hosted browserless.io /content + /scrape on Apify.

What it does

  • 🌐 Renders any URL with a real browser (JavaScript executed)
  • 🧩 Selected area β€” pass a CSS selector and get every matching element's HTML, text, attributes, and position
  • πŸ“œ Scroll to bottom β€” trigger infinite-scroll / lazy-loaded content with real wheel events
  • ⏳ Wait for a selector, a load event, or a fixed delay
  • πŸ–ΌοΈ Optional full-page screenshot
  • 🚫 Block images/media/fonts/CSS to speed up and cut bandwidth
  • πŸ”Œ Use it synchronously as an API (run-sync-get-dataset-items)

Input

FieldTypeDescription
urlsarrayRequired. URLs to render and scrape.
selectorstringOptional CSS selector for the "selected area". Returns each match's HTML/text/attributes/position. Empty = full page only.
scrollToBottombooleanScroll down to load lazy content. Default false.
maxScrollsintegerMax scroll rounds when scrolling. Default 15.
waitForSelectorstringWait until this selector appears (≀30s).
waitUntilenumdomcontentloaded (default) Β· load Β· networkidle.
waitMsintegerExtra fixed wait after load (ms).
htmlModeenumfull (entire DOM, default) or visible β€” just the above-the-fold content shown on open (no scroll), scripts/styles stripped for a short, clean HTML.
blockResourcesarrayResource types to block. Default ["media","font"].
returnFullHtmlbooleanInclude the rendered HTML (full or visible per htmlMode). Default true.
returnTextbooleanInclude page visible text. Default true.
includeScreenshotbooleanCapture a full-page screenshot and return its URL. Default false.
proxyConfigurationobjectApify Proxy (datacenter) by default; use Residential for bot-protected sites.

Example: full HTML of a JS-rendered page

{"urls":[{"url":"https://www.example.com"}],"waitUntil":"networkidle"}

Example: extract a selected area, after scrolling

{
"urls":[{"url":"https://news.ycombinator.com"}],
"selector":"span.titleline a",
"scrollToBottom":true
}

Output

One record per URL:

{
"url":"https://www.example.com",
"loadedUrl":"https://www.example.com/",
"statusCode":200,
"title":"Example Domain",
"html":"<!DOCTYPE html><html>...</html>",
"text":"Example Domain\nThis domain is for use in...",
"selectedCount":30,
"selectedElements":[
{
"text":"Some headline",
"html":"<a href=\"...\">Some headline</a>",
"attributes":[{"name":"href","value":"https://..."}],
"width":320,"height":18,"top":140,"left":24
}
],
"screenshotUrl":"https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/.../records/screenshot-1",
"scrapedAt":"2026-06-13T08:00:00.000Z"
}

Use as an API

curl-X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/USERNAME~browserless-html-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=TOKEN"\
-H"Content-Type: application/json"\
-d'{"urls":[{"url":"https://www.example.com"}],"selector":"h1"}'

Notes

  • For bot-protected sites, switch proxyConfiguration to Residential.
  • Blocking image/stylesheet speeds things up but can break layout-dependent lazy scrolling on some sites β€” keep them enabled (don't block) when using scrollToBottom on such pages.

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