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SerpAPI Professional Events Scraper

A high-performance Apify actor that fetches real professional events from Google Events using SerpAPI. Designed for daily database updates with 20 events per city across 10 major US cities.

Features

• 🌐 Real Google Events Data: Uses SerpAPI to fetch actual events from Google
• 🏙️ 10 Major US Cities: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Miami, Austin, Seattle, Boston, Denver, Atlanta
• 📊 40 Events Per City: Default configuration for comprehensive coverage
• 🔄 Daily Database Updates: Optimized for scheduled daily runs
• ✅ No Mock Data: Only returns real events from Google
• 📅 Event Details: Title, date, time, venue, organizer, description, links
• 🎯 Professional Focus: Targets business, networking, and conference events

Configuration

Default Settings

• Cities: 10 major US cities (fully customizable via input)
• Events per city: 40 (adjustable from 1-100)
• API: SerpAPI with Google Events engine
• Categories: Professional networking, business conferences, tech meetups

Input Parameters

{
"cities":[
"New York",
"Los Angeles",
"Chicago",
"San Francisco",
"Miami",
"Austin",
"Seattle",
"Boston",
"Denver",
"Atlanta"
],
"eventsPerCity":40,
"searchKeywords":"professional networking business conference",
"includeVirtualEvents":true
}

Output Format

Each event includes:

• title: Event name
• date: Event date (formatted)
• time: Event time
• city: City name
• location: Full address
• venue: Venue name
• organizer: Event organizer
• description: Event description
• eventUrl: Link to event page
• thumbnail: Event image
• category: Event category
• source: "Google Events (via SerpAPI)"
• extractedAt: Timestamp of extraction

Usage

For Daily Database Updates

1. Schedule the actor to run daily
2. Events are automatically fetched for all configured cities (default: 10)
3. Results are saved to the dataset (40 events per city by default)
4. Export to your database via API or webhooks

API Integration

// Fetch results via Apify API
const response =awaitfetch('https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/{DATASET_ID}/items');
const events =await response.json();

Rate Limits & Costs

• SerpAPI allows 100 searches/month on free tier
• Each city search counts as 2-5 API calls (depending on event count)
• Daily run = ~50 API calls (for 10 cities with 40 events each)
• Monthly = ~1500 API calls (requires paid SerpAPI plan)

Support

For issues or questions about this actor, please contact support or create an issue in the repository.

Built for TopEvents.ai - Professional events discovery platform