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Empty TypeScript template

Start a new web scraping project quickly and easily in TypeScript (Node.js) with our empty project template. It provides a basic structure for the Actor with Apify SDK and allows you to easily add your own functionality.

Included features

• Apify SDK - a toolkit for building Actors
• Crawlee - web scraping and browser automation library

How it works

Insert your own code between await Actor.init() and await Actor.exit(). If you would like to use the Crawlee library simply uncomment its import import { CheerioCrawler } from 'crawlee';.

Resources

• TypeScript vs. JavaScript: which to use for web scraping?
• Node.js tutorials in Academy
• Video guide on getting scraped data using Apify API
• Integration with Airbyte, Make, Zapier, Google Drive, and other apps
• A short guide on how to build web scrapers using code templates:

Getting started

For complete information see this article. In short, you will:

1. Build the Actor
2. Run the Actor

Pull the Actor for local development

If you would like to develop locally, you can pull the existing Actor from Apify console using Apify CLI:

1. Install apify-cli

   Using Homebrew

   $brew install apify-cli

   Using NPM

   $npm-ginstall apify-cli

2. Pull the Actor by its unique <ActorId>, which is one of the following:

   • unique name of the Actor to pull (e.g. "apify/hello-world")
   • or ID of the Actor to pull (e.g. "E2jjCZBezvAZnX8Rb")

   You can find both by clicking on the Actor title at the top of the page, which will open a modal containing both Actor unique name and Actor ID.

   This command will copy the Actor into the current directory on your local machine.

   $apify pull <ActorId>

Documentation reference

To learn more about Apify and Actors, take a look at the following resources:

• Apify SDK for JavaScript documentation
• Apify SDK for Python documentation
• Apify Platform documentation
• Join our developer community on Discord