1"""Module defines the main entry point for the Apify Actor.
2
3Feel free to modify this file to suit your specific needs.
4
5To build Apify Actors, utilize the Apify SDK toolkit, read more at the official documentation:
6https://docs.apify.com/sdk/python
7"""
8
9from __future__ import annotations
10
11import asyncio
12
13from apify import Actor, Event
14from crawlee.crawlers import BeautifulSoupCrawler
15
16from.routes import router
17
18
19asyncdefmain()->None:
20"""Define a main entry point for the Apify Actor.
21
22 This coroutine is executed using `asyncio.run()`, so it must remain an asynchronous function for proper execution.
23 Asynchronous execution is required for communication with Apify platform, and it also enhances performance in
24 the field of web scraping significantly.
25 """
26# Enter the context of the Actor.
27asyncwith Actor:
28# Handle graceful abort - Actor is being stopped by user or platform
29asyncdefon_aborting()->None:
30# Persist any state, do any cleanup you need, and terminate the Actor using
31# `await Actor.exit()` explicitly as soon as possible. This will help ensure that
32# the Actor is doing best effort to honor any potential limits on costs of a
33# single run set by the user.
34# Wait 1 second to allow Crawlee/SDK state persistence operations to complete
35# This is a temporary workaround until SDK implements proper state persistence in the aborting event
36await asyncio.sleep(1)
37await Actor.exit()
38
39 Actor.on(Event.ABORTING, on_aborting)
40
41# Retrieve the Actor input, and use default values if not provided.
42 actor_input =await Actor.get_input()or{}
43 start_urls =[
44 url.get('url')
45for url in actor_input.get(
46'start_urls',
47[{'url':'https://apify.com'}],
48)
49]
50
51# Exit if no start URLs are provided.
52ifnot start_urls:
53 Actor.log.info('No start URLs specified in Actor input, exiting...')
54await Actor.exit()
55
56# Create a crawler.
57 crawler = BeautifulSoupCrawler(
58# Limit the crawl to max requests. Remove or increase it for crawling all links.
59 max_requests_per_crawl=10,
60# Set the request handler to the request router defined in routes.py.
61 request_handler=router,
62)
63
64# Run the crawler with the starting requests.
65await crawler.run(start_urls)

This template example was built with Crawlee for Python  to scrape data from a website using Beautiful Soup  wrapped into BeautifulSoupCrawler .

Once you've installed the dependencies, start the Actor:

$apify run

Once your Actor is ready, you can push it to the Apify Console:

apify login # first, you need to log in if you haven't already done so
apify push

.actor/
├── actor.json # Actor config: name, version, env vars, runtime settings
├── dataset_schema.json # Structure and representation of data produced by an Actor
├── input_schema.json # Input validation & Console form definition
└── output_schema.json # Specifies where an Actor stores its output
src/
└── main.py # Actor entry point and orchestrator
storage/ # Local storage (mirrors Cloud during development)
├── datasets/ # Output items (JSON objects)
├── key_value_stores/ # Files, config, INPUT
└── request_queues/ # Pending crawl requests
Dockerfile # Container image definition

For more information, see the Actor definition  documentation.

This code is a Python script that uses BeautifulSoup to scrape data from a website. It then stores the website titles in a dataset.

• The crawler starts with URLs provided from the input startUrls field defined by the input schema. Number of scraped pages is limited by maxPagesPerCrawl field from the input schema.
• The crawler uses requestHandler for each URL to extract the data from the page with the BeautifulSoup library and to save the title and URL of each page to the dataset. It also logs out each result that is being saved.

• Apify SDK  - toolkit for building Actors 
• Crawlee for Python  - web scraping and browser automation library
• Input schema  - define and easily validate a schema for your Actor's input
• Dataset  - store structured data where each object stored has the same attributes
• Beautiful Soup  - a library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files
• Proxy configuration  - rotate IP addresses to prevent blocking

• Quick Start  guide for building your first Actor
• Video introduction to Python SDK 
• Webinar introducing to Crawlee for Python 
• Apify Python SDK documentation 
• Crawlee for Python documentation 
• Python tutorials in Academy 
• Integration with Zapier , Make, Google Drive and others
• Video guide on getting data using Apify API