apify / actor-scraper

House of Apify Scrapers. Generic scraping actors with a simple UI to handle complex web crawling and scraping use cases.
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Puppeteer Scraper readme and input schema improvements #122

Open mnmkng opened 3 years ago

mnmkng commented 3 years ago

Web Scraper and Cheerio Scraper already have READMEs and schemas of sufficient quality, but Puppeteer Scraper is lacking. The structure and format should be exactly the same as the existing ones, but the contents will differ. In some places not so much, in other places a lot.

Whoever attempts this should:

mnmkng commented 3 years ago

To see the changes on the Apify platform, one must first build the scraper. To do that:

  1. Create a new actor on the Apify platform
  2. Go to Source tab
  3. Under Source code, select Type: Git repository
  4. Add the git URL of your fork. Example for this repository: https://github.com/apifytech/actor-crawler.git#master:puppeteer-scraper. Your URL will be similar but different.
  5. Click Save and then Build now.
  6. The Developer Console below should refresh with the new changes. If not, refresh your browser window.