Nhentai-API Actor

A Node.js template for scraping structured data from a single web page. You provide a URL via input, and the actor fetches the HTML, parses it, and stores the results in an Apify dataset. It's built on Apify SDK and uses Axios for HTTP requests and Cheerio for HTML parsing.

Key Features

• Apify SDK: Provides the foundation for building, running, and managing the actor.
• Input Schema: Validates the input configuration, primarily the target page URL.
• Dataset Storage: Outputs structured data (like headings) into a dataset for easy access and export.
• Axios & Cheerio: Fetches web pages and provides a jQuery-like interface for parsing HTML.
• Customizable Code: The scraping logic is simple to modify to extract different data from the page.

How to Use

Input

The actor requires an input object containing the URL to scrape. The input schema validates this.

{
  "url": "https://example.com/page-to-scrape"
}

Process

1. The actor starts and retrieves the input URL via Actor.getInput().
2. It uses axios.get(url) to fetch the HTML of the page.
3. The HTML is loaded into Cheerio with cheerio.load(response.data) for parsing.
4. The default script extracts all heading elements (h1 through h6). You can edit the Cheerio selector in the code to target different elements.
   javascript $("h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6").each((_i, element) => { ... });
5. Extracted data is saved using Actor.pushData(data) to the actor's default dataset.

Output

The scraped data is stored in the actor's dataset. Each item is an object containing the scraped fields (e.g., heading text and tag name). You can access the data via the Apify Console, API, or integrate it with tools like Zapier, Make, or Google Drive.

Getting Started

Build and Run

1. Build the Actor: Create the actor from this template in your Apify Console.
2. Run the Actor: Provide the input URL and start a run.

Local Development

To develop locally, pull the actor using the Apify CLI:
1. Install the CLI:
bash # Using Homebrew brew install apify-cli # Using NPM npm -g install apify-cli
2. Pull the actor by its unique name or ID (found in the Apify Console):
bash apify pull <ActorId>

Resources

• Web scraping in Node.js with Axios and Cheerio
• Apify SDK for JavaScript documentation
• Apify Platform documentation
• Join our developer community on Discord