Polymarket Search Scraper

Overview

This actor scrapes detailed prediction market data from Polymarket.com based on search keywords. It returns structured information about markets, including odds, volumes, and metadata, in JSON format. Useful for tracking political odds, monitoring event probabilities, or analyzing market sentiment.

Key Features

• Keyword Search: Find markets using specific search terms.
• Comprehensive Data: Extracts market questions, descriptions, current odds/prices, trading volume, liquidity, dates (start, end, creation), status (active/closed), and resolution sources.
• Structured Output: Provides clean JSON data for easy integration and analysis.
• Configurable: Set limits on the number of items to scrape.
• Proxy Support: Compatible with Apify Proxy for managing requests.

How to Use

1. Create a new task for the Polymarket Search Scraper actor.
2. Provide your search keywords in the input.
3. Optionally, configure the maxItems limit and proxy settings.
4. Run the task. Results will be available in the dataset within the Storage tab.

Input / Output

Input Configuration:
Configure the actor using a JSON input object. The only required field is keywords.

{
  "keywords": ["trump", "election"],
  "maxItems": 50
}

• keywords: (Required) An array of search strings.
• maxItems: (Optional) A limit for the total number of market results to return.

Output Data:
The actor outputs an array of items, each containing the search keyword and the full event/market data found. Data is rich, including IDs, titles, descriptions, financial metrics, timestamps, and status flags.

Example output snippet:

[
  {
    "keyword": "trump",
    "event": {
      "id": "903193",
      "title": "Presidential Election Winner 2024",
      "description": "This is a market on predicting the winner of the 2024 presidential election.",
      "volume": 3686335059.295466,
      "active": true,
      "endDate": "2024-11-05T12:00:00Z",
      "markets": [
        {
          "id": "253591",
          "question": "Will Donald Trump win the 2024 US Presidential Election?",
          "conditionId": "0xdd22472e552920b8438158ea7238bfadfa4f736aa4cee91a6b86c39ead110917"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
]

Results can be downloaded from Storage as JSON, JSONL, CSV, Excel, HTML, or XML.

Limitations

• The actor respects Polymarket's rate limits and terms of service.
• Some markets may be geographically restricted.
• Availability of historical data can vary.