Cern Opendata Actor

Cern Opendata Actor

by horoko

Harvests the CERN OpenData catalog

14 runs
2 users
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About Cern Opendata Actor

Harvests the CERN OpenData catalog

What does this actor do?

Cern Opendata Actor is a web scraping and automation tool available on the Apify platform. It's designed to help you extract data and automate tasks efficiently in the cloud.

Key Features

  • Cloud-based execution - no local setup required
  • Scalable infrastructure for large-scale operations
  • API access for integration with your applications
  • Built-in proxy rotation and anti-blocking measures
  • Scheduled runs and webhooks for automation

How to Use

  1. Click "Try This Actor" to open it on Apify
  2. Create a free Apify account if you don't have one
  3. Configure the input parameters as needed
  4. Run the actor and download your results

Documentation

CERN OpenData Harvester Actor collects the CERN OpenData catalog, bypassing the 10,000 result limit: it reads public sitemaps, converts links to API calls, and, if necessary, downloads additional records by recid ranges. Normalized data is written to a dataset; raw payloads can optionally be stored in a key-value store. ## Input Define in .actor/input_schema.json. All fields are optional and have defaults: - sitemapIndexUrl (string, default https://opendata.cern.ch/sitemap.xml): root sitemap index. - enableSitemapScan (boolean, default true): enable sitemap crawling. - enableRecidScan (boolean, default true): enable searching by recid ranges. - maxWorkers (integer, default 12): Parallel downloads of API pages from sitemaps. - retries (integer, default 5): HTTP error/429/5xx attempts. - recidMax (integer, default 120000): Upper limit of recid for crawling. - recidStep (integer, default 500): Recid step size for search requests. - pageSize (integer, default 200): Search API page size. - skipIds (array of string): List of IDs/slugs to skip (default includes service pages). - storeRaw (boolean, default false): Whether to store raw API payloads in KV. - rawKeyValuePrefix (string, default raw-cern-opendata/): Key prefix in KV when storeRaw=true. ## Output ### Dataset (default) Each record is a normalized object: json { "id": "12345", "title": "Some dataset", "type": "dataset", "experiment": "CMS", "availability": "open", "file_count": 4, "portal_url": "https://opendata.cern.ch/record/12345", "api_url": "https://opendata.cern.ch/api/records/12345", "created": "2020-01-01T00:00:00", "updated": "2020-05-01T00:00:00", "files": [{ "key": "...", "uri": "...", "size": 123, "availability": "...", "checksum": "...", "version_id": "...", "tags": [...] }], "description": "...", "keywords": [...], "collections": [...], "distribution": {...}, "pids": {...}, "publisher": "...", "language": "...", "run_period": "...", "source": "sitemap|recid-range", "bucket_url": "https://opendata.cern.ch/api/files/<bucket>" } Dataset view overview shows: id, title, type, experiment, availability, file_count, portal_url, api_url, created, updated.

Categories

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Actor Information

Developer
horoko
Pricing
Paid
Total Runs
14
Active Users
2
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