Truth Social Trends Scraper

An Apify actor that automatically collects trending posts (called "truths") from Truth Social. It's designed for social media monitoring, trend analysis, and content research.

Overview

This actor scrapes the trending posts section of Truth Social. It extracts the post content, metadata, engagement metrics, and associated account details, saving the structured data to an Apify dataset.

Key Features

• Trending Content: Collects posts currently trending on Truth Social.
• Comprehensive Data Capture:
  • Post Information: ID, creation date, content, language, visibility settings, and URLs.
  • Engagement Metrics: Counts of replies, retruths (reblogs), and likes (favourites).
  • Account Details: Username, display name, bio, follower counts, avatar, and account creation date.
  • Media: Attached images and videos.
  • Context: Reply/quote relationships, tags, and mentions.
• Configurable: Control the number of posts and content formatting.

Related Actors

• Truth Social Scraper: Scrape posts from specific user profiles.
• Truth Social Comment Scraper: Extract comments from specific posts.
• Truth Social Hashtag Scraper: Scrape all posts containing a specific hashtag.

How to Use

Configure the actor using a simple JSON input. The main parameters are:

• maxPosts: The maximum number of trending posts to collect.
• cleanContent: (Default: true) Cleans and formats the post text content.
• proxyConfiguration: Settings for proxy usage, recommended for larger runs.

Example Input

{
  "maxPosts": 80,
  "cleanContent": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

Input/Output

Input: The JSON configuration object shown above.

Output: The actor stores results in an Apify dataset. Each item represents a scraped post with the following structure:

• Post Metadata: id, created_at, url, content, language, visibility.
• Counts: replies_count, reblogs_count, favourites_count.
• Media: media_attachments array containing URLs and metadata for images/videos.
• Account: Nested account object with username, display_name, followers_count, avatar, etc.
• Status Flags: favourited, reblogged, bookmarked, sensitive.