# Money Smart (`accelerationengg/moneysmart`) Actor

MoneySmart (a website by the Australian Government) scraper extracts information about calculators' related blogs.
It helps users stay informed about financial planning tools and associated guidance
by scraping individual calculators' detailed blog information.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/accelerationengg/moneysmart.md
- **Developed by:** [Acceleration](https://apify.com/accelerationengg) (community)
- **Categories:** Other
- **Stats:** 41 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 4.92 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

from $3.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## MoneySmart

### Overview

**MoneySmart Scraper** is an Apify Actor that extracts information from the official **MoneySmart (Australian Government)** website.
It collects data from financial calculators **related blog articles**, helping users stay informed about budgeting, savings, tax, superannuation, and retirement planning.

The scraper supports scraping:

- The **MoneySmart home page** (top calculators related blogs)
- Individual **calculator pages** with their associated blog content

***

### Supported Pages

You can choose **one page per run** using the Actor input.

| Input Value          | Page Scraped                          |
| -------------------- | ------------------------------------- |
| `home`               | Home page (Top 5 calculators + blogs) |
| `savings-goals`      | Savings Goals Calculator              |
| `budget-planner`     | Budget Planner                        |
| `income-tax`         | Income Tax Calculator                 |
| `superannuation`     | Superannuation Calculator             |
| `retirement-planner` | Retirement Planner                    |

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### Input Configuration

#### Input Options

**Dropdown option**
Select which page to scrape.

***

### Output Data Structure

Each dataset item follows this structure:

```json
{
  "page": "budget-planner",
  "title": "Budget planner",
  "description": "Use the budget planner to track your income and expenses.",
  "link": "",
  "image": "",
  "pageUrl": "https://moneysmart.gov.au/budgeting/budget-planner",
  "blogTitle": "How to make a budget",
  "blogDescription": "Learn how to create a realistic budget.",
  "blogReadTime": "5 min read",
  "blogUrl": "https://moneysmart.gov.au/budgeting/how-to-make-a-budget",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-01-07T10:15:30.000Z"
}
```

**Table Form**

| Page           | Title          | Description                                               | Link | Image | Page URL                                                                                                 | Blog Title           | Blog Description                        | Blog Read Time | Blog URL                                                                                                             | Scraped At               |
| -------------- | -------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | ---- | ----- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------- | --------------------------------------- | -------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ |
| budget-planner | Budget planner | Use the budget planner to track your income and expenses. |      |       | <https://moneysmart.gov.au/budgeting/budget-planner> | How to make a budget | Learn how to create a realistic budget. | 5 min read     | <https://moneysmart.gov.au/budgeting/how-to-make-a-budget> | 2026-01-07T10:15:30.000Z |

***

### How It Works

1. Initializes the Apify Actor
2. Reads user input (`page`)
3. Opens the selected MoneySmart URL using **PuppeteerCrawler**
4. Extracts:

   - Calculator metadata
   - Related blog articles
5. Pushes structured records to the Apify dataset

***

#### Run on Apify Platform

1. Open the Actor
2. Select the desired page from the **Input dropdown**
3. Click **Run**
4. Download results from the **Dataset**

***

### Limitations

- Scrapes **publicly available content only**

***

# Actor input Schema

## `page` (type: `string`):

Choose Home page or a calculator

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "page": "home"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("accelerationengg/moneysmart").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("accelerationengg/moneysmart").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call accelerationengg/moneysmart --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,accelerationengg/moneysmart"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/ownhUHXwXsIBlPLp8/builds/7frueIemIANlfwxku/openapi.json