# Social Links Scraper (`akaza010/social-links-scraper`) Actor

This actor crawls a list of input URLs and extracts social media links (e.g. Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, etc.) that exist on those pages.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/akaza010/social-links-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Akaza](https://apify.com/akaza010) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media
- **Stats:** 69 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 5.00 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

$30.00/month + usage

To use this Actor, you pay a monthly rental fee to the developer. The rent is subtracted from your prepaid usage every month after the free trial period. You also pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher Apify subscription plan you have.

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

## 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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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Scrapy Actor – Social Media Link Extractor

This actor crawls a list of input URLs and extracts **social media links** (e.g. Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, etc.) that exist on those pages.

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### 🚀 How it works

1. You provide a list of URLs as input.
2. The actor visits each URL and scrapes all `<a>` tags.
3. It filters out links that match known social media domains.
4. Results are stored in the Apify **dataset** in the following structure:

```json
{
  "Input Url": "https://www.example.com/",
  "Facebook": [
    "https://www.facebook.com/example/"
  ],
  "Twitter/X": [],
  "Instagram": [
    "https://www.instagram.com/example/"
  ],
  "LinkedIn": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example1/",
    "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example2/"
  ],
  "TikTok": [],
  "YouTube": [],
  "Pinterest": [],
  "Reddit": [],
  "Snapchat": [],
  "Tumblr": [],
  "Threads": [],
  "Discord": [],
  "Twitch": [],
  "WhatsApp": [],
  "Raw Text": "Text Data"
}
```

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### 📥 Input

The actor expects a JSON input with an array of URLs:

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://example.com/" },
    { "url": "https://another.com/" }
  ]
}
```

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### 📤 Output

The dataset will contain **one item per input URL**, with each social platform as its own column.

| Input URL           | Facebook                          | Instagram                        | LinkedIn                            | Twitter/X | YouTube | TikTok | Pinterest | Reddit | Snapchat | Tumblr | Threads | Discord | Twitch | WhatsApp | Raw Text                           |
|---------------------|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------|--------------------------------------|-----------|---------|--------|-----------|--------|----------|--------|---------|---------|--------|----------|------------------------------------|
| https://example.com | https://facebook.com/example      | https://instagram.com/example    |                                      |           |         |        |           |        |          |        |         |         |        |          | Full scraped text from the page... |
| https://another.com |                                   |                                  | https://linkedin.com/company/test    |           |         |        |           |        |          |        |         |         |        |          | Full scraped text from the page... |

#### Fields:

1. **Input URL** – the page where links were found
2. **Facebook** – extracted Facebook links (array)
3. **Instagram** – extracted Instagram link (array)
4. **LinkedIn** – extracted LinkedIn link (array)
5. **Twitter/X** – extracted Twitter/X link (array)
6. **YouTube** – extracted YouTube link (array)
7. **TikTok** – extracted TikTok link (array)
8. **Pinterest** – extracted Pinterest link (array)
9. **Reddit** – extracted Reddit link (array)
10. **Snapchat** – extracted Snapchat link (array)
11. **Tumblr** – extracted Tumblr link (array)
12. **Threads** – extracted Threads link (array)
13. **Discord** – extracted Discord link (array)
14. **Twitch** – extracted Twitch link (array)
15. **WhatsApp** – extracted WhatsApp link (array)
16. **Raw Text** – all text found on page

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### 🌐 Running on Apify

1. Go to the actor’s page on Apify.
2. Click **Try actor** and provide the input JSON (see Input section).
3. Run the actor.
4. View results in the **Dataset** tab (exportable as JSON, CSV, or Excel).

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### 📚 Example social domains handled

- **Facebook** → `facebook.com`, `fb.com`
- **Instagram** → `instagram.com`, `instagr.am`
- **Twitter/X** → `twitter.com`, `x.com`
- **LinkedIn** → `linkedin.com`
- **YouTube** → `youtube.com`, `youtu.be`
- **TikTok** → `tiktok.com`
- **Pinterest** → `pinterest.com`
- **Reddit** → `reddit.com`, `redd.it`
- **Snapchat** → `snapchat.com`, `sc.com`
- **Tumblr** → `tumblr.com`
- **Threads** → `threads.net`
- **Discord** → `discord.com`, `discord.gg`
- **Twitch** → `twitch.tv`
- **WhatsApp** → `wa.me`, `whatsapp.com`

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### 📝 Notes

- Some websites hide social links inside menus, scripts, or dynamic sections. This scraper only extracts **static `<a>` tag links**.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

URLs to start with

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Specifies proxy servers that will be used by the scraper in order to hide its origin.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.maptransportservices.com/"
    }
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# 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 = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.maptransportservices.com/"
        }
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("akaza010/social-links-scraper").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 = {
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.maptransportservices.com/" }],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("akaza010/social-links-scraper").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 '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.maptransportservices.com/"
    }
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call akaza010/social-links-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,akaza010/social-links-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

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/Ac671sCeGUmaWlY5w/builds/wdaipnhktLFrwenPo/openapi.json