Tide Forecast Scraper — Tide Predictions

Scrape tide predictions from Tide-Forecast.com. Get high/low tide times and heights for thousands of coastal locations worldwide, plus sunrise, sunset, moonrise, and moonset data — as clean JSON.

What it extracts

• Location name and country
• Date — the forecast day
• Tides — array of high/low events with time and height
• Sunrise & sunset times
• Moonrise & moonset times
• Source URL — the Tide-Forecast page
• scrapedAt — ISO timestamp

Input

Two modes: search (crawl a country's locations) or provide explicit startUrls.

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	search (by country) or use startUrls
country	string	United-States	Country path for search mode
startUrls	array	—	Specific Tide-Forecast location URLs
limit	integer	50	Max locations to scrape
proxyConfiguration	object	none	Optional proxy settings

Example input

{
  "mode": "search",
  "country": "United-States",
  "limit": 50
}

Or target specific locations:

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.tide-forecast.com/locations/San-Francisco-California/tides/latest" }
  ]
}

Output

Each record is one location-day:

{
  "locationName": "San Francisco, California",
  "country": "United States",
  "date": "2026-09-15",
  "tides": [
    { "type": "High", "time": "04:12", "height": 5.8 },
    { "type": "Low", "time": "10:47", "height": 0.9 },
    { "type": "High", "time": "17:03", "height": 6.1 },
    { "type": "Low", "time": "23:20", "height": 1.2 }
  ],
  "sunrise": "06:45",
  "sunset": "19:12",
  "moonrise": "14:03",
  "moonset": "23:58",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.tide-forecast.com/locations/San-Francisco-California/tides/latest",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-10T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Use cases

• Boating & fishing apps: power tide tables for coastal spots
• Surf & beach forecasting: combine tides with sun/moon timing
• Coastal research: assemble long-run tide datasets by location
• Travel & tourism: plan beach activities around low/high tide
• Event planning: schedule around tide windows

Notes on proxies

This actor uses Apify Proxy by default for reliable access. Keep proxy enabled, especially when crawling many locations.

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