Open Directory Link Scraper
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Open Directory Link Scraper
Open Directory Link Scraper is an Apify Actor that extracts all hyperlinks from web pages and open directory listings. It can recursively crawl directory trees or same-host links, filter files by extension, and returns clean, absolute URLs with metadata such as file type and source page.
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Jamshaid Arif
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Open Directory Link Scraper (Apify Actor)
Extracts every hyperlink from any page or "index of" open directory, resolved to absolute URLs. Optionally filters by file extension and recurses into directory trees or same-host links.
Input
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
startUrls | Pages / open-directory URLs to scrape |
extensions | Keep only links ending in these, e.g. ["pdf","zip"] (empty = all) |
recursive | Follow subdirectory links in "index of" listings |
followSameHostLinks | Follow ANY same-host link — turns it into a bounded crawler |
maxDepth | Link-hops from a start URL (0 = start URLs only) |
maxPages | Hard cap on pages fetched for the whole run |
dedupeLinks | Emit each distinct URL only once |
proxyConfiguration | Optional — most open directories need none |
requestDelaySecs | Pause between fetches (default 0.5) |
Output
{"text": "report-2024.pdf","url": "https://files.example.com/docs/report-2024.pdf","extension": "pdf","is_directory": false,"source_url": "https://files.example.com/docs/"}
Modes
- List one page's links (default) — no recursion, just the start URLs.
- Harvest an open directory — set
recursive: trueto walkindex ofsubdirectories and collect every file link. Pair withextensionsto grab, say, onlypdformp3files. - Bounded same-host crawl — set
followSameHostLinks: trueto follow any same-host link up tomaxDepth/maxPages.
The crawler never leaves the start URL's host, skips mailto:/tel:/anchor
links, and ignores the sort/parent links common in Apache/nginx directory
listings.