# Rolling Stone Charts Scraper (`parseforge/rollingstone-charts-scraper`) Actor

Track Rolling Stone music charts with chart name, rank, title, artist, last week position, peak, weeks on chart, units, date, and source URL. Filter by chart and week date. Useful for music industry analytics, label dashboards, and historical chart trend research.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parseforge/rollingstone-charts-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ParseForge](https://apify.com/parseforge) (community)
- **Categories:** News
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $7.50 / 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.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

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

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# README

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## 🎵 Rolling Stone Charts Scraper

> 🚀 **Export Rolling Stone music charts in seconds. Top 200 Albums, Top 100 Songs, Artists 500 - direct from rollingstone.com.**

The Rolling Stone Charts Scraper extracts the weekly music charts published by Rolling Stone, covering albums, songs, artists, and genre-specific charts.

| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| 🎵 Music industry analysts | Track weekly chart movement |
| 📰 Music journalists | Pull rankings for stories |
| 🎤 Artists and managers | Monitor your own performance |
| 🤖 ML engineers | Train music recommendation models |
| 👩‍💻 Developers | Mirror Rolling Stone charts into your app |

### 📋 What the Rolling Stone Charts Scraper does

- Scrapes any of 9 Rolling Stone charts.
- Returns rank, title, artist, last week, peak, weeks-on-chart, units.
- Supports historical weeks via `weekDate`.
- Exports CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, HTML.

> 💡 **Why it matters:** Rolling Stone's charts are an alternative industry benchmark to Billboard. This actor delivers them as a clean structured feed.

### 📊 Data fields

Each record includes: `artist`, `chart`, `date`, `imageUrl`, `lastWeek`, `peak`, `rank`, `results`, `scrapedAt`, `title`, `units`, `url`, `weeksOnChart`. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

> ⚠️ **Good to Know:** Charts publish weekly. Free tier returns the top 10.

### 🚀 How to use

1. Click **Try for free**.
2. Pick a chart.
3. Click **Start**.

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> 💡 **Pro Tip:** browse the complete [ParseForge collection](https://apify.com/parseforge) for 900+ scrapers.

**Disclaimer:** This actor scrapes only publicly available data. ParseForge is not affiliated with Rolling Stone or Penske Media. [Create a free account w/ $5 credit](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp).

### 🆘 Need Help?

If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our [contact form](https://tally.so/r/BzdKgA) or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.

For faster answers, join our [Discord](https://parseforge.co/discord). It's the best place to get support and suggest new actors.

# Actor input Schema

## `chart` (type: `string`):

Which Rolling Stone chart to scrape.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

How many chart entries to collect per run.

## `weekDate` (type: `string`):

Chart week (YYYY-MM-DD). Leave empty for latest.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "chart": "top-200-albums",
  "maxItems": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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 = {
    "chart": "top-200-albums",
    "maxItems": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("parseforge/rollingstone-charts-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 = {
    "chart": "top-200-albums",
    "maxItems": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("parseforge/rollingstone-charts-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "chart": "top-200-albums",
  "maxItems": 10
}' |
apify call parseforge/rollingstone-charts-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=parseforge/rollingstone-charts-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/tza20QVXPGsibCaq6/builds/efnwQvJlXJT8sqNEg/openapi.json