# SoftwareAdvice Products Scraper (`powerai/softwareadvice-products-scraper`) Actor

Scrape product listings from SoftwareAdvice.com by providing a category URL, with automatic pagination and comprehensive product information extraction.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/powerai/softwareadvice-products-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [PowerAI](https://apify.com/powerai) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Other, Integrations
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 82.8% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $4.99 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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

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# README

## Software Advice Products Scraper

This actor allows you to scrape product listings from SoftwareAdvice.com by providing a category URL. It automatically handles pagination and extracts comprehensive product information including ratings, reviews, features, and integrations.

### Features

- **URL-based Scraping:** Extract products by providing a complete Software Advice category URL
- **Automatic Pagination:** Automatically scrolls and loads more products until reaching the end or max items limit
- **Comprehensive Product Data:** Extract detailed information about each product including:
  - Product name and description
  - Logo image URL
  - Rating and review count
  - Product profile URL
  - FrontRunner badge status
  - Free trial and free version availability
  - Integration information
  - Best and worst rated features
  - Call-to-action URLs

### Input Parameters

| Field      | Type    | Required | Description                                    |
|------------|---------|----------|------------------------------------------------|
| `searchUrl`| string  | Yes      | Complete Software Advice category URL to scrape|
| `maxItems` | integer | No       | Maximum number of products to fetch            |

### Output

The output is a main list of product objects, each containing:

- `id`: Unique product identifier
- `name`: Name of the product
- `description`: Product description
- `logoUrl`: URL of the product logo image
- `rating`: Product rating score
- `reviewCount`: Number of reviews
- `productUrl`: URL to the product profile page
- `fullDescriptionUrl`: URL to read full product description
- `isFrontrunner`: Whether the product has FrontRunner badge
- `hasFreeTrial`: Whether free trial is available
- `hasFreeVersion`: Whether free version is available
- `integrations`: List of integration names
- `integrationsCountText`: Text showing additional integrations count
- `bestFeatures`: List of best rated features with scores
- `worstFeatures`: List of worst rated features with scores
- `ctaUrl`: Call-to-action button URL
- `searchUrl`: The original search URL used
- `scrapedAt`: Timestamp of when the product was scraped

Example output:

```json
[
  {
    "id": "28433",
    "name": "Newfies-Dialer",
    "description": "Newfies-Dialer is a cloud-based voice broadcasting, autodialer and phone survey solution that helps users manage concurrent call...",
    "logoUrl": "https://gdm-catalog-fmapi-prod.imgix.net/ProductLogo/9f4bcc5b-73a8-499c-8fd0-b8bda3a90a1e.png",
    "rating": "5.0",
    "reviewCount": "4",
    "productUrl": "",
    "fullDescriptionUrl": "https://www.softwareadvice.com/call-center/newfies-dialer-profile/",
    "isFrontrunner": false,
    "hasFreeTrial": true,
    "hasFreeVersion": true,
    "integrations": [],
    "integrationsCountText": "",
    "bestFeatures": [],
    "worstFeatures": [],
    "ctaUrl": "https://www.capterra.com/ppc/clicks/collect/SA/directory/caf55c6a-bd31-45a3-bf44-a6d200b7e1c5/destination?country=CN&language=en",
    "searchUrl": "https://www.softwareadvice.com/call-center/",
    "scrapedAt": "2025-02-06T10:30:00.000Z"
  }
]
```

### Use Cases

- Product research and comparison
- Market analysis and competitive intelligence
- Software discovery and evaluation
- Integration research
- Feature comparison analysis

### Notes

- The actor uses real browser automation to handle dynamic content
- Results are automatically paginated until reaching the end or max items limit
- All data is extracted from the public product listings
- The actor includes random delays between actions to avoid rate limiting

***

**Start discovering software products on SoftwareAdvice.com today!**

# Actor input Schema

## `searchUrl` (type: `string`):

The complete Software Advice category URL to scrape

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

Maximum number of products to fetch

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

Proxy settings for the actor

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchUrl": "https://www.softwareadvice.com/call-center/",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# 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 = {
    "searchUrl": "https://www.softwareadvice.com/call-center/",
    "maxItems": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("powerai/softwareadvice-products-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 = {
    "searchUrl": "https://www.softwareadvice.com/call-center/",
    "maxItems": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": False,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("powerai/softwareadvice-products-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 '{
  "searchUrl": "https://www.softwareadvice.com/call-center/",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call powerai/softwareadvice-products-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/uhdjOkFyvHcUep6ZM/builds/7atzpCI2g02r1dEdh/openapi.json