Perplexity Discover Scraper

Scrapes trending stories, summaries, and topics from Perplexity Discover (perplexity.ai/discover). Extracts story titles, descriptions, publication timestamps, source counts, category tags, and discover URLs.

What this Actor collects

The Actor converts Perplexity Discover stories into clean JSON records with summaries, categories, publication times, source counts, source domains, and story URLs.

• Uses the input limits and filters below to control the crawl.
• Stores source-backed fields defined by the 13-field dataset schema.
• Omits optional fields when the source does not expose a value instead of writing nulls or fabricated placeholders.

Use cases

• Discover trend monitoring
• Topic and category research
• Story-source analysis

Input

Provide input in JSON. Fields marked required must be supplied; source-specific alternatives and constraints are described in the field text.

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	No	10	Maximum number of discover stories to scrape.
category	string	No	""	Optional category filter. Leave empty for all (Top stories). Available categories: Tech & Science, Business, Arts & Culture, Sports, Entertainment.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	{"useApifyProxy":true}	Proxy settings. Residential proxies are recommended — Perplexity aggressively blocks datacenter IPs.

Example input

{
  "maxItems": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

Output

The default dataset contains one item per Discover story. The following are the most useful fields; availability can vary by source response.

Field	Type	Description
id	string	Discover Story ID
position	integer	Position
title	string	Story Title
description	string	Description
url	string	Discover URL
imageUrl	string	Story Image URL
sourceDomains	array	Visible Source Domains
sourceFaviconUrls	array	Visible Source Favicon URLs
publishedAt	string	Published At
sourceCount	integer	Source Count
category	string	Category
requestedCategory	string	Requested Category
scrapedAt	string	Scraped At

Example dataset item

This compact example is taken from local Actor storage. Long text and nested collections are shortened for documentation only.

{
  "id": "infosys-names-ashiss-kumar-das-7O0opmX2Q_6MsjMYF0NzBA",
  "position": 1,
  "title": "Infosys names Ashiss Kumar Dash as CEO-designate alongside Q1 revenue miss",
  "description": "The IT major appointed the energy and utilities segment head to succeed Salil Parekh from April 2027, as quarterly earnings fell short of estimates.",
  "url": "https://www.perplexity.ai/discover/top/infosys-names-ashiss-kumar-das-7O0opmX2Q_6MsjMYF0NzBA",
  "imageUrl": "https://pplx-res.cloudinary.com/image/fetch/s--nu89okQR--/t_limit/https://img.etimg.com/thumb/width-420%2Cheight-315%2Cimgsize-67688%2Cresizemode-75%2Cmsid-93739686/industry/servi…",
  "sourceDomains": [
    "infosys.com",
    "finance.yahoo.com"
  ],
  "sourceFaviconUrls": [
    "https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?sz=128&domain=infosys.com",
    "https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?sz=128&domain=finance.yahoo.com"
  ],
  "publishedAt": "1 hour ago",
  "sourceCount": 54,
  "category": "Top",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-23T12:20:39.390Z"
}

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