Apify

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Endpoints

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Scrape tweets from Twitter/X. Supports search terms (Twitter advanced search syntax), profile handles, tweet URLs, and list URLs. By default Lava returns a compact projection (~400 bytes/tweet) with id/url/text/createdAt/lang/counts, a slim author (userName, name, description, followers, verified), and slimmed entities (hashtags, expanded URLs, user mentions); retweets and quotes are recursively slimmed. Pass filter.mode="full" to receive the raw Apify payload (~4-6KB/tweet) with media variants, card binding values, and full author metadata. $0.40 per 1,000 tweets.

const data = await lava.gateway('https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/apidojo~tweet-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items', { body: {"searchTerms":["from:NASA"],"maxItems":20,"sort":"Latest"} });

curl -X POST "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.apify.com%2Fv2%2Facts%2Fapidojo~tweet-scraper%2Frun-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchTerms":["from:NASA"],"maxItems":20,"sort":"Latest"}'

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Extract a single company profile from a Crunchbase URL. Pass one Crunchbase organization URL via the url field (singular). By default Lava returns a compact summary (~10–15KB) containing identity, overview description, founders, current leadership, funding rounds with investors, acquisitions, top 25 competitors (slimmed), tech stack, heat/growth scores, and key employee changes — structural boilerplate (UUIDs, empty summary shells, multi-year time-series history) is stripped in the gateway. Pass filter.mode="full" to receive the raw ~650KB Apify payload unchanged. $0.008–$0.015 per company.

const data = await lava.gateway('https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/pratikdani~crunchbase-companies-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items', { body: {"url":"https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai"} });

curl -X POST "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.apify.com%2Fv2%2Facts%2Fpratikdani~crunchbase-companies-scraper%2Frun-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url":"https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai"}'

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Search GitHub repositories by keyword, get all repos from a user/org, or discover trending repos. Supports full GitHub search syntax (stars:>1000, language:python, user:facebook). Returns stars, forks, watchers, topics, license, language, and optionally README content. $0.01 per 1,000 results.

const data = await lava.gateway('https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/muscular_quadruplet~github-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items', {
  body: {
"mode": "search",
"searchQuery": "machine learning",
"maxItems": 25
},
});

curl -X POST "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.apify.com%2Fv2%2Facts%2Fmuscular_quadruplet~github-scraper%2Frun-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"mode":"search","searchQuery":"machine learning","maxItems":25}'

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Search Reddit posts across all subreddits by keyword. Returns title, body, votes, author, subreddit, timestamps, and media. Use searches (array of queries) with maxItems to cap result count. IMPORTANT: this runs synchronously through the gateway’s short serverless function window — keep maxItems small (≤10) and set skipComments: true and skipUserPosts: true to stay inside the window. Larger queries will 504-timeout. For more results, break into multiple calls or use targeted subreddit URLs via startUrls instead of cross-Reddit search. $3.40 per 1,000 results.

const data = await lava.gateway('https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/trudax~reddit-scraper-lite/run-sync-get-dataset-items', {
  body: {
"searches": [
  "AI agents paid APIs"
],
"maxItems": 5,
"searchPosts": true,
"searchComments": false,
"skipUserPosts": true,
"skipComments": true,
"proxy": {
  "useApifyProxy": true
}
},
});

curl -X POST "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.apify.com%2Fv2%2Facts%2Ftrudax~reddit-scraper-lite%2Frun-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searches":["AI agents paid APIs"],"maxItems":5,"searchPosts":true,"searchComments":false,"skipUserPosts":true,"skipComments":true,"proxy":{"useApifyProxy":true}}'

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Search TikTok videos by keyword, scrape hashtag pages, or extract profile data. Returns video metadata, engagement stats (plays, likes, shares, comments), author info, music metadata, and hashtags. Three input modes: searchQueries: ["keyword"] for keyword search, hashtags: ["name"] for hashtag pages, or profiles: ["username"] for a user’s videos. Use resultsPerPage to cap results. Maintained by Apify. $1.70 per 1,000 results.

const data = await lava.gateway('https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/clockworks~tiktok-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items', { body: {"searchQueries":["cooking"],"resultsPerPage":10} });

curl -X POST "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.apify.com%2Fv2%2Facts%2Fclockworks~tiktok-scraper%2Frun-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchQueries":["cooking"],"resultsPerPage":10}'

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Search Instagram for hashtags, profiles, or places by keyword, or scrape posts, comments, reels, and details from Instagram URLs. Returns post captions, engagement metrics (likes, comments), media URLs, author info, hashtags, and location data. 219K users, 4.7 stars. $2.30 per 1,000 results.

const data = await lava.gateway('https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/apify~instagram-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items', {
  body: {
"directUrls": [
  "https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/motivation/"
],
"resultsType": "posts",
"resultsLimit": 25
},
});

curl -X POST "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.apify.com%2Fv2%2Facts%2Fapify~instagram-scraper%2Frun-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"directUrls":["https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/motivation/"],"resultsType":"posts","resultsLimit":25}'

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Next Steps