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Let's learn how to change the default configuration to scrape something more interesting than just the page's. Good job! We've run our first task and got some results.

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This takes you to the Dataset tab, where you can display or download the results in various formats. Now that the run has SUCCEEDED, click on the glowing Results card to see the scrape's results.

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You will know that the run successfully completed when the RUNNING card in top-left corner changes to SUCCEEDED.ДЇeel free to browse through the various new tabs: Log, Info, Input and other, but for the sake of brevity, we will not explain all their features in this tutorial. In under a minute, you should have the 10 pages scraped. If it seems that nothing is happening, don't worry, it takes a few seconds for the run to fully boot up. Now click Save & Run! (in the bottom-left part of your screen) The run detailДЄfter clicking Save & Run, the window will change to the run detail. You just won't be able to run more tasks that month. If you accidentally go over the limit, no worries, we won't charge you for it. Just to get an idea, our free plan includes 10 CUs and this run will consume about 0.04 CU, so you can run it 250 times a month for free. This also helps with keeping your compute unit (CU) consumption low. We don't need to crawl the whole domain just to see that the actor works. This tells your task to finish after 10 pages have been visited. Scroll down to the Performance and limits section and set the Max pages per run option to 10. It says that the task should visit and all its subpages, such as and scrape some data using the provided pageFunction, specifically the of the page and its URL. There are already some pre-configured input values.

Before we delve into the details, let's just see how the example works. This takes you to the Input and options tab of the task configuration. For this tutorial, we will select Web Scraper. This tutorial covers the use of Web, Cheerio, and Puppeteer scrapers, but a lot of the information here can be used with all actors. Then, click the Create a new task button in the top-right corner. If not, the easiest way is to go to Apify Store and select the actor you want to base your task on. Trying it outДepending on how you arrived at this tutorial, you may already have your first task created for the scraper of your choice. They are nothing but saved configurations of the actor that you can run easily and repeatedly. You can create 10 different tasks for 10 different websites, with very different options, but there will always be just one actor, the apify/*-scraper you chose.

And if you just want to learn more about actors in general, you can read our actors page or browse the documentation. If you need help choosing the right scraper, see this great article.

apify/web-scraper is therefore an application called web-scraper, built by apify, that you can configure to scrape any webpage. All of them are actors and for now, let's just think of an actor as an application that you can use with your own configuration. It doesn't matter whether you arrived here from Web Scraper ( apify/web-scraper), Puppeteer Scraper ( apify/puppeteer-scraper) or Cheerio Scraper ( apify/cheerio-scraper). But first, let's give you a brief introduction to web scraping with Apify.

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You will learn how to set up all the different configuration options, code a Page function ( pageFunction), and finally download the scraped data either as an Excel sheet or in another format, such as JSON or CSV. Welcome to the getting started tutorial! It will walk you through creating your first scraping task step by step. Learn the foundations of scraping the web with Apify and creating your own actors. Step-by-step tutorial that will help you get started with all Apify Scrapers.

Write your own webscraper