Legacy PhantomJS Crawler
By Apify · Free · ApifyIntel score 85/100
Published 2019-03-11 · Last updated 2026-08-18
Replacement for the legacy Apify Crawler product with a backward-compatible interface. The Actor uses PhantomJS headless browser to recursively crawl websites and extract data from them using a piece of front-end JavaScript code.
Key stats
- 18.4M total runs
- 895 total users
- 5.00 Apify Store rating (8 reviews)
- 27 bookmarks
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How Legacy PhantomJS Crawler has moved
ApifyIntel has recorded Legacy PhantomJS Crawler in 269 daily snapshots of the Apify Store since 2025-11-21. Latest reading: 2026-10-08.
- 59 monthly users, down 9.2% from 65 on 2026-09-08, down 4.8% from 62 on 2026-07-10
- 70.6K runs in the last 30 days, 99.8% of them succeeded (30 days earlier: 71.0K runs, 99.8% succeeded)
- 72.5K runs added to the lifetime total since 2026-09-08 (now 18.4M)
- Ranked #1,233 of 72,628 actors by monthly users, down 305 places since 2026-09-08
- Apify Store rating 5.00 from 8 reviews (5.00 from 6 on 2026-07-10)
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