Wattpad Scraper

What Wattpad Scraper can do

• Inline paragraph comments, matched to their paragraph. Wattpad's most distinctive data is the comment a reader leaves on one line of one chapter. This actor returns those, each carrying the id of the paragraph it was written on, so a comment can be placed next to the sentence that caused it. Comments left at the end of a chapter come back in the same pass and are labelled separately.
• One row per story, chapters and comments nested inside. A run that reads ten stories and forty thousand comments exports ten rows, so the dataset stays joinable and you are billed for stories, not for comments.
• The chapter list costs nothing. Every chapter's id, title, link, length, publish stamp and its own read, vote and comment counters arrive inside the story record. Only the chapter body text and the comment thread need extra requests, and a story that takes them is billed one detail-enrichment event once, however many chapters or comment pages it needed.
• Honest filters. The site's index accepts a tag parameter and a maturity parameter and then ignores both, which is easy to mistake for a working filter. This actor applies those two itself, over the data the site returns, and says so in the input rather than handing back an unfiltered set that looks filtered.
• Real end-of-feed detection. The comment feed signals "no more pages" by dropping a key, not by returning an empty list, and a missing comment list means a refused request rather than a quiet thread. Those two cases are told apart, so a blocked request never masquerades as a story with no comments.
• "No results" is checked before it is reported. A search that returns nothing on its first page looks exactly like a search the site briefly declined to answer: same status, same empty body. Before a run reports an empty result set, it spends one small check read that the site always answers. If that check comes back with results, your search really is empty and the run succeeds quietly. If it does not, the run reports a connection problem instead of handing you a successful run with zero rows.

Choose what to collect

These inputs let you configure Wattpad Scraper - Stories, Chapters, Authors & Comments. Open the actor on Apify to enter your values and review the current options.

Fields in the output

The documented dataset includes the fields below. Availability can depend on the source page and selected mode.

Example output

An example from this actor’s documentation. Values are illustrative; this is not a fresh live result.

{
  "storyId": "100000001",
  "title": "The Sample Werewolf Chronicles",
  "url": "https://www.wattpad.com/story/100000001-the-sample-werewolf-chronicles",
  "description": "A one paragraph blurb, exactly as the author wrote it.",
  "coverUrl": "https://img.example-cdn.test/cover/100000001-256.jpg",
  "author": "sample_author",
  "authorUrl": "https://www.wattpad.com/user/sample_author",
  "language": "English",
  "categories": [
    "Werewolf"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "werewolf",
    "alpha",
    "mates"
  ],
  "isCompleted": true,
  "isMature": false,
  "rating": 1,
  "copyright": 1,
  "numParts": 44,
  "readCount": 1234567,
  "voteCount": 89012,
  "commentCount": 34567,
  "wordCount": 412345,
  "firstPartId": "200000001",
  "createdAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
  "modifiedAt": "2026-01-02T00:00:00Z",
  "chapters": [
    {
      "chapterId": "200000001",
      "title": "Chapter 1: The Sample Beginning",
      "url": "https://www.wattpad.com/200000001-sample-chapter-one",
      "wordCount": 8123,
      "rating": 1,
      "isDraft": false,
      "createdAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
      "modifiedAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
      "readCount": 98765,
      "voteCount": 4321,
      "commentCount": 876,
      "photoUrl": "",
      "videoId": "",
      "text": "The chapter body appears here when chapter text is switched on.",
      "paragraphs": [
        {
          "id": "5a1b2c3d",
          "text": "The first paragraph of the chapter."
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "chaptersReturned": 1,
  "comments": [
    {
      "commentId": "200000001_5a1b2c3d_1767225600_aaaa1111",
      "scope": "inline",
      "paragraphId": "5a1b2c3d",
      "text": "This line broke me.",
      "author": "sample_reader_01",
      "authorUrl": "https://www.wattpad.com/user/sample_reader_01",
      "createdAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
      "modifiedAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
      "status": "active",
      "replyCount": 1,
      "url": "https://www.wattpad.com/200000001-sample-chapter-one",
      "replies": [
        {
          "commentId": "200000001_5a1b2c3d_1767225601_bbbb2222",
          "scope": "inline",
          "paragraphId": "5a1b2c3d",
          "text": "Same, I had to put the phone down.",
          "author": "sample_reader_02",
          "authorUrl": "https://www.wattpad.com/user/sample_reader_02",
          "createdAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
          "modifiedAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
          "status": "active",
          "replyCount": 0,
          "url": "https://www.wattpad.com/200000001-sample-chapter-one",
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "commentId": "200000001__1767225602_cccc3333",
      "scope": "part",
      "paragraphId": null,
      "text": "Updating soon, I hope.",
      "author": "sample_reader_03",
      "authorUrl": "https://www.wattpad.com/user/sample_reader_03",
      "createdAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
      "modifiedAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
      "status": "active",
      "replyCount": 0,
      "url": "https://www.wattpad.com/200000001-sample-chapter-one",
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
  "commentsReturned": 2,
  "commentsComplete": false,
  "scanComplete": true,
  "enrichmentSkipped": false,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-01-02T00:00:00Z",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.wattpad.com/story/100000001-the-sample-werewolf-chronicles",
  "changeType": "NEW",
  "changedFields": [],
  "firstSeenAt": "2026-01-02T00:00:00Z",
  "lastSeenAt": "2026-01-02T00:00:00Z"
}

Ways to use this data

• Fanfiction and reader community research: track tag, category and completion-state trends across genres to see which themes and pairings are growing.
• Content licensing and translation scouting: watch a language, category or tag for newly completed stories worth optioning, without reading the whole index by hand.
• Reader engagement studies: pull the full comment thread, inline and end-of-chapter together, to see exactly where in a story readers react.
• Discovery and recommendation tools: build genre or tag based reading lists straight from the site's own categories and tags.
• Portfolio and rival monitoring for authors: run incremental mode on a story link to see new chapters, retitles and completion-state changes over time, without re-reading engagement counters that move on their own.
• Moderation and brand-safety screening: check a story's mature flag and tags before referencing it in another product.

Before you run

Start with a small input and check the resulting records against your expected fields. Source content and actor options can change; the current Apify listing is the reference for availability and pricing.

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