FilmFreeway Festival Scraper
AI-generatedSummary
Scrape FilmFreeway festival listings from supplied URLs, a curated collection, or the site corpus, with optional filters and profile detail extraction. The node runs the Apify actor for each incoming item and returns its dataset results as n8n items.
Inputs
- Start URLs — One or more FilmFreeway directory, curated collection, or festival profile URLs. A direct festival profile URL always triggers full detail extraction.
- Maximum festivals — Hard cap on returned festivals; defaults to 100.
- Get deadlines and entry fees — Visit festival profiles to extract full dates, categories, and fee tiers; defaults to off. Direct profile URLs ignore this setting.
- Open submissions only — Restrict generated searches to festivals currently accepting entries; defaults to on.
- Search keyword — Optional free-text festival search.
- Entry deadline before / after — Optional date bounds for festival entry deadlines.
- Event date before / after — Optional date bounds for festival event dates.
- Project categories — Optional accepted project type filters, such as Animation, Documentary, Feature, Short, or Screenplay.
- Genres and niches — Optional festival genre or niche filters, such as Comedy, Horror, LGBTQ, or Sports.
- Maximum entry fee — Approximate FilmFreeway server-side fee filter; defaults to 0.
- Academy Award qualifying only — Limit results to Academy Award qualifying festivals; defaults to off.
- FilmFreeway Gold discount only — Limit results to festivals with Gold discounts; defaults to off.
- Countries — Optional country names matched against listing locations.
- Sort by — FilmFreeway directory sort order, such as Next Deadlines, Most Popular, or Best Reviewed; defaults to Next Deadlines.
- Curated collection — Select one verified FilmFreeway collection to use when Start URLs is empty.
- Enumerate from sitemap — Enumerate the corpus directly, subject to the Maximum festivals cap; defaults to off.
- Maximum sticky sessions — Set the number of workers bound to validated residential identities, from 1 to 3; defaults to 3.
- Proxy configuration — JSON Apify proxy settings; defaults to an Apify Residential proxy configuration.
- Debug mode — Save up to 20 failing HTML and metadata artifacts; defaults to off.
- Authentication — Choose Apify API key or OAuth2 credentials.
Output shape
A list of n8n items containing the Apify dataset results.
The actor run is polled until it reaches a terminal status, then dataset items are returned. Each output is paired with its corresponding incoming item; with Continue On Fail enabled, an item-level error object is returned for failures.