Notion Marketplace & Creator Profiles Scraper

Scrape templates, categories, ratings, and creator profiles from Notion's official template marketplace. Perfect for competitive analysis, market research, creator monitoring, and discovering trending Notion templates.

Features

• 📦 Template Marketplace Scraping - Extract templates with titles, descriptions, categories, pricing, and ratings
• 👥 Creator Profiles - Scrape creator information, social links, bios, and template counts
• 🔄 Incremental Runs - Detect new, updated, and unchanged templates automatically
• 📊 Trending Detection - Track "Most Duplicated" and "Recently Added" templates
• 🎯 Flexible Filtering - Filter by category, price, creator, and date
• 🤖 Anti-Blocking - Built-in browser fingerprinting, session management, and proxy rotation
• 📈 Rich Metrics - Ratings, duplicate counts, category rankings
• 🔗 Webhook Support - Real-time notifications for n8n integration
• 🚦 Robots.txt Compliant - Respects Notion's crawling policies

Data Sources

This actor scrapes public data from:

• https://www.notion.com/templates - Main template marketplace
• Template detail pages (ratings, features, descriptions)
• Creator profile pages (bios, social links, template counts)

Use Cases

For Notion Agencies

• Monitor trending templates in your niche
• Discover gaps in the marketplace
• Track competitor template launches
• Research pricing strategies

For Content Creators

• Find inspiration for new templates
• Track template performance (ratings, duplicates)
• Monitor creator success patterns
• Discover collaboration opportunities

For Market Researchers

• Analyze Notion template market trends
• Track category growth over time
• Identify emerging template categories
• Study pricing models and user preferences

For Automation (n8n/Zapier)

• Weekly digest of new templates
• Alerts for templates in specific categories
• Creator monitoring (new template alerts)
• Competitive intelligence pipelines

Input Configuration

Basic Configuration

{
  "mode": "gallery",
  "sortBy": "most_duplicated",
  "maxTemplates": 500,
  "categories": ["work", "projects", "marketing"],
  "includeTemplateDetails": true,
  "includeCreatorProfiles": true
}

Input Fields

Field	Type	Description	Default
mode	Select	What to scrape: gallery, creators, or both	gallery
searchQuery	String	Keyword to search for (limited by robots.txt)	-
categories	Array	Filter by categories (e.g., work, school, life)	[] (all)
sortBy	Select	Sort order: popular, most_duplicated, recent	popular
maxTemplates	Number	Maximum templates to scrape (1-10000)	500
includeTemplateDetails	Boolean	Scrape full template pages (ratings, features)	true
includeCreatorProfiles	Boolean	Fetch creator profile information	true
sinceDate	String	Only templates since this date (YYYY-MM-DD, best effort)	-
priceFilter	Select	Filter by price: all, free, paid	all
trackCreators	Array	Monitor specific creators (e.g., ["@notion", "@username"])	[]
maxConcurrency	Number	Concurrent requests (1-20, lower = safer)	3
useResidentialProxies	Boolean	Enable residential proxies (slower but more reliable)	false
enableWebhooks	Boolean	Send webhook notifications on completion	false

Available Categories

work, school, life, projects, wiki, docs, marketing, ai, social-media, trading-journal, second-brain, personal-finance, design, engineering, product, startup, remote-work

Output Schema

Example Output

{
  "schemaVersion": "1.0.0",
  "source": "notion_marketplace",
  "collectedAt": "2025-10-02T12:00:00Z",
  "listing": {
    "title": "Projects & Tasks",
    "url": "https://www.notion.com/templates/notion-projects-and-tasks",
    "slug": "notion-projects-and-tasks",
    "price": {
      "label": "Free",
      "currency": null,
      "amount": null
    },
    "categoryPath": ["Work", "Projects"],
    "sortContext": "most_duplicated",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://...",
    "isDuplicateable": true
  },
  "creator": {
    "name": "Notion",
    "handle": "@notion",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.notion.com/@notion",
    "socialLinks": ["https://twitter.com/notionhq"],
    "bio": "We make the tools to help you think and create",
    "templateCount": 50
  },
  "metrics": {
    "duplicateCountVisible": null,
    "rankInSortPage": 1,
    "rating": {
      "score": 4.85,
      "count": 6285
    }
  },
  "detail": {
    "summary": "Track projects of any shape or size...",
    "features": [
      "Multiple project views (timeline, kanban, calendar)",
      "Task dependencies and milestones",
      "Team collaboration tools"
    ],
    "sections": ["About this template", "What's included"],
    "relatedTemplates": [
      {
        "title": "Task Manager",
        "url": "https://www.notion.com/templates/task-manager"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ingest_meta": {
    "firstSeenAt": "2025-09-15T10:00:00Z",
    "lastSeenAt": "2025-10-02T12:00:00Z",
    "changeType": "UPDATED",
    "version": "1.0.0"
  }
}

Dataset Views

The actor provides 5 pre-configured views in the Apify Console:

1. Overview - All templates with key information
2. Trending - Most duplicated and recently added templates
3. By Creator - Templates grouped by creator
4. Free Templates - All free templates only
5. Changes - New and updated templates since last run

Incremental Runs & Change Detection

The actor automatically tracks template state across runs:

• NEW - Template discovered for first time
• UPDATED - Content, price, or rating changed
• UNCHANGED - No changes detected

Enable scheduled runs to build a historical dataset and track marketplace trends over time.

Export Options

Export your data in multiple formats:

• JSON - Raw structured data
• CSV - Spreadsheet-compatible
• Excel - .xlsx format
• RSS - For feed readers

Webhooks & n8n Integration

Setup Webhooks

1. Go to Integrations tab in Apify Console
2. Create webhook for Run succeeded
3. Add your n8n/Zapier webhook URL
4. Enable enableWebhooks: true in input

n8n Recipe Ideas

Weekly Template Digest

Apify Actor (scheduled weekly)
  → Filter (changeType = "NEW")
  → Format (create email HTML)
  → Gmail (send digest)

Competitive Intelligence

Apify Actor (daily)
  → Filter (specific categories)
  → Compare (with previous run)
  → Slack (notify on changes)

Creator Monitoring

Apify Actor (trackCreators = ["@competitor"])
  → Detect (new templates)
  → Airtable (log to database)
  → Discord (alert team)

Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing:

• Event: template-scraped - Charged when a template detail is scraped
• Cost: Configured in Apify Console (typical: $0.001 - $0.01 per template)

Free tier estimate: ~500 templates with Apify free credits

Cost Examples

Templates	Approx. Cost*
100	$0.10 - $1.00
500	$0.50 - $5.00
1,000	$1.00 - $10.00

*Actual costs depend on your Apify pricing tier and configuration

Anti-Blocking Strategy

The actor employs multiple anti-blocking techniques:

1. Browser Fingerprinting - Crawlee's built-in fingerprints (human-like)
2. Session Management - Sticky proxy sessions for consistent identity
3. Adaptive Concurrency - Starts conservative (3 concurrent requests)
4. Exponential Backoff - Automatic retry with increasing delays
5. Proxy Rotation - Datacenter proxies (residential available)
6. Robots.txt Compliance - Skips disallowed paths automatically

If You Get Blocked

1. Lower concurrency: Set maxConcurrency: 1 or 2
2. Enable residential proxies: Set useResidentialProxies: true
3. Reduce scope: Lower maxTemplates per run, schedule multiple runs

Robots.txt & Legal Compliance

This actor respects Notion's robots.txt:

• ✅ Allowed: /templates/* (main marketplace)
• ❌ Blocked: /templates/search?query=* (search queries)

The actor automatically skips disallowed URLs and logs them. All scraped data is publicly accessible without authentication.

Scheduling Recommendations

Daily Trend Tracking

{
  "mode": "gallery",
  "sortBy": "recent",
  "maxTemplates": 100,
  "sinceDate": "2025-10-01"
}

Schedule: Daily at 9 AM

Weekly Full Scan

{
  "mode": "both",
  "sortBy": "most_duplicated",
  "maxTemplates": 1000,
  "includeTemplateDetails": true,
  "includeCreatorProfiles": true
}

Schedule: Every Sunday at 12 PM

Creator Monitoring

{
  "mode": "creators",
  "trackCreators": ["@competitor1", "@competitor2"],
  "includeTemplateDetails": true
}

Schedule: Daily at 6 PM

Limitations & Notes

• Search queries are limited by robots.txt restrictions
• Duplicate counts are often hidden by Notion (captured when visible)
• Rating breakdowns may not be available on all templates
• Concurrency should be kept low (≤5) to avoid rate limiting
• Residential proxies recommended for large-scale scraping (1000+ templates)

Troubleshooting

No templates found

• Check your categories filter (may be too restrictive)
• Verify Notion marketplace is accessible
• Review logs for robots.txt skips

Rate limited / blocked

• Lower maxConcurrency to 1-2
• Enable useResidentialProxies
• Add delays between runs

Missing ratings or details

• Ensure includeTemplateDetails: true
• Some templates may not have public ratings
• Check logs for parsing errors

Incremental runs not working

• State is stored in KV store automatically
• First run will mark all as "NEW"
• Subsequent runs will detect changes

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Support

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• Email: kontakt@barrierefix.de
• GitHub Issues: [Report a bug or request a feature]

Version History

1.0.0 (2025-10-02)

• Initial release
• Template marketplace scraping
• Creator profile support
• Incremental runs with change detection
• Pay-per-event billing
• Robots.txt compliance
• Multiple dataset views

License

MIT License - See LICENSE file for details

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