Google Maps, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and whole-site crawling - the jobs my own catalogue doesn't cover, handled by the actors the rest of Apify already relies on.
The short answer
The most-used Apify actors are the Google Maps Scraper by compass, the Instagram Scraper and Website Content Crawler by Apify, the TikTok Scraper by clockworks, and the Tweet Scraper by apidojo. Between them the 16 actors on this page have run 1,101,723,879 times for 2,506,195 users. They all run in the browser with no code and bill per result, and a new Apify account starts with $5 of free credit. For car listings, property, marketplaces, price monitoring, B2B leads and bulk AI, my own 44 actors cover the same ground.
Disclosure: none of the actors on this page are mine - each one is credited to the developer who built it. The links carry my Apify referral tag, so I earn a commission if you create an account. It costs you nothing extra and you still get the $5 starting credit. I don't get paid to include anyone here; the picks come from what the Store's own usage numbers show people actually run.
Local business data - names, addresses, phones, websites and reviews - straight out of Google Maps. This is the single most requested dataset I get asked for, and these three actors cover every version of the job.
The default Google Maps scraper. Give it a search term and an area and it returns every business with address, phone, website, category, opening hours and coordinates. If you only ever run one third-party actor, run this one.
Pulls the full review history for any place - text, rating, date and reviewer. The right tool for reputation monitoring and for mining complaints about a competitor.
Google Maps results enriched with emails and social profiles found on each business's own website - the version you want when the output is going straight into cold outreach.
Profiles, company pages, jobs and contact details for outbound sales. Pair these with my own lead actors to build a list and then verify it.
Full LinkedIn profiles - headline, experience, education, skills - without needing your own logged-in account or cookies.
LinkedIn job postings by keyword and location. Complements my ATS actor, which reads the same companies' Greenhouse and Lever boards directly.
Point it at any list of websites and it extracts emails, phone numbers and social links. The cheapest way to turn a list of domains into contactable leads.
When no site-specific actor exists, these are the generic workhorses - including the two Apify builds designed to feed clean text into an LLM or a RAG pipeline.
Crawls a whole site and returns clean article text with the navigation, ads and boilerplate stripped out - built specifically to feed vector databases and LLM training sets.
Searches the web and returns page content in one call, in the shape a RAG pipeline or an AI agent expects. The web-search tool to hand your agent.
Google SERPs as structured data - organic results, ads, People Also Ask and related queries - for rank tracking and keyword research.
The generic browser-based scraper: write a short page function in JavaScript and extract anything from any site. What you reach for when nothing purpose-built exists.
Nothing above overlaps my catalogue - that's deliberate. If your job is car listings, property, marketplace products, competitor pricing, B2B lead sources, bulk AI or SEO visibility, start here instead.
Pull live car, RV and classifieds listings from the biggest auto marketplaces.
Browse →Property listings, prices, agent contacts and GPS coordinates at scale.
Browse →Product data, prices, EAN/SKU, stock and seller info from major marketplaces.
Browse →Know every retailer selling your product, at what price, and who is breaking MAP.
Browse →Verified business contacts, developer emails, buying-intent posts and PR leads.
Browse →Run hundreds of prompts, images, voiceovers or translations in a single run.
Browse →Measure how you rank in Google - and whether ChatGPT recommends you at all.
Browse →A universal scraping API and change monitoring you can call from any stack.
Browse →Every actor on this site runs on Apify, a cloud platform that handles the servers, proxies and anti-bot work for you. A free account comes with $5 of credit, which is enough to pull roughly 5,000 listings before you pay anything.
By usage it is the Google Maps Scraper by compass - it has more users than any other actor on the Apify Store. The best actor for you depends on the source: Instagram Scraper by Apify for Instagram, TikTok Scraper by clockworks for TikTok, Website Content Crawler by Apify for turning a whole site into clean text, and Tweet Scraper by apidojo for X/Twitter.
Most bill per result, typically a fraction of a cent per record, and a few of Apify's own actors have no rental fee at all - you pay only for platform compute. Every new Apify account starts with $5 of free credit, which is enough to test all of them.
No. Each actor takes plain inputs through a web form - a URL, a search term, a list of usernames - and returns a table you can export as CSV, JSON or Excel. Developers can call the same actors over Apify's REST API.
Because they are not mine. This page lists actors built by other Apify developers, credited to each author, for the sources I do not cover myself. My own actors handle car listings, real estate, marketplaces, price monitoring, B2B lead sources, bulk AI and SEO visibility.
Yes. The links carry my Apify referral tag, so I earn a commission if you create an account through them. It costs you nothing extra and the $5 starting credit is unaffected. No developer pays to be listed here.
They are pulled from the public Apify Store API and refreshed every six hours, so the numbers on this page track the Store itself rather than being typed in by hand.
📱 Social media
Posts, profiles, comments and engagement metrics from the big social platforms. Useful for influencer research, brand monitoring and content analysis at a scale the official APIs no longer allow.
Instagram Scraper
by apify
One actor for posts, profiles, hashtags and comments. Apify maintains it themselves, which matters on a platform that changes its defences monthly.
TikTok Scraper
by clockworks
Videos, profiles, hashtags and sounds with full engagement metrics. The reference TikTok actor for creator research and trend tracking.
Facebook Pages Scraper
by apify
Page details, posts and engagement from public Facebook pages - still the best source of local business data outside Google Maps.
Tweet Scraper V2 - X / Twitter Scraper
by apidojo
X/Twitter search and profile timelines at per-result pricing, which is an order of magnitude cheaper than the official API for the same data.
YouTube Scraper
by streamers
Videos, channels, search results and comments from YouTube, including view and like counts for content and competitor analysis.
Reddit Scraper Lite
by trudax
Subreddits, posts and comments without a Reddit API key. Good for audience research - and a natural companion to my Reddit Lead Finder.