--- title: "Best Apify actors (not mine) - AutomationByExperts" type: "third-party-actor-index" url: "https://automationbyexperts.com/best-apify-actors" actor_count: 16 --- # Best Apify Actors I Did Not Build Curated third-party actors from the Apify Store, for the sources my own catalogue does not cover. 16 actors, 1,157,636,523 runs, 2,709,749 users. Every actor is credited to its author. Disclosure: these links carry an Apify referral tag, so the site owner earns a commission on new signups. No developer pays to be listed. ## Google Maps & local data 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. - **Google Maps Scraper** by compass - 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. ($0.004 per scraped place, 610,282 users, 39,533,381 runs) - **Google Maps Reviews Scraper** by compass - 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. ($0.0006 per scraped review, 57,111 users, 165,582,993 runs) - **📩📍 Google Maps Email Extractor** by lukaskrivka - 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. ($0.005 per scraped place, 89,834 users, 2,100,540 runs) ## 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. ($0.0027 per result, 398,397 users, 196,733,648 runs) - **TikTok Scraper** by clockworks - Videos, profiles, hashtags and sounds with full engagement metrics. The reference TikTok actor for creator research and trend tracking. ($0.0037 per result, 289,017 users, 126,526,072 runs) - **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. ($0.012 per page, 61,907 users, 33,538,818 runs) - **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. ($0.0004 per tweet, 100,887 users, 164,032,993 runs) - **YouTube Scraper** by streamers - Videos, channels, search results and comments from YouTube, including view and like counts for content and competitor analysis. ($0.004 per video, 124,950 users, 26,431,642 runs) - **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. ($0.004 per result, 43,301 users, 4,632,075 runs) ## LinkedIn & B2B contacts 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. - **LinkedIn Profile Scraper + Email ✅ No Cookies** by harvestapi - Full LinkedIn profiles - headline, experience, education, skills - without needing your own logged-in account or cookies. ($0.004 per profile details, 71,003 users, 29,102,763 runs) - **Linkedin Jobs Scraper** by curious_coder - LinkedIn job postings by keyword and location. Complements my ATS actor, which reads the same companies' Greenhouse and Lever boards directly. ($0.002 per result, 159,031 users, 3,899,446 runs) - **Contact Details Scraper** by vdrmota - 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. ($0.002 per scraped page, 59,878 users, 13,030,157 runs) ## General crawling & AI input 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. - **Website Content Crawler** by apify - 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. (Free actor you pay compute only, 158,369 users, 43,082,949 runs) - **RAG Web Browser** by apify - 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. (Free actor you pay compute only, 176,249 users, 8,061,357 runs) - **Google Search Results Scraper** by apify - Google SERPs as structured data - organic results, ads, People Also Ask and related queries - for rank tracking and keyword research. ($0.0045 per result, 184,703 users, 119,890,234 runs) - **Web Scraper** by apify - 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. (Free actor you pay compute only, 124,830 users, 181,457,455 runs) ## FAQ ### What is the best Apify actor? 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. ### Are these actors free? 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. ### Do I need to write code to use 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. ### Why are these actors not on your own /apify page? 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. ### Do you earn money from these links? 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. ### How current are the run and user counts? 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. ## My own actors For car listings, real estate, marketplaces, price monitoring, B2B leads, bulk AI and SEO visibility, see (markdown: ).