Best Challenge Picks on Apify (2026)
Challenge Picks surfaces innovative actors from Apify developer challenges, including unusual and high-value data sources.
The Challenge Picks collection on the Apify Store showcases the most creative and technically impressive actors built by the community. These tools solve data problems that mainstream scrapers miss.
Top Actors in This Collection
1. Tripadvisor Reviews Scraper — 276 users · 5.0 ⭐ · $0.50/1,000 results
Rated 5.0 ⭐. Extract detailed TripAdvisor reviews with traveler type classification, reviewer profiles, owner responses, and media content. Useful for hospitality sentiment analysis. Try Tripadvisor Reviews Scraper on Apify →
2. Uber Eats Menu Scraper — 110 users · 5.0 ⭐ · Pay-per-event
Rated 5.0 ⭐. Extract complete restaurant menus from Uber Eats including item names, prices, and images. Supports bulk restaurant URL lists for food delivery market analysis. Try Uber Eats Menu Scraper on Apify →
3. Smart Idealista Scraper
Scrape Idealista, the leading Spanish real estate portal. Extracts property listings with price, size, location, photos, energy rating, and agent contact details. Covers Spain, Portugal, and Italy. Try Smart Idealista Scraper on Apify →
4. Lemon8 Scraper Profile | Posts
Extract public profiles and posts from Lemon8, ByteDance's lifestyle social platform. Returns post text, images, hashtags, and engagement metrics. Useful for influencer discovery on emerging platforms. Try Lemon8 Scraper Profile | Posts on Apify →
5. Review to Image Generator
Converts customer review text into branded image cards ready for social media. Accepts review text and brand colors/logo, returns image files — useful for automating social proof content. Try Review to Image Generator on Apify →
6. Google Flights API
Search Google Flights for real-time flight prices across routes and dates. Returns outbound/return flight options with airline, layover count, duration, and fare class. Useful for travel price monitoring. Try Google Flights API on Apify →
7. RAG Knowledge Graph Builder
Crawl websites and build structured knowledge graphs for RAG pipelines. Extracts entities, relationships, and facts from web pages — returns structured graph data ready for vector DBs or LLM context. Try RAG Knowledge Graph Builder on Apify →
8. FLIPPA.com Scraper
Scrape Flippa business-for-sale listings for websites, apps, and domain names. Returns asking price, traffic data, revenue, monetization type, and listing age. Starting at only $1. Try FLIPPA.com Scraper on Apify →
9. Instagram Bot Detector
Analyzes Instagram accounts to score them for bot-like behavior based on follower/following ratio, post frequency, engagement patterns, and profile completeness. Returns a quality score and risk flags. Try Instagram Bot Detector on Apify →
10. WHO Health Intelligence Scraper
Extract health intelligence data from the WHO website, including disease outbreak alerts, vaccination coverage data, and public health reports. Structured output for health monitoring pipelines. Try WHO Health Intelligence Scraper on Apify →
Why These Tools Stand Out
Every actor in this collection was selected for its innovative approach to solving real data problems. They handle proxy rotation, browser fingerprinting, and anti-bot bypasses automatically — delivering structured data without infrastructure overhead.
Apify offers $5 in free monthly credits, so you can start using these tools on the free tier.
It's a curated collection of actors built by Apify's developer community during hackathons and challenges. These actors tend to cover uncommon or technically challenging data sources that mainstream scrapers don't address — like the WHO health data scraper, Lemon8 profiles, or the Instagram Bot Detector.
Costs vary by actor. Tripadvisor Reviews Scraper starts at $0.50/1,000 results. The Flippa scraper starts at only $1. Apify provides $5 in free monthly credits, enough to test these actors and pull initial datasets.
Yes, every Apify actor comes with an auto-generated REST API. You can trigger runs and fetch results via webhook, or use the official Apify clients for Python and JavaScript.