Best Social Media Scrapers on Apify (2026)
Social Media Scrapers are built to work around strict login walls on large platforms and extract public posts, profiles, and audience engagement data at scale.
Social media platforms are the richest sources of consumer sentiment and market trends, but they actively hostile to automated data collection. The Apify Store provides the proxy infrastructure and browser emulation required to scrape these networks reliably without blocking your own IP address.
Top Actors in This Category
1. TikTok Scraper — 136K users · 4.7 ⭐ · $1.70/1,000 results
The most popular TikTok tool on Apify (136K users). Extract highly detailed video metadata, creator profiles, hashtag aggregates, and engagement statistics directly from TikTok's web infrastructure. Try TikTok Scraper on Apify →
2. Facebook Posts Scraper — 51K users · 4.8 ⭐ · $2.60/1,000 posts
The highest-rated Facebook extractor (4.8 ⭐). Scrape full post content, reaction counts, video view metrics, and author details from any public business page, celebrity profile, or open group. Try Facebook Posts Scraper on Apify →
3. 🏯 Tweet Scraper V2 (X / Twitter Scraper) — 40K users · 4.3 ⭐ · $0.40/1,000 tweets
The most cost-effective Twitter/X scraper on the platform. Bypass the expensive official API (no keys needed) to extract tweets, threaded replies, and user profiles using advanced search operators. Try Tweet Scraper V2 on Apify →
4. Instagram Scraper — 191K users · 4.7 ⭐ · $1.50/1,000 results
The unquestioned king of social scraping with nearly 200,000 users. Extract public posts, account profiles, geolocation tags, and Reels data efficiently. Essential for influencer discovery. Try Instagram Scraper on Apify →
5. YouTube Scraper — 57K users · 4.7 ⭐ · $2.40/1,000 videos
Scrape YouTube without generating Google API keys or hitting daily 10,000-unit quotas. Extract video titles, descriptions, view counts, and channel metadata for video SEO auditing. Try YouTube Scraper on Apify →
6. Instagram Comments Scraper — 26K users · 3.8 ⭐ · $2.30/1,000 comments
Feed this actor an Instagram post URL and it drills down to extract all comments, extracting the raw text, the commenter's handle, and timestamps to fuel brand sentiment analysis. Try Instagram Comments Scraper on Apify →
7. Facebook Comments Scraper — 24K users · 4.2 ⭐ · $1.40/1,000 comments
Target any public Facebook post, reel, or video, and extract the entire conversation thread. At just $1.40/1K, it's highly cost-effective for large-scale product feedback monitoring. Try Facebook Comments Scraper on Apify →
8. Facebook Ads Library Scraper — 14K users · 4.1 ⭐ · $3.40/1,000 ads
The ultimate competitive intelligence tool. Scrape the official Meta Ads Library to uncover every single active ad your competitors are running across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and the Audience Network. Try Facebook Ads Library Scraper on Apify →
9. Instagram Profile Scraper — 93K users · 4.5 ⭐ · $1.60/1,000 profiles
A specialized tool purely for profile data. Feed it a massive list of Instagram handles, and it checks their follower/following counts, bio links, and verified statuses without triggering rapid rate limits. Try Instagram Profile Scraper on Apify →
Why These Tools Stand Out
Rather than building brittle Selenium scripts that break every time Meta or ByteDance updates their frontend, Apify's developer ecosystem maintains these scrapers 24/7. They automatically swap out blocked IP addresses for pristine residential proxies, ensuring your extraction runs to completion.
With $5 in free monthly credits, you can start pulling social analytics before you pay.
No. These tools are built specifically to extract *public* data from social media platforms without requiring you to log in or risk your personal account being banned.
The scraping of publicly available factual data (like follower counts or public post text) is generally permitted under most international frameworks (like the closely watched hiQ vs. LinkedIn case). However, scraping private user data or content behind a login wall often violates platform Terms of Service.
No. Apify actors generally restrict the scraping of highly sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (PII) like private user emails to remain compliant with GDPR and CCPA regulations.