Most Popular Apify Actors by Store Usage
High user counts on the Apify Store are the single best proxy for "this Actor still works." Top Actors ship fixes within days of DOM changes, publish pay-per-result prices you can budget against, and have thousands of live runs failing loudly if output schema drifts. This page groups them by job (local leads, social, commerce, RAG) so you can pick the right tool in under two minutes. For the full category breakdown this page draws from, see best Apify Actors.
The five Actors with the largest user bases on the Apify Store right now are Google Maps Scraper (596K users, 4.70★), Instagram Scraper (388K, 4.70★), TikTok Scraper (275K, 4.76★), Instagram Profile Scraper (214K, 4.75★), and Google Search Results Scraper (179K, 4.65★). Numbers read from Apify's Store API on 2026-09-09 (Store).
Every Actor below runs on Apify’s free tier ($5 in monthly platform credits, no card).
Popularity and price are different rankings: the Apify scrapers we have tested are listed by what 1,000 results cost on that free tier, from $0.40 for tweets to $10 for LinkedIn profiles.
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Social media
| Actor | Why it's popular | Typical cost | Open in Store |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instagram Scraper | The apify-official mixed-input Actor: one input schema covers profiles, posts, hashtags, reels, and comments, so teams standardize on it instead of wiring five separate Actors | $2.70/1K results on Free, $2.30 on Starter (PPE) | Run → |
| Instagram Profile Scraper | Cheapest per-row option on the Store for bio, follower counts, and verification, preferred for roster enrichment at volume | $1.60–$2.60/1K profiles | Run → |
| Instagram Post Scraper | Purpose-built when the unit of analysis is the post (captions, likes, comments, tagged users) without paying for profile overhead | from $1.00/1K posts (PPE) | Run → |
| Instagram Reel Scraper | Now the 9th-largest Actor on the Store, with a reels-only schema, play counts, and audio IDs that the generic Instagram Scraper drops | from $1.00/1K reels (PPE) | Run → |
| TikTok Scraper | Maintained by clockworks, the community maintainer who consistently ships fixes within days of TikTok UI changes, which is why it out-runs apify-namespace alternatives | PPE | Run → |
| TikTok Data Extractor | The best-rated TikTok Actor on the Store among the three here (4.82★): a leaner schema than the flagship scraper, priced the same per result | from $1.00/1K (PPE) | Run → |
| TikTok Profile Scraper | Use when you only need bio/follower fields and don't want to pay per-video; smallest of the three clockworks TikTok Actors by user count | from $1.00/1K profiles (PPE) | Run → |
| YouTube Scraper | Maintained by streamers, it skips YouTube Data API's 10,000-unit daily quota and returns fields (full description, chapter markers) the official API gates | from $2.40/1K videos | Run → |
| Facebook Posts Scraper | Apify-official, the only Facebook posts Actor with a 4.5+ rating at volume because Meta breaks scrapers constantly and the official team ships patches | from $2/1K posts | Run → |
| Facebook Pages Scraper | Pulls page-level about/contact fields in one call; the complement to Posts Scraper for competitive-monitoring dashboards | from $5.40/1K pages (PPE) | Run → |
| Tweet Scraper V2 | $0.40/1K tweets, the cheapest public X scrape on the Store by a wide margin; sub-4 rating reflects X platform churn, not Actor quality | $0.40/1K tweets | Run → |
Start here: Open Instagram Scraper if your inputs are mixed, or Instagram Profile Scraper for the cheapest per-row option on roster enrichment. Comparing every social platform side by side? See Best Social Media Scrapers for the full breakdown by platform.
Lead generation & local data
| Actor | Why it's popular | Typical cost | Open in Store |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Maps Scraper (compass) | The most-run Actor on the entire Store (596K users); compass maintains it full-time, so DOM fixes land within days | from $1.50/1K places (PPE) | Run → |
| Google Maps Extractor | Same maintainer as the flagship scraper but exposes place-page fields (images, popular times, extended hours) the default crawler skips | PPE | Run → |
| Google Maps Email Extractor | Chains Maps listings into a website-crawl step in one Actor, removing the second pipeline most lead-gen teams build themselves | PPE + website crawl | Run → |
| Google Maps Reviews Scraper | Same compass codebase, so review extraction survives the same Maps DOM changes the flagship fixes | from $0.30/1K reviews on Business (PPE) | Run → |
| Mass LinkedIn Profile Scraper with Email | Flat per-profile price with optional email discovery included, so B2B teams can budget it cleanly. Its rating recently slipped below 4★, so test output quality before scaling | PPE (per profile) | Run → |
| LinkedIn Jobs Scraper | The go-to for hiring-signal pipelines: accepts LinkedIn job-search URLs directly, so you can clone a recruiter's filter into an Actor input | $29.99/mo flat (switches to pay-per-event on 2026-09-15) | Run → |
| Contact Details Scraper | General-purpose email/phone/socials extractor, paired with Google Maps output in most lead-gen workflows on the Store | from $1.05/1K pages (PPE) | Run → |
Start here: Google Maps Scraper → feed websites into Contact Details Scraper if your compliance review allows it. Prospecting rather than local leads? Best Lead Generation Actors covers enrichment and outbound tools this page doesn't.
E-commerce & marketplaces
Commerce Actors trail social and maps in raw users. Amazon Product Scraper is still the most-used option here, but its rating has fallen to 3.88★ (57 reviews, checked 2026-09-09) — below the 4.0 line this guide treats as a caution flag everywhere else on the page. Run a small test batch against your target marketplace before committing budget to it.
| Actor | Why it's popular | Typical cost | Open in Store |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Product Scraper | Handles ASIN variants, sellers, and regional amazon.* domains in one input schema, which is the friction point in most Amazon scrapes | from $3/1K results (PPE) | Run → |
| E-commerce Scraping Tool | Apify-official multi-retailer Actor: one input schema for SKU maps that span multiple domains, no per-site Actor juggling | PPE | Run → |
eBay and Shopify have dedicated Actors on the Store, but both currently score below 3.1★, so check Best E-commerce Scrapers for current picks before using them in production.
Before scaling: Run a 10-SKU test on Amazon Product Scraper, check the Pricing tab for your marketplace, then schedule.
Content, search & AI (RAG)
| Actor | Why it's popular | Typical cost | Open in Store |
|---|---|---|---|
| Website Content Crawler | The default RAG ingestion Actor: built-in nav/boilerplate stripping and markdown output means no preprocessing step before you chunk and embed | $0.20/1K pages (raw HTTP) to $5/1K (headless) | Run → |
| Web Scraper | In-browser page function + devtools UI, faster to prototype a custom scraper here than to write a standalone Actor in code | platform usage only | Run → |
| Google Search Results Scraper | 179K users, 4.65★, Apify-official, returns organic, ads, and SERP features in one schema for SEO tracking | from $1.80/1K SERPs | Run → |
Start here: Website Content Crawler on your own docs domain first. That validates chunk quality against what you already know is ground truth before you ingest external sites. New to Actors entirely? What Is an Apify Actor? covers how they run, scale, and bill before you commit to one.
Reference: Top 25 Actors by user count
Snapshot read from Apify's Store API on 2026-09-09, so every row shares one vintage. Use it for raw popularity rank when category fit isn't enough. User counts climb over time, so treat them as directional rather than exact. (Amazon Product Scraper's rating stood at 3.88★ in this snapshot, and the Store's total Actor count is 70,000+; see the "Amazon" and "Search the full Store" sections above.)
| Rank | Actor | Users | Rating | Store |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Google Maps Scraper | 596,324 | 4.70 | Open → |
| 2 | Instagram Scraper | 388,434 | 4.70 | Open → |
| 3 | TikTok Scraper | 275,028 | 4.76 | Open → |
| 4 | Instagram Profile Scraper | 213,560 | 4.75 | Open → |
| 5 | Google Search Results Scraper | 178,811 | 4.65 | Open → |
| 6 | RAG Web Browser | 169,454 | 4.71 | Open → |
| 7 | Website Content Crawler | 155,190 | 4.61 | Open → |
| 8 | LinkedIn Jobs Scraper (curious_coder) | 152,310 | 4.49 | Open → |
| 9 | Instagram Reel Scraper | 141,834 | 4.39 | Open → |
| 10 | Instagram Post Scraper | 126,230 | 4.29 | Open → |
| 11 | Web Scraper | 124,374 | 4.69 | Open → |
| 12 | YouTube Scraper | 113,608 | 4.80 | Open → |
| 13 | Facebook Posts Scraper | 107,282 | 4.64 | Open → |
| 14 | Instagram Hashtag Scraper | 106,263 | 3.39 | Open → |
| 15 | Google Maps Extractor | 100,904 | 4.85 | Open → |
| 16 | Tweet Scraper V2 | 99,179 | 3.90 | Open → |
| 17 | Google Maps Email Extractor | 88,472 | 4.63 | Open → |
| 18 | LinkedIn Profile Scraper + Email (HarvestAPI) | 68,882 | 4.77 | Open → |
| 19 | Mass LinkedIn Profile Scraper | 63,046 | 3.61 | Open → |
| 20 | YouTube Shorts Scraper | 60,824 | 4.35 | Open → |
| 21 | Facebook Pages Scraper | 60,506 | 4.64 | Open → |
| 22 | Contact Details Scraper | 59,120 | 4.69 | Open → |
| 23 | Google Maps Reviews Scraper | 55,574 | 4.85 | Open → |
| 24 | TikTok Data Extractor | 55,441 | 4.82 | Open → |
| 25 | Instagram Comments Scraper | 52,800 | 4.66 | Open → |
Notes:
- Actor Fail Manager and Traffic Generator rank high by raw user count but are run-monitoring and traffic-simulation utilities, not target-site scrapers, so both are excluded here to keep the table like-for-like.
- Amazon Product Scraper and Leads Finder (3.89★, ~47K users) remain strong category picks (see the sections above) but now sit just outside the top 25 by raw users.
- YouTube Shorts Scraper (4.35★) recovered from an earlier slump after a rewrite shipped once the YouTube Shorts layout stabilized, though its rating has drifted back down since our last check.
- Instagram Hashtag Scraper is the clear rating outlier in the top 20 (3.39★): hashtag discovery has broken repeatedly and recent reviews are mixed. Use Instagram Scraper with hashtag inputs instead for now.
- Tweet Scraper V2 also carries a sub-4 rating (3.90★): the price/perf is the draw ($0.40/1K tweets); X platform churn is the risk.
Insights worth applying
- Maps + Instagram + TikTok clear 1.26M combined users because lead gen and social monitoring are universal. If you don't know which Actor to try first, one of those three probably fits.
- compass (Maps), clockworks (TikTok), and streamers (YouTube) are the three community maintainers who consistently out-rank apify-official Actors in their verticals. Prefer their builds unless an apify-namespace Actor is genuinely newer.
- Ratings below 4.2 on a high-user Actor are almost always a platform-side fight (X churn, Instagram hashtag API changes). Check the review dates before you assume the Actor itself is broken.
By live Apify Store user counts (read from the Store API on 2026-09-09), the top five are Google Maps Scraper (596K), Instagram Scraper (388K), TikTok Scraper (275K), Instagram Profile Scraper (214K), and Google Search Results Scraper (179K). Use the reference table above for the full top 25 and verify each listing's live stats before budgeting.
The reference table ranks Actors by total Apify Store users as re-verified on 2026-09-09. Category sections group tools by job-to-be-done (local leads, social, commerce, RAG) so you can pick by use case, not only popularity. Run-monitoring utilities are excluded even when their user counts qualify.
Yes. Apify's free tier includes $5 in monthly platform credits you can spend on any Actor. Open an Actor's Pricing tab, run a small test input set, and export a sample dataset before scaling.
Match scope to need: Instagram Profile Scraper for bio/counts only, Instagram Scraper for mixed inputs, Post Scraper when every row must be a post, Reel Scraper when every row must be a reel. For Maps: compass/crawler-google-places for default, google-maps-extractor for extra place-page fields, lukaskrivka/google-maps-with-contact-details when email enrichment is part of the spec.
Usually platform instability, not Actor quality. Tweet Scraper V2 (3.90) and Instagram Hashtag Scraper (3.39) are victims of upstream UI and API churn. Read the last 30 days of reviews and run a live test before production use.
No. Popularity signals maintenance and fit for common cases. You still need to validate output fields, run success rate, rate limits, and compliance for your specific targets and jurisdictions.