Forbes Real-Time Billionaires Scraper

Forbes Real-Time Billionaires Scraper is an Apify Actor that scrapes the live Forbes Real-Time Billionaires rankings into a structured JSON dataset. Each profile includes net worth, daily wealth change, source of wealth, industry, country, and Forbes profile URLs — with optional financial assets and bio enrichment. Built for finance research, wealth tracking, lead enrichment, and AI agents.

What Is Forbes Real-Time Billionaires Scraper?

Forbes Real-Time Billionaires Scraper returns the live Forbes Real-Time Billionaires list (3,400+ profiles) as clean JSON rows, fetched server-side from the public Forbes API with retries — no browser required. Each row includes rank, name, net worth in billions USD, formatted net worth, daily dollar and percent change, source, industry, country, state, city, age, birth date, gender, self-made flag, philanthropy score, profile and image URLs, and scraped timestamp.

If you need the current net worth and ranking of the world's richest billionaires, run with maxItems: 10 and the default rank sort — you get rank, netWorth, dailyChangeFormatted, source, country, and profileUrl in one row per billionaire.

Key Features

• Live list — the current Forbes Real-Time Billionaires rankings, up to ~3,400 profiles (maxItems: 0)
• Rich fields per profile — rank, net worth (formatted, billions, raw), daily change (amount, percent, formatted, status), source, industry, country, state, city, age, birth date, gender, self-made status, philanthropy score
• Financial assets enrichment — company, ticker, exchange, shares, and price per holding (includeFinancialAssets)
• Bios and abouts — background facts per billionaire (includeBiosAndAbouts)
• Wealth history — included when Forbes returns it (includeWealthHistory)
• Filters — by country, industry, gender, and self-made status
• Sorts — rank, net worth, daily gainers/losers, name, or age
• Predictable billing — pay-per-event: one billed event per delivered profile, with user spending limits respected automatically

Supported Data

Category	Fields
Identity	rank, name, uri, profileUrl, imageUrl, thumbnailUrl
Wealth	netWorth, netWorthFormatted, netWorthRaw, netWorthPrev
Movement	dailyChangeAmount, dailyChangeBillions, dailyChangePercent, dailyChangeFormatted, dailyChangeStatus
Profile	source, industry, industries, country, state, city, age, birthDate, gender, selfMade, selfMadeRank, philanthropyScore
Enrichment	financialAssets (company, ticker, exchange, shares, price), bios, abouts, wealthHistory
Metadata	scrapedAt

A run summary is saved to the default key-value store under SUMMARY: totalScraped, totalAvailableOnForbes, totalWealthBillionsUSD, topBillionaire, scrapedAt.

Use Cases

• Finance and wealth research — track net worth movements and top gainers/losers
• News and content — richest people by country, industry, age, or gender
• Lead enrichment and KYC — country, industry, source of wealth, profile URL
• AI agents and MCP — pay-per-event pricing makes each delivered profile a predictable billed unit

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	100	Max profiles to return. 0 returns all matches (~3,400+)
country	string	""	Filter by country of citizenship. Case-insensitive
industry	string	""	Filter by industry. Case-insensitive, matches primary and list
gender	string	ALL	ALL, M, or F
selfMadeOnly	boolean	false	Only self-made billionaires
sortBy	string	rank_asc	rank_asc, rank_desc, netWorth_desc, netWorth_asc, dailyChange_desc, dailyChange_asc, name_asc, age_asc, age_desc
includeFinancialAssets	boolean	true	Include stock holdings breakdown
includeBiosAndAbouts	boolean	true	Include bios and facts
includeWealthHistory	boolean	false	Include wealth history when Forbes returns it
proxyConfiguration	object	auto	Apify Proxy settings. Direct connection works; proxy optional

Example input — top 10 US technology billionaires:

{
  "maxItems": 10,
  "country": "United States",
  "industry": "Technology",
  "sortBy": "rank_asc",
  "includeFinancialAssets": true,
  "includeBiosAndAbouts": true
}

Sample Output

{
  "rank": 1,
  "name": "Elon Musk",
  "uri": "elon-musk",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk/",
  "netWorth": 929.4,
  "netWorthFormatted": "$929.40 B",
  "dailyChangeAmount": 0,
  "dailyChangePercent": 0,
  "dailyChangeFormatted": "$0.00 (0.00%)",
  "dailyChangeStatus": "unchanged",
  "source": "Tesla, SpaceX",
  "industry": "Technology",
  "country": "United States",
  "age": 55,
  "gender": "M",
  "selfMade": true,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-13T17:58:26.803Z"
}

How to Use the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires Scraper

1. Open the Actor page on Apify Store and click Start Actor.
2. Set maxItems (100 by default; 0 for the full ~3,400+ list).
3. Optionally filter by country, industry, gender, or selfMadeOnly, and choose a sortBy order.
4. Keep includeFinancialAssets / includeBiosAndAbouts enabled if you want enriched profiles.
5. Run the Actor and read the dataset — one JSON row per billionaire, plus the SUMMARY run stats in the key-value store.

Connect via API

cURL:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/akash9078/forbes-real-time-billionaires-scraper/runs" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"maxItems":10,"country":"United States","industry":"Technology","sortBy":"rank_asc"}'

Python:

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/akash9078/forbes-real-time-billionaires-scraper/runs",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN"},
    json={"maxItems": 10, "country": "United States", "industry": "Technology", "sortBy": "rank_asc"},
)
print(response.json())

Node.js with the Apify Client:

const { ApifyClient } = require('apify-client');

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });

const run = await client.actor('akash9078/forbes-real-time-billionaires-scraper').call({
    maxItems: 10,
    country: 'United States',
    industry: 'Technology',
    sortBy: 'rank_asc',
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Forbes Real-Time Billionaires Scraper Pricing

Pay-per-event pricing with two custom events:

Event	Price	Description
Billionaire profile	$0.001	Charged once per profile delivered to the dataset (rank, net worth, daily change, source, industry, country, profile URL)
Enriched profile (assets + bio)	$0.0005	Charged in addition when includeFinancialAssets or includeBiosAndAbouts is enabled

The Actor respects user spending limits: it stops when the charge limit is reached, so users are never billed past their max. Keep apify-actor-start enabled to cover startup compute.

Why Use This Instead of Scraping Forbes Manually?

Capability	Forbes Real-Time Billionaires Scraper	Manual tracking
Coverage	~3,400+ profiles per run	Page-by-page
Normalization	Net worth in raw, billions, and formatted fields	Manual conversion
Enrichment	Financial assets + bios in the same row	Separate research
Filters & sorts	Country, industry, gender, self-made; 9 sort orders	Manual spreadsheet work
Billing	$0.001 per delivered profile, capped by your limit	Untracked effort

Limitations

• Data is live from Forbes — scrapedAt marks extraction time and daily change fields reflect Forbes intraday movement
• Wealth history is only included when Forbes returns it (includeWealthHistory)
• Filters that match nothing return an empty dataset with a SUMMARY of totalScraped: 0; no profile events are charged
• Direct connection works by default; proxy is optional

FAQ

What data source is used?

The public Forbes Real-Time Billionaires JSON API, fetched server-side with retries. No browser required.

How fresh is the data?

scrapedAt marks extraction time; daily change fields reflect Forbes intraday movement.

How many results can I get?

Up to the full list (~3,400). Set maxItems: 0 for all.

Does it handle invalid filters?

Yes. Filters that match nothing return an empty dataset and a SUMMARY with totalScraped: 0; no profile events are charged.

What does each billed event map to?

One billionaire-profile event equals one dataset row you can see. One enriched-profile event equals one row delivered with assets/bio included.

Can I get daily gainers and losers?

Yes — sort with dailyChange_desc or dailyChange_asc to rank profiles by intraday wealth change.

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Built and maintained by akash9078 on the Apify platform.