RapidAPI Hub Scraper

Scrape the RapidAPI Hub — the largest API marketplace, listing 40,000+ public APIs across Data, AI/ML, Finance, Social, Travel, and dozens more categories. Search by keyword, browse by category, list everything a given provider has published, or fetch one API by ID. No auth, no API key, no proxy required.

What this actor does

• Four modes: search, byCategory, byProvider, byId
• Search across 40,000+ APIs by free-text query, with category and pricing filters
• Browse any of RapidAPI's 52 hub categories
• List every public API published by a given provider (individual or organization)
• Lookup a single API by its internal ID for a detail record
• Reliability & popularity scores on every API: popularity, avg latency, avg success rate, avg service level
• Empty fields are omitted

Output per API

• name, description, longDescription (byProvider/byId modes only)
• websiteUrl — the API provider's own website (byProvider/byId modes only)
• category
• provider, providerHandle, providerType (User or Organization)
• pricingModel — FREE, FREEMIUM, or PAID
• popularityScore (0–10), avgLatencyMs, avgServiceLevel (%), avgSuccessRate (%)
• apiType — e.g. rest, graphql, soap
• verified — true if RapidAPI has tagged the API with its verification checkmark badge
• officialPartner — true if RapidAPI has tagged the API as an official partner integration
• thumbnail
• apiId, apiSlug
• updatedAt
• sourceUrl — canonical rapidapi.com detail page
• recordType: "rapidApiHubItem", scrapedAt

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	search / byCategory / byProvider / byId
searchQuery	string	– (prefill weather)	Free-text query (mode=search); optional if category/pricingModel supplied instead
category	string	–	Restrict to one hub category (search filter, or required for byCategory — defaults to Data)
pricingModel	string	any	any / FREE / FREEMIUM / PAID
providerHandle	string	–	Provider username/handle, e.g. weatherapi (mode=byProvider)
providerType	string	User	User or Organization (auto-retries the other type on 0 results)
apiId	string	–	RapidAPI internal API ID (mode=byId), from another mode's apiId field
minPopularityScore	number	–	Drop APIs with popularity below this (0–10)
maxItems	int	30	Hard cap (1–500)

Example: free LinkedIn-data APIs

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "linkedin",
  "pricingModel": "FREE",
  "maxItems": 30
}

Example: browse the AI/ML category

{
  "mode": "byCategory",
  "category": "Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: everything WeatherAPI.com has published

{
  "mode": "byProvider",
  "providerHandle": "weatherapi",
  "providerType": "User"
}

Use cases

• API sourcing — find a reliable weather/payments/social API before integrating one into your product
• Competitive intelligence — see how many APIs a competitor provider has published and how they're priced
• Market mapping — enumerate every provider in a category (e.g. all LinkedIn-scraping APIs) with reliability scores
• Pricing research — compare FREE vs FREEMIUM vs PAID distribution within a category
• Reliability due-diligence — check avgSuccessRate/avgLatencyMs before committing to an API dependency

FAQ

What's the RapidAPI Hub? A marketplace where developers publish and monetize APIs; other developers subscribe through RapidAPI's unified gateway. See rapidapi.com/hub.

Do I need a RapidAPI account or API key? No. All data comes from RapidAPI's own public, unauthenticated GraphQL endpoint — the same one the rapidapi.com website itself calls to render search/browse pages.

What does pricingModel mean? FREE — no paid tier exists. FREEMIUM — a free tier plus paid tiers for higher volume/features. PAID — subscription required from the first call. The actor reports what RapidAPI itself shows; it does not scrape per-tier dollar amounts.

What's popularityScore? RapidAPI's own 0–10 ranking signal, factoring in subscriber/install counts.

How do I get an apiId for mode=byId? Run search or byCategory first — every result record includes an apiId field you can feed back in.

Why do some categories look duplicated (e.g. "Travel" and "Travel, Transportation")? RapidAPI's own category taxonomy has some overlapping/legacy labels; the actor exposes the real values exactly as the Hub returns them rather than silently merging them.

How fresh is the data? Real-time — every mode reads directly from RapidAPI's live GraphQL API.