Polymarket Leaderboard Scraper — Top Traders & Wallets

Scrape the Polymarket leaderboard of top traders and profitable wallets in one run. This actor pulls the curated top-wallet rankings across every Polymarket category — politics, crypto, sports, Trump-tagged and more — and returns each wallet ranked by PnL, ROI, win rate, average bet and volume, with smart-money tags and an optional 24h deep-dive.

It is a Polymarket top traders scraper and smart-money wallet tracker built for copy-trading research, prediction-market analytics and on-chain whale watching. No API key, no login, no wallet connection — export clean CSV, JSON or Excel.

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What you get

Each leaderboard row (always present):

• wallet — wallet address
• name, pseudonym, profileImage — trader identity
• pnl — USD profit
• roi — return on invested cash (0–1)
• assetCash — USD invested
• winRate — win rate (0–1)
• avgBet — average bet size
• volume — total USD volume
• buys, sells, txs — bet counts
• lastActive — ISO timestamp of last bet
• walletTag — tags such as smart_money, top100_21
• appearedIn — which (interval × category) rankings surfaced the wallet
• polymarketUrl, futureNewsUrl — convenience profile links
• scrapedAt — scrape timestamp

Optional per-wallet 24h overview (when includeWalletOverview is on):

• walletAge — account age
• totalValue — current portfolio value
• totalProfit, totalProfitPnl — lifetime profit + PnL ratio
• cashBal — USD cash balance
• realizedProfit24h, realizedProfit24hPnl — 24h realized profit + PnL
• buy24h, sell24h — 24h bet counts
• boughtCost24h, soldIncome24h — 24h cash flow

Up to ~1,000 unique top Polymarket traders per run, deduplicated across intervals and categories.

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Use cases

• Copy-trading research — find who is consistently winning on Polymarket and study their bets.
• Election & politics forecasting — track which politics-category top wallets are accumulating positions.
• Sports betting analytics — isolate the winning sports-category wallets and their patterns.
• Crypto-only prediction markets — filter to the crypto category to study crypto bettors.
• Prediction-market analytics products — power your own leaderboard or wallet-profile dashboard.
• Influencer verification — check public win-boasts against the real leaderboard.
• AI / ML datasets — build labelled top-trader datasets for prediction-market models.

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Input reference

Field	Type	Description
intervals	array	Lookback windows: 1d, 7d, 30d, all.
includeSmartWallet	boolean	Fetch the broad smart-wallet top ~200 list per interval.
categories	array	Polymarket category IDs for per-category top-100 lists.
includeWalletOverview	boolean	Add the per-wallet 24h deep-dive (slower, richer).
maxOverviewLookups	integer	Cap on per-wallet overview calls (0 = all unique wallets).
minPnl / minRoi / minWinRate / minVolumeUsd / minTxs	number	Quality thresholds to drop weak rows.
tagFilter	array	Keep only wallets carrying these tags.
deduplicate	boolean	Merge wallets surfaced by multiple calls into one row.
useProxy / proxyConfiguration	bool / object	Apify Proxy (residential recommended).
maxConcurrency	integer	Parallel API calls (3–5 is safe).

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How to use

1. Choose Lookback Intervals (1d, 7d, 30d, all).
2. Keep Include Smart-Wallet Top 200 on for the broad list, and/or set Category IDs (e.g. 1 Sports, 2 Politics, 21 Crypto, 100265 Trump-tagged) for per-category top-100 lists.
3. Optionally enable Include Per-Wallet 24h Overview for the deep-dive (slower, richer).
4. Apply any filters (min PnL, ROI, win rate, volume, transactions, tags), then run.
5. Export the dataset to CSV, JSON or Excel, or pull it via the Apify API.

Example input

{
  "intervals": ["7d", "all"],
  "includeSmartWallet": true,
  "categories": ["1", "2", "21"],
  "minWinRate": 0.5,
  "deduplicate": true
}

Categories

ID	Category
1	Sports
2	Politics
21	Crypto
100265	Trump-tagged / news

Each (interval × category) pair is one API call; rows are merged and deduplicated when deduplicate is on.

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FAQ

How many wallets can I get per run?

Up to roughly 1,000 unique top traders after deduplication — the smart-wallet list returns about 200 per interval, plus 100 per category per interval. More intervals and categories multiply the total.

Do I need a Polymarket login or API key?

No. The actor reads the public future.news leaderboard data that aggregates Polymarket traders — no account, no wallet connection, no API key.

Can I filter to only profitable smart-money wallets?

Yes. Set thresholds for minimum PnL, ROI, win rate, volume and transactions, and use the tag filter to keep only smart_money or specific category-tagged wallets.

Why is a residential proxy recommended?

The source is fronted by Cloudflare rate limits. Routing through Apify Proxy with the residential group is the most reliable way to complete large runs without throttling.

What is the difference between intervals and categories?

Intervals are time windows (1d, 7d, 30d, all) that define the ranking period. Categories are Polymarket verticals (sports, politics, crypto, Trump-tagged). Every interval × category combination is a separate ranked list, and the actor merges them into one deduplicated dataset.

Can I export to CSV, JSON or Excel?

Yes. Every run produces an Apify dataset you can export to CSV, JSON, Excel, XML or JSONL from the run page or via the Apify API.

Is this a Polymarket API alternative?

Yes. It works as an unofficial Polymarket API alternative for leaderboard and wallet data — no official API key, no login and no wallet connection are required to pull the rankings.

How do I scrape Polymarket leaderboard data without an API?

Run the actor and it reads the public Polymarket leaderboard data for you, then returns a structured dataset of top traders. You get Polymarket wallet data extraction without writing any scraping or API code.

How do I export Polymarket top traders to CSV or JSON?

Run it, then export the resulting dataset to CSV or JSON (also Excel, XML, JSONL) from the run page or the Apify API. It is a ready Polymarket top traders scraper for building a leaderboard dataset.

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Changelog

2026-06-07

• Docs: added coverage for using the actor as a Polymarket API alternative, scraping the leaderboard without an API, and exporting top traders to CSV/JSON.

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Collects publicly available leaderboard data only. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Polymarket. This is not financial advice — always do your own research.