🛍️ Smart Apify Actor Scraper

🚀 Scrape the Apify Store with 70+ fields per actor including performance metrics, quality scores, pricing models, user reviews, and technical specifications. Search by keyword, category, or actor ID.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-17

The Apify Store has thousands of actors for web scraping, data extraction, and automation. This Actor searches that marketplace and returns structured records with 70+ fields per actor, covering names, descriptions, categories, tags, author details, usage statistics, build counts, quality scores, reliability metrics, pricing models, Docker images, memory limits, input/output schemas, and user feedback. You can search by keyword, filter by category and pricing model, or look up specific actors by ID.

Whether you are evaluating actors for a data pipeline, researching the marketplace to find gaps, analyzing competitor positioning, or benchmarking actor quality across categories, this scraper gives you structured marketplace intelligence in minutes. No manual clicking through dozens of actor pages.

Target	Apify Store (Actor Marketplace)
Use Cases	Marketplace research, competitor analysis, vendor evaluation, actor benchmarking

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📋 What it does

• 📊 Performance metrics. Usage stats, build counts, total runs, total users, monthly active users, and average concurrency.
• ⭐ Quality scores. User ratings, review counts, success rates, reliability scores, and quality percentiles.
• 💰 Pricing data. Pricing models (pay-per-result, pay-per-event, rental), monthly costs, and free usage limits.
• 🏷️ Actor details. Names, descriptions, categories, tags, author info, creation dates, and version data.
• 🔧 Technical specs. Docker images, memory limits, timeouts, input/output schemas, and configuration requirements.

Each record includes the actor name, ID, title, description, category, tags, author, creation and modification dates, total builds, total runs, total users, monthly active users, ratings, reviews, success rate, reliability score, pricing model, costs, Docker image, memory, timeout, schemas, README content, and more.

💡 Why it matters: Manually comparing actors across the Apify Store means clicking through individual pages, reading READMEs, and checking metrics one by one. This Actor collects everything into a single dataset for side-by-side comparison.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing how to go from sign-up to a downloaded dataset.

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⚙️ Input

Input	Type	Default	Behavior
searches	array	["real estate"]	Search terms (e.g., "ecommerce") or actor IDs (e.g., "parseforge/auction-com-property-scraper-ppe"). Multiple searches processed sequentially.
maxItems	integer	10	Maximum actors to return. Free users limited to 100. Paid users up to 1,000,000.
category	string	"All categories"	Filter by category: E-commerce, Social media, AI, Real estate, Jobs, News, Travel, and more.
pricingModel	string	"All pricing models"	Filter by pricing: Pay per result, Pay per event, Pay per usage, or Rental.
managedBy	string	"All developers"	Filter by maintainer: Maintained by Apify or Maintained by community.
includeActorQuality	boolean	false	Include quality scores and percentiles. Adds 1-3 seconds per actor.
includePraisesAndImprovements	boolean	false	Include quality feedback (praises and improvement suggestions). Adds 1-3 seconds per actor.

Example: Search for e-commerce scrapers with quality metrics.

{
    "searches": ["ecommerce", "web scraping"],
    "category": "E-commerce",
    "maxItems": 50,
    "includeActorQuality": true
}

Example: Look up a specific actor by ID.

{
    "searches": ["parseforge/auction-com-property-scraper-ppe"],
    "maxItems": 1,
    "includeActorQuality": true,
    "includePraisesAndImprovements": true
}

⚠️ Good to Know: Enabling quality scores and feedback adds 1-3 seconds of processing time per actor. For large datasets, consider disabling these options to speed up the run. If searches is left empty, the scraper fetches the entire Apify actor database.

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📊 Output

Each record contains 70+ fields. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
🏷️ actorName	string	"apify/web-scraper"
📋 title	string	"Web Scraper"
📖 description	string	"Crawls websites using Chrome..."
🏷️ category	string	"E-commerce"
👤 authorName	string	"Apify"
📈 totalRuns	integer	5200000
👥 totalUsers	integer	85000
⭐ overallRating	number	4.8
📊 totalReviews	integer	342
💰 pricingModel	string	"Pay per usage"
📈 successRate	number	0.97
🏆 reliabilityScore	number	0.99
🐳 dockerImage	string	"apify/actor-node:18"
💾 memoryMb	integer	4096
📅 createdAt	string	"2019-05-15T00:00:00.000Z"

📦 Sample records

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
📊	70+ fields per actor. The most detailed Apify marketplace dataset available.
⭐	Quality metrics. Ratings, success rates, reliability scores, and quality percentiles.
💰	Pricing analysis. Compare pricing models, monthly costs, and free usage limits.
🏷️	Category filtering. 17 categories including E-commerce, AI, Social media, and more.
🔍	Flexible search. Keywords, actor IDs, category filters, and pricing model filters.
📋	Quality feedback. Praises and improvement suggestions from Apify's quality system.
📊	Multiple exports. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

The Apify Store hosts thousands of actors across 17 categories. Comparing them manually by clicking through individual pages is impractical for any serious evaluation or research project.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Setup
⭐ Smart Apify Actor Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Entire Apify Store	Live per run	⚡ 2 min
Manual Store browsing	Free	Limited by time	Manual	🕐 Hours
Apify API integration	Free	Full store	Per request	🔧 2-4 hours
Third-party marketplace analytics	$200+/mo	Multi-platform	Daily	📋 Onboarding

Pick this Actor when you need structured marketplace intelligence about Apify actors without building custom API integrations or spending hours browsing the Store.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Smart Apify Actor Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Enter search terms, select a category, and choose whether to include quality metrics.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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💼 Business use cases

📊 Marketplace Research Map the competitive landscape across categories Identify underserved niches and market gaps Track new actor launches and category growth Analyze pricing model distribution	💼 Vendor Evaluation Compare actor quality scores side by side Check reliability metrics before committing Review user feedback and success rates Assess pricing models for budget planning
🔬 Competitive Analysis Monitor competitor actors and their metrics Track usage growth and user adoption Compare feature sets through schema analysis Benchmark your actors against the market	📈 Portfolio Management Monitor your own actors' marketplace performance Track quality scores and user feedback over time Compare your metrics against category averages Identify improvement opportunities from feedback

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Open a ready-to-send prompt about this ParseForge actor in the AI of your choice:

• 💬 ChatGPT
• 🧠 Claude
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• 🅒 Copilot

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan to run this actor?

No. You can start right now on the free Apify plan, which includes $5 in free monthly credit. That is enough to run this actor several times and explore the output before committing to anything. Paid plans unlock higher limits, more concurrent runs, and larger datasets. Create a free Apify account here to get started.

🚨 What happens if my run fails or returns no results?

Failed runs are not charged. If the source site changes, proxies get rate-limited, or a specific input matches nothing, re-run the actor or open our contact form and we will investigate. You can also check the run log in the Apify console to see why the run stopped.

📏 How many items can I scrape per run?

Free users are limited to 10 items per run so you can preview the output and confirm the actor works for your use case. Paid users can raise maxItems up to 1,000,000 per run. Upgrade here if you need full scale.

🕒 How fresh is the data?

Every run fetches live data at the moment of execution. There is no cache or delay: the records you get reflect what the source returned at that moment. Schedule the actor to maintain a rolling snapshot of the data you need.

🧑‍💻 Can I call this actor from my own code?

Yes. Apify exposes every actor as a REST endpoint and ships first-class SDKs for Node.js and Python. You can start a run, read the dataset, and handle webhooks from your own app in a few lines. All you need is your Apify API token.

📤 How do I export the data?

Every Apify dataset can be downloaded in one click from the console as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, HTML, XML, or RSS. You can also pull results programmatically via the Apify API or stream them into BigQuery, S3, and other destinations through built-in integrations.

📅 Can I schedule the actor to run automatically?

Yes. Use the Apify scheduler to run the actor on any cadence, from hourly to monthly. Results are saved to your dataset and can be delivered to webhooks, email, Slack, cloud storage, or automation tools such as Zapier and Make.

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🔌 Automating Smart Apify Actor Scraper

Control the scraper programmatically for scheduled runs and pipeline integrations:

• 🟢 Node.js. Install the apify-client NPM package.
• 🐍 Python. Use the apify-client PyPI package.
• 📚 See the Apify API documentation for full details.

The Apify Schedules feature lets you trigger this Actor on any cron interval. Run it weekly to track marketplace changes and monitor actor performance over time.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Smart Apify Actor Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications
• Airbyte - Pipe data into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes.

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💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more data scrapers and tools.

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🆘 Need Help? Open our contact form to request a new scraper, propose a custom data project, or report an issue.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Apify or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available data is collected.