Ai Tools Harvester

🤖 AI Tools Harvester

AI Tools Harvester is an Apify Actor that automatically discovers, extracts, and ranks AI tools from the web, producing a clean, structured dataset ready for analysis, research, or integration. The actor empowers teams, startups, researchers, and developers to stay ahead in the fast-moving AI ecosystem by saving time, avoiding manual research, and identifying the best tools for their workflows.

Run the Actor with default settings to generate a comprehensive dataset of AI tools in minutes.

🚀 Why Use AI Tools Harvester?

AI tools are evolving rapidly. Manually tracking, evaluating, and comparing them is time-consuming and error-prone. AI Tools Harvester automates this process, helping you:

Quickly discover emerging AI products

Compare AI tools based on relevance scores

Integrate up-to-date tool data into internal dashboards or workflows

Power recommendation systems, directories, or market research

Whether you’re a founder, developer, or product manager, this Actor reduces research overhead and ensures your team always has access to the most relevant AI solutions.

🔍 Features

Automated discovery: Crawls multiple web sources to find AI tools

Data extraction: Captures key metadata like name, website, category, and relevance score

Scoring system: Assigns a relevance score to help rank and compare tools

Structured dataset: Results are stored in an Apify Dataset for easy visualization

Flexible output: Export results in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML table, or RSS

Apify-powered: Take advantage of API access, scheduling, automation pipelines, and scalable runs

❌ Eliminates the need for manual scraping, bookmarking, and spreadsheet maintenance

🧩 Output Dataset Structure

Each item in the dataset contains the following fields:

Field Type Description name string Name of the AI tool website string(URL) Official website of the tool category string Category or use case score number Relevance score assigned by the Actor

Example output:

{ "name": "Example AI Tool", "website": "https://example-ai.com", "category": "Productivity", "score": 70 }

The dataset schema ensures consistent UI rendering in Apify Console and clean export to multiple formats.

🛠️ How It Works

The Actor navigates target web pages using browser automation

Relevant AI tool information is extracted

Each tool is evaluated and assigned a relevance score

Results are stored in the default Apify Dataset and displayed in a table-based UI

Input options: See the Input tab for configuration options. You can run the Actor with default settings or customize the sources and filters.

📤 Exporting Results

Export the dataset in multiple formats directly from the Dataset tab or via the Apify API:

JSON / JSONL, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML table, RSS

💰 Pricing & Compute Units

This Actor uses Apify’s consumption-based pricing.

Small runs can be executed on the free tier.

Costs scale with the number of AI tools discovered and the frequency of runs.

Ideal for one-off runs or fully automated recurring pipelines.

🧪 Use Cases

Tracking emerging AI products

Market research and competitive analysis

Building AI tool directories

Feeding AI tool data into dashboards or internal applications

Powering search, ranking, or recommendation systems

🔐 Permissions & Safety

Uses standard Apify storages (Dataset, Request Queue)

No special permissions required

Does not scrape personal or private data

Fully compatible with Apify platform limits

✅ The Actor is ethical and GDPR-compliant, scraping only publicly available information.

🎓 Getting Started

Open AI Tools Harvester on Apify Store

Click Try for free

Configure input options or use defaults

Run the Actor and wait for the dataset to populate

View results in the Dataset tab or export to your preferred format

Video tutorials or GIF demos can be embedded by adding the YouTube URL in the README.

❓ FAQ & Support

Q: Is the data collected public? A: Yes, only publicly available AI tool information is extracted.

Q: Can I schedule recurring runs? A: Absolutely, use Apify scheduling to keep your dataset updated automatically.

Q: What if I need custom data extraction? A: Contact the author to discuss customizations or additional features.

Q: Is scraping legal? A: The Actor only collects publicly available information and is intended for ethical research purposes.

🧠 Author

Created by radiating_nucleus Published on Apify Store