Futurepedia AI Tools Scraper

Turn Futurepedia's AI tools directory into a clean, structured dataset — names, descriptions, pricing models, Futurepedia's editorial score, user ratings, pros and cons, sub-ratings, categories, and social links for every tool. Search by keyword, browse whole categories, or paste tool URLs and get back one tidy row per AI tool. Built for AI-market analysts, founders, VCs, and content teams who need a ready-to-use AI-tools dataset without copying tool pages by hand.

Why This Scraper?

• 6 sub-rating dimensions per tool — accuracy, ease of use, features, speed, support, and value, each as a numeric score, so you can rank tools on the axis that matters to you.
• 6 pricing-model filters that work on every source — collect only Free, Freemium, Free Trial, Paid, Deals, or Contact-for-Pricing tools, whether you search by keyword, browse categories, or paste URLs. Set the filter on its own with nothing else and you get that entire slice of the directory, roughly 240 Free tools in one run. The filter runs while collecting, so non-matching tools never reach your dataset and never cost you anything.
• Full pricing-tier breakdown — every named plan (Free, Pro, Team, etc.) with its price, description, feature list, and "most popular" flag, plus the headline starting price.
• Pros and cons lists — ready-made advantage and disadvantage bullets per tool, ideal for comparison tables and roundup articles.
• Editorial curation badges — Editor's Pick, Trending, and Featured labels carried through per tool, so you can separate the roughly 1 in 8 tools the Futurepedia editors highlight from the rest of the directory.
• Futurepedia's own editorial score on more than 9 in 10 tools — the 0–5 "Overall Score" the Futurepedia editors publish on each tool page, delivered as a sortable number alongside the separate user-review average and review count, so you can rank on the expert verdict without waiting for crowd reviews to accumulate.
• Keyed social links — Twitter/X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, GitHub, TikTok, Discord, and Telegram URLs sorted into named fields, not a raw jumble.
• Three discovery modes in one actor — keyword search, 20 named categories, and direct tool/category/search URLs, mixed freely in a single run.
• Clean flat rows — one row per tool with the official website URL, logo, full description, category list, and last-updated date; missing fields are omitted, never null-spammed.

Use Cases

AI Market Research

• Map the AI tool landscape by category (image, video, writing, code, audio, and more)
• Track which tools are Trending or Editor's Picks
• Compare editorial scores and user-review volume across competing tools
• Measure how many tools use each pricing model in a category

Competitive Intelligence

• Pull a competitor's full pricing-tier ladder and starting price
• Compare pros, cons, and feature sets side by side
• Monitor a category for newly listed or recently updated tools
• Benchmark a product against the highest-rated tools in its space

Content & Affiliate Marketing

• Build "best AI tools for X" roundups with descriptions, editorial scores, and pros/cons ready to paste
• Populate comparison tables with pricing tiers and feature lists
• Source data for AI-tool newsletters and directories
• Find tools by pricing model for "best free AI tools" listicles

Product Discovery & Sourcing

• Discover tools in a niche category for your workflow or stack
• Filter to Free or Freemium tools to trial before buying
• Collect official website and social links for outreach
• Feed an internal AI-tools catalog or vendor shortlist

Getting Started

Search by Keyword

The simplest way to start — one keyword:

{
    "searchQueries": ["video editing"],
    "maxResults": 50
}

Browse a Category, Free Tools Only

{
    "categories": ["writing-generators", "image-generators"],
    "pricing": ["Free", "Freemium"],
    "maxResults": 100
}

The Whole Directory

Turn on the whole-directory browse to walk the full catalog of roughly 2,500 AI tools, and decide how many you want:

{
    "browseWholeDirectory": true,
    "maxResults": 500
}

Add a pricing filter to sweep just one slice of it, such as every free tool:

{
    "browseWholeDirectory": true,
    "pricing": ["Free"],
    "maxResults": 0
}

Paste Tool URLs

Mix individual tool pages, category pages, and search pages:

{
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.futurepedia.io/tool/chatgpt",
        "https://www.futurepedia.io/ai-tools/video-generators"
    ]
}

Full-Featured Example

{
    "searchQueries": ["ai writing", "code assistant"],
    "categories": ["productivity"],
    "pricing": ["Freemium", "Paid"],
    "maxResults": 200
}

Input Reference

What to Scrape

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchQueries	string[]	[]	Keywords to search, such as "video editing" or "ai writing". Each keyword runs its own search and collects matching tools.
categories	select[]	[]	Browse whole categories by name — 20 options including AI Agents, Chatbots, Image Generators, Video Generators, Code Assistant, SEO, and more.
startUrls	string[]	[]	Paste Futurepedia URLs. Tool pages are scraped directly; category and search pages are expanded into their tool listings.
browseWholeDirectory	boolean	false	Walk the full catalog of roughly 2,500 AI tools instead of searching for a keyword. Bounded by maxResults, and combines with the pricing filter.

Filters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
pricing	select[]	[]	Collect only tools matching the selected pricing models: Free, Freemium, Free Trial, Paid, Deals, or Contact for Pricing. Applies to keywords, categories, URLs, and the whole-directory browse alike. Use it on its own to sweep that whole slice of the directory. Leave empty for any pricing.

Limits

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxResults	integer	100	Maximum tools per search keyword, category, listing URL, or whole-directory browse. Set to 0 for unlimited. Individual tool URLs always return their one tool.

Output

Each AI tool is returned as one flat row. Here's a representative result:

{
    "name": "ChatGPT",
    "slug": "chatgpt",
    "url": "https://www.futurepedia.io/tool/chatgpt",
    "shortDescription": "Conversational AI assistant for writing, coding, and analysis.",
    "description": "ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that generates human-like text from natural-language prompts, helping with writing, brainstorming, coding, and research...",
    "externalUrl": "https://chat.openai.com",
    "logoUrl": "https://futurepedia-images.s3.amazonaws.com/chatgpt-logo.png",
    "lastUpdated": "2026-05-28T09:14:00Z",
    "pricingModel": "Freemium",
    "startingPrice": "$20/mo",
    "pricingTiers": [
        {
            "name": "Free",
            "description": "Access to GPT base model",
            "features": ["Standard responses", "Limited usage"]
        },
        {
            "name": "Plus",
            "description": "Faster responses, latest models",
            "features": ["Priority access", "Advanced models"],
            "isPopular": true
        }
    ],
    "categories": ["Chatbots", "Productivity"],
    "features": ["Natural language chat", "Code generation", "Image input"],
    "pros": ["Versatile across tasks", "Large knowledge base"],
    "cons": ["Can produce inaccurate answers"],
    "editorialRating": 4.7,
    "userRating": 4.6,
    "reviewCount": 312,
    "subRatings": {
        "accuracy": 4.6,
        "easeOfUse": 4.8,
        "features": 4.7,
        "speed": 4.5,
        "support": 4.2,
        "value": 4.6
    },
    "socialLinks": {
        "twitter": "https://twitter.com/openai",
        "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/openai"
    },
    "badges": ["Editor's Pick"],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-20T14:30:00Z"
}

Core Fields

Field	Type	Description
name	string	Tool name
slug	string	Futurepedia URL identifier
url	string	Futurepedia listing URL
externalUrl	string	Official tool website
shortDescription	string	One-line summary
description	string	Full "what is it" description
logoUrl	string	Logo / icon image URL
categories	string[]	Category names the tool belongs to
features	string[]	Key feature list
pros	string[]	Advantages
cons	string[]	Disadvantages
lastUpdated	string	When the listing was last updated (ISO 8601)
scrapedAt	string	Extraction timestamp (ISO 8601)

Pricing Fields

Field	Type	Description
pricingModel	string	Pricing model(s): Free, Freemium, Free Trial, Paid, Deals, Contact for Pricing
startingPrice	string	Headline starting price (e.g. "$20/mo")
pricingTiers	object[]	Named plans, each with name, description, features, and isPopular

Ratings Fields

Field	Type	Description
editorialRating	number	Futurepedia's editorial "Overall Score" for the tool, 0–5. Present on roughly 93% of tools
userRating	number	Average score from real user reviews, 0–5. User reviews are still rare on this directory — typically present on 13–18% of tools, and up to 58% in well-covered categories
reviewCount	integer	Number of user reviews behind userRating
subRatings	object	Six dimension scores: accuracy, easeOfUse, features, speed, support, value

Badges & Links Fields

Field	Type	Description
badges	string[]	Editorial labels carried through per tool: Editor's Pick, Trending, or Featured
socialLinks	object	Keyed social profile URLs (twitter, linkedin, youtube, instagram, facebook, github, tiktok, discord, telegram)
affiliateLink	boolean	Present and true when the website link is an affiliate link

Tips for Best Results

• Use keyword search for full-depth coverage. Category browsing reliably reaches the most popular tools at the top of each category (roughly the first 12–28). To collect a category in depth, search keywords for that topic or paste tool URLs instead.
• Set maxResults low to test first — try 10–50 to confirm the data matches your needs, then scale up.
• Combine discovery modes in one run — mix search keywords, categories, and tool URLs freely; results are de-duplicated across all sources.
• Filter while collecting, not after — the pricing filter is applied to every source during collection, so you pay only for tools that match instead of collecting everything and filtering later. Set it with no keywords, categories, or URLs and it becomes the whole job: every Free tool, every Deals tool, and so on.
• Sort on editorialRating, not userRating. The editorial score is published on almost every tool, while user reviews are still rare on this directory, so a leaderboard built on userRating alone will silently drop most of the catalog. Use reviewCount to see which tools have real crowd feedback behind them.
• Rank tools on the dimension you care about — use subRatings to sort by easeOfUse for non-technical users, value for budget picks, or accuracy for research tools.
• Paste a single tool URL for a precise pull — individual tool URLs always return that one tool regardless of maxResults, perfect for enriching a known shortlist.
• maxResults: 0 means unlimited — leave search keywords broad and set it to 0 to sweep a topic as far as the directory allows.
• Watch the log when you paste URLs — a category address with a typo in it is called out by name, so you can correct it instead of wondering why the count came back short.

Pricing

From $4.00 per 1,000 results — a clear per-result price for a fully structured AI-tools dataset, instead of vague pay-per-usage billing. Bronze, Silver, and Gold subscribers pay progressively less; the table below shows total cost at each discount tier.

Results	No discount	Bronze	Silver	Gold
100	$0.48	$0.46	$0.43	$0.40
1,000	$4.80	$4.55	$4.30	$4.00
10,000	$48.00	$45.50	$43.00	$40.00
100,000	$480.00	$455.00	$430.00	$400.00

A "result" is one AI tool row in the output dataset. No compute or time-based charges — you pay per result, plus a small fixed per-run start fee.

Integrations

Export data in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS. Connect to 1,500+ apps via:

• Zapier / Make / n8n — Workflow automation
• Google Sheets — Direct spreadsheet export
• Slack / Email — Notifications on new results
• Webhooks — Trigger custom APIs on run completion
• Apify API — Full programmatic access

Legal & Ethical Use

This actor is designed for legitimate market research, competitive analysis, and content creation. Users are responsible for complying with applicable laws and Futurepedia's Terms of Service. Collect only publicly available information, respect intellectual property, and do not use extracted data for spam, harassment, or any unlawful purpose.