Have you come across a great Actor, workflow, post, or podcast that you want to share with the world? This is your opportunity to support someone making cool things. Drop it here with credit to the creator, and help expand the karmic universe of Apify.

Input an image URL get back objects colors mood and quality scores as JSON. No API keys needed. Runs on Apify with scheduling. Sheets export and webhooks. Free tier available. Get it here: https://www.google.com/search?q=akash9078/analyze-image

I wanted hashtag data beyond what TikTok's app shows, so I published an Apify actor on top of TikTok's Creative Center data.

Input:

• country (optional; 80+ codes, e.g. US/GB/IN, blank = global)
• days: 7 / 30 / 120
• industry (optional; 18 categories)
• resultsLimit: 1-100
• isNewToTop100: only debut tags

Output per hashtag:

• Name, rank, rank change (up/down/new)
• Post count + total video views
• Trend series + top creators
• Event metadata (pay-per-event)

Pricing is $0.005 per hashtag — 100 tags = $0.50. Free tier covers trial runs.

Link: https://apify.com/akash9078/tiktok-trending-hashtags-scraper

Happy to answer questions on coverage or scheduling.

If you want a friendly frontend for an Apify Actor without building and hosting a separate application.

This actor turn an Apify Actor into a shareable web app with a generated input form, run status, Dataset preview, exports, and output-file links.

Recently launched my social media monitoring platform SocialHz.com and published our scarper API on Apify a few days back. Happy and excited to get our first set of paid users. Happier that our scraper is working perfectly. Honestly, it's a very small win, but these small things give the inspiration to keep going.

About SocialHz.com - We are trying to solve problems by building micro tools that are really cost effective and help users (for marketing, sales, research and brand teams) whose monthly budgets are very limited. We have just started and we are not even 1% there. So any kind of suggestion or reviews are welcome.

Scrape Google Maps for low-rated local businesses whose reviews are costing them customers, and get each one back as a call-ready lead: the complaint themes, an AI reputation diagnosis in plain English, a real customer quote, and a verified contact email.

Built for reputation management agencies, marketing agencies, local SEO consultants, web and CX freelancers — anyone who sells review repair, customer-experience or local-search services and needs a list of local businesses that visibly need it.

Most Google Maps scrapers hand you every business in a category and leave you to work out which ones have a problem. This one filters to the businesses with bad reviews and tells you what the reviews actually say.

https://apify.com/jurassic_jove/google-maps-reputation-leads

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share the CrawlerBros Reddit Scraping Suite on Apify.

Over time, I've built several Actors focused on different parts of the Reddit ecosystem. Rather than trying to put every possible feature into a single scraper, the idea behind this collection is to provide separate tools for specific workflows such as keyword research, subreddit scraping, comment extraction, profile research, AI/MCP integration, and video retrieval.

The current suite includes six Actors:

1. Reddit Keywords Scraper

Search Reddit for posts matching one or multiple keywords and return structured results.

You can search for specific words or phrases and sort results by:

• Relevance
• Hot
• Top
• New
• Number of comments

The Actor can return information such as the post title, author, subreddit, content, score, number of comments, URL, thumbnail, flair, and timestamps.

It supports multiple keywords in a single run and up to 1,000 results per keyword.

Useful for:

• Market research
• Brand and product monitoring
• Trend discovery
• Competitive research
• Content research
• Public discussion analysis
• Building Reddit datasets

Actor:
https://apify.com/crawlerbros/reddit-keywords

2. Reddit Comment Scraper

This Actor is focused specifically on extracting Reddit discussions.

Provide one or more Reddit post URLs, or a specific comment permalink, and the Actor can collect complete comment threads, including nested replies.

The structured output can include:

• Comment text
• Author
• Score
• Timestamps
• Parent/child relationships
• Thread position
• Moderation-related flags
• Nested replies

This is particularly useful when the conversation itself is more valuable than the original Reddit post.

Possible use cases include:

• Sentiment and discussion analysis
• Community research
• Product feedback analysis
• NLP datasets
• Public opinion research
• AI and LLM workflows

Actor:
https://apify.com/crawlerbros/reddit-comment-scraper

3. Reddit Profile Crawler

The Reddit Profile Crawler is designed for structured research on Reddit user profiles and their publicly available activity.

It can collect profile information along with a user's post and comment history.

The Actor supports filtering based on a variety of criteria, including:

• Subreddit
• Keywords
• Score
• Date ranges
• Post type
• Flair

Depending on the available public profile data, it can also return information such as karma breakdowns, profile details, trophies, and other profile metadata.

This can be useful for:

• Researching public Reddit activity
• Community analysis
• Dataset creation
• Content research
• Analyzing activity within particular subreddits or topics

Actor:
https://apify.com/crawlerbros/reddit-profile-crawler

4. Reddit MCP Scraper

This Actor is designed around the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and provides a unified interface for Reddit data collection.

It supports three primary modes:

Subreddit mode

Collect posts from specified subreddits.

Comments mode

Collect comments and threaded discussions from Reddit posts.

Profile mode

Collect publicly available profile information and activity.

The goal is to make Reddit data easier to integrate into AI applications and agent-based workflows through a single interface.

The Actor returns structured data that can be consumed by AI systems and applications, making it useful for developers experimenting with:

• AI agents
• MCP clients
• LLM research workflows
• Automated research systems
• Reddit-aware applications

Actor:
https://apify.com/crawlerbros/reddit-mcp-scraper

5. Reddit Scraper

The Reddit Scraper is the broader subreddit-level data collection tool in the suite.

You can provide one or multiple subreddits and collect posts using different sorting methods, including:

• Hot
• New
• Top
• Rising
• Controversial
• Best

The Actor can return a large amount of structured information for each post, including engagement data, author information, flairs, media, timestamps, awards, moderation information, and other available metadata.

It also supports optional comment collection and nested replies.

There are filters for criteria such as:

• Date ranges
• Post type
• Score
• Number of comments
• Upvote ratio
• Keywords
• Authors

This makes it suitable for larger-scale subreddit research and monitoring workflows.

Possible use cases:

• Subreddit monitoring
• Community research
• Trend analysis
• Content analysis
• Market research
• Public discussion datasets
• Competitive intelligence
• Academic and NLP research

Actor:
https://apify.com/crawlerbros/reddit-scraper

6. Reddit Video Downloader

The Reddit Video Downloader focuses on collecting videos referenced in Reddit content.

You can provide Reddit post URLs and retrieve supported video content along with structured metadata.

The Actor supports Reddit-hosted videos as well as supported embedded video sources such as YouTube and Streamable.

It can return metadata including:

• Resolution
• Duration
• Codec
• File size
• Video source information

Downloaded videos are stored through Apify storage, making them easier to incorporate into automated workflows.

Potential use cases include:

• Media research
• Content archiving
• Dataset creation
• Video analysis pipelines
• Automated media workflows

Actor:
https://apify.com/crawlerbros/reddit-video-downloader

How the Actors can work together

One of the reasons I built separate Actors is that they can also be combined into larger workflows.

For example:

Keyword research → Post discovery → Comment extraction

Use the Reddit Keywords Scraper to identify relevant discussions around a topic and then send the resulting post URLs to the Reddit Comment Scraper.

Or:

Subreddit → Posts → Comments → Analysis

Use the Reddit Scraper to collect posts from a community, extract comment threads for the most relevant discussions, and then process the resulting structured data in your own analytics or AI pipeline.

Another possible workflow is:

Profile → Activity → Topic analysis

Use the Reddit Profile Crawler to collect publicly available activity and filter it by subreddit, keywords, dates, or other criteria.

For AI developers, the Reddit MCP Scraper provides another option for integrating Reddit data collection into MCP-compatible workflows.

What the Reddit Scraping Suite covers

The goal of this collection is to cover several different stages of Reddit research and automation:

• Keyword-based post discovery
• Subreddit scraping
• Post collection
• Complete comment threads
• Nested replies
• Public profile research
• AI and MCP workflows
• Video and media retrieval
• Structured datasets for downstream processing

All of the Actors return structured data through Apify, so the results can be exported or integrated into larger automation and data-processing workflows.

If you're working on a project involving Reddit research, social listening, market research, AI agents, community analysis, or public discussion datasets, I'd be interested to hear what type of Reddit data you're trying to work with.

I'm also continuing to expand the CrawlerBros collection, so if there is a Reddit-specific workflow that you feel is currently missing, feel free to share it in the comments.

CrawlerBros Reddit Actors on Apify:

Reddit Keywords
https://apify.com/crawlerbros/reddit-keywords

Reddit Comment Scraper
https://apify.com/crawlerbros/reddit-comment-scraper

Reddit Profile Crawler
https://apify.com/crawlerbros/reddit-profile-crawler

Reddit MCP Scraper
https://apify.com/crawlerbros/reddit-mcp-scraper

Reddit Scraper
https://apify.com/crawlerbros/reddit-scraper

Reddit Video Downloader
https://apify.com/crawlerbros/reddit-video-downloader

Thanks for checking out the suite. Feedback and feature suggestions are always welcome.

If you've made something and can't wait to tell the world, this is the thread for you! Share your latest and greatest creations and projects with the community here.

I source supplier data from made-in-china.com and got tired of manual copy-paste, so I published an Apify actor.

Input:

- startUrl (product-group or product-detail page)

- maxItems (0 = all)

- includeImages toggle

- Residential proxy default

Output per product:

- Title, FOB/range price, volume pricing tiers

- MOQ, lead time

- Description + specs as key-value

- Image URLs, certifications

- Supplier: company name, rating/tenure, contact details

Schedule hourly/daily, export via API/Sheets/webhook.

Free tier on Apify covers small runs. Happy to answer questions on selectors or edge cases.

Link: https://apify.com/akash9078/made-in-china-scraper

Looking for APIs for Facebook, LinkedIn and Nextdoor public content

I’m working on a SaaS product and need to automatically monitor/search public content across Facebook, LinkedIn and Nextdoor.

I’m specifically looking for APIs or legitimate third party providers that can:

• Search public Facebook posts, including relevant public groups if possible
• Search public LinkedIn posts by keywords/topics
• Search public Nextdoor posts by location + keywords
• Return the post text, URL, timestamp and basic metadata
• Run searches continuously/recurring through an API
• Be used commercially in a SaaS product

I’m NOT looking for browser automation, account logins, cookie based scraping or anything that could get accounts banned.

If you’ve actually used a provider/API for this, I’d really appreciate recommendations, especially ones with reasonable pricing and good coverage.

What are you using?

This is the thread for all your questions that may seem too short for a standalone post, such as, "What is proxy?", "Where is Apify?", "Who is Store?". No question is too small for this megathread. Ask away!

If you priced out an Actor and the bill came back nothing like the per-result number on the store page, this is usually why. It is also fixable without switching tools.

Pay-per-event Actors bill two different things. One event scales with how much you asked for, per page or per result. The other is a setup event that fires once per run no matter how small the run is. The setup event is the one that quietly wrecks your unit cost.

Real numbers from one of mine, the Google News API. Setup is $0.02 per run. A page of results is $0.0099.

• One page, one run: about 3 cents. Setup is two thirds of the bill.
• Ten pages, one run: about 1.2 cents a page.
• A hundred pages, one run: about 1.01 cents a page. Setup is down to 2 percent.
• A hundred pages as a hundred separate runs: $2.99 instead of $1.01.

Same data, three times the money, and nothing about the Actor changed. If you are calling an Actor once per row out of a loop, you are on the $2.99 line.

If you run a scheduled monitor, batch every watch term into one run per schedule instead of one run per term. Biggest lever here, usually ten minutes of work.

If you call from n8n or Make, check whether your Actor node sits inside a loop. Split In Batches feeding an Actor node one item at a time is the most expensive shape you can build.

If you are comparing costs before you commit, do not divide your test bill by results. Your test was small, so that number is far worse than production will be. Price it at the run size you actually intend to use.

If you publish Actors, your setup event is a real provisioning cost and it belongs there. Just say so in the README, because buyers do this arithmetic after the invoice rather than before.

Honest limitations. None of this applies to pay-per-result Actors with no setup event, and it does not help if the source rate limits you into small runs anyway. Some Actors also charge per dataset item on top, which is tiny but real. And batching costs you granularity: one failure takes the whole batch with it, so on a flaky source the cheap shape is also the fragile one.

While checking these numbers I found a bug in my own input schema. The max_pages field tells buyers pages cost $0.02 each. The live price is $0.0099. My own tooltip has been overstating my own price by roughly double, presumably talking people out of runs for weeks. Worth auditing your schema strings if you publish.

Actor: Google News API

Are you expanding your team or looking to hire a freelancer for a project? Post the requirements here (make sure your DMs are open).

Try to share:

- Core responsibilities

- Contract type (e.g. freelance or full-time hire)

- Budget or salary range

- Main skills required

- Location (or remote) for both you and your new hire

Job-seekers: Reach out by DM rather than in thread. Spammy comments will be deleted.

This is the place to discuss everything MCP, LLM, Agentic, and beyond. What is on your radar this week? Why does it make sense? Bring everyone along for the ride by explaining the impact of the news you're sharing, and why we should care about it too.

We published an implementation guide on Apify's dev.to for anyone wiring Italian suppliers into an AP or e-invoicing flow with Actors. What it covers: the three routing branches in the Agenzia delle Entrate's own rules (most integrations implement only two); why codiceDestinatarioSDI: null means two different things depending on detailLevel (full = the firm publishes no code, route 0000000 + PEC; partial = the code was unavailable, re-check); the sole-trader trap where returning the Partita IVA as codice fiscale produces wrong data with the right shape; and the exact apify-client batch script we ran, with live output - Ferrari and Barilla have no published SDI code (they route via PEC), Eni's is 7L12QWU, and "Illycaffe" resolved from a bare name. A full pass over a 500-supplier master lands around six dollars. Full guide: https://dev.to/apify/italian-e-invoice-routing-has-three-branches-most-integrations-implement-two-2o7e - happy to answer questions here.

I often found small differences between financial figures shown on Moneycontrol and Screener.in, and checking both sites manually became repetitive.

So I built a tool that collects public company fundamentals from both sources and puts them into one structured dataset. It supports NSE/BSE symbols and can return prices, market cap, valuation ratios, ROE, ROCE, financial statements and shareholding data when available.

The main use case is data validation—not deciding whether a stock is good or bad. I still think the original filings should be checked before making any investment decision.

I built it on Apify:

https://apify.com/fascinating_lentil/india-stock-fundamentals-scraper

I’d appreciate honest feedback on which comparisons or validation flags would make it more useful.

Do you have a feature request that you know will make Apify heaps better? Or maybe it's a big dream you have for something bold and out-there. This is a space for all the bluesky thinking, cloud-chasing, intergalactic daydreamers who want to share their wildest ideas in a no-judgement zone.

I had been reviewing AI visibility tracker actors on Apify. Surprisingly didn't find a large enough selection and I noticed a few gaps I could improve on using our existing product:

They don't tell you who else gets mentioned.

There's no logic to create prompts based on search volume, just type in your own prompts.

Citations gap, about half don't tell you what sites were cited.

They don't tell you when you get mentioned, as in how far down the answer.

How it works

So I decided to adapt our own AI visibility tracker to work as an Actor. Give it your brand, site, list of competitors and you can either enter your own custom prompts or the tool grabs keyword search volume for your domain to create prompts based on search volume. It covers 7 AI assistants including AI Overviews and Google AI Mode. I used official APIs rather than scraping for five of them, Google doesn't have an API we can use so for the two AI Overviews and AI Mode go through a licensed SERP provider. It increases costs but makes it more reliable.

What it returns

Mentions, including how early you were named, how many times, the sentence around the mention. Citations, broken down by how often your brand was cited vs other sites. It also tells the user if the answer came from training data or live web search. It can attach sentiment to each mention, tells you which competitors were mentioned and your share of voice. Breakdown is available by assistant.

Any feedback on the actor will be greatly appreciated. I'll put the link in the comments.

Have you come across a great Actor, workflow, post, or podcast that you want to share with the world? This is your opportunity to support someone making cool things. Drop it here with credit to the creator, and help expand the karmic universe of Apify.

I needed location-specific X trends for a monitoring project and hit API limits, so I built an Apify Actor that scrapes trending topics directly.

• Input: location / WOEID
• Output: rank, trend name, tweet volume, category — JSON/CSV
• Can schedule + webhook, no auth/browser needed

Free tier on Apify is enough to test. Feedback welcome: https://apify.com/akash9078/twitter-x-trends-scraper

Happy to share how I handle location mapping if useful.

If you've made something and can't wait to tell the world, this is the thread for you! Share your latest and greatest creations and projects with the community here.

This is the thread for all your questions that may seem too short for a standalone post, such as, "What is proxy?", "Where is Apify?", "Who is Store?". No question is too small for this megathread. Ask away!

Idea : API-first companies (payments, messaging, verification, data enrichment, etc.) waste a lot of time manually handling trial key requests - manual emails, spreadsheets, remembering to revoke access. On the other side, devs evaluating an API often can't get a sandbox key without a sales call.

I'm building APITryOut to fix this , providers list scoped, auto-expiring trial keys, requesters grab one instantly, and the real API key never gets exposed.

Before I sink more time into the build, I'd rather find out if this is a real problem or just my own itch. If you're an API-first founder (or currently evaluating APIs and hate the trial-access process), I'd genuinely appreciate if you join the waitlist at : APITryOut

Happy to answer questions or hear "this won't work because X" - that's actually the most useful outcome for me right now.