The Scraping Report
Week 23, 2026 · 10,000 actors analyzed · June 07, 2026
Hey! Here’s your weekly Apify Store intelligence digest.
🏆 Top 5 Most-Used Actors
Chart: Top 5 actors by unique user count:
💸 Pricing Snapshot
Out of 10,000 actors on the store, only 567 (5.7%) are free. The remaining 94.3% are paid — the store has fully shifted to a monetization-first model.
🔥 Hottest Categories by User Volume
📈 Opportunity Score — Where to Build Next
Opportunity Score = users ÷ number of actors in that category. Higher = more demand, less competition. Red = AI/MCP related.
CategoryScoreTotal UsersActorsSocial Media1,2892,259,2261753Seo Tools791231,690293Videos786253,216322Travel764165,849217Lead Generation7621,315,9461728AiAI/MCP715320,325448Developer Tools467292,547626News32544,457137
🤖 AI/MCP Actors to Watch
Website Content Crawler by
apify— Crawl websites and extract text content to feed AI models, LLM applications, vector databases, or RA...Reddit Scraper - MCP, AI, PPR by
harshmaur— Reddit Scraper lets you extract posts, comments, users, and communities without API rate limits. Wit...RAG Web Browser by
apify— Web search and fetch tool for AI agents and RAG pipelines. It queries Google Search, scrapes the top...Reddit Scraper | All-In-One | $1.5 / 1K by
fatihtahta— Extract Reddit posts and full comment threads from searches, subreddits, user pages, and direct post...Instagram Influencer Engagement Scraper by
kindly_accordion— Instagram Influencer Engagement Scraper analyzes public Instagram usernames and returns creator-read...
🛠 Build Opportunity of the Week
The highest Opportunity Score categories have proven demand but few quality actors. Run the full analysis yourself using the Apify Store SEO Analyzer — it calculates scores across all 20k+ actors.
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