The Scraping Report
Week 19, 2026 · 10,000 actors analyzed · May 10, 2026
Hey! Here’s your weekly Apify Store intelligence digest.
Chart: Top 5 actors by unique user count
💸 Pricing Snapshot
Out of 10,000 actors on the store, only 786 (7.9%) are free. The remaining 92.1% 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 Media1,0901,973,5971811Travel730154,708212Seo Tools686209,275305Lead Generation6851,140,7121666Videos673221,526329AiAI/MCP512279,578546Developer Tools417277,979667Jobs292178,825613
🤖 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 browser for OpenAI Assistants, RAG pipelines, or AI agents, similar to a web browser in ChatGPT....YouTube Video Downloader by
streamers— Use YouTube Video Downloader to download YouTube videos in MP4, MP3, avi, and other formats directly...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...
🛠 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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