Web Scraper
By Apify · Free · ApifyIntel score 84/100
Published 2019-03-07 · Last updated 2026-09-08
Crawls arbitrary websites using a web browser and extracts structured data from web pages using a provided JavaScript function. The Actor supports both recursive crawling and lists of URLs, and automatically manages concurrency for maximum performance.
Key stats
- 181.7M total runs
- 125.6K total users
- 4.71 Apify Store rating (100 reviews)
- 1.4K bookmarks
How Web Scraper has moved
ApifyIntel has recorded Web Scraper in 269 daily snapshots of the Apify Store since 2025-11-21. Latest reading: 2026-10-08.
- 1,335 monthly users, about flat from 1,337 on 2026-09-08, down 59% from 3,231 on 2026-07-10
- 301.4K runs in the last 30 days, 92.1% of them succeeded (30 days earlier: 422.4K runs, 97.6% succeeded)
- 313.2K runs added to the lifetime total since 2026-09-08 (now 181.7M)
- Ranked #93 of 72,628 actors by monthly users, down 13 places since 2026-09-08
- Apify Store rating 4.71 from 100 reviews (4.58 from 92 on 2026-07-10)
Alternatives to Web Scraper
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