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Top 10 DEVELOPER TOOLS APIs & Scrapers in 2026 — Ranked by Active Users

Looking for the best developer tools tools? I put together a list of the top 10 most popular ones on Apify, ranked by active users.

1. Website Content Crawler

144K users | 4.5/5 rating | Free

Crawl websites and extract text content to feed AI models, LLM applications, vector databases, or RAG pipelines. The Actor supports rich formatting us

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2. Web Scraper

122K users | 4.6/5 rating | Free

Crawls arbitrary websites using a web browser and extracts structured data from web pages using a provided JavaScript function. The Actor supports bot

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3. Cheerio Scraper

19K users | 4.7/5 rating | Free

Crawls websites using raw HTTP requests, parses the HTML with the Cheerio library, and extracts data from the pages using a Node.js code. Supports bot

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4. Puppeteer Scraper

15K users | 5.0/5 rating | Free

Crawls websites with the headless Chrome and Puppeteer library using a provided server-side Node.js code. This crawler is an alternative to apify/web-

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5. Threads Search Scraper

3K users | 4.4/5 rating | Pay per event

Powerful Meta Threads search scraper for posts and users. Filter by keywords or usernames, export structured data for analytics, research, monitoring

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6. Profile Reactions Scraper for LinkedIn [No Cookies]

1K users | 5.0/5 rating | Pay per event

Linkedin User Reactions Scraper: Extract reactions for LinkedIn profiles and users including post content, reactions, stats, article, media attachment

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7. Playwright Scraper

11K users | 2.7/5 rating | Free

Crawls websites with the headless Chromium, Chrome, or Firefox browser and Playwright library using a provided server-side Node.js code. Supports both

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8. Mass Profile Posts Scraper for LinkedIn | No Cookies

3K users | 4.7/5 rating | Pay per event

Scrape in Batch LinkedIn posts from LinkedIn profiles including post content, reactions, comments count, and media attachments

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9. Fast TikTok Scraper API | Influencer Data & Analytics API

904 users | 5.0/5 rating | Pay per event

TikTok Scraper API - fast TikTok data extraction for videos, profiles, hashtags, music, locations and search. 200 posts/sec, 98% success rate. $0.006/

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10. Instagram Content Scraper - Posts + Reels [NO LOGIN] ✅

88 users | 5.0/5 rating | Pay per event

Scrape every public Instagram post AND reel from any profile in one run. Get captions, likes, comments, plays, video URLs, carousel images, and verifi

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Why Apify?

All of these tools run in the cloud with zero setup. No servers, no proxies, no code. Just configure your inputs and get structured data back as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Every new account gets $5/month in free creditssign up here.

Want to see all 26,000+ tools? Check out the full directory on GitHub.

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