Top 10 SOCIAL MEDIA APIs & Scrapers in 2026 — Ranked by Active Users

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

1. TikTok Scraper

217K users | 4.8/5 rating | Pay per event

Extract data from TikTok videos, hashtags, and users. Use URLs or search queries to scrape TikTok profiles, hashtags, posts, URLs, shares, followers,

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2. Instagram Scraper

329K users | 4.7/5 rating | Pay per event

Extract Instagram posts, reels, profiles, places, hashtags, carousels, and comments. Get data from Instagram using one or more Instagram URLs or searc

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3. Facebook Ads Library Scraper

28K users | 4.2/5 rating | Pay per event

Extract advertising data from Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads. Get ads, publishers, prices, reach estimates, impressions, links, images, IDs, t

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4. YouTube Scraper

96K users | 4.9/5 rating | Pay per event

YouTube crawler and video scraper. Alternative YouTube API with no limits or quotas. Extract and download channel name, likes, number of views, and nu

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5. 🏯 Tweet Scraper V2 - X / Twitter Scraper

68K users | 4.0/5 rating | Pay per event

⚡️ Lightning-fast search, URL, list, and profile scraping, with customizable filters. At $0.40 per 1000 tweets, and 30-80 tweets per second, it is ide

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6. Instagram Post Scraper

109K users | 4.4/5 rating | Pay per event

Scrape Instagram posts. Just add one or more Instagram usernames and get your data in seconds including caption, metrics, images, mentions, coauthors,

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7. Facebook Ad Library Scraper

34K users | 4.8/5 rating | Pay per event

Scrape facebook ads from ad library search results and ads run by facebook pages - Fast and lightweight. $0.75 per 1000 results

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8. Instagram Hashtag Scraper

71K users | 3.2/5 rating | Pay per event

Scrape Instagram posts and reels by hashtags. Just add one or more hashtags and extract captions, locations, likes, plays, shares, comments count, ima

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9. Instagram Profile Scraper

172K users | 4.8/5 rating | Pay per event

Scrape all Instagram profile info. Just add Instagram usernames, IDs or URLs and extract name, join date, number of followers, location, bio, website

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10. Instagram Comments Scraper

43K users | 4.4/5 rating | Pay per event

Scrape Instagram comments from posts or reels. Just add one or more Instagram post URLs to get comment text, post and comment IDs, replies, timestamp,

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