Actors beyond web scraping :)
# 💻creators-and-apify
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@User we are looking for Actors that you have built beyond web scraping or doing something unique. 🙂 We want to see what y’all are building and wanna collect all such use cases at one place in this thread. Please drop such Actor links in the thread ❤️
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Medicine Simplifier · Apify https://share.google/l30yIWURdWgjxZeFU
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This actor doesn't just obtain data from Acquire, it unmasks anonymous Acquire.com listings and identifies the real startup behind each one. https://apify.com/igolaizola/acquire-unmask-leads?fpr=ig
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I made some actors that are meant to be chained with others to build small data pipelines:
As an experiment, I got Firefox running within Apify container: https://apify.com/rl1987/firefox-sandbox
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check some of my tools which is very useful other than scraping AI Story video Generator : Give prompt for story, our tool automatically generate scene and create AI short video https://apify.com/bhansalisoft/ai-story-short-video-generator Youtube AI short video creator and uploader : Give prompt for story, our tool automatically generate scene and create AI short video and upload to youtube https://apify.com/bhansalisoft/youtube-ai-short-creator-and-auto-uploader Google sheet mcp server: for integrate google sheet api into AI tools https://apify.com/bhansalisoft/google-sheet-mcp-server Figma mcp server that will transalate any figma image into read web page https://apify.com/bhansalisoft/figma-mcp-server
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Pass any URL, get the real HTML even when the site is behind Cloudflare, DataDome, Akamai, AWS-WAF, PerimeterX or Incapsula. It detects the protection and cascades the right method automatically, and can turn the page into structured JSON with AI. Pay a small fee per request and more only on a successful unblock. https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/gen5-website-unblocker 🖼️ Screenshot → working code — Give it a screenshot of any UI and it returns clean HTML/CSS that recreates it. https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/screenshot-to-code-tool 🧾 Any document → structured JSON — OCR any PDF or image (contracts, forms, IDs) into clean structured JSON you define. https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/document-ocr-json-tool 📄 Resume/CV → JSON — Parses resumes into structured JSON: skills, experience, education, contact info. Great for ATS/recruiting pipelines. https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/resume-parser-tool ▶️ YouTube → summary — Pulls a video's transcript and returns a concise, structured summary. https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/youtube-summarizer-tool 🔎 Company → firmographics — Give it a company name or domain and it returns firmographic data plus a short research summary. https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/company-research-enrichment-tool ## 🔎 AI enrichment & research - [Tool: Contact Enrichment](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/contact-enrichment-tool) — enrich a contact (name/email) with role, company, socials. - [Tool: Deep Research Email Finder & Lead Enrichment](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/email-finder-enrichment-tool) — deep-research email finder & lead enrichment.
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We’ve built a few Actors that go beyond regular scraping. One interesting one is RAG Web Browser - it searches/fetches webpages and returns clean Markdown for LLM/RAG pipelines, with filters for domains, keywords, and minimum content length. https://apify.com/crawlerbros/rag-web-browser Also worth sharing: https://apify.com/crawlerbros/web-link-graph-visualizer https://apify.com/crawlerbros/responsive-website-checker https://apify.com/crawlerbros/markdownify-mcp-server
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https://apify.com/data_alchemist/ads-free-screenshotter A screenshot service. It’s unique in that it removes cookie confirmation pop-ups and blocks ads. In other words, you get a clean screenshot of the website itself, rather than a huge pop-up with cookie options or ads.
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I built two real-time monitoring Actors that work as always-on WebSocket services rather than traditional run-and-export scrapers: **DexScreener Realtime Monitor**: streams live token prices, liquidity, volume, transactions, and market updates. https://apify.com/muhammetakkurtt/dexscreener-realtime-monitor **Crypto Twitter Tracker**: streams tweets, following activity, and profile updates from 1,000+ crypto, finance, tech, and news accounts in real time. https://apify.com/muhammetakkurtt/crypto-twitter-tracker
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https://miladamirzadeh.com/apify-report To help builders spot the possible opportunities. Currently I have to manually sync the report.
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@Emmanuel Uchenna just advanced to level 1! Thanks for your contributions! 🎉
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Quick update: I refreshed the Apify Opportunity Report and published the newer version here: https://miladamirzadeh.com/apify-report It ranks Actors using signals like user growth, ratings, success rate, maintenance activity, and weak execution signals. I’m trying to understand if this is genuinely useful for builders deciding what to build next, or if it’s just interesting data. Any feedback would be really appreciated, especially if a score feels wrong or an important signal is missing 🙏 Thank you all!
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@Milad just advanced to level 1! Thanks for your contributions! 🎉
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https://apify.com/thenetaji/youtube-video-downloader and https://apify.com/thenetaji/youtube-music-downloader i have rebuilt them from scratch and they use a completly different approach to download long form videos without burning tons of bandwidth in proxy. Support muxing and audio merge
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BreachHound - Identifies which online platforms and services are associated with a given email address https://apify.com/blukaze/breachhound
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A few entries from my portfolio: Generate data instead of collecting it - https://apify.com/jungle_synthesizer/synthetic-dataset-generator - correlated fields, custom schemas, JSON/CSV/NDJSON out - https://apify.com/jungle_synthesizer/synthetic-financial-data-generator - transaction streams with category-aware amounts, temporal spending patterns, running balances, and configurable fraud labels for ML training Diagnose infrastructure - https://apify.com/jungle_synthesizer/dns-domain-audit - bulk domain posture check - https://apify.com/jungle_synthesizer/ssl-security-headers-checker - CSP/HSTS/X-Frame grading (A–F), redirect chains, TTFB, HTTP/2 + HTTP/3, IPv6 reachability. Drops straight into CI. - https://apify.com/jungle_synthesizer/structured-data-validator-pro - JSON-LD/OG/microdata extraction with local schema.org validation and rich-result eligibility flags Transform what you already have - https://apify.com/jungle_synthesizer/ai-manga-image-colorizer - turns a black-and-white manga panel into a full-color re-illustration, keeping the composition and framing - https://apify.com/jungle_synthesizer/ai-audio-to-text-transcriber -verbatim transcripts from any public audio URL, billed by the minute of audio - https://apify.com/jungle_synthesizer/pdf-to-json-parser - text, tables, and fields out of invoices/contracts/forms, with an optional AI structuring pass - https://apify.com/jungle_synthesizer/usda-fdc-recipe-nutrition-enricher - give it an ingredient list, get per-serving macros + 20 micronutrients with a match-coverage score
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At a previous gig, we would have to run and install this software for creating synthetic medical records at scale, testing medical records systems. I built this actor that generates random, but statistically correct, datasets for medical records: https://apify.com/johnvc/synthea-medical-record-generator-api
I built this actor to be able to search earnings calls for financial data, and keywords; it acts as both a scraper, but a full body search: Search Keyword (full-text mode) https://apify.com/johnvc/earnings-call-transcript-api
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A few from our portfolio that aren't scrapers at all 👇 Files in, no website involved https://apify.com/sian.agency/exif-gps-metadata-extractor — images in → camera make/model, exposure, capture time, GPS coordinates + reverse-geocoded place name. Built for photography workflows and digital forensics. Generate, don't collect https://apify.com/sian.agency/t-shirt-design-and-listing-generator — scores print-on-demand niches, screens every brand and slogan against the US trademark registry, writes copy validated against each platform's own character limits, and generates print-ready 300-DPI transparent artwork. Amazon Merch, Etsy, Redbubble, Zazzle. Rewrite, don't retrieve https://apify.com/sian.agency/best-ai-text-humanizer-natural-ai-content-writer — turn AI-generated text into natural prose across 5 writing styles, with readability and tone analytics on every run Media → text https://apify.com/sian.agency/incredibly-fast-audio-transcriber — any public audio or video URL, 99+ languages, word-level timestamps, speaker diarization, SRT/VTT out https://apify.com/sian.agency/instagram-account-360-intelligence — AI transcripts of every reel, the verbatim text burned into every image plus a one-line visual description of it, and a written strategy rundown of the whole account
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@Zack just advanced to level 4! Thanks for your contributions! 🎉
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