Data tools that pay their way: 26 actors, pay per result

ActorForge builds data extraction and conversion tools for the Apify platform. Each one is built on an official API or an open dataset wherever one exists, prices every result up front, and respects the spending cap you set on a run.

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What is ActorForge?

An Apify actor is a cloud program you run from the Apify console, on a schedule, or through an API call. You give it an input (URLs, keywords, a city, a company number) and it returns a dataset you can download as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pipe into Make, n8n, Zapier or your own code.

ActorForge actors are priced per event: you pay for each row or page delivered, at the price printed on the listing, with no monthly subscription. Failed lookups are not charged, and every actor stops cleanly when it reaches the maximum charge you set for a run. Every actor is checked by an automated nightly self-test.

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Business Leads & Company Data

B2B lead lists, company registers, funding rounds, hiring signals and planning permissions, from official and open sources.

6 actors

Documents, OCR & AI-Ready Text

Turn PDFs, scans, images and web pages into clean text and Markdown for search, RAG pipelines and AI agents.

4 actors

SEO & Marketing Intelligence

Technical SEO audits, keyword ideas, Google Trends, competitor ads, archived page history and trademark checks.

5 actors

E-commerce & App Stores

Product catalogues from Shopify stores and app data, charts and reviews from the App Store and Google Play.

3 actors

YouTube & Video Data

Videos, channels, comments and search results from the official YouTube Data API, using your own free API key.

4 actors

China Social Trends

Real-time hot-search lists from Weibo, Douyin and Baidu, plus Bilibili videos and comments, for trend monitoring and market research on China.

4 actors

Popular guides

How to Audit Every URL in Your Sitemap and Find Orphan Pages

Run the SEO Audit Crawler with useSitemap on and maxPages above your site's size; it audits every page it can reach plus every sitemap URL, and…

How to Get Local Business Leads Without Scraping Google Maps

Query the open Overture Maps places dataset by city and category with Business Places Data to get names, addresses, phones, websites and emails for…

How to Check If a Phrase Is Trademarked (USPTO, in Bulk)

Run your phrases through USPTO Trademark Search in contains mode with the classes for your product (25 for clothing, 21 for mugs). Anything marked…

How to Convert PDF to Markdown for RAG Pipelines

Send your PDF links to the Any URL to Markdown actor, read the markdown field of each result, then split it by heading into token-sized chunks…

How to Export Shopify Store Product Data to CSV or JSON

Give the ActorForge Shopify Store Scraper a store URL, let it page through the public products.json feed, then download the dataset as CSV or JSON…

How to Extract Text from Images and Screenshots in Bulk

Send image URLs to the Image to Text OCR actor, use the sparse segmentation mode for screenshots, and read the text and confidence per image. It…

How to Find a Company's Job Board and ATS (Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby)

Open any job on the company's careers page and look at the host: myworkdayjobs.com, greenhouse.io, lever.co, ashbyhq.com and similar tell you the…

How to Track Google Trends Trending Searches by Country

Run the ActorForge Google Trends actor with a list of country codes, schedule it daily with only-new mode, and keep a small pandas history to see…

How to Monitor Competitor Ads in Google Ads Transparency Center

List your competitors' domains or advertiser names, run the ActorForge Ads Transparency actor daily with only-new mode, and route the new ads into…

How to OCR Scanned PDFs to Text with an API

Send scanned PDF links to the PDF OCR actor, get text back one row per page with a confidence score, and use that score to flag pages for review.…

How to Get SEC Form D Startup Funding Data as a Daily Feed

Use Startup Funding Rounds to read EDGAR's daily Form D indexes and parse each filing into a row with issuer, amounts, industry and exemption.…

How to Export UK Company Directors from Companies House in Bulk

Give Companies House Enrichment a list of company numbers or a SIC code, status and location filter, keep includeOfficers on, then flatten the…

How to Use UK Planning Applications as Sales Leads

Pull each council's weekly list of newly validated applications with UK Planning Applications, filter the proposal text for the work you do, and…

How to Use a Wayback Machine Snapshots API and See When a Page Changed

Query archive.org's captures through the Wayback Snapshots actor with collapse set to digest to keep only versions where the content changed, then…

How to Get YouTube Data With the Official API (Free Key, No Code)

Create a free YouTube Data API v3 key in Google Cloud (no billing account), paste it into an ActorForge YouTube actor, and get video, channel…

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Business Leads & Company Data

Business Places Data — Google Maps Alternative, 80M+ POIs

Business leads by city from open Overture Maps data: name, category, address, lat/lon, phone, website, email, socials and brand for 80M+ places…

$3 per 1,000 · area query

Career Site Jobs — Workday, Greenhouse, Lever & Ashby Scraper

Scrape jobs straight from company career sites on Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, Recruitee, Teamtailor, Personio and BambooHR. Search…

$3 per 1,000 · job result

Facebook Pages by City — Open Data, Not Affiliated with Meta

Facebook Page leads by city: page URL and ID, name, category, address, lat/lon, phone, website, email and other socials, from Overture Maps open…

$3 per 1,000 · area query

Startup Funding Rounds Tracker — Recently Funded (SEC Form D)

Track recently funded US startups from official SEC Form D filings: company, amount raised and offered, round date, industry, exemption, business…

$10 per 1,000 · filing result

Companies House Enrichment — UK Company Directors & Filings

Enrich UK companies from the official Companies House API: profile, SIC codes, current and resigned directors and officers, and the latest filing…

$5 per 1,000 · enriched company

UK Planning Applications Scraper — 15 Councils, Weekly Leads

New and decided UK planning applications (applications for planning permission) from 15 council portals in one clean dataset: reference, proposal…

$3 per 1,000 · planning application

Documents, OCR & AI-Ready Text

Any URL to Markdown — Web Pages, PDF, Word, Excel & OCR

Turn any URL into clean, LLM-ready Markdown: web pages, PDFs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, EPUB, CSV and JSON, plus OCR for images and scanned PDFs. One…

$1 per 1,000 · page result

Image to Text OCR — Extract Text from Photos & Screenshots

Extract text from images (PNG, JPEG, TIFF, WebP, GIF, BMP) with Tesseract 5 OCR in 29 languages: screenshots, photos of documents, receipts, scans…

$3 per 1,000 · page ocr

OCR — Scanned PDF & Image to Text (Tesseract, 29 Languages)

Extract text from scanned PDFs and images (PNG, JPEG, TIFF, WebP, GIF, BMP) with Tesseract 5 OCR in 29 languages. PDF pages that already have text…

$3 per 1,000 · page ocr

PDF OCR — Scanned PDF to Searchable Text (29 Languages)

OCR scanned PDFs to text page by page with Tesseract 5 in 29 languages. Pages that already have a text layer are read directly at a tenth of the…

$3 per 1,000 · page ocr

SEO & Marketing Intelligence

Google Ads Transparency Scraper — Competitor Ads | $0.60/1K

Scrape competitor ads from the Google Ads Transparency Center by domain, advertiser name or ID: format, first/last shown, regions, impressions, ad…

$0.60 per 1,000 · ad result

Google Trends Scraper — Trending Now & Interest Over Time

Google Trends scraper and API: Trending Now searches for 125 countries from the official feed (traffic, start time, picture, news articles), plus…

$0.50 per 1,000 · trend result

Keyword Suggestions — Google, YouTube, Bing Autocomplete

Bulk keyword suggestions from Google, YouTube, Bing and Baidu autocomplete. Expand each seed with a-z, question words or prepositions for long-tail…

$0.30 per 1,000 · seed expanded

SEO Audit Crawler — On-Page SEO Checker for Whole Sites

Crawl a whole website and audit every page for technical and on-page SEO: titles, meta descriptions, H1s, canonicals, noindex, duplicates, broken…

$6 per 1,000 · page audited

Wayback Machine Scraper — Archive.org Snapshots & URL History

Every Wayback Machine (archive.org) capture of a URL, folder, host or domain: timestamp, status, MIME type, digest and archive links. Unique…

$2 per 1,000 · snapshot

E-commerce & App Stores

App Store & Google Play Scraper — Apps, Charts, Reviews

Scrape Google Play and App Store app details (rating, histogram, installs, price, version, developer, screenshots, similar apps), Apple top charts…

$0.80 per 1,000 · app result

Shopify Store Scraper — Products, Prices, Store Info

Scrape any Shopify store's products from its public products.json: title, vendor, type, tags, price range, compare-at price, stock, variants and…

$0.30 per 1,000 · product result

USPTO Trademark Search — Check If a Phrase Is Trademarked

Bulk-check phrases against the official US trademark register before you list a T-shirt, mug or Amazon product. Verdict per phrase (registered…

$30 per 1,000 · phrase checked

YouTube & Video Data

YouTube Scraper (Official API) — Videos, Search & Stats

Bring your own free YouTube API key. Get video details and stats (views, likes, comments, duration, tags), YouTube search results, channel uploads…

$0.40 per 1,000 · video result

YouTube Channel Scraper (Official API) — All Videos & Stats

Bring your own free YouTube API key. Get any channel's stats (subscribers, total views, video count, country) and every upload with views, likes…

$0.40 per 1,000 · video result

YouTube Comments Scraper (Official API) — No Usernames

Bring your own free YouTube API key. Export YouTube comments and replies (text, likes, reply count, dates) for any video via the official YouTube…

$0.50 per 1,000 · comment result

YouTube Search Scraper (Official API) — Videos by Keyword

Bring your own free YouTube API key. YouTube search by keyword with sort, date, region, language and length filters — every result enriched with…

$0.30 per 1,000 · video result

China Social Trends

Bilibili Video & Comment Scraper — 哔哩哔哩 Search, No Login

Scrape Bilibili (哔哩哔哩) videos without login: keyword search, video URLs/BV ids, and the popular feed. Each video comes with full stats (views…

$4 per 1,000 · video result

China Trending Topics — Weibo, Douyin, Baidu Hot Search

Real-time trending topics from China's top five platforms in one dataset: Weibo hot search (微博热搜), Douyin hot list (抖音热榜), Baidu hot search (百度热搜)…

$2 per 1,000 · topic result

Douyin Trending & Hot Search — 抖音热榜 Real-Time List

Real-time Douyin hot list (抖音热榜): rank, topic, heat value, label, topic ID, cover image and search link for every trending topic on Chinese TikTok.…

$2 per 1,000 · topic result

Weibo Hot Search — 微博热搜 Real-Time Trending List

Real-time Weibo hot search list (微博热搜榜): rank, topic, heat count, badge (新/热/沸/爆) and search link for every trending topic. Ads removed. No login or…

$2 per 1,000 · topic result

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