Opportunities
Underserved niches in the Apify Store. Each row is a real competitive cluster of actors, ranked by 30-day demand, saturation, and the quality gap left open by the cluster’s dominant actor.
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Real estate skip-tracing and lead-gen tools — find property owners, phone numbers and MLS data for off-market deals.
1.8K 30-day users · 17 competing actors - 2
Open-source scrapers built for RAG and LLM pipelines — web extractors that return clean, embeddable text.
23.8K 30-day users · 24 competing actors - 3
Real estate×Travel
StrongShort-term rental scrapers — Airbnb, Vrbo and vacation-rental data for hosts, investors and travel research.
1.5K 30-day users · 161 competing actors - 4
Open Source×Social media
StrongOpen-source social scrapers — LinkedIn profiles, posts and company data with reusable, self-hostable source code.
10.3K 30-day users · 9 competing actors - 5
News×SEO tools
StrongNews and trend scrapers — Google Trends, news aggregators and SERP tools for content and SEO research.
1.5K 30-day users · 90 competing actors - 6
E-commerce×Real estate
StrongMarketplace and classifieds scrapers — Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist and resale platforms for resellers and arbitrage.
1.7K 30-day users · 163 competing actors - 7
Lead gen×Open Source
StrongOpen-source lead-gen scrapers — LinkedIn profile, company and contact harvesters with auditable source code.
13K 30-day users · 20 competing actors - 8
Automation×Open Source
PromisingOpen-source automation actors — bulk LinkedIn extractors and workflow tools that teams can fork and modify.
3.3K 30-day users · 30 competing actorsLeader: Linkedin Company Details Scraper (No Cookies) ✅ Bulk · 4.69★ (11 reviews) · 56% market share - 9
Dev tools×Open Source
PromisingOpen-source web-scraping frameworks — generic crawlers, headless-browser tooling and building blocks for custom actors.
7.9K 30-day users · 50 competing actors - 10
Agents×Videos
PromisingAI-agent video tools — YouTube and video transcript extractors feeding research, summarisation and content pipelines.
1.7K 30-day users · 36 competing actors - 11
Jobs×Social media
ModestJob-and-profile scrapers — LinkedIn batch profile extractors used by recruiters and sales teams for prospecting.
4.2K 30-day users · 141 competing actorsLeader: Profile Details Batch Scraper for LinkedIn + EMAIL (No Cookies) · 4.42★ (16 reviews) · 22% market share - 12
AI×SEO tools
ModestSERP scrapers powering AI agents — Google Search, Bing and search-result harvesters for grounding and research.
12.4K 30-day users · 186 competing actors - 13
E-commerce×Travel
ModestLocal business and review scrapers — Google Maps, Yelp and review-platform extractors for reputation and lead-gen.
5.2K 30-day users · 124 competing actors - 14
Mcp Servers×Social media
ModestMCP-callable social scrapers — LinkedIn profile, post and social-content extractors exposed to Claude Desktop, Cursor and other MCP clients.
1.5K 30-day users · 62 competing actorsLeader: LinkedIn Company Employees Scraper — B2B Prospect List Builder · — (0 reviews) · 29% market shareUntested — leader has too few reviews to readSee competitors → - 15
AI×News
ModestWeb sources for AI agents — Reddit and news scrapers feeding research, monitoring and grounding pipelines.
5.1K 30-day users · 149 competing actors - 16
AI×Videos
ModestAI video-to-text — Instagram, TikTok and YouTube transcript extractors for LLM-powered content workflows.
1.7K 30-day users · 119 competing actorsLeader: Instagram Transcript API – AI Video to Text for Developers · 4.44★ (6 reviews) · 18% market share - 17
Lead gen×News
ModestJob-board scrapers — Google Jobs, Indeed and board aggregators for recruiting and labour-market analysis.
1.7K 30-day users · 191 competing actors - 18
Lead gen×Mcp Servers
ModestMCP-callable lead-gen tools — LinkedIn and company-data scrapers exposed to Claude Desktop, Cursor and MCP clients.
2.1K 30-day users · 122 competing actorsLeader: LinkedIn Company Employees Scraper — B2B Prospect List Builder · — (0 reviews) · 20% market shareUntested — leader has too few reviews to readSee competitors → - 19
Agents×Social media
ModestAI-agent social tools — YouTube and social transcript extractors used inside autonomous agent workflows.
3.5K 30-day users · 197 competing actors - 20
Lead gen×Marketing
ModestMarketing lead-gen scrapers — LinkedIn employees, Facebook Ads library and prospect-data extractors for outbound.
1.4K 30-day users · 129 competing actorsLeader: LinkedIn Company Employees Scraper & Email Finder - No Login · 1.00★ (1 reviews) · 16% market shareUntested — leader has too few reviews to readSee competitors →
How this works
Niches are ranked by a combination of three signals: how much demand the niche has (30-day users across all of its actors), how saturated it is with competing actors, and how much room the niche’s dominant actor leaves for a better alternative. The tier badge (Hot / Strong / Promising / Modest) compresses that combined signal into a quick read; click any niche to see the full competing field.
This lens looks at category-pair niches — the natural intersection of how Apify tags actors. Keyword-specific sub-niches (for example “yelp” inside Lead generation × Travel) need a different lens that’s on the roadmap.