The Complete Guide to Web Scraping in 2026 — No Code Required

Web scraping used to require Python, proxies, and hours of debugging. Not anymore.

The Problem

Most developers still write custom scripts for data collection. This means:

• Hours of development time
• Maintaining proxy infrastructure
• Dealing with CAPTCHAs and rate limits
• Scripts breaking every time a website changes

The Solution

Platforms like Apify offer pre-built tools (called "actors") that handle all of this for you. There are over 26,000 of them covering every major website and use case.

Best Tools for Web Scraping

1. Google Maps Scraper (507K users)

Extract data from thousands of Google Maps locations and businesses, including reviews, reviewer details, images, contact info, including full name, email, and job title, opening hours, prices & more.

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2. TikTok Scraper (217K users)

Extract data from TikTok videos, hashtags, and users. Use URLs or search queries to scrape TikTok profiles, hashtags, posts, URLs, shares, followers, hearts, names, video, and music-related data. Expo

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3. Instagram Scraper (328K users)

Extract Instagram posts, reels, profiles, places, hashtags, carousels, and comments. Get data from Instagram using one or more Instagram URLs or search queries: content, context, metrics, metadata. Ex

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4. Google Search Results Scraper (151K users)

Scrape Google Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). Select the country or language and extract organic and paid results, AI Mode, AI overviews, ads, queries, People Also Ask, prices, reviews, like a Go

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5. Website Content Crawler (140K users)

Crawl websites and extract text content to feed AI models, LLM applications, vector databases, or RAG pipelines. The Actor supports rich formatting using Markdown, cleans the HTML, downloads files, an

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Getting Started

1. Create a free Apify account — comes with $5/month in credits
2. Browse the full directory of 26,000+ tools
3. Pick a tool, configure your inputs, and hit Run
4. Download results as JSON, CSV, or push to Google Sheets

No servers. No code. No proxies. Just data.