Apify Ultimate Scraper

by apify

Apify Ultimate Scraper is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by apify in agent-skills.

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Install Apify Ultimate Scraper

Copy Apify Ultimate Scraper into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/apify/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/apify-ultimate-scraper ~/.claude/skills/apify-ultimate-scraper

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/apify/agent-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/apify-ultimate-scraper/SKILL.md in apify/agent-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/apify-ultimate-scraper
Collection: One of 5 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Apify Ultimate Scraper does

Apify Ultimate Scraper extracts data from 15+ platforms like Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Google Maps, Reddit, Airbnb, and Yelp using the Apify CLI. Use it for lead generation, competitor analysis, brand monitoring, SEO research, and other web data extraction tasks.

Apify Ultimate Scraper is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Apify Ultimate Scraper comes from a repository tagged actor, agent-skills, ai-agents, apify and mcp.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Universal web scraper

AI-driven data extraction from ~100 Actors across 15+ platforms via the Apify CLI.

Rules for every apify command:

Pass --json for machine-readable output (stable across CLI versions).
Pass --user-agent apify-agent-skills/apify-ultimate-scraper for telemetry attribution.
Redirect stderr with 2>/dev/null (stderr contains progress messages that break JSON parsers).

Prerequisites

Apify CLI v1.5.0+ (npm install -g apify-cli)
Authenticated session (see below)

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Apify Ultimate Scraper

What else does apify publish alongside Apify Ultimate Scraper?
Apify Ultimate Scraper is one of 5 skills that DirSkills catalogs from apify/agent-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Apify Actor Development, Apify Actorization and Apify Output Schema Generator. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Apify Ultimate Scraper does, and is maintained by apify in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the apify/agent-skills page.
How does Apify Ultimate Scraper compare to other Automation skills?
Apify Ultimate Scraper ranks #462 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Apify Ultimate Scraper against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.