apify-ultimate-scraper

apify-ultimate-scraper is a skill for Claude Code from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. It costs 33 tokens per session (2,893 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A general entry point for extracting data from websites with Apify Actors, which are cloud programs that perform isolated tasks. It selects a suitable Actor for the requested site or data source, runs it, and summarizes the results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for web scraping when the target platform or the best Apify Actor is not yet known, including collecting and summarizing results.
Why use it?
It removes the need to choose a specialized scraper before starting. It also provides one workflow for collecting data across different platforms.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the agentic-awesome-skills plugin — 196 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for web scraping when the target platform or the best Apify Actor is not yet known, including collecting and summarizing results.

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About the project

AAS Core is a local control plane for coding agents that lets them search a large catalogue of skills, choose a stack, validate it, and create a reproducible plan. It is used to assemble and review agent workflows through its CLI, local MCP server, catalogue, plugins, and Workbench. The catalogue add-ons provide the skills, plugins, bundles, and workflows that AAS Core helps agents select and validate.

sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills · 46,230 stars · on GitHub · sickn33.github.io

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install agentic-awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,893 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00033 $0.02893
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01447
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00579
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00289

Measured 3d ago against content hash c4a766e8fe5e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apify-ultimate-scraper scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (reference/scripts/run_actor.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/apify-ultimate-scraper/SKILL.md · 257 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 257 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Universal Web Scraper

AI-driven data extraction from 55+ Actors across all major platforms. This skill automatically selects the best Actor for your task.

When to Use

  • The user needs web data extraction but has not yet chosen a specific Apify Actor.
  • You need a general-purpose Apify entry point that maps a broad scraping goal to the most suitable Actor.
  • The task spans multiple platforms and benefits from one unified workflow for actor selection, execution, and summarization.

Prerequisites

(No need to check it upfront)

  • .env file with APIFY_TOKEN
  • Node.js 20.6+ (for native --env-file support)
  • mcpc CLI tool: npm install -g @apify/mcpc

Workflow

Copy this checklist and track progress:

Task Progress:
- [ ] Step 1: Understand user goal and select Actor
- [ ] Step 2: Fetch Actor schema via mcpc
- [ ] Step 3: Ask user preferences (format, filename)
- [ ] Step 4: Run the scraper script
- [ ] Step 5: Summarize results and offer follow-ups

Step 1: Understand User Goal and Select Actor

First, understand what the user wants to achieve. Then select the best Actor from the options below.

Instagram Actors (12)
Actor ID Best For
apify/instagram-profile-scraper Profile data, follower counts, bio info
apify/instagram-post-scraper Individual post details, engagement metrics
apify/instagram-comment-scraper Comment extraction, sentiment analysis
apify/instagram-hashtag-scraper Hashtag content, trending topics
apify/instagram-hashtag-stats Hashtag performance metrics
apify/instagram-reel-scraper Reels content and metrics
apify/instagram-search-scraper Search users, places, hashtags
apify/instagram-tagged-scraper Posts tagged with specific accounts
apify/instagram-followers-count-scraper Follower count tracking
apify/instagram-scraper Comprehensive Instagram data
apify/instagram-api-scraper API-based Instagram access
apify/export-instagram-comments-posts Bulk comment/post export

Read the full file on GitHub · 257 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago Changed · +1 lines c4a766e8fe5e
  2. 5d ago First seen · 256 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 2461adc13a37

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apify-ultimate-scraper is a skill published in the GitHub repository sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills (46,230 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 2,893 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.