Apify

• Prebuilt Actors/marketplace of ready-made scrapers and automation tools

• Create and deploy your own custom web scrapers (Actors)

• Serverless execution (cloud compute)

• Built-in proxy / anti-blocking tools

• Scheduling and automation of recurring runs

• Data storage & dataset management (key-value, JSON, file storage)

• Monitoring, logging, and alerting of runs

• Integrations and API access (REST API, SDKs)

• Support for JavaScript / TypeScript and Python SDKs

• Monetization/sharing of Actors via Apify Store

Apify is a full-stack cloud platform for web scraping, browser automation, and deploying workflows that interact with the web programmatically. It enables developers and businesses to turn websites into structured data sources, automate repetitive web tasks, and integrate web data into applications, reports, dashboards, or AI systems.

At the core of Apify are “Actors” — serverless scripts or applications you can build, deploy, and execute in the cloud. Actors can crawl websites, simulate clicks, fill forms, handle authenticated sessions, and generate structured outputs. The platform also offers a marketplace of thousands of prebuilt Actors for common use cases (e.g., scrapers for social media, e-commerce, job boards).

Users can schedule Actors on periodic intervals, trigger them via webhooks or APIs, and chain multiple Actors into automation pipelines. Storage is built in, with datasets, key-value stores, and file storage accessible both via the console and via API.  Logging, monitoring, and run management tools help maintain reliability and visibility into workflows.

Apify supports integrations with external tools like Zapier, GitHub, Google Sheets, Airbyte, and others — making it easier to feed scraped data into downstream systems.  For custom development, it offers SDKs (for JavaScript/TypeScript and Python) and REST APIs that facilitate building resilient scrapers and connecting Apify to any software stack.

Because Apify handles infrastructure, proxies, scalability, and anti-blocking measures, users don’t need to manage their own servers. This allows data teams, researchers, and businesses to focus on logic and business outcomes rather than operational challenges. Apify also enables developers to monetize their Actors by listing them in the Apify Store.

With its robust feature set, Apify is widely used for competitive intelligence, market research, lead generation, sentiment analysis, AI data pipelines, monitoring, and more. It bridges the gap between raw web pages and actionable structured data, empowering teams to build data-driven applications and automation with less friction.