Apify

Apify is a full-stack web scraping and automation platform that helps anyone get value from the web. At its core is Apify Store, a marketplace where developers build, publish, and monetize automation tools called Actors.

• Actors are serverless cloud programs that extract data, automate web tasks, and run AI agents. Developers build them using JavaScript, Python, or tools like Crawlee, Apify's open-source web scraping library. Build an Actor once, publish it to Store, and earn when others use it. Apify handles all the infrastructure, billing, and monthly payouts.
• For everyone else, Apify means never building from scratch. Apify Store features 10,000+ ready-made Actors for extracting Amazon product data, scraping Google Maps listings, monitoring competitor prices, pulling social media content, generating leads, and hundreds of other use cases.
• Behind the scenes, Actors handle proxy rotation, CAPTCHA bypassing, JavaScript rendering, headless browsers, scaling, storage, and scheduling. Everything runs on Apify's cloud infrastructure with 99.95% uptime. The platform is SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and CCPA compliant, and boasts users at companies and organizations such as Intercom and the European Commission.
• Actors are run through Apify Console and can be integrated with Zapier and Make, or connected to AI frameworks like LangChain and Hugging Face to feed LLMs and vector databases. Apify also provides an MCP server that lets AIs like Claude discover and use Actors as tools dynamically. This means an AI agent can ask "find the top 10 Czech restaurants in San Francisco" and automatically use the right Actor to scrape Google Maps for that data.
• Use cases include competitive intelligence for tracking prices across e-commerce, lead generation for extracting and enriching business contacts, market research to gather reviews and social media sentiment. Users can monitor SEO to track rankings and backlinks, and AI training to crawl websites for LLM context.
• Apify has residential and datacenter proxies, browser automation with Puppeteer and Playwright, automatic retries, error handling, monitoring dashboards, and APIs for integration. Schedule runs to keep data continuously updated. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, Google Sheets, databases, or push directly into workflows.
• Beyond Apify Store, the Professional Services team builds and maintains custom solutions. Enterprise customers get dedicated data experts, custom integrations, and long-term project maintenance.
• The free tier includes $5 in prepaid monthly platform usage. Paid plans scale based on compute power, storage, and proxy usage.