Key Features
- Actor Ecosystem – Access 5,000+ plug-and-play scrapers for TikTok, Instagram, Amazon, Google Maps, and more.
- Custom Actor Builder – Develop your own scraping bots using JavaScript, Python, or Crawlee with CLI/GitHub integration.
- Proxy Rotation + Anti-Blocking – Built-in unblocking tools and proxy rotation to bypass rate limits and CAPTCHAs.
- LLM-Ready Output – Extract and format website content cleanly for AI pipelines like LangChain, LlamaIndex, and RAGs
- End-to-End Monitoring – Track scraper runs, performance, and errors in real time with auto-scaling cloud infrastructure.
- Monetize Your Actors – Publish your scrapers in the Apify Store and earn from users—with zero billing or hosting hassle.
- Secure by Design – Enterprise-grade compliance with SOC2, GDPR, and 99.95% uptime.
Use Cases
- Data Enrichment for AI Models – Feed clean, structured text to train or fine-tune language models and assistants.
- Lead Generation Automation – Scrape contact details and business profiles at scale for sales teams.
- E-commerce Price Monitoring – Track competitors’ listings, reviews, and pricing from Amazon and others.
- Social Media Analysis – Pull post, profile, and hashtag data from TikTok and Instagram.
- SEO & Content Research – Crawl websites and analyze their structure, keywords, and metadata for optimization.
- Academic & Market Research – Collect research-ready datasets from online publications and marketplaces.
Tech Specs
- Fully cloud-hosted with auto-scaling infrastructure
- API access for seamless integration into workflows
- Open-source SDK (Crawlee) for custom projects
- Language support: JavaScript, TypeScript, Python
- Works with Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, BeautifulSoup, and Scrapy
- Supports integrations with Zapier, Google Sheets, Pinecone, and more
Scrape smarter. Build faster. Automate better.
FAQs
Yes. Apify provides full developer tools, open-source SDKs, and templates to create and deploy your custom Actors.
Unlike typical scraping APIs, Apify offers an Actor marketplace, full customization, anti-blocking capabilities, and monetization opportunities—all in one ecosystem.
Absolutely. You can list your Actors in the Apify Store and get paid without handling billing or hosting yourself.
Apify’s monitoring tools and community support help you keep Actors up-to-date and resilient to site changes.
Yes. It offers content-cleaning crawlers and markdown formatting ideal for feeding data into large language model pipelines.
Conclusion
Apify brings everything you need for modern web scraping and automation into one cohesive platform. Whether you’re a solo dev launching your first Actor or an enterprise feeding AI pipelines with live web data, Apify gets you from idea to execution—fast, reliably, and at scale
👉 Ready to scrape the web like a pro? Get started with Apify today.
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