Apify

What Apify does

Apify is the largest marketplace of tools for AI, offering over 50,000 Actors to automate business processes. It provides real-time web data, enables competitor tracking, lead generation, social media monitoring, and integration with various applications and agents. Apify integrates with platforms like n8n, Make, Zapier, and LangChain, and its Model Context Protocol (MCP) support allows AI agents to dynamically discover and use tools without custom code. The platform handles infrastructure, proxies, and scaling, allowing users to focus on data rather than pipelines. Apify also offers professional services for custom web scraping, AI agents, and automation projects, and supports building and deploying custom Actors using Python and JavaScript with libraries like Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, Scrapy, and Crawlee.

Products

• TikTok ScraperExtracts data from TikTok videos, hashtags, and users, including profiles, posts, URLs, shares, followers, hearts, names, video, and music-related data.
• Google Maps ScraperExtracts data from Google Maps locations and businesses, including reviews, reviewer details, images, contact info (full name, email, job title), opening hours, and prices.
• Instagram ScraperExtracts Instagram posts, reels, profiles, places, hashtags, carousels, and comments, including content, context, metrics, and metadata.
• Website Content CrawlerCrawls websites and extracts text content to feed AI models, LLM applications, vector databases, or RAG pipelines, supporting rich formatting and cleaning HTML.
• E-commerce Scraping ToolScrapes data from almost any retail site to extract e-commerce data for price monitoring or comparing offerings.
• Facebook Posts ScraperExtracts posts, videos, and engagement metrics from Facebook pages, including text captions, reactions, video transcripts, images, external links, and collaborators.
• Apify StoreA marketplace of over 53,000 ready-to-run Actors for various web data extraction and automation tasks.
• Apify AIA beta feature for finding and running Actors quickly, with a conversational interface inside Apify Console.
• Apify MCP serverAllows AI applications and agents to interact with the Apify platform using Model Context Protocol (MCP) to discover and run Actors, and access storages and results.
• Apify Adviser GPTAn AI assistant trained to help users find the right Actor or get help with the Apify platform.
• Apify APIA REST API for programmatic interaction with the Apify platform, allowing control of Actors, tasks, and storage.
• JavaScript API clientAn official library to interact with the Apify API from web browsers, JavaScript/TypeScript applications, Node.js, Deno, or Bun.
• Python API clientAn official library to interact with the Apify API from Python applications.
• Apify SDKSoftware toolkits for developing new Actors in JavaScript and Python.
• Apify CLIA command-line interface to control the Apify platform from a terminal or shell scripts.
• CrawleeAn open-source web crawling, scraping, and browser automation library for Node.js and Python with autoscaling and proxies.
• Fingerprint SuiteA toolkit for generating and injecting realistic browser fingerprints into Playwright and Puppeteer.
• impitA Rust-based HTTP client with browser impersonation, with bindings for Node.js, Python, and CLI.
• mcpcA CLI client for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for server exploration, scripting, and code mode.
• proxy-chainA Node.js proxy server with SSL, authentication, and upstream proxy chaining.
• Google Trends APIAPI for Google Trends data.
• Yahoo Finance APIAPI for Yahoo Finance data.
• Craigslist APIAPI for Craigslist data.
• Goodreads APIAPI for Goodreads data.
• Home Depot APIAPI for Home Depot data.
• Airbnb APIAPI for Airbnb data.
• Amazon APIAPI for Amazon data.
• Apple Music APIAPI for Apple Music data.
• Binance APIAPI for Binance data.
• Bing Search APIAPI for Bing Search data.
• Ebay APIAPI for Ebay data.
• Etsy APIAPI for Etsy data.
• Google Finance APIAPI for Google Finance data.
• Google Flights APIAPI for Google Flights data.
• Google Lens APIAPI for Google Lens data.
• Google News APIAPI for Google News data.
• Google Places APIAPI for Google Places data.
• Google Scholar APIAPI for Google Scholar data.
• Google Search APIAPI for Google Search data.
• Google SERP APIAPI for Google SERP data.
• Google Translate APIAPI for Google Translate data.
• Google Vision APIAPI for Google Vision data.
• IMDb APIAPI for IMDb data.
• Indeed APIAPI for Indeed data.
• job scraping APIAPI for job scraping.
• LinkedIn jobs APIAPI for LinkedIn jobs data.
• LinkedIn profile APIAPI for LinkedIn profile data.
• LinkedIn scraping APIAPI for LinkedIn scraping.
• LinkedIn search APIAPI for LinkedIn search data.
• MidJourney APIAPI for MidJourney data.
• MLS APIAPI for MLS data.
• Netflix APIAPI for Netflix data.
• News APIAPI for News data.
• Odds APIAPI for Odds data.
• Real estate APIAPI for Real estate data.
• Reddit APIAPI for Reddit data.
• SEO ranking APIAPI for SEO ranking data.
• Steam APIAPI for Steam data.
• Stock APIAPI for Stock data.
• Stock price APIAPI for Stock price data.
• Temu APIAPI for Temu data.
• TikTok APIAPI for TikTok data.
• TradingView APIAPI for TradingView data.
• Translation APIAPI for Translation data.
• Twitch APIAPI for Twitch data.
• Walmart APIAPI for Walmart data.
• Weather APIAPI for Weather data.
• WhatsApp APIAPI for WhatsApp data.
• Wikipedia APIAPI for Wikipedia data.
• Yelp APIAPI for Yelp data.
• YouTube APIAPI for YouTube data.
• Zillow APIAPI for Zillow data.

Key capabilities

• Largest marketplace of tools for AI (Actors)
• Real-time web data extraction
• Browser automation
• AI agents support via MCP
• API integration
• Data pipelines
• No-code tools available
• Developer platform for building custom Actors
• Infrastructure, proxies, and scaling handled
• Integration with n8n, Make, Zapier, LangChain
• MCP connectors for third-party services (Notion, Slack, GitHub)
• Support for Python and JavaScript
• Open-source libraries: Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, Scrapy, Crawlee
• Web Scraping Academy for learning
• Code templates for quick-start projects
• Discord community for developers
• Monetization for published Actors
• Flexible pricing plans including pay-as-you-go and custom options
• Add-ons for concurrent runs, Actor RAM, datacenter proxies, personal training
• Output schema inference for structured Actor results
• Streamable HTTP with OAuth for secure connection to MCP server
• Structured web data for AI models, LLM applications, vector databases, RAG pipelines
• LangChain and LlamaIndex integration for loading scraped datasets
• Ability to train and fine-tune AI models with web data
• Monitoring brand mentions, reviews, and sentiment
• Improving chatbot accuracy with real-time web data
• Automated pipeline for qualified leads
• Email verification built into lead generation tools
• Export data in JSON, CSV, XLSX, RSS formats
• API-first design with RESTful API
• Official JavaScript and Python API clients
• Baked-in scheduling and monitoring for scrapers
• Smart proxy rotation for reliability
• Scalable platform for large data volumes
• SOC 2 Type II compliant
• NDA and maximum privacy for projects and data

Use cases

• Get real-time web data
• Track competitors
• Generate leads
• Monitor social media
• Integrate apps and agents
• Automate business processes
• Feed AI models and LLM applications
• Load vector databases
• Train new AI models
• Fine-tune AI models
• Power chatbots with real-time web data
• Customer service and support with AI chatbots
• Monitor brand mentions, reviews, and sentiment
• Improve accuracy of chatbot responses
• Build targeted lead lists
• Enrich merchant records and sync with CRM
• Automate data collection for compliance monitoring (e.g., price tracking)
• Analyze social media strategies and market positioning
• Automate marketing stacks for lead generation and social media automation
• Collect product data from e-commerce websites
• Accelerate benchmarking and analysis of products
• Dynamic pricing and revenue optimization
• Brand protection and MAP compliance
• Competitive intelligence and market analysis
• Assortment planning and merchandising
• Promotional tracking and trend analysis
• Data pipeline automation
• Web scraping for research and analysis
• Automating mundane tasks
• Building custom web crawlers and scrapers
• Developing and deploying serverless microapps (Actors)
• Storing and exporting web scraping results
• Avoiding blocking with proxy rotation
• Scheduling Actors and tasks
• Connecting Actors with third-party services
• Monitoring Actor performance and data quality
• Collaborating on Actors and managing permissions
• Migrating existing scrapers or AI agents to Apify
• Onboarding engineering teams for web scraping solutions
• Providing legal advice on ethical web scraping and GDPR compliance

AI approach

Apify provides a marketplace of 'Actors' (tools) for web scraping and browser automation, which are used to collect and structure web data. This data is then fed into AI models, LLMs, vector databases, and RAG pipelines. Apify also offers an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that allows AI agents to discover, run, and fetch data from these Actors, enabling agents to access real-time web data and perform tasks. They facilitate the use of web data for training, fine-tuning, and powering generative AI applications and chatbots.

Tech named: AI models, LLM applications, vector databases, RAG pipelines, LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI fine-tuning API, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Generative AI, ChatGPT, MidJourney, BARD, AI agents, Anthropic's Claude for Desktop, VS Code extension with MCP support, Crew.ai, LangGraph, Haystack, Mastra, Lindy.ai, Langflow

Industries served

• Technology, Information and Internet
• E-commerce
• Retail
• Marketing
• Sales
• Real Estate
• Finance
• Healthcare
• Government
• Research
• Education

What it says sets it apart

• Largest marketplace of trusted tools (Actors) for AI
• Comprehensive platform for web scraping and browser automation
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) for AI agents to discover and run Actors dynamically
• Handles infrastructure, proxies, and scaling automatically
• Extensive integrations with workflow automation tools and coding agents/IDEs
• Offers both ready-to-run Actors and tools for building custom ones
• Strong focus on providing structured web data for AI and LLM applications
• Open-source tools and libraries (Crawlee, Fingerprint Suite, impit, mcpc, proxy-chain)
• Professional services for custom solutions, migration, and maintenance
• Flexible pricing with free plan and pay-as-you-go options
• SOC 2 Type II compliant for security and data protection
• No vendor lock-in; users own their code
• World-class experts and comprehensive documentation/onboarding
• Ethical web scraping guidance and legal expertise (GDPR)
• Highly scalable platform capable of processing petabytes of data monthly
• Dedicated support for startups, universities, and nonprofits