Apify
UnknownWeb data infrastructure for AI applications, automation, and research
Tool Information
What is Apify?
Apify is a web data platform and marketplace of ready-to-run tools called Actors. It helps teams extract, process, and integrate real-time web data into AI applications, business workflows, and analytics.
Core Features
Actor marketplace
Browse ready-to-run Actors for AI agents and applications.
Web scraping and crawling
Extract structured data and text from websites, social platforms, maps, and e-commerce sites.
Custom Actor development
Build, deploy, and scale your own serverless Actors.
API execution and scheduling
Run Actors through an API, schedule jobs, monitor activity, and connect them with other tools.
AI and RAG data preparation
Crawl websites and prepare clean, structured content for AI models, LLM applications, vector databases, chatbots, and RAG pipelines.
Anti-blocking and proxy tools
Use anti-blocking capabilities and rotating scraper IP addresses for web scraping.
MCP support
Configure an MCP server so compatible AI clients can access Actors and tools.
Open-source Crawlee library
Use Crawlee, Apify's open-source web scraping and crawling library.
Use Cases
- #1
Generative AI and AI agents
Collect live web content as API-ready data for AI models, AI agents, chatbots, and RAG workflows.
- #2
Lead generation
Extract web data to identify and enrich business leads.
- #3
Market research
Gather and analyze web data about markets, products, competitors, and customer sentiment.
- #4
Competitive intelligence
Monitor competitor prices, advertisements, search visibility, products, and local market activity.
- #5
E-commerce intelligence
Collect product and pricing data from multiple retail websites for comparison and ongoing monitoring.
- #6
Business process automation
Automate browser-based tasks such as accounting activities, report generation, data extraction, and content aggregation.
- #7
Social media intelligence
Extract and monitor data from TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Google Maps.
Pricing Plans
The official snapshots link to pricing and contact-sales pages but do not provide pricing terms or a pricing model.
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Apify Contact & Social Media
- Support
- Website:
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- YouTube
- LinkedIn
- TikTok
- GitHub
- Discord
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