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Apify is a cloud platform and marketplace for web scraping, data extraction, and automation tools. Its ready-to-run tools, called Actors, help users collect real-time data from websites, generate leads, monitor competitors, track social media, and power AI apps or workflows.
Apify offers thousands of Actors that can be used without building scraping infrastructure from scratch. Users can run these tools in the cloud, connect them via API, schedule recurring tasks, and export structured data to other systems.
Key features include a large marketplace of pre-built Actors, customizable automation workflows, API access, cloud-based infrastructure, proxy support, and integrations with popular business tools.
Apify’s pricing is usage-based, with costs depending on factors such as Actor runs, compute usage, proxies, data transfer, and storage. A free plan is available, while paid plans and enterprise options are designed for higher-volume or more advanced use cases.
Main pros:
- Large marketplace of ready-to-run scraping and automation tools
- Useful for lead generation, competitor tracking, social media monitoring, and AI data workflows
- Scalable cloud infrastructure with API and scheduling options
- Good option for teams that need web data without managing scraping infrastructure
