Apify
Apify is a full-stack web scraping and browser automation platform that enables developers to build, run, and deploy web scrapers, AI agents, and automation workflows at scale using a cloud-based infrastructure.
Apify is a cloud platform for web scraping, browser automation, and AI-powered data extraction that helps developers, data teams, AI companies, and enterprises collect structured information from virtually any website. Rather than building and maintaining scraping infrastructure from scratch, users can leverage Apify's managed environment to develop, schedule, and scale data extraction workflows while handling challenges such as proxies, browser orchestration, storage, monitoring, and deployment automatically.
At the core of the platform are Actors—serverless applications that perform web scraping, browser automation, API integrations, AI tasks, or custom workflows. Developers can create Actors using JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or other supported technologies, deploy them to the Apify cloud, schedule recurring executions, expose them through APIs, and publish them in the Apify Store for public or commercial use. The marketplace contains thousands of ready-made Actors for scraping websites such as Google Maps, LinkedIn, Instagram, Amazon, TikTok, YouTube, and many other online services.
Apify includes built-in proxy management, headless browser automation with Playwright and Puppeteer, data storage, request queues, datasets, key-value stores, webhooks, monitoring, logging, and integrations with platforms including Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, Slack, and numerous developer tools. It also provides APIs and SDKs that enable developers to integrate large-scale web data collection directly into applications, analytics pipelines, and AI systems. The platform has become increasingly popular for powering retrieval pipelines, AI agents, market research, lead generation, price monitoring, and competitive intelligence.
Apify offers a free plan for getting started, while paid plans begin at $29/month with usage-based billing based on compute resources and optional marketplace services. Overall, Apify is one of the most comprehensive platforms for building, deploying, and monetizing web scraping and browser automation solutions at enterprise scale.