Apify
Pull structured data from any website using 30,000+ ready-made scrapers and managed proxies, without running your own servers. Now has an MCP server so agents can invoke Actors directly.
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Overview
Apify is a web scraping and automation platform that provides the infrastructure, tools, and marketplace for extracting data from websites at scale, without the operational complexity of building and maintaining scrapers in-house. The Apify Store contains 1,000+ pre-built scrapers (called Actors) for common data extraction needs: Amazon product listings, LinkedIn company data, Google Maps reviews, Booking.com rates, social media profiles, and hundreds more. For custom extraction needs, Apify provides SDKs in JavaScript, Python, and TypeScript for building new Actors, plus cloud infrastructure for running them on a schedule or via API trigger. Apify's browser automation handles JavaScript-heavy sites that traditional HTTP scraping can't access, running real Chrome instances in the cloud.
The Proxy service provides rotating residential and datacenter IP pools to avoid blocking. Extracted data can be saved to Apify's Dataset storage and exported as JSON, CSV, Excel, or pushed directly to Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, or S3. Monthly plans start at $49 for the Starter tier. Pay-as-you-go credits work for smaller use cases.
Apify is most valuable for data teams, market intelligence operations, and growth marketers who need structured data from the web at a volume or frequency that makes manual collection impractical, and where building and maintaining custom scrapers in-house would require dedicated engineering time.
Key Features
- 2,000+ pre-built scrapers (Actors)
- AI web scraping from natural language
- Proxy management
- Scheduled runs
- API and webhooks
- • Largest library of pre-built scrapers anywhere
- • AI can scrape any site without code
- • Reliable proxy rotation
- • Excellent for large-scale data collection
- • Can get expensive for high usage
- • Some sites actively block scraping
- • Setup complexity for custom scrapers
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