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Apify

Full-stack web scraping and browser automation platform for AI data.

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Data OpsAutomation
Pricing
FREEMIUM
Source
Proprietary
Hosting
Cloud
Platforms
WebAPI
Models
Model-agnostic
Verified
Jun 8, 2026

A cloud platform for web scraping, data extraction, and browser automation built around 'Actors' — serverless programs that crawl sites and return structured data. Its store offers tens of thousands of ready-made Actors, and outputs clean Markdown or JSON that feed LLMs, vector databases, and RAG pipelines via LangChain and LlamaIndex. The company also maintains the open-source Crawlee crawling library for local development.

Capabilities 3

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • Web scraping (primary capability)
  • Browser automation (primary capability)
  • Trigger-action automation (secondary capability)

Pros & cons

  • Serverless 'Actors' scale automatically
  • Outputs clean Markdown/JSON for LLMs
  • Maintains open-source Crawlee
  • LangChain/LlamaIndex integrations
  • Usage-based costs add up at scale
  • Learning curve for custom Actors
  • Platform itself is closed/hosted
  • Scraping reliability varies by site

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