Apify

What is Apify?

Apify simplifies web scraping, data extraction, and web automation tasks for developers. It has a user-friendly interface and powerful features. The tool helps users to build, deploy, and publish reliable web scrapers.

Web scraping can be difficult because of headless browsers, scaling issues, and blocking mechanisms. This tool solves these problems by offering a full-stack platform that simplifies the process.

The platform offers a simple workflow divided into five steps. Developers can use open-source tools like Crawlee to build reliable scrapers in Node.js. They can also use preferred libraries like Scrapy, Selenium, Playwright, or Puppeteer. These libraries are available in both Python and JavaScript environments.

Developers can deploy their code to Apify and turn it into an Actor. These serverless micro apps are easy to develop, run, share, and integrate. The infrastructure, proxies, and storage are ready to use, so no extra configuration is needed. Deployment to the cloud is seamless, either through a single CLI command or from GitHub.

Once deployed, users can run their Actors using various methods such as the Apify Console, CLI, API, or scheduling them to start at specific times. This tool ensures that users never get blocked by providing a large pool of data centers and residential proxies. It implements smart IP address rotation with human-like browser fingerprints. Users can also store and share crawling results in various formats like CSV, JSON, and Excel.

This tool makes it easy to track performance over time. You can inspect all Actor runs, logs, and runtime costs. You can also receive custom automated alerts. It offers easy integration with hundreds of apps through ready-made integrations, webhooks, and APIs.

Developers can publish their Actors on the Apify Store. They can earn money by joining hundreds of other developers who share their tools and solutions.

Apify offers pre-built scrapers for Google Maps, Amazon products, Twitter, YouTube, Booking.com, and more. They also provide resources for learning, documentation, community support, and industry-specific solutions.