Apify

What Apify is

Apify is a full-stack web scraping and browser automation platform. It offers a large store of ready-made actors for common sites, plus APIs, scheduling, monitoring, integrations, proxies and the open source Crawlee library for building your own crawlers.

It also supports MCP so AI agents can call actors for live web data.

What you can do with it

• Run a ready-made actor for a site
• Build your own crawler with Crawlee
• Schedule and monitor extraction jobs
• Give AI agents access to live page data

Who it is for

• Developers building data pipelines
• Growth and competitive intelligence teams
• AI agent builders

What to watch out for

• Scraping must respect site terms, robots directives, privacy law and access frequency limits
• Anti-blocking tooling must not be used to bypass logins or paywalls
• Collecting personal data from pages brings its own legal obligations
• Actor quality in a public store varies; review code before trusting output