Apify

Apify Store — 25,000+ Ready-Made Actors

Apify Store is a marketplace of over 25,000 pre-built web scraping and automation tools (Actors) covering social media, e-commerce, lead generation, AI, and more. Users can browse, run, and schedule any Actor instantly without writing code, with each Actor pre-configured with anti-blocking protections tailored to its target website.

Actors — Serverless Automation Programs

Actors are lightweight, containerized programs that accept JSON inputs, execute web scraping or automation tasks in the cloud, and return structured outputs. They support long-running jobs beyond a single HTTP transaction, custom memory/CPU allocation, Docker containers, and can be run locally or deployed to Apify's cloud infrastructure at scale.

Actor Standby Mode

Actor Standby mode keeps an Actor running in the background as a real-time API server, waiting for incoming HTTP requests just like a standard web server. This eliminates cold-start latency and enables synchronous, low-latency data retrieval for use cases that require immediate responses.

Apify Proxy — IP Rotation & Anti-Blocking

Apify Proxy provides datacenter (shared and dedicated), residential, and Google SERP proxy types with dynamic IP rotation, automatic health monitoring, and geolocation targeting for accessing region-specific content. Fixed IP sessions allow retaining the same IP for login-based scraping workflows, and proxies integrate natively with all Actors and the Apify SDK.

Anti-Blocking & Fingerprinting

Apify's anti-blocking stack includes CAPTCHA solving, browser fingerprinting with real-world fingerprint datasets (via Crawlee's open-source Fingerprint Suite), TLS-level HTTP clients to pass network checks, and headless browser support for JavaScript-heavy sites. Actors in the Store come pre-configured with site-specific anti-blocking, and users are only charged for successful results.

MCP Server for AI Agents

The Apify MCP Server exposes all Actors as tools accessible by AI agents via the Model Context Protocol, compatible with Claude Desktop, Claude.ai, Cursor, ChatGPT, VS Code, and other MCP clients. Agents can dynamically search Apify Store for suitable Actors, run them, and retrieve structured results — enabling autonomous web data workflows without human intervention.

Scheduled Actor Runs

Apify Schedules let users automate Actor and task execution using cron expressions with timezone and daylight saving time support, firing within one second of the scheduled time. Each schedule can trigger up to 10 Actors and 10 tasks, with configurable input overrides, notifications on failure, and management available through the Console, REST API, or SDK clients.

Structured Storage — Datasets, Key-Value Stores & Request Queues

The Apify platform provides three built-in storage types: Datasets for tabular scraping results exportable as JSON, CSV, and Excel; Key-value stores for diverse data types including JSON, HTML, and images; and Request queues for managing URL crawling order and state. All storage is accessible via Apify Console, REST API, JavaScript/Python API clients, and SDKs.

Broad Integration Ecosystem

Apify integrates natively with LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, LangGraph, Haystack, Vercel AI SDK, Mastra, Amazon Bedrock, Flowise, and Langflow for AI workflows, plus Zapier, Make, n8n, Airbyte, Pinecone, Qdrant, Milvus, Google Sheets, Slack, and GitHub for broader automation stacks. Built-in webhooks, Actor-to-Actor chaining, and a REST API with JS/Python clients provide full programmatic access.

Agentic Payments via Skyfire

Apify supports agentic payments through Skyfire, enabling AI agents to autonomously discover, run, and pay for Actor executions using pre-funded Skyfire PAY tokens — without requiring a traditional Apify account. Agents authenticate API calls with a Skyfire token header, and billing charges only actual compute usage, with unused funds returned to the Skyfire wallet on token expiry.