Apify platform

Apify is a cloud platform and marketplace of tools for web data extraction and automation.

Actors are serverless programs that run in the cloud. They can perform anything from simple actions such as filling out a web form or sending an email, to complex operations such as crawling a website with a million pages, or removing duplicates from a large dataset. Actors can persist their state and be restarted, and thus they can run as short or as long as necessary, from seconds to hours, even infinitely.

Getting started

Learn how to run any Actor in Apify Store or create your own. A step-by-step guides through your first steps on the Apify platform.

Run Actor from Apify Store

Apify Store is home to thousands of public Actors available to the Apify community. It's the easiest way for you to start with Apify.

Build your own Actor

Read about the technical part of building Apify Actors. Learn to define Actor inputs, build new versions, persist Actor state, and choose base Docker images.

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Contents

Actors

Learn how to develop, run and share own web scraping and automation tools.

Storage

Store anything from images and key-value pairs to structured output data.

Proxy

Learn to anonymously and reliably access websites in scraping/automation jobs.

Schedules

Learn how to automatically start your Actor and task runs.

Integrations

Learn how to connect the Apify platform with your projects.

Monitoring

Learn how to check the performance of your Actors, validate your data and receive alerts.