Overview
Apify is a cloud-based web scraping and automation platform. It provides a marketplace of pre-built 'Actors' (scrapers and web automation tools) for extracting data from websites like TikTok, Google Maps, Instagram, Amazon, and Facebook. Users can also build and deploy their own Actors using Apify's SDKs (JavaScript and Python) and open-source libraries such as Crawlee, Puppeteer, and Playwright. Apify supports integrations with LangChain, LlamaIndex, and other LLM frameworks for feeding web data into AI models. The platform handles proxies, unblocking, cloud deployment, monitoring, and data processing. Use cases include social media monitoring, competitive intelligence, lead generation, e-commerce scraping, and AI model training.