Apify
A marketplace of ready-made web scrapers and a platform to run your own.
Visit Apify Free $5 credit/mo; Starter from $39/mo
What is Apify?
Apify is a web-scraping and automation platform with thousands of pre-built "Actors" — scrapers for Google Maps, Instagram, Amazon, LinkedIn and more — plus infrastructure to build, schedule, and scale your own, with an MCP server so AI agents can call them.
Key features
- Thousands of ready-made scrapers in the Apify Store
- Build custom Actors in JavaScript or Python
- Scheduling, proxies, and storage included
- MCP server exposes Actors as tools for AI agents
- Integrations with Zapier, Make, and LangChain
Pros
- Huge library — most common scraping jobs already exist
- Handles proxies and scaling so you do not have to
- Agent-ready via MCP
Cons
- Costs scale with compute units and can surprise you
- Third-party Actors vary in reliability
- Legal and terms-of-service compliance is on you
Best for
Growth and research teams pulling public web dataDevelopers automating data collection at scaleAgents that need structured data from specific sites
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