Apify
A platform offering thousands of ready-to-use tools for AI agents, web scraping, lead generation, and data extraction. Includes anti-blocking and proxy solutions.
Apify is an open-source alternative to:
Apify is the largest marketplace of trusted tools for AI, enabling users to automate business tasks, extract real-time web data, track competitors, generate leads, and integrate apps and agents.
Key Features
- 65,000+ Ready-to-Run Actors: Pre-built tools for tasks like web scraping, lead generation, and market research.
- Anti-Blocking & Proxy: Built-in solutions to avoid IP blocking while scraping.
- Apify Store: Browse and discover Actors for any job on the web.
- Integrations: Connect with apps and services seamlessly.
- MCP Server: Give AI agents access to Actors via Model Context Protocol.
- Open Source Core: Powered by Crawlee, a web scraping and crawling library.
- Developer Tools: Includes SDKs, CLI, and templates for Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
- Monetization: Publish your own Actors and earn revenue.
Tech / Self-Hosting
Apify is a cloud-based platform with no self-hosting option. The core library, Crawlee, is open source and can be self-hosted for custom web scraping and crawling workflows. Crawlee supports Node.js and Python, with integrations for Docker and Kubernetes.