Apify

Apify is a full-stack web scraping and automation platform. Run, schedule, and manage web scrapers (called Actors) on cloud infrastructure — either by using thousands of ready-made Actors from the Apify Store, or by building your own with Node.js or Python.

Features

Actors (Scrapers & Automations)

• 2,000+ ready-made scrapers in the Apify Store (Amazon, Google, LinkedIn, Instagram, Trustpilot, and more)
• Build custom Actors using Crawlee, Apify’s open-source scraping library
• Full Playwright and Puppeteer support for JavaScript-heavy sites
• Schedule Actors to run on a cron schedule

Infrastructure

• Managed cloud runs — no server setup required
• Automatic browser fingerprinting and anti-bot bypass
• Built-in proxy rotation (datacenter and residential)
• Parallel runs and concurrency management

Storage

• Datasets: Structured output storage with JSON and CSV export
• Key-Value Stores: Blob storage for files, screenshots, and HTML
• Request Queues: Persistent crawl queues with deduplication

API & Integrations

• REST API and official SDKs (JavaScript, Python)
• Webhooks on Actor run completion or failure
• Zapier and Make (Integromat) integrations
• Export to Google Sheets, S3, and other destinations

Quick Start

Trigger an Actor run and retrieve results via the Apify REST API:

using System.Net.Http.Json;
using System.Text.Json.Nodes;

using var client = new HttpClient();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "Bearer apify_api_YOUR_TOKEN");

// Start an Actor run
var runResponse = await client.PostAsJsonAsync(
    "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/apify~web-scraper/runs",
    new { startUrls = new[] { new { url = "https://example.com" } } }
);
var run = await runResponse.Content.ReadFromJsonAsync<JsonNode>();
var datasetId = run!["data"]!["defaultDatasetId"]!.GetValue<string>();

// Fetch scraped results once run completes
var items = await client.GetFromJsonAsync<JsonNode>(
    

        

            
quot;https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/{datasetId}/items?format=json"
);
Console.WriteLine(items);

Pricing

• Free tier: $5 monthly usage credit — enough for light scraping tasks
• Starter: $49/month — regular scraping workloads
• Scale: $499/month — high-volume production use
• Pay-per-use billing based on compute time and storage consumed