spb/tools-spboucher-ai

1{2  "slug": "apify",3  "name": "Apify",4  "aliases": ["Apify platform", "Apify Store"],5  "vendor": { "name": "Apify Technologies s.r.o.", "slug": "apify", "website": "https://apify.com/" },6  "homepage_url": "https://apify.com/",7  "docs_url": "https://docs.apify.com/",8  "repo_url": "https://github.com/apify/apify-sdk-js",9  "pricing_url": "https://apify.com/pricing",10  "privacy_url": "https://docs.apify.com/legal/privacy-policy",11  "product_type": "platform",12  "product_status": "active",13  "summary": "Cloud platform and marketplace for running web-scraping and automation programs (Actors), with storages, proxies, scheduling, an API and an MCP server for agents",14  "description": "Apify is a cloud platform for web scraping, data extraction and browser automation, built around a unit of deployment it calls the Actor: a containerized program with a declared input schema that runs on Apify's infrastructure, writes results to a dataset and can be invoked from the console, the REST API, a schedule or a webhook. Apify Store is the marketplace where the company and independent developers publish thousands of ready-made Actors for social networks, e-commerce sites, search engines, maps and generic crawling; developers can also build their own Actors from templates with the open-source Apify SDKs for JavaScript and Python.\n\nSupporting services include datasets, key-value stores and request queues, datacenter and residential proxy pools plus an unblocking layer, run monitoring, and integrations with workflow tools such as n8n and Zapier and with agent frameworks. An official MCP server lets LLM agents discover and run Actors directly, which has made Apify a common data source for agent workflows. The open-source Crawlee library underpins most Actors.\n\nPricing is layered: a free plan, monthly subscriptions that include platform usage, and Actor-level charges that are either per event (per result) or per compute consumed; enterprise plans are negotiated. Apify targets developers and data teams who want hosted execution and a catalog of maintained scrapers rather than running crawlers themselves.\n\nCaveats: results depend on third-party Actors whose quality and maintenance vary, scraping is subject to the target sites' terms and anti-bot measures, costs can be hard to predict for long-running crawls, and the platform is proprietary even though the SDKs and Crawlee are open source.",15  "capabilities": ["Hosted execution of Actors with input schemas, runs and builds", "Marketplace of ready-made scrapers and automations", "Dataset, key-value store and request queue storages with export", "Datacenter and residential proxies with unblocking", "Schedules, webhooks and run monitoring", "REST API and clients for JavaScript and Python", "MCP server and agent integrations", "Apify SDKs for building Actors"],16  "workflows": ["Run a Store Actor to collect listings and export to JSON or CSV", "Deploy a custom Crawlee crawler as an Actor on a schedule", "Give an LLM agent web data through the Apify MCP server", "Pipe results into a warehouse or n8n workflow via webhooks"],17  "advantages": ["No infrastructure to run for crawls", "Large catalog of maintained Actors", "Open-source SDKs and Crawlee at the core", "Agent-ready through MCP and API clients"],18  "limitations": ["Third-party Actor quality and maintenance vary", "Costs scale with usage and can be hard to forecast", "Proprietary hosted platform", "Scraping remains subject to site terms and blocking"],19  "prerequisites": ["Apify account and API token", "Node.js or Python for custom Actors"],20  "audiences": ["Developers and data teams collecting web data", "Agent builders needing live web data", "Researchers gathering listings or social data"],21  "alternatives": ["crawlee", "scrapy", "firecrawl", "bright-data", "zyte", "scrapfly"],22  "comparison_notes": "Crawlee and Scrapy are libraries you run yourself; Apify adds hosting, storage, proxies and a marketplace on top of Crawlee. Firecrawl focuses on turning pages into LLM-ready Markdown via a small API rather than a catalog of site-specific scrapers. Bright Data and Zyte sell proxy networks and unblocking APIs with their own scraper products, positioned more toward enterprise data collection; Scrapfly is a scraping API with anti-bot handling. Apify's distinctive element is the Actor model with a public store and per-result pricing.",23  "categories": [{ "slug": "data-collection-crawling", "primary": true }, { "slug": "agent-frameworks" }],24  "tags": ["crawler", "browser-automation", "api", "typescript", "python", "mcp", "saas", "proxies"],25  "use_cases": ["crawl-websites", "build-agents", "collect-web-data"],26  "operating_systems": ["web"],27  "execution_modes": ["cloud"],28  "interfaces": ["web", "api", "sdk", "cli", "mcp-server"],29  "deployment_models": ["saas"],30  "integrations": ["Crawlee", "Playwright", "Puppeteer", "n8n", "Zapier", "LangChain", "LlamaIndex", "Model Context Protocol", "Google Sheets", "Webhooks"],31  "data_formats": ["JSON", "CSV", "Excel", "XML", "RSS", "HTML"],32  "languages": ["JavaScript", "TypeScript", "Python"],33  "source_model": "mixed",34  "license_spdx": "Apache-2.0",35  "pricing_model": ["freemium", "usage-based", "paid", "enterprise"],36  "pricing_checked_at": "2026-11-02",37  "self_hostable": false,38  "sources": [39    { "url": "https://apify.com/", "type": "official_site", "title": "Apify", "supports": ["name", "summary"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },40    { "url": "https://docs.apify.com/", "type": "official_docs", "title": "Apify documentation", "supports": ["capabilities", "integrations", "languages", "description"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },41    { "url": "https://apify.com/pricing", "type": "pricing_page", "title": "Apify pricing", "supports": ["pricing_model"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },42    { "url": "https://github.com/apify/apify-sdk-js", "type": "repository", "title": "apify/apify-sdk-js", "supports": ["license_spdx", "source_model"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02", "note": "license_spdx refers to the open-source SDK, not the hosted platform" }43  ],44  "confidence": "high",45  "discovery_method": "editorial-research",46  "depth": "deep",47  "editorial_status": "reviewed",48  "visibility": "public",49  "featured": true,50  "author": "batch-C"51}52