Cloud platform for running web scrapers and automation actors
Apify is a cloud platform for web scraping and browser automation, built around small containerised programs called actors. A large public store offers ready-made scrapers for common sites and data sources, and you can deploy your own using JavaScript or Python with the provided SDKs. The platform handles proxy rotation, scheduling, storage and monitoring, so scraping work that would otherwise need constant maintenance runs reliably. Many actors target the retrieval needs of AI systems - crawling documentation, extracting page content for embeddings - but Apify itself is scraping infrastructure, not a generative AI product.
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web scraping, data collection, crawler pipelines and retrieval dataset preparation
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The platform provides the tooling; legality depends on the target site, its terms, local law and the data involved. Personal data and copyrighted content carry additional obligations, so review each target rather than assuming a scraper is safe to run.
For ready-made actors, no - you configure inputs and run them. Custom actors for unusual sites require JavaScript or Python, and maintaining selectors over time is the part that consumes ongoing effort.
Commonly as the collection layer: crawlers gather pages, and the text is cleaned and stored for embedding or retrieval. It does not generate or evaluate content, so the retrieval pipeline is still built elsewhere.
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