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Pull local business leads from Google Maps, track Amazon prices, or build a social listening feed. No code, no servers, no infrastructure to manage.
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Fuel your RAG pipelines and AI agents with real-time web data. Connect Apify to Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible assistant. No custom backend required.
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Build scalable scrapers with Crawlee, or install one Apify Agent Skill into Claude Code or Cursor and ship your first Actor today.
Explore Developer Docs →Building and maintaining production scrapers is harder than it looks. Apify bundles the infrastructure so you spend time on data, not on blocks, cold starts, or storage plumbing.
Plain scripts get blocked. Apify scrapers ship with rotating proxies, CAPTCHA solving, and browser stealth that you turn up or down per target.
Go from a single script to millions of pages. Apify handles cloud infrastructure, scheduling, and dataset storage so you focus on what the data does, not on managing servers.
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Extract local business leads with contact info, ratings, reviews, and opening hours from any Google Maps query or URL.
361,000+ users · ⭐ 4.76
Collect public profiles, posts, comments, and hashtags for market research, competitor analysis, and influencer discovery.
Apify official · used by 200,000+ developers
Track competitor pricing, product details, reviews, and seller data across Amazon marketplaces at scale.
Crawl any website to clean Markdown, HTML, or structured JSON. Built for RAG pipelines, LLM fine-tuning, and AI agents that need fresh web context.
Apify official · the canonical RAG crawler
Give Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client live web search plus clean Markdown content from any URL. Built and maintained by Apify, queries Google Search, returns LLM-ready output.
82,000+ users · ⭐ 4.0 · MCP-ready
Extract public tweets, profiles, and trending topics for sentiment analysis, brand monitoring, and social listening.
Apify official
Collect public professional profiles for outbound recruiting, lead research, and market mapping within your platform's usage guidelines.
59,000+ users · ⭐ 3.7
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Connect Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP client to live Apify data. Install Agent Skills once and your AI assistant can run any Actor in the store.
Explore this pathCrawl any site to clean Markdown, schedule refreshes, and pipe the result into LangChain, LlamaIndex, or Pinecone with one Actor.
Explore this pathPull a cold list from Google Maps or LinkedIn, enrich it with contact data, and push fresh prospects into your CRM on a schedule.
Explore this pathTrack competitor pricing, stock changes, and marketplace shifts across Amazon, eBay, and Shopify before margins disappear.
Explore this pathWatch product launches, pricing shifts, hiring signals, and review trends on a schedule. Get an alert when something moves.
Explore this pathMonitor trends, creators, engagement, and brand sentiment across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and X from a single dataset.
Explore this pathCollect product data from thousands of listings, analyze competitor assortments, and identify market gaps before they close.
Explore this pathCollect reviews, social comments, and forum posts at scale. Track how brand perception shifts over time across platforms.
Explore this pathAutomate repetitive browser tasks: invoice downloads, form submissions, report generation, content monitoring, all on a schedule.
View on Apify ↗Hand-picked workflows from the blog: agent-ready scraping, RAG architectures that survive 100k documents, lead pipelines, and the trade-offs between Apify and its alternatives.
A complete pipeline: Apify scrapes the source list, Claude enriches and scores each lead, HubSpot closes the loop. Numbers from a live deployment so you can sanity-check the unit economics before you build.
Read the article →Chunking, embeddings, retrieval, evaluation. The trade-offs that decide whether your RAG system survives 100,000 documents, plus the failure modes most starter guides skip.
Read the article →Wire Apify Actors into n8n for lead gen, price monitoring, job alerts, and AI data pipelines. No custom backend, no glue code, just the integration patterns that hold up in production.
Read the article →Free tiers and open-source frameworks tested on the same target site. Which ones hold up under real workloads, where each one breaks, and the upgrade path when you outgrow free.
Read the article →Set up the Apify MCP server in Claude Desktop, Cursor, or VS Code. One-click OAuth gives your AI assistant live access to any of the 30,000+ Apify Actors.
Read the article →Independent comparisons of Apify pricing, features, and data quality against Bright Data, Clay, Firecrawl, and other alternatives, so you choose the right stack before you commit.
Where Apify wins on bundled execution, storage, and developer workflow, and where Bright Data still leads on raw proxy depth.
See the comparison →When Firecrawl is the better fit for clean Markdown output, when Apify wins on scheduled extraction across 30,000+ Actors, and the cases where teams run both side by side.
See the comparison →The strongest alternatives across no-code, Scrapy-first, and proxy-first stacks, with the trade-offs that matter before you commit.
See the comparison →Free and freemium scrapers tested on the same site. The ones that hold up under real workloads, the ones to skip, and where each free tier runs out.
See the comparison →The free plan is $5 in credits every month. That covers hundreds of scraping jobs and asks for no card. Pick an Actor, run it, and you have data by tomorrow morning.