Curated Use Apify article collections: top scraping tools, proxy comparisons, and automation patterns for developers and data teams.
Large Language Models require synchronous access to the live web to prevent hallucination. The AI Agents collection on Apify provides the critical orchestration layer—fully managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and autonomous headless browser frameworks—with the picks below biased toward agents that already see real execution volume.
Challenge Picks surfaces innovative actors from Apify developer challenges, including unusual and high-value data sources.
The Community Experts collection features actors from experienced independent developers, with verified user counts and ratings.
The Black Friday deal hunters collection targets automated price tracking, deal detection, and competitive e-commerce monitoring.
The e-commerce tools collection includes actors that turn online stores into structured, queryable datasets without you managing infrastructure.
The Facebook Scrapers collection covers actors for posts, pages, groups, ads, marketplace listings, reels, and events from Facebook at scale.
The For creators collection bundles utilities, integrations, and developer frameworks for building and deploying Apify Actors.
Extracting POI (Point of Interest) and Local Business data from Google Maps at scale requires complex architectural engineering to bypass the platform's hard 120-result pagination limit per search query.
The Google Maps Scrapers collection on Apify hosts dedicated serverless Actors that use geographic grid partitioning to support high-coverage ingestion for city-wide or nation-wide location targeting.
Hidden gems (social media) calls out innovative, fast-growing, and specialized actors that are climbing the ranks in the Apify Store.
Meta Scrapers entries are verified with real user counts, live pricing, and data-extraction capabilities for Facebook and Instagram.
