Apify

This project is the home of Apify's documentation.

Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js to build reliable crawlers. In JavaScript and TypeScript. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and other files from websites. Works with Puppeteer, Playwright, Cheerio, JSDOM, and raw HTTP. Both headful and headless mode. With proxy rotation.

Node.js implementation of a proxy server (think Squid) with support for SSL, HTTP/HTTPS, SOCKS5, authentication, and upstream proxy chaining.

Apify API client for PHP—Programmatically run Actors, manage and stream data from storages (datasets, key-value stores, request queues), schedule and monitor runs, and access the full Apify platform API. Sync and async interfaces with automatic retries and pagination.

House of Apify Scrapers. Generic scraping actors with a simple UI to handle complex web crawling and scraping use cases.

Utility functions to measure resource limits from cgroups in scenarios where psutils is not sufficient.

Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Python to build reliable crawlers. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and other files from websites. Works with Parsel, BeautifulSoup, Playwright, and raw HTTP. Both headful and headless mode. With proxy rotation.

Apify API client for .NET—Programmatically run Actors, manage and stream data from storages (datasets, key-value stores, request queues), schedule and monitor runs, and access the full Apify platform API. Sync and async interfaces with automatic retries and pagination.

Apify API client for Java—Programmatically run Actors, manage and stream data from storages (datasets, key-value stores, request queues), schedule and monitor runs, and access the full Apify platform API. Sync and async interfaces with automatic retries and pagination.

Apify SDK for Python—The official library for building Apify Actors: serverless cloud programs for web scraping, browser automation, data processing, and AI agents. Manages the Actor lifecycle, storages (datasets, key-value stores, request queues), events, proxies, and pay-per-event monetization. Built on top of the the Apify API Client.