Apify Documentation
Learn how to put the web to work with Apify.
Getting started
Apify is all about Actors—a new way to package your code to make it easy to share, integrate, and build upon.
Platform
The full reference of the Apify platform.
Actors
Develop, run, and share web scraping and automation tools in the cloud.
Storage
Store files and results of your web scraping jobs, and export it to various formats.
Proxy
Avoid blocking by smartly rotating datacenter and residential IP addresses.
Schedules
Automatically start Actors and saved tasks at specific times.
Integrations
Connect Actors with your favorite web apps and cloud services.
Monitoring
Check the performance of your Actors, validate data quality, and receive alerts.
Collaboration
Share Actors with other people, manage your organizations and permissions.
Security
Learn about Apify platform security and data protection.
MCP
Discover and use Actors with AI agents and LLMs via Apify MCP server.
Apify API
Interact with the Apify platform from your applications.
Apify SDK
Software toolkits for developing new Actors.
Apify CLI
Control the Apify platform from terminal or shell scripts.
Apify Academy
Free practical courses on web scraping and the Apify platform. Go from beginner to expert, all in one place.
Web scraping for beginners
Learn the basics of web scraping and how to develop your own scraper.
Introduction to the Apify platform
Learn the basics of the Apify platform and how to use it for your scraping projects.
API scraping
Learn how to efficiently extract data from web pages' APIs.
Anti-scraping protections
Understand the various anti-scraping measures and how to avoid them.
Advanced web scraping
Learn how to extract data from more complicated websites.
Deploying your code to Apify
Learn how to easily move your existing projects to the Apify platform.
Open-source tools
Fingerprint Suite
Toolkit for generating and injecting realistic browser fingerprints into Playwright and Puppeteer.
proxy-chain
Node.js proxy server with SSL, authentication, and upstream proxy chaining.
Actor whitepaper
Open specification for Actors, the serverless microapps at the core of the Apify platform.
Actor templates
Create new web scraping projects using ready-made templates for various programming languages and scraping libraries.
