Apify

Apify is a full-stack web scraping and browser automation platform founded in 2015 in Prague, Czech Republic. The platform enables developers to build, deploy, and scale web scrapers and automation workflows — collectively called "Actors" — in a serverless cloud environment.

Apify's marketplace offers thousands of pre-built Actors for scraping popular websites, extracting structured data, and automating browser-based tasks. The platform has become particularly relevant in the AI era as a primary tool for creating high-quality training datasets, building RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) pipelines, and feeding real-time web data into AI applications. Apify's Website Content Crawler and specialized social media scrapers are among the most popular tools for AI data preparation.

The company also provides Crawlee, an open-source web scraping library for Node.js, and integrates with major AI frameworks including LangChain and LlamaIndex. Apify's combination of managed infrastructure, anti-blocking technology, and AI-ready data output formats has positioned it as essential infrastructure for teams building AI applications that need fresh, structured web data.