Apify

Web data is only useful once someone has collected it, cleaned it and put it where an application can use it, and Apify is organized around doing that work as a service. The Prague company runs a platform and marketplace of small ready-to-run programs called Actors, which scrape or process websites and pass the results to people, apps and AI agents. Its site now counts tens of thousands of these tools.

Scrapers for the big platforms

The popular Actors it highlights cover TikTok videos, hashtags and profiles; Google Maps places, including reviews, images, opening hours and business contact fields; Instagram posts, reels, comments and hashtags; and Facebook pages, with captions, reactions, video transcripts and engagement figures. A separate e-commerce tool collects product data from almost any retail site so prices can be followed over time or compared between sellers.

Feeding AI and language models

A website content crawler turns pages into clean text for language models, vector databases and retrieval pipelines. It keeps formatting by using Markdown, strips the HTML, downloads files, and works with LangChain and LlamaIndex. On its own account, the marketplace serves teams that want live web data to watch competitors, find leads, keep an eye on social media and wire up apps and agents.

Running, scheduling and exporting

Every Actor can be run through the API, scheduled, monitored, and have its output exported or passed to other tools. Customers can also have Actors built to their own specification, which the service terms treat as part of the services alongside use of the platform itself.

Terms for business customers

The commercial terms describe a customer as an entrepreneur using the platform in its business. Invoices are sent electronically and fall due 15 days after delivery. The company can amend its terms, telling customers by email at the address registered on the platform. Customers must not use the platform in breach of sanctions or embargoes from the Czech Republic, the European Union, the United States or the United Nations, must not interfere with the code, and must report unauthorized access.

Apify is a Prague-based software company that runs a platform for automating tasks on websites. Its marketplace lists tens of thousands of small programs, called Actors, which collect web data and feed it to applications and AI agents.

Services

• Actor marketplace: ready-to-run scrapers for TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Google Maps and e-commerce sites.
• Website content crawling: extraction of page text for language models and retrieval pipelines.
• Custom Actors: tools built to a customer's own specification and use case.
• Scheduling and API access: runs can be scheduled, monitored and exported through an API.
• Integrations: links to other tools and AI workflows, including LangChain and LlamaIndex.

Clients

Businesses that need current web data to track competitors, generate leads, monitor social media or supply AI systems.

Key facts

• Based in: Prague, Czech Republic
• Legal entity: Apify Technologies s.r.o.
• Platform: software provided as an online service