Make passive income developing web automation actors
Building open source does not pay much. Running SaaS is still complicated. We're launching a better way to let you make money from your hobby.
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Jan Čurn
Founder and CEO of Apify.
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Latest Posts
Launching Apify’s new billing system, pricing plans, team account, and notifications center
Today, we’re launching the largest Apify update this year: a new billing system with new monthly and annual plans, flexible pay-as-you-go…
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The Apify Master Plan
How we’re going to build a social development and computing ecosystem where anyone can find, build, buy, and run cloud programs.
How we’re going to build a social development and computing ecosystem where anyone can find, build, buy, sell, run and share cloud programs.
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Actors reimagined: Launching auto-generated user interfaces and tasks
We’ve launched the largest upgrade to Apify actors to make them much more accessible to people without programming skills.
Apify actors now provide automatically generated user interfaces to enable users easily enter the input configuration. The configurations can also be saved as “tasks” to enabl
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Why the world needs a universal web scraping library for JavaScript
We’ve released the Apify SDK — an open-source Node.js library for scraping and web crawling. There was one for Python, but none for JS.
We’ve released the Apify SDK — an open-source Node.js library for scraping and web crawling. There was one for Python, but until now, there was no such library for
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Announcing another investment from Reflex Capital
We raised a "bridge" investment round from one of our current investors - Reflex Capital, putting the value of the company to $5.5 million.
We raised a "bridge" investment round from one of our current investors - Reflex Capital, putting the value of the company to $5.5 million.
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Launching Apify Proxy
The new HTTP proxy endpoint provides access to Apify's large pool of proxies, with intelligent IP address rotation and health checks.
The new HTTP proxy endpoint provides access to Apify's large pool of proxies, with intelligent IP address rotation, health checks and persistent sessions.
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Exporting crawler results to Excel spreadsheet
Apify now supports streamed download of results in the XLSX format. The package performing this export has been open-sourced on NPM.
Apify now supports streamed download of results in the XLSX format. The package enabling this export with a very low memory overhead has been published as open-source
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How to make headless Chrome and Puppeteer use a proxy server with authentication
We released an open-source package called proxy-chain on NPM to enable running headless Chrome and Puppeteer over proxy with…
We have released a new open-source package called proxy-chain on NPM to enable running headless Chrome and Puppeteer over a proxy server that requires authentication.
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Apifier is now Apify!
Today we are launching the largest upgrade of Apifier to date —a new product called Actor together with a complete redesign of the website…
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Christmas API revamp
Application programmable interface (API) is one of the core components of Apifier. Heck, “API” is even in our company name as we are…
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Seed investment
We’re proud to announce that we’ve just secured seed funding of $250k from INCOMMING ventures and Spread Capital for a 20% share in…
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