Jan Čurn

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…

How we’re going to build a social development and computing ecosystem where anyone can find, build, buy, sell, run and share cloud programs.

We’ve launched the largest upgrade to Apify actors so far. First, we’ve added an option to provide actors with an automatically-generated user interface to enter their input configuration. Second, you can now save the input configuration of an actor as a task that can be reused later.

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 JavaScript, THE language of the web.

We raised a "bridge" investment round from one of our current investors - Reflex Capital, putting the value of the company to $5.5 million.

The new HTTP proxy endpoint provides access to Apify’s large pool of proxies, with intelligent IP address rotation and health checks.

Apify now supports streamed download of results in the XLSX format. The package performing this export has been open-sourced on NPM.

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.

Today we are launching the largest upgrade of Apifier to date —a new product called Actor together with a complete redesign of the website. Oh, and Apifier has been renamed to Apify! Note that all existing crawlers are safe and sound — nothing has changed for them.

Application programmable interface (API) is one of the core components of Apifier. Heck, “API” is even in our company name as we are helping people to APIfy the web.

We’re proud to announce that we’ve just secured seed funding of $250k from INCOMMING ventures and Reflex Capital for a 20% share in Apifier.

It’s exactly one year today since we launched Apifier, so we thought this was a great opportunity to share what we’ve been up to in the last 12 months.

In summer 2015, Y Combinator (YC) launched a new program called Y Combinator Fellowship (YCF) to help more people found a startup. Apify was there.

The earliest version of the Apify API was released three weeks after the company launched as Apifier.

Apify's first-ever blog post from when the company launched.