Apify is growing: 3 big changes you should know about
We're making some changes to make it even easier for our users and clients to work with us.
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Jan Čurn
Founder and CEO of Apify.
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Make passive income developing web automation actors
Building open source does not pay much. Running SaaS is still complicated. We have a better way to let you make money from your hobby.
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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, 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 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.
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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 until now, there was no such library for JavaScript, THE language of the web.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How to make headless Chrome and Puppeteer use a proxy server with authentication
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. Oh, and Apifier has been renamed to Apify! Note that all existing crawlers are safe and sound — nothing has changed for them.
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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 helping people to APIfy the web.
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