Jan Čurn - Apify

Apify celebrates 6 years

Is 6 years a lot or a little for a startup like ours? You tell us, but we’re feeling very positive about it, and we’ve got a couple of good reasons why. We’ll let the numbers speak for themselves.

4 min read Oct 20, 2021

Company

Apify is growing: 3 big changes you should know about

Jan Čurn

We're making some changes to make it even easier for our users and clients to work with us.

3 min read Aug 18, 2021

Actors

Make passive income developing web automation actors

Jan Čurn

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.

6 min read Apr 27, 2021

Product

Launching Apify’s new billing system, pricing plans, team account, and notifications center

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…

6 min read Dec 10, 2020

Automation

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.

5 min read Apr 8, 2019

Web Scraping

Actors reimagined: Launching auto-generated user interfaces and tasks

Jan Čurn

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

7 min read Nov 5, 2018

JavaScript

Why the world needs a universal web scraping library for JavaScript

Jan Čurn

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

1 min read Oct 5, 2018

Startup

Announcing another investment from Reflex Capital

Jan Čurn

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.

1 min read Jun 12, 2018

Web Scraping

Launching Apify Proxy

Jan Čurn

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.

3 min read Jun 6, 2018

Excel

Exporting crawler results to Excel spreadsheet

Jan Čurn

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

2 min read Jan 15, 2018

Proxy

How to make headless Chrome and Puppeteer use a proxy server with authentication

Jan Čurn

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.

3 min read Dec 29, 2017

UX

Apifier is now Apify!

Jan Čurn

Today we are launching the largest upgrade of Apifier to date —a new product called Actor together with a complete redesign of the website…

5 min read Oct 9, 2017