API

An API is a way for computer programs to communicate. Discover how the web can work for you by turning any website into an API with Apify.

13 posts

Top Google search APIs

Natasha Lekh

Not all websites share their APIs with the public. Luckily for us, the biggest website in the world, Google Search, offers quite a few Google APIs. Or does it? Let's break down the most commonly asked questions about Google Search API.

5 min read Jul 21, 2022

Airbnb

What you should know about the Airbnb API and free alternatives

Theo Vasilis

Find out what you need to know about the Airbnb API, how to get access, and what free alternatives are available.

4 min read Jul 7, 2022

Python

Apify ❤️ Python, so we’re releasing a Python API client

František Nesveda

Announcing the Apify API client for Python. Giving you more ways to structure your data acquisition and processing pipelines.

3 min read Nov 15, 2021

API

What is an API?

David Barton

Heard the term API, but don't know exactly what it means? We explain the basics and list 7 characteristics of a good API.

10 min read Sep 21, 2021

Web Scraping

Top 10 free web scraping tools for data analysts, powered by Apify

Natasha Lekh

Discover the top 10 free web scraping tools for data analysts. Learn about the difference between web scraping tools, techniques and companies

10 min read Sep 14, 2021

Apify Updates

Updates to key-value store API

Jakub Drobník

We removed 9MB file size limit for uploads, updated how files are compressed, and deprecated Direct Upload endpoint.

2 min read Mar 9, 2021

Use Cases

How Apify created custom APIs to track COVID-19 worldwide

David Barton

Apify aggregates data from official coronavirus stats in 50 countries. Find out how we created an automated, open-source scraping solution.

11 min read Dec 1, 2020

Life in Apify

March 2020 update

Administrator

All is well at Apify! We hope that you’re staying safe and well too. We’re in full work-from-home…

3 min read Apr 8, 2020

Apify Updates

Apify joins the fight against COVID-19

Administrator

Apify turns websites into APIs, so we decided to do our part in the fight against COVID-19 by turning official COVID-19 stats into APIs that can be used by other apps.

1 min read Apr 2, 2020

Tutorial

Using a man-in-the-middle proxy to scrape data from a mobile app API

Petr Pátek

In this technical post, you’ll learn how to set up a man-in-the-middle proxy and install a self-signed certificate on your mobile phone in order to intercept HTTPS communication between any mobile app and its backend API.

6 min read Jul 25, 2019

Apify Updates

Apify Crawler product to be replaced by an Apify actor

Marek Trunkát

On September 30, 2019, we’ll be retiring the legacy Apify Crawler product together with Apify API version 1. Please migrate your crawlers to tasks of the new apify/legacy-phantomjs-crawler actor, which provides the same functionality, configuration options and results as Apify Crawler.

9 min read Jun 3, 2019

Apify Updates

Christmas API revamp

Jan Čurn

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.

2 min read Dec 19, 2016