Apify updates

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Watch your idea grow into an actor: an essential update to Apify ideas

On June 5, we start removing Actor builds that are untagged and have not been used for 180 days, and on August 5 we start removing untagged actor builds not used for 90 days.

We will automatically convert single-file Actors to multi-file and keep them working. If you are using Apify API to update the code of your single-file actors or create new ones, then you will have to update your API integration following the instructions below.

What did Apify achieve in 2021? We created more, hired more, and earned more than ever before. Read about the highlights, changes, and challenges of an amazing year.

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.

Check out our new piece on the legality of web scraping, our tech post on MongoDB performance, 2 use cases of scraping real estate for research, and a couple of small how-to tutorials on scraping Google and Instagram.

Check out our new UI on Apify platform, our take on Captcha/Anticaptcha, a Google Maps scraping tutorial and a list of updated scrapers.

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

What we learned from collecting individual contribution metrics in our GitHub repositories.

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

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…

We calculated the standard deviation of bids placed by devs on Apify Marketplace and were surprised to find price convergence over time.

Tell us what you need from Apify + Slack integration. Apify app updates: support for multiple API tokens, more batch operations.

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