Apify Updates

Announcing Crawlee: the web scraping and browser automation library

Percival Villalva

Crawlee is an open-source web scraping and automation library that helps you build reliable scrapers. Fast.

4 min read Aug 11, 2022

Apify Updates

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

Dávid Lukáč

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

4 min read Jul 18, 2022

Apify Updates

Actor build life cycle is being changed

Marek Trunkát

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.

2 min read May 5, 2022

Apify Updates

Single JavaScript file actors are being deprecated

Josef Válek

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.

3 min read Feb 16, 2022

Apify Updates

Apify leaves 2021 in the dust and accelerates into 2022

David Barton

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.

10 min read Feb 10, 2022

Apify Updates

Apify celebrates 6 years

Natasha Lekh

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

Apify Updates

September updates from Apify

Natasha Lekh

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.

4 min read Oct 7, 2021