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Apify provides the infrastructure developers need to build, deploy, and monetize web automation tools. The platform centers on Apify Store, a marketplace featuring 10,000+ community-built Actors. These are serverless programs that scrape websites, automate browser tasks, and power AI agents. Developers create Actors using JavaScript, Python, or Crawlee (Apify's open-source crawling library), then publish them to the Store. When other users run your Actor, you earn money. Apify manages the infrastructure, handles payments, and processes monthly payouts to thousands of active developers. Apify Store offers ready-to-use solutions for common use cases: extracting data from Amazon, Google Maps, and social platforms; monitoring prices; generating leads; and much more. Under the hood, Actors automatically manage proxy rotation, CAPTCHA solving, JavaScript-heavy pages, and headless browser orchestration. The platform scales on demand with 99.95% uptime and maintains SOC2, GDPR, and CCPA compliance. For workflow automation, Apify connects to Zapier, Make, n8n, and LangChain. The platform also offers an MCP server, enabling AI assistants like Claude to discover and invoke Actors programmatically.

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Nextbrowser is a free and open-source AI orchestrator for automating browser-based work from a desktop environment. It allows users to connect existing AI agents to browser profiles and have those agents research information, navigate websites, extract data, and execute repetitive workflows. Supported agents include Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Antigravity CLI, and other compatible AI tools. Use cases include competitive and advertising research, web scraping, outreach, operations, ecommerce, price monitoring, developer QA, SEO, social media monitoring, influencer outreach, and LLM optimization. Users can configure each workflow with a browser profile, proxy, skills, custom instructions, and a schedule. Recurring tasks can operate continuously while the Nextbrowser desktop application remains open. The platform provides account automation features such as encrypted credentials, remote-browser authentication that does not require sharing passwords with AI agents, anti-fingerprinting technology, and residential proxy support. Nextbrowser also supports managing multiple accounts on the same website and performing browser actions that may not be available through a platform's official API. The platform is designed to bring accounts, browser profiles, automation tools, and AI agents into a single workspace for running browser workflows at scale.