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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.

Are you interested in creating a web scraper using Python or JavaScript, or perhaps you're in search of a web scraping service? Look no further! Since 2009, we have been offering comprehensive web scraping services tailored to meet your needs. Our team has the capability to extract data from any website, regardless of its nature. With an impressive scraping speed of up to 17,000 web requests per minute from a single server equipped with a 100MB/s network, we ensure efficiency and reliability. You have the flexibility to schedule your web scraping tasks according to your preferences, whether hourly, daily, or weekly, using a cron format for precise timing. In case you encounter any challenges while scraping, simply submit a support ticket, and our dedicated team will assist you in overcoming any issues related to your web scraping endeavors. You can access the results generated by our web scraping server for your account, or you have the option to initiate new scraping tasks through API calls. Additionally, once a scraping task is completed, you can receive notifications via API to your specified endpoint, keeping you informed about the progress of your data collection. Our commitment is to provide you with a seamless and efficient web scraping experience.