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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Gaffa is a REST API built for web scraping and browser automation, allowing developers to run real, full browsers at scale with a single API call. It removes the difficulty of managing headless browser frameworks, rotating proxies, CAPTCHA solving, and scaling infrastructure, all of which are handled automatically.
JavaScript-heavy and dynamic websites render exactly as they would for a human visitor by default. Beyond standard scraping, Gaffa supports AI-driven structured data extraction (extract data into a defined schema without writing CSS selectors), screenshot and PDF capture, infinite-scroll and form-filling automation, and clean Markdown conversion for feeding webpages directly into LLM and RAG pipelines.
A rotating residential proxy network keeps access reliable across regions, and a credit-based pricing model means teams pay only for the browser time and bandwidth they actually use. Gaffa is designed for AI engineers, data teams, and developers who want production-grade web data extraction without having to build and maintain their own infrastructure.
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Scrapely
Scrapely serves as a comprehensive solution for web scraping and automation, offering features such as infinite CAPTCHA resolution, web crawling, and browser automation all included in one concurrency-focused pricing plan. Instead of charging based on each request, Scrapely's model only bills for the number of concurrent threads being utilized, ensuring users have access to unlimited CAPTCHA solving, crawls, and bandwidth without unexpected fees.
Noteworthy attributes include:
- CAPTCHA Solver API: Simply provide a sitekey to obtain a token; compatibility with reCAPTCHA v2/v3 is included.
- Smart Crawler API: Input a URL and receive the fully rendered DOM in real-time.
- Browser Automation: Engage with dynamic web pages through actions like clicking and scrolling via a REST API or Python SDK.
- BYOP (Bring Your Own Proxy): Seamlessly integrate your preferred residential or datacenter proxies with no added markup.
- MCP Server: Directly link to AI agents such as Claude or Cursor for fully autonomous scraping capabilities.
Pricing starts at an affordable $12 per month for five threads, and users can take advantage of a free trial with one thread to explore the service. This flexible approach allows users to tailor their usage according to their specific scraping needs.
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CloakBrowser
CloakBrowser is a custom Chromium distribution for developers building browser automation with Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, or CDP. Instead of relying only on runtime JavaScript patches, it changes browser behavior at the Chromium source level while preserving familiar automation APIs. Teams can adapt existing Python, JavaScript, and .NET workflows with minimal code changes and run sessions on Windows, macOS, Linux, Docker, or their own VPS infrastructure. Features include persistent profiles, reproducible browser identities, proxy-aware locale and timezone configuration, human-like input timing, and CDP server mode. CloakBrowser is intended for legitimate public-web data collection, QA, monitoring, scraping, and AI-agent workflows. The developer wrapper is MIT-licensed, while current custom Chromium binaries are distributed separately under a proprietary license. Users provide their own proxies and CAPTCHA services.
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