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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Bright Data holds the title of the leading platform for web data, proxies, and data scraping solutions globally. Various entities, including Fortune 500 companies, educational institutions, and small enterprises, depend on Bright Data's offerings to gather essential public web data efficiently, reliably, and flexibly, enabling them to conduct research, monitor trends, analyze information, and make well-informed decisions.
With a customer base exceeding 20,000 and spanning nearly all sectors, Bright Data's services cater to a diverse range of needs. Its offerings include user-friendly, no-code data solutions for business owners, as well as a sophisticated proxy and scraping framework tailored for developers and IT specialists.
What sets Bright Data apart is its ability to deliver a cost-effective method for rapid and stable public web data collection at scale, seamlessly converting unstructured data into structured formats, and providing an exceptional customer experience—all while ensuring full transparency and compliance with regulations. This commitment to excellence has made Bright Data an essential tool for organizations seeking to leverage web data for strategic advantages.
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Decodo
High quality data collection infrastructure for almost every use case using Decodo (formerly Smartproxy). You can bypass geo-blocks, CAPTCHAs and IP bans using 50M+ proxy servers from 195+ locations. This includes cities across the US. We have you covered, from scraping multiple targets simultaneously to managing multiple social and eCommerce accounts. You can integrate our proxies seamlessly with third-party software, or use our Scraping APIs. We also provide detailed documentation. It's never been easier to manage multiple profiles. You can create unique fingerprints and use as many browsers you want, without any risk. It's simple to use and quite powerful. In just 2 clicks, you can access a proxy paradise in your browser. It's free. It's easy to set up and even easier to use. In just 2 clicks, you can access the virtual world. Instantly generate user-pass lists for sticky sessions and export proxy lists in seconds. Sort and harvest any data you need in an intuitive and simple way.
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Crawl4AI
Crawl4AI is an open-source web crawler and scraper tailored for large language models, AI agents, and data processing workflows. It efficiently produces clean Markdown that aligns with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines or can be directly integrated into LLMs, while also employing structured extraction techniques through CSS, XPath, or LLM-driven methods. The platform provides sophisticated browser management capabilities, including features such as hooks, proxies, stealth modes, and session reuse, facilitating enhanced user control. Prioritizing high performance, Crawl4AI utilizes parallel crawling and chunk-based extraction methods, making it suitable for real-time applications. Furthermore, the platform is completely open-source, allowing unrestricted access without the need for API keys or subscription fees, and it is highly adjustable to cater to a variety of data extraction requirements. Its fundamental principles revolve around democratizing access to data by being free, transparent, and customizable, as well as being conducive to LLM utilization by offering well-structured text, images, and metadata that AI models can easily process. In addition, the community-driven nature of Crawl4AI encourages contributions and collaboration, fostering a rich ecosystem for continuous improvement and innovation.
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