Today, we’re launching the largest Apify update this year: a new billing system with new monthly and annual plans, flexible pay-as-you-go platform pricing, and add-ons. In this release, we’re also making the team account and notifications center generally available. You can migrate to the new billing system right away in…

TL;DR: You can now run Scrapy spiders written in Python on the Apify platform, using the new Scrapy Executor (apify/scrapy-executor) actor. This is big news, because now you can finally also enjoy all the advantages of the Apify platform with your Scrapy scripts. This post was written by Vojta Drmota…

This post was written by Vojta Drmota in September 2019. My three months as a software engineering intern at Apify have been an incredibly rewarding and educational experience. …

Learn how to automatically scrape emails, phone numbers, and Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram profiles from web pages using a new actor on Apify called Contact Information Scraper (vdrmota/contact-info-scraper). Note: tech-savvy users can find the regular expressions used for extraction at the end of the article. Searching for contact information…

How we’re going to build a social development and computing ecosystem where anyone can find, build, buy, sell, run and share cloud programs. Software is eating the world and there are now software services, websites, and APIs for almost anything imaginable. The web has become the largest source of information…

We’ve launched the largest upgrade to Apify actors so far. First, we’ve added an option to provide actors with an automatically-generated user interface to enter their input configuration. Second, you can now save the input configuration of an actor as a task that can be reused later. In this post…

TL;DR: We’ve released the Apify SDK — an open-source Node.js library for scraping and web crawling. There was one for Python, but until now, there was no such library for JavaScript, THE language of the web. This story has been moved to Hackernoon, please continue reading there.

TL;DR: We’ve released the Apify SDK — an open-source Node.js library for scraping and web crawling. There was one for Python, but until now, there was no such library for JavaScript, THE language of the web. In Python there is Scrapy, a de facto standard toolkit for building web scrapers…

This is a quick announcement that we have raised a “bridge” investment round from one of our current investors — Reflex Capital, owned by Ondřej Fryc. The new investment puts the value of the company to $5.5 million. …