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Apify

Apify is a full-stack web scraping and browser automation platform that enables developers to build, run, and scale web scrapers, crawlers, and data extraction tools using a cloud-based infrastructure with built-in proxy management, scheduling, and storage. The platform hosts thousands of ready-made Actors for scraping social media, search engines, maps, e-commerce sites, and more.

agent native

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Apify the way a machine reads it — 47 machine-readable artifacts across 6 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Apify scores 66.2/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 64/100 (agent native). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 66.2/100 · strong
Contract Quality 19.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 10.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 64/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Apify

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Apify. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 6

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Apify Actor Runs API

Monitor and manage Actor run executions.

Apify Actors API

Manage and run Apify Actors.

Apify Datasets API

Manage structured data storage from Actor runs.

Apify Key-Value Stores API

Manage persistent key-value storage.

Apify Request Queues API

Manage URL queues for web crawling.

Apify Users API

User and account management.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 5

An agent skill packages the how-to for driving these APIs from an assistant — the prompts, the sequence, the guardrails — so the knowledge to use the API travels with it.

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Apify Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Apify Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Apify Finops

FINOPS

Features 8

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Actors Marketplace

Store of thousands of pre-built web scrapers and automation tools ready to run with zero configuration.

Cloud Infrastructure

Run Actors on Apify's scalable cloud infrastructure with built-in proxy rotation, scheduling, and storage.

Datasets

Structured storage for Actor output with multi-format export (JSON, CSV, XML, XLSX, etc.).

Key-Value Stores

Persistent key-value storage for arbitrary data including files, screenshots, and configuration.

Request Queues

URL queue management for large-scale distributed web crawling.

Proxy Management

Built-in datacenter and residential proxy pools with automatic rotation.

Scheduled Runs

Schedule Actors to run automatically on cron schedules.

MCP Server

Apify MCP server enabling AI agents to use thousands of web scraping and automation tools.

Scroll within the panel for all 8 ·

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Apify Context

7 classes · 6 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Apify API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Apify API Rules

20 rules · 4 errors · 14 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 4

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Actor

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Dataset

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

KeyValueStore

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Run

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 4

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Apify Actor Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Apify Dataset Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Apify Key Value Store Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Apify Run Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 4

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Apify Actor Example

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Apify Dataset Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Apify Run Example

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Apify Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Apify Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Apify Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Apify Agentic Access

13 operations · 3 acting

13 operations · 3 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 5

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

AI Training Data Collection

Extract structured data from websites for LLM training datasets, RAG pipelines, and AI applications.

E-commerce Price Monitoring

Scrape product prices, availability, and reviews from e-commerce websites for competitive intelligence.

Social Media Data Extraction

Extract posts, profiles, and engagement data from social media platforms.

Search Engine Data

Scrape search engine results, SERP data, and web listings for SEO and market research.

Lead Generation

Extract business data from directories, LinkedIn, and other professional platforms.

Resources

Every other property we hold for Apify — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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