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.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
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.
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 SERVERAgent 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.
apify-actor-development
AGENT SKILLapify-actorization
AGENT SKILLapify-generate-output-schema
AGENT SKILLapify-sdk-integration
AGENT SKILLapify-ultimate-scraper
AGENT SKILLPricing 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
PLANSRate 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
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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
FINOPSFeatures 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.
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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
JSON-LDSpectral 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
SPECTRALApify API Rules
SPECTRALJSON 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.
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
JSON STRUCTUREApify Dataset Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApify Key Value Store Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApify Run Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 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.
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.
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.
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
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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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