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.

Apify publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Actor Runs API, Actors API, Datasets API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Actors, Browser Automation, Crawling, Data Aggregation, and Data Extraction.

The Apify catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Apify’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, getting-started guide, pricing, engineering blog, signup flow, academy / training, and 14 more developer resources.

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37.0/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 53/100 agent ready Front door AI 6/6 dominant saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

6 APIs 1 MCP Servers 5 Agent Skills 8 Features 5 Use Cases

Actors Browser Automation Crawling Data Aggregation Data Extraction Web Automation Web Scraping

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 37.0/100 · thin

Contract Quality 5.0 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 9.4 / 15

Access Clarity 4.9 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 6.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.4 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 53/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Apify is an area vendor: providers adopt it to run part of their developer surface. This is the Kin Score checks its features can move for a provider that adopts it, what each one really earns, and what it earns nothing for.

mcp hostingcapability map5 features checked 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.22.0

Apify is an Actor marketplace with a hosted MCP server that lets agents discover and run Actors; an Actor that scrapes or wraps a company’s site or API earns that company nothing. A provider that builds its own Actor with an MCP endpoint in Standby mode writes its own tools, but they are served on apify.actor, so a declared server grades platform (0.25 of 12 agent-readiness points). Apify’s Agent Skills, plugins and llms.txt describe Apify.

Agent Readiness3.0 of 139 pts

Check	Earns	Through
MCP Serverconditional Agent ReadinessOnly if the provider builds the Actor itself and declares its apify.actor MCP endpoint in its own mcp/ manifest. A third party’s Actor about the provider’s site or API earns the provider nothing.	3.0 of 12	Standby Actors serving an MCP endpoint

Across 8977 providers that publish a contract, adopting Apify would move 0. Median lift: composite +0.0 (90th percentile +0.0), agent readiness +0.0 (+0.0). Conditional rows excluded.

What Apify ships that earns nothing (5)

Apify MCP server — mcp.apify.com is Apify’s server over Apify’s Actor catalogue; it is not any provider’s MCP server.
Actor web server schema (OpenAPI) — The OpenAPI describes an Actor endpoint on apify.actor, not the provider’s API, and lives on Apify’s surface.
Apify plugins and Agent Skills — The skills teach agents to use Apify; they are not provider-authored skills for the provider’s API.
Apify MCP server — OAuth runs against Apify’s authorization server for mcp.apify.com; nothing is served on the provider’s host.
Actor publishing and pay-per-event monetization — Pay-per-event billing runs through Apify’s platform billing; the dimension reads a ucp.json/acp.json on the provider’s .well-known, which Apify does not produce.

OPEN COLLECTION

Apify Actor Runs Request Queues API

OPEN COLLECTION

Apify Actor Runs Users API

OPEN COLLECTION

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Apify Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Apify Finops

FINOPS

Features 8

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 and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Apify Context

7 classes · 6 properties

JSON-LD

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

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Signup

Signup

Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

MCPServer

AgentSkills

LlmsText

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

CLI

CLI

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Academy

Academy

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

VendorFacets

VendorFacets

Source (apis.yml)

aid: apify
name: Apify
description: 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.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/apify.png
x-docs-platform: docusaurus
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-19
tags:
- Actors
- Browser Automation
- Crawling
- Data Aggregation
- Data Extraction
- Web Automation
- Web Scraping
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/apify/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-26'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: apify:apify-actor-runs-api
  name: Apify Actor Runs API
  description: Monitor and manage Actor run executions.
  humanURL: https://apify.com
  baseURL: https://api.apify.com/v2
  tags:
  - Actor Runs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/apify-actor-runs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2/getting-started
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2#authentication
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2#rate-limiting-and-scaling
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/apify-actor-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/apify-run-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/apify-dataset-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/apify-key-value-store-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/apify-context.jsonld
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/apify-client
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://pypi.org/project/apify-client/
- aid: apify:apify-actors-api
  name: Apify Actors API
  description: Manage and run Apify Actors.
  humanURL: https://apify.com
  baseURL: https://api.apify.com/v2
  tags:
  - Actors
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/apify-actors-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2/getting-started
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2#authentication
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2#rate-limiting-and-scaling
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/apify-actor-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/apify-run-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/apify-dataset-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/apify-key-value-store-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/apify-context.jsonld
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/apify-client
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://pypi.org/project/apify-client/
- aid: apify:apify-datasets-api
  name: Apify Datasets API
  description: Manage structured data storage from Actor runs.
  humanURL: https://apify.com
  baseURL: https://api.apify.com/v2
  tags:
  - Datasets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/apify-datasets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2/getting-started
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2#authentication
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2#rate-limiting-and-scaling
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/apify-actor-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/apify-run-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/apify-dataset-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/apify-key-value-store-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/apify-context.jsonld
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/apify-client
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://pypi.org/project/apify-client/
- aid: apify:apify-key-value-stores-api
  name: Apify Key-Value Stores API
  description: Manage persistent key-value storage.
  humanURL: https://apify.com
  baseURL: https://api.apify.com/v2
  tags:
  - Key-Value Stores
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/apify-key-value-stores-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2/getting-started
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2#authentication
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2#rate-limiting-and-scaling
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/apify-actor-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/apify-run-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/apify-dataset-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/apify-key-value-store-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/apify-context.jsonld
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/apify-client
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://pypi.org/project/apify-client/
- aid: apify:apify-request-queues-api
  name: Apify Request Queues API
  description: Manage URL queues for web crawling.
  humanURL: https://apify.com
  baseURL: https://api.apify.com/v2
  tags:
  - Request Queues
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/apify-request-queues-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2/getting-started
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2#authentication
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2#rate-limiting-and-scaling
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/apify-actor-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/apify-run-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/apify-dataset-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/apify-key-value-store-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/apify-context.jsonld
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/apify-client
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://pypi.org/project/apify-client/
- aid: apify:apify-users-api
  name: Apify Users API
  description: User and account management.
  humanURL: https://apify.com
  baseURL: https://api.apify.com/v2
  tags:
  - User
  tags_raw:
  - Users
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/apify-users-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2/getting-started
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2#authentication
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2#rate-limiting-and-scaling
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/apify-actor-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/apify-run-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/apify-dataset-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/apify-key-value-store-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/apify-context.jsonld
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/apify-client
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://pypi.org/project/apify-client/
common:
- type: VendorFacets
  url: vendor-facets/apify-vendor-facets.yml
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/apify/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/apify-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/apify-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/apify-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/apify-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/apify
- type: Website
  url: https://apify.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.apify.com
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2/getting-started
- type: Pricing
  url: https://apify.com/pricing
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.apify.com
- type: Signup
  url: https://console.apify.com/sign-up
- type: Login
  url: https://console.apify.com/sign-in
- type: Academy
  url: https://docs.apify.com/academy
- type: Support
  url: https://help.apify.com
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/apify
- type: CLI
  url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/apify-cli
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: Actors Marketplace
    description: Store of thousands of pre-built web scrapers and automation tools ready to run with zero configuration.
  - name: Cloud Infrastructure
    description: Run Actors on Apify's scalable cloud infrastructure with built-in proxy rotation, scheduling, and storage.
  - name: Datasets
    description: Structured storage for Actor output with multi-format export (JSON, CSV, XML, XLSX, etc.).
  - name: Key-Value Stores
    description: Persistent key-value storage for arbitrary data including files, screenshots, and configuration.
  - name: Request Queues
    description: URL queue management for large-scale distributed web crawling.
  - name: Proxy Management
    description: Built-in datacenter and residential proxy pools with automatic rotation.
  - name: Scheduled Runs
    description: Schedule Actors to run automatically on cron schedules.
  - name: MCP Server
    description: Apify MCP server enabling AI agents to use thousands of web scraping and automation tools.
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: AI Training Data Collection
    description: Extract structured data from websites for LLM training datasets, RAG pipelines, and AI applications.
  - name: E-commerce Price Monitoring
    description: Scrape product prices, availability, and reviews from e-commerce websites for competitive intelligence.
  - name: Social Media Data Extraction
    description: Extract posts, profiles, and engagement data from social media platforms.
  - name: Search Engine Data
    description: Scrape search engine results, SERP data, and web listings for SEO and market research.
  - name: Lead Generation
    description: Extract business data from directories, LinkedIn, and other professional platforms.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: Crawlee
    description: Open-source web crawling library for Node.js and Python built by Apify.
  - name: Zapier
    description: Zapier integration for connecting Apify Actors with 5000+ apps.
  - name: Make (Integromat)
    description: No-code automation platform integration for Apify.
  - name: LangChain
    description: LangChain integration for using Apify data loaders in AI applications.
- type: Integrations
  url: https://apify.com/integrations
- name: MCP Server
  url: https://github.com/apify/apify-mcp-server
  type: MCPServer
- name: Agent Skills
  url: https://github.com/apify/agent-skills
  type: AgentSkills
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt
integrations:
- name: Become an affiliate
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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What adopting Apify moves on the Kin Score 1

APIs 6

Postman Collections 6

Open Collections 7

MCP Servers 1

Agent Skills 5

Pricing Plans 1

Rate Limits 1

FinOps 1

Features 8

Actors Marketplace

Cloud Infrastructure

Datasets

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MCP Server

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Spectral Rules 2

JSON Schema 4

JSON Structure 4

Examples 4

Security Posture 3

Agentic Access 1

Use Cases 5

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