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Apify is a web scraping platform for extracting data from websites and automating workflows a human would otherwise complete manually in an internet browser. It has over 3,000 serverless cloud programs called Actors that carry out specific functions, such as a Google Trends scraper and website content crawler.

History

Apify (originally named Apifier) began as a project in 2015 when its founders Jan Čurn and Jakub Balada participated in the first batch of the Y Combinator Fellowship program. The company was incorporated as Apifier s.r.o. on February 15, 2016. The company changed its name to Apify in October 2017. In its early years, the company received a $12,000 grant from the Y Combinator Fellowship on October 20, 2015, followed by $500,000 in funding from INCOMMING Ventures and Reflex Capital over the next four years. In 2024, Apify received €2.8 million in funding from J&T Ventures and others. In 2021, Apify ranked 14th in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Central Europe 2021. In 2023, Apify was ranked as the 187th fastest-growing European company in the Financial Times ranking.

Products

Apify's main products are the following:

• Apify platform
• Website Content Crawler
• Crawlee
• Crawlee for Python

See also

• Data scraping
• Scrapy
• Web scraping
• Data extraction
• Robotic process automation
• Data mining

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