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Apify is a full-stack web scraping and automation platform with a marketplace of 6,000+ pre-built scrapers (Actors). It provides managed browser infrastructure, proxy rotation, and data storage for large-scale web data extraction. Apify is widely used for feeding web data into AI applications and RAG pipelines.
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