# Apify documentation

This document provides detailed documentation for the Apify web scraping and automation platform. You might also want to check out the following resources:

*   [**Video tutorials**](https://www.youtube.com/apify) - step-by-step video tutorials for beginners
*   [**Help center**](https://help.apify.com/) - examples, tutorials and various tips & tricks
*   [**Stack Overflow**](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/apify) - community questions

Anything missing? Please let us know at [support@apify.com](mailto:support@apify.com)

## [](#table-of-contents)Table of contents

*   [**Scraping**](/scraping) - Scrape and crawl websites using a few simple lines of JavaScript.
*   [**Actor**](/actor) - Runs arbitrary web scraping or automation tasks in the Apify cloud.
*   [**Tasks**](/tasks) - Stores one or more configurations of an Actor.
*   [**Scheduler**](/scheduler) - Executes crawler or actor jobs at specific times.
*   [**Storage**](/storage) - Key-value store, dataset and request queue that enables storage of actor inputs and results.
*   [**Proxy**](/proxy) - Provides access to proxy services that can be used in crawlers, actors or any other application that support HTTP proxies.
*   [**Webhooks**](/webhooks) - Provides an easy and reliable way to configure the Apify platform to carry out an action when a certain system event occurs.
*   [**API**](/api) - REST API that enables integration with external applications.
*   [**SDK**](https://sdk.apify.com) - Open-source libraries to simplify development of local web scraping and automation projects, crawl websites with headless Chrome and Puppeteer, simplify development of Apify actors and integrate with the Apify API.
*   [**CLI**](/cli) - Command line interface (CLI) to help you to create, develop, run and deploy Apify actors from your local computer.



Documentation of the Apify platform, which includes detailed description of Crawler, Actor, Storage, SDK and API.

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Documentation of access rights and publication at Apify platform.

Access rights

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Documentation of Apify actors - a serverless computing jobs that enable execution of long-running web scraping and automation tasks in the cloud.

Actor

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Build

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Examples

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Documentation of Apify Actor input schema.

Input schema

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Limits

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Publishing

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Quick start

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Source code

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Documentation of Apify REST API that enables integration with external applications and systems.

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Full documentation of the apify-client NPM package version latest, which simplifies access to the Apify API using JavaScript / Node.js

JavaScript API client

Documentation of Apify REST API version 2 that enables to manage, build and run actors, and manage associated resources like storage.

API reference

Apify command line interface (CLI) helps you to create, develop, run and deploy Apify Actor acts from your local computer.

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Introduction

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Documentation of Apify Proxy that enables anonymization of access to websites and IP rotation.

Proxy

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Connection settings

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Datacenter proxy

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NodeJS Examples

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PHP Examples

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Python Examples

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Google SERP proxy

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Residential proxy

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Tips and tricks

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Troubleshooting

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Documentation of Apify Scheduler that executes crawler or actor jobs at specific times using a cron-like syntax.

Scheduler

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Scraping documentation is a hub for all your web scraping and crawling needs.

Scraping

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Step by step tutorial that will help you create a page function for Cheerio Scraper.

Cheerio Scraper

Getting started with Cheerio Scraper

Step by step tutorial that will help you get started with all Apify Scrapers.

Getting started with Apify Scrapers

Step by step tutorial that will help you create a page function for Puppeteer Scraper.

Puppeteer Scraper

Getting started with Puppeteer Scraper

Step by step tutorial that will help you create a page function for Web Scraper.

Web Scraper

Getting started with Web Scraper

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Documentation of Apify simple key-value store that enables storage of Actor inputs and results.

Storage

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Dataset

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Key-value store

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Request queue

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Documentation of Apify Task - a way to set up configuration of your Apify Actor for simplified usage.

Tasks

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Configure

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Create

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Documentation of Apify webhooks system that enables integration of multiple actors or external systems.