Apify | Latest News & Updates - Feb 28, 2025 Release

Apify added new scrapers for Crexi.com, Airbnb rooms URLs, and Rightmove, increasing their real estate scraping capabilities...


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Apify

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Apify is a full-stack web scraping and browser automation platform that allows users to extract data from websites and automate workflows on the web. They offer ready-made scrapers, automation tools, custom solutions, and a marketplace for developers.


Apify - Latest News and Updates

  • Apify added new scrapers for Crexi.com, Airbnb rooms URLs, and Rightmove, increasing their real estate scraping capabilities.
  • Apify introduced a new web scraper template using Crawlee, Playwright, and a custom stealthy fork of Firefox called Camoufox, aimed at overcoming anti-scraping challenges.
  • Apify introduced new AI agents, LangGraph and CrewAI, for creating social media analysis tools.
  • Apify introduced a Run monitoring feature for real-time insights into error rates, performance trends, and custom metrics.
  • In February 2025, Apify returned to Silicon Valley, launched a State of Web Scraping report, introduced 11 AI agent use cases, and announced a bounty program with cash prizes.
  • Apify is hosting its first meetup in San Francisco next Wednesday with CEO Jan Curn, COO, and VP of DX to discuss how their 4,000 Actors can enhance AI agents and apps with web data.
  • Jan ÄŒurn, Co-Founder and CEO of Apify, emphasizes the importance of ethics in IT as technologies like AI and big data evolve.
  • Apify won the first prize at their AI Agent hackathon with a backlink agent developed by Danil Poletaev.
  • Apify is conducting an internal hackathon to test AI agents using new frameworks like CrewAI and LangChain's LangGraph, with results to be released in the Apify Store on February 24.
  • Nick Saraev, an Affiliate Partner, built a successful automation agency using Apify for scraping and outreach, generating $90K/month and referring over 250 users to the platform.

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