Apify Actors
Actors are serverless cloud programs that run on the Apify platform and do computing jobs. They are called Actors because, like human actors, they perform actions based on a script.
Long-running serverless jobs
Apify Actors can perform time-consuming jobs that are longer than the lifespan of a single HTTP transaction.
Publish your Actor
Join hundreds of developers who share their Actors on Apify Store and earn money from coding.
Auto-generated user interface
Actors can easily define a user interface for their input configuration. Take advantage of lower-level features and settings, or run Actors using our API.
Keep your Actor running
You can run Actors as real-time APIs with Actor Standby mode. It lets you keep the Actor ready in the background, waiting for incoming HTTP requests, just like a real-time web server or standard API server.
Integrations
Integrate your Actors with other systems. Connect Apify actors and tasks with your favorite web apps and cloud services.
Proxy
Improve the performance of your web scrapers by smartly rotating datacenter and residential IP addresses.
Storage
Store data from your Actors in one of our Apify storages: key-value stores, datasets, or request queues.
What else do Actors give you?
Host code anywhere
Edit your code on our platform, fetch from a Git repository, or push from your machine.
Docker support
Actors run inside Docker containers on Apify servers. Use a custom Dockerfile.
Ready for scale
Run as many Actors as you need. The Apify platform provisions the necessary resources.
Custom memory and CPU
Assign each Actor any RAM volume needed. CPU share is allocated automatically.
Command-line tool
Develop and test your Actors locally, push them to the Apify platform when you're ready.
Logging
View and download logs to debug your code and monitor performance on production.
Actorize your Scrapy spiders
Deploy your Scrapy code to the cloud with just a few commands. Turn your Scrapy projects into Actors, run, schedule, monitor and monetize them.
Pricing
Compute units
Usage of Actors is charged based on compute units. An Actor running with 1 GB of memory for one hour consumes 1 compute unit.
Not sure how many CUs you need? No problem - we have a free plan and hundreds of ready-made Actors on /store for you to test with. That should give you a sense of which plan to choose.