Tutorials - Getting started

Beginner friendly tutorials to get started quickly

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13 articles in this collection
Written by Jakub Balada, Marek Trunkát, Václav Růt and 3 others

Introduction to Apify

Written by Lukáš Křivka

Subscribing to the Apify platform

Which plan is for you? How do you subscribe and pay for overage? How do you add proxies to your plan? Find out below.

Written by Mihails Murasovs

3 key characteristics of well-written solution

How can you evaluate if the project is well done or not? What are the key metrics to focus on?

Written by Lukáš Křivka

Choosing the right solution

You want to scrape data or automate a process. But where to start and which tool is the best for your scenario?

Written by Lukáš Křivka

Paid actors

A quick introduction to renting public actors in Apify Store, how to run them, and how the payment system works.

Written by Mihails Murasovs

Apify vocabulary

Get familiar with the most commonly-used Apify terms

Written by Jakub Balada

Web Scraper

Easy to use scraping tool to extract tens or million pages

Written by Lukáš Křivka

What is a compute unit?

How do we measure your usage? And how can you calculate your subscription plan?

Written by Lukáš Křivka

Apify Javascript SDK

The ultimate tool to power up any scraping or automation job

Written by Lukáš Křivka

Updates and versioning of Apify SDK

Learn how to keep track of Apify SDK development

Written by Marek Trunkát

How to add external libraries to Web Scraper

Web Scraper does not provide an option to load external JavaScript libraries. Fortunately, there's an easy way to do it. Learn how.

Written by Ondra Urban

Web automation project request example

Example of the recommended format for submitting a project request to Apify Freelancers

Written by Václav Růt

"Something else" project request example

Our guide for those projects that don't involve automation or data extraction

Written by Václav Růt