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
Written by Jakub Balada, Marek Trunkát, Václav Růt and 3 others
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
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
Introduction to Apify
Written by Lukáš Křivka
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
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 Marketplace
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