Apify Sdk Web Scraping Actor Automation

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name: "Apify SDK for Web Scraping and Actor Automation"
slug: "apify-sdk-web-scraping-actor-automation"
description: "Apify SDK is the official JavaScript SDK for building Actors, crawlers, and data extraction workflows on Apify. It gives agents a structured way to run scraping jobs, store outputs, manage inputs, and combine crawler logic with browser automation when needed."
github_stars: 173
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/apify/apify-sdk-js"
author: "apify"
category: "Research & Scraping"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "apify/apify-sdk-js"
  github_stars: 173
  npm_package: "apify"
  npm_weekly_downloads: 35594
---

# Apify SDK for Web Scraping and Actor Automation

Apify SDK is the official JavaScript SDK for building Actors, crawlers, and data extraction workflows on Apify. It gives agents a structured way to run scraping jobs, store outputs, manage inputs, and combine crawler logic with browser automation when needed.

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- npm install apify

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- Apify SDK requires [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/) 16 or later. Add Apify SDK to any Node.js project by running:

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- This short tutorial will set you up to start using Apify SDK in a minute or two.
- If you want to learn more, proceed to the [Apify Platform](https://docs.apify.com/sdk/js/docs/concepts/actor-lifecycle)
- guide that will take you step by step through running your Actor on Apify's platform.

- Source: https://github.com/apify/apify-sdk-js
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apify/apify-sdk-js/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- https://docs.apify.com/sdk/js/

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/apify-sdk-web-scraping-actor-automation/)