What Apify changed

• The total number of tools listed in the header increased from 81,976 to 82,682.
• The "Marketplace of 81,977 Actors" section was renamed to "Thousands of pre-built Actors."
• The "Ready-to-run or build your own" section was renamed to "Find an Actor or build your own."
• Code template descriptions were updated to say "quick-start your own Actors" instead of "quick-start your web scraping projects."
• GitHub star counts for the Crawlee library and usage counts for popular scrapers (TikTok, Google Maps, Instagram) were updated.

The platform is growing its library of pre-built tools and shifting its messaging to focus on "Actors" as a proprietary brand term rather than generic "web scraping projects."

• The total number of tools (Actors) in the marketplace increased from 81,543 to 81,977.
• The main headline was updated to reflect 81,976 tools for AI.
• Usage stats for popular tools like the TikTok Scraper, Google Maps Scraper, and Instagram Scraper increased.
• The GitHub star count for their open-source library, Crawlee, increased from 25,990 to 25,994.
• A button label was changed from "Set up for agents" to "Copy setup for AI."

The platform is rapidly adding new web scraping and AI automation tools. This shows strong growth in their developer ecosystem and more options for users to get data for AI models.

• The homepage was replaced with a product page for the "Twitter (X.com) Tweets & Profiles Scraper."

• Added a specific pricing model for this tool: $30.00/month plus usage fees.

• Added detailed technical documentation, including JSON input configuration examples and output data fields.

• Added a "Key Features" section highlighting no API limitations and no authentication requirements for Twitter scraping.

• Removed general platform marketing sections, such as the "Publish Actors. Get paid" developer recruitment section.

• Added a "Twitter Scraping Toolkit" section featuring related tools like Search Results and User ID scrapers.

• Added a new "MCP connectors" section highlighting the ability for Actors to interact with external apps via secure proxies.

• Redesigned the homepage to function as a direct storefront for the Apify Store, replacing general platform descriptions with specific tool categories.

• Introduced new curated collections including "Hospitality & travel data tools," "Rising stars," and "Social scraping hidden gems."

• Added several new high-performance scrapers to the featured list, including Reddit Scraper Lite, WeChat Official Account Scraper, and Tweet Scraper V2.

• Updated the total number of available Actors from 81,543 to 81,568.

• The total number of tools (Actors) in the marketplace increased from 80,727 to 81,543.

• The homepage headline was updated to reflect 81,541 tools for AI.

• Usage and rating counts for popular tools like the TikTok, Google Maps, and Instagram scrapers were updated.

• The GitHub star count for their open-source library, Crawlee, increased from 25,979 to 25,990.

• The Facebook Posts Scraper rating dropped from 4.7 to 3.9.

Apify has replaced its general homepage content with a dedicated landing page for a specific Twitter scraping tool. This suggests a shift toward promoting high-demand social media data extraction tools to compete with specialized scraping services.

Apify is moving beyond simple data extraction to become an active integration layer. By adding Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors, they allow their tools to read and write to external apps in a single step, making them more useful for AI agents and automated workflows.

The platform is rapidly growing its library of pre-built scrapers and AI tools. This increases their lead in the "ready-to-run" market and makes their ecosystem more attractive to AI developers.