Scraping APIMedium
Apify
Apify is a web scraping and automation platform with 10,000+ pre-built scrapers (Actors) in its marketplace. Provides cloud infrastructure for running headless browsers and crawlers at scale.
Detection methods
IP Range Detection
Apify's cloud infrastructure operates from identifiable datacenter IP ranges. Centinel maintains an updated list of Apify-associated ASNs and IP blocks.
Behavioral Pattern
Apify Actors produce characteristic crawling patterns: configurable but often systematic URL traversal, predictable concurrency patterns, and Puppeteer/Playwright automation signatures.
User Agent Analysis
Default Apify crawler user agents and Puppeteer-driven user agent strings are tracked in Centinel's detection database.