Apify is a web automation and data-extraction platform that turns any website into structured data. Launch cloud actors and headless browsers, schedule runs, manage proxies, and handle pagination, logins, and anti-bot flows. Capture datasets with schema and versioning, export to JSON/CSV/S3/webhooks, and trigger downstream workflows automatically.

It tracks run time, item counts, failures, costs, and retries with alerts and logs. Integrates with n8n, Zapier, REST API, and SDKs (Node/Python), plus storage and queue services for scale.

For modern recruitment, use it to monitor career pages and job boards, map target accounts, enrich hiring signals, build public candidate lists from directories, watch salary/skills trends, and feed ATS/CRM enrichment—while rotation, concurrency, and guardrails run behind the scenes.

Apify sits at the top of your stack as the ingestion layer feeding Clay and outreach.

1. Increases Sourcing per Consultant (scheduled actors & webhooks)
2. Better and Faster Personalisation (richer signals for tailored outreach)

Apify is an incredibly powerful tool when used correctly. With a developer you can also create custom scrapers which can perform dedicated tasks. We use a custom 'Actor' in our tools to send data from Apify to Clay as an example.

Some of our use cases include:

1. Candidate to Vacancy Spec - Using Apify, Clay, N8N, PDF.co and Instantly for a unified service‍
2. Candidate to Local Hiring Managers Spec - Using Apify, Clay, N8N, PDF.co and Instantly for a unified service
3. Interview Scheduler - Using N8N and our customer Chat interface to send the final step which is an html interview confirmation to candidate and interviewers‍
4. ICP Job Posting Auto Contact - Using Clay, N8N and Instantly to deliver customised emails based on job postings‍
5. ICP Candidate Moving - Using Clay, N8N and Instantly to find candidate moves, find their previous hiring manager and introduce a relevant replacement on autopilot

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