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**This weekend's events**
This weekend's events
This weekend is gearing up to be full of innovation and connection with events happening on 4 continents :whoa_keanu:
🌏 🇮🇳 ...
**Next week's events**
Next week's events
There are so many community events, both in-person and online, happening in December. Here is everything taking place next week:
Monday December 1st: San Francisco...
**Help shape “The state of web scraping 2026” (and get rewarded for it)**
Help shape “The state of web scraping 2026” (and get rewarded for it)
Apify and The Web Scraping Club are teaming up to produce a detailed, data-driven report on the web scraping industry.
To make it truly valuable, we need insights from the people who build, break, and run scrapers every day, just like you.
...
**Actor schemas in focus**
Actor schemas in focus
If you're ready to make your Actors truly user-friendly and scalable, you will want to know more about Actor schemas: structured blueprints that define how your Actor interacts with users, other systems, and even LLMs.
In these 8 steps, schemas can turn a simple script into a fully-fledged app, improving usability, safety, and integration:...
**Actor permission are now a designated setting**
Actor permission are now a designated setting
Actor permissions is a new platform feature that changes how Actors access user data on the Apify platform — giving users more transparency and control, and helping build a safer ecosystem for everyone.
Until now, all Actors have had full access to a user’s Apify account when running (via their API token). With Actor permissions, developers can now declare what level of access their Actor actually needs:...
**The frontier is open: The Apify $1M Challenge is live!**
The frontier is open: The Apify $1M Challenge is live!
The Apify $1M Challenge is open for anyone and everyone to enter now: https://apify.com/challenge
You're likely to see some references to this as you go about your business on Apify today, so in case you're wondering... ...
Hiya everyone! I have a few updates for y'all this week, so let's get on with it.
Hiya everyone! I have a few updates for y'all this week, so let's get on with it.
📈 Introducing Actor Quality metrics 📈
For the Creators: Actor quality is a new tab on your Insights page that shows how your Actor ranks according to Apify's internal quality criteria. Not only that, but we provide you with tips for improving the score. ...
**Feature intro: General Resource Access**
Feature intro: General Resource Access
If you didn't already know, Apify now has a setting that allows users to restrict access to resources that have a shareable link.
If you are an Actor developer, you'll need to take these steps to support any users who want to turn on restricted access: https://docs.apify.com/platform/collaboration/general-resource-access#migration-guide-to-support-restricted-general-resource-access...
The story continues...
The story continues...
We are currently experiencing another AWS outage, which is partially affecting Actors and fully impacting schedulers.
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status...
**There are now 8k Actors in Apify Store** (and counting!) 🥳
There are now 8k Actors in Apify Store (and counting!) 🥳
Apify Community Developers are at the heart of this. To everyone who built a solution to their own problem and shared it, to everyone who sees an opportunity out there to automate a process and monetize it, here's to you 🥂 🇹 🇭 🇦 🇳 🇰 🇾 🫶 🇺...
Apify Community Developers are at the heart of this. To everyone who built a solution to their own problem and shared it, to everyone who sees an opportunity out there to automate a process and monetize it, here's to you 🥂 🇹 🇭 🇦 🇳 🇰 🇾 🫶 🇺...
Don't forget to follow this advice from @SASWAVE here:
Don't forget to follow this advice from @SASWAVE here:
https://discord.com/channels/801163717915574323/1090592836044476426/1429768752483926068...
AWS has implemented a fix, since 11:30 CEST, we're seeing full recovery of services across our platf
AWS has implemented a fix, since 11:30 CEST, we're seeing full recovery of services across our platform.
We are currently experiencing a service outage affecting multiple services, including Apify Console
We are currently experiencing a service outage affecting multiple services, including Apify Console and Apify Status page. Our team is aware of the issue and is working to restore service as quickly as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your patience.
We will post updated our X account as we get more updates: https://x.com/apify...
**Announcement from Apify regarding the takedown of Apollo Actors**
Announcement from Apify regarding the takedown of Apollo Actors
Hey everyone,
you might’ve noticed that we removed a bunch of Actors from the Store that targeted Apollo.io. Several months ago, Apollo started pressuring us legally to take those Actors down. We fought this hard since the beginning, because we invest a lot of effort into protecting our community from unfounded takedown requests. Over the years, our legal team has defended hundreds of takedowns. It is one of our strongest commitments to the growth and success of this community...
💸 **Keep your PPE Actor Start costs low with our new feature! **
💸 Keep your PPE Actor Start costs low with our new feature!
Several of you have mentioned before that starting an Actor is the biggest expense you face for infra costs, and you’re having to pass those onto your customers.
We have listened and introduced a feature that recognizes the one-time event name
apify-actor-start resulting in no compute charge for the first 5 seconds of the Actor run 🎬 ...**Community Meetups**
Community Meetups
Happy Friday, Apifam :dynoparty:
Apify is coming to you! We are having few community meetups all around the 🌏 in first week of September :blobparty: ...
**Migrating MCP servers**
Migrating MCP servers
Following the Smithery announcement that they are discontinuing STDIO support from 7 September, it seems like a good time to remind everyone that Apify provides full STDIO support with no deprecation plans. 🥳 :perfecto: :apifylogo:
Apify’s flexible architecture allows you to deploy existing servers without rewriting, making it easy for you to migrate your existing STDIO-based MCP servers without modifying transport layers. ...
~~**Docker image updates for All Python images and base Node image** :docker: :python: :typescript:
apify/actor-nodeapify/actor-python**Docs update incoming** :thedocs: 🚀
Docs update incoming :thedocs: 🚀
Our technical writers have been hard at work updating and adding to the Apify docs to ensure that you have all the info you need at your fingertips! Some of our latest updates include:
- A costs estimate calculator to help identify your storage costs: https://docs.apify.com/platform/storage/usage#estimate-your-costs :blueblobcatmoney: (remember: it's just an estimate!)...
**We have released a new major version of the Apify Python Client! ** :python:
We have released a new major version of the Apify Python Client! :python:
Introducing Apify Python Client v2.0: https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/ 🎉
- removes several long-time deprecated arguments and methods...