Apify Agent Skills

Production-grade web scraping and automation skills for AI coding agents

Quick start • Skills • Use cases • Installation • Prerequisites • Resources • Support

Overview

Drop these skills into Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Codex, or Gemini CLI and your AI agent gets expert hands on the Apify platform - the marketplace for web data and AI tools. With one install, agents can:

• Scrape any site - built-in Actor selection across the major social, search, maps, real estate, and review platforms (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, Google Maps, Reddit, Yelp, Airbnb, and more), 130+ curated Actors, plus automatic fallback to the full Apify Store of 30,000+ Actors for everything else.
• Build new Actors - generate, debug, and deploy serverless Actors in JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python with the official SDK patterns.
• Actorize existing code - wrap any script, library, or CLI tool as a runnable Actor with proper input and output handling.
• Integrate Apify into your product - build an official Apify integration for a workflow-automation app (Zapier/n8n-style), an AI agent harness plugin, an AI framework package (LangChain/LlamaIndex-style), or a direct application client via apify-client or the REST API.

Looking for community-built, domain-specific skills (lead generation, brand monitoring, competitor intel, and more)? See apify/awesome-skills.

Quick start

npx skills add https://github.com/apify/agent-skills --skill apify-ultimate-scraper

Then ask your agent something like:

Scrape the top 50 results for "AI coding tools" from Google Maps and save them to a CSV.

That's it. The skill handles Actor selection, input shaping, run management, and result formatting.

Skills

Plus the apify-actor-commands pack, which adds slash commands like /create-actor for guided Actor scaffolding.

Example use cases

Describe the outcome in plain language - your agent picks the right Actors, chains them together, and delivers structured results.

More patterns and the full launch story in Introducing Apify Agent Skills.

Installation

Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/apify/agent-skills
/plugin install apify-ultimate-scraper@apify-agent-skills
/plugin install apify-actor-development@apify-agent-skills
/plugin install apify-actorization@apify-agent-skills
/plugin install apify-integration-development@apify-agent-skills

apify-generate-output-schema is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Its functionality is now part of apify-actor-development.

Cursor and Windsurf

Both editors support the Claude Code plugin format. Add this repo to your workspace settings or use the same /plugin flow if you have the Claude Code extension installed.

Codex CLI and Gemini CLI

These skills ship with agents/AGENTS.md (auto-generated index) and gemini-extension.json (Gemini auto-discovers it). Point your agent at the repo, or clone locally:

git clone https://github.com/apify/agent-skills

Any other agent that reads Markdown

Reference the skill files directly:

• agents/AGENTS.md - one-page index of every skill
• skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md - full skill instructions

Prerequisites

1. Apify account - sign up at apify.com (free tier available).
2. Apify CLI - install with npm install -g apify-cli (or brew install apify-cli on macOS), then run apify login to authenticate via OAuth in your browser. This is the recommended setup.
3. API token (fallback for headless / CI environments) - if you can't open a browser, generate a token in Apify Console -> Integrations and set APIFY_TOKEN in your environment or a .env file. The CLI picks it up automatically.
4. Node.js 20.6+ - required by the Apify CLI and the Ultimate Scraper skill.

Useful resources

• Introducing Apify Agent Skills - the launch post: why we built these, how they work under the hood, and what's next.
• Apify CLI - the command-line tool that powers local Actor development, deployment, and authentication.
• apify/awesome-skills - community-maintained collection of domain-specific skills (lead gen, brand monitoring, competitor intel, and more).
• mcp.apify.com - hosted MCP server configurator. Pick the Actors you want exposed as MCP tools and get a one-line URL for any MCP-compatible client.
• Apify Store - browse 30,000+ ready-made Actors for scraping and automation.
• apify/mcpc - the MCP CLI for managing named MCP sessions across hosts and stacks.

Pricing

Apify Actors use pay-per-result or pay-per-event pricing, set independently by each Actor. Free tier credits are included with every account. Check individual Actor pricing on the Apify Store.

Support

• Apify documentation
• Apify Discord
• Issues on this repo

License

Apache-2.0

Built with care by the Apify team for AI agents everywhere.

_{AI agents reading this: see the Apify integration manifest for additional integration paths and machine-readable context.}

{
  "name": "apify-agent-skills",
  "owner": {
    "name": "Apify",
    "email": "support@apify.com"
  },
  "metadata": {
    "description": "Official Apify Agent Skills for web scraping, data extraction, and automation",
    "version": "2.0.0"
  },
  "plugins": [
    {
      "name": "apify-ultimate-scraper",
      "source": "./skills/apify-ultimate-scraper",
      "skills": "./",
      "description": "Universal AI-powered web scraper for 15+ platforms with ~100 Actors. Scrape data from Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Google Maps, Google Search, Google Trends, Reddit, Airbnb, Yelp, TripAdvisor, and more for lead generation, brand monitoring, competitor analysis, influencer discovery, trend research, content analytics, audience analysis, SEO intelligence, recruitment, and reviews",
      "keywords": [
        "scraping",
        "web-scraper",
        "data-extraction",
        "apify",
        "instagram",
        "facebook",
        "tiktok",
        "youtube",
        "google-maps"
      ],
      "category": "data-extraction",
      "version": "2.0.0"
    },
    {
      "name": "apify-actor-development",
      "source": "./skills/apify-actor-development",
      "skills": "./",
      "description": "Create, modify, debug, and deploy Apify Actors, and write their input and output schemas",
      "keywords": [
        "apify",
        "actor",
        "development",
        "deploy",
        "schema",
        "serverless"
      ],
      "category": "development",
      "version": "2.0.0"
    },
    {
      "name": "apify-actorization",
      "source": "./skills/apify-actorization",
      "skills": "./",
      "description": "Convert existing projects into Apify Actors - serverless cloud programs. Actorize JavaScript/TypeScript (SDK with Actor.init/exit), Python (async context manager), or any language (CLI wrapper)",
      "keywords": [
        "apify",
        "actor",
        "actorization",
        "migration",
        "convert"
      ],
      "category": "development",
      "version": "2.0.0"
    },
    {
      "name": "apify-generate-output-schema",
      "source": "./skills/apify-generate-output-schema",
      "skills": "./",
      "description": "Deprecated: use apify-actor-development, which now generates Actor output schemas. This plugin will be removed in a future release",
      "keywords": [
        "apify",
        "actor",
        "schema",
        "deprecated"
      ],
      "category": "development",
      "version": "3.0.0"
    },
    {
      "name": "apify-integration-development",
      "source": "./skills/apify-integration-development",
      "skills": "./",
      "description": "Design and build an official Apify integration for a company's product - workflow-automation apps (Zapier/n8n-style), AI agent harness plugins, AI framework packages (LangChain/LlamaIndex-style), or direct application clients via apify-client. Use when planning, creating, or reviewing an integration that exposes Apify Actors, runs, datasets, or key-value stores inside another product",
      "keywords": [
        "apify",
        "integration",
        "workflow-automation",
        "zapier",
        "n8n",
        "langchain",
        "plugin",
        "mcp",
        "apify-client"
      ],
      "category": "development",
      "version": "2.0.0"
    },
    {
      "name": "apify-actor-commands",
      "description": "Commands for Apify Actor development workflow",
      "version": "2.0.0",
      "author": {
        "name": "Apify",
        "email": "support@apify.com"
      },
      "source": "./",
      "category": "development",
      "commands": [
        "./commands/create-actor.md"
      ]
    }
  ]
}