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Web scraping automation with Apify Actors lets you extract structured data from websites like Amazon, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter without writing code. Run pre-built actors asynchronously or synchronously via API, then retrieve and store results in datasets for further processing.

Yes, Apify offers pre-built actors you can run directly through its API. Authenticate with an API token, trigger actor runs asynchronously or synchronously, check run status, and fetch dataset items—all via curl commands or API calls.

After running an actor, retrieve dataset items via the Apify API, check run status with polling, and list available actors and datasets. Results are stored in structured format ready for analysis or export to downstream tools.

Set up API token authentication, configure environment variables for credentials, and use curl with jq for parsing API responses. These prerequisites enable asynchronous and synchronous actor runs and dataset retrieval workflows.

Yes, Apify Actors automate web tasks at scale across multiple platforms. Beyond data extraction from major sites, actors can handle repetitive web automation—the API supports various use cases with the same authentication and run-management patterns.

Asynchronous runs trigger and return immediately, letting you poll status and fetch results later—ideal for long-running tasks. Synchronous runs wait for completion before returning, suiting workflows where immediate results are needed.