Scraping API & Monitoring Actors for Developers

A universal scraping API, change monitoring, and VAT and license compliance monitors.

In short

These are the general-purpose building blocks. The universal scraper API fetches any site with rotating anti-bot proxies, JavaScript rendering, screenshots, CSS selectors and AI extraction, returning clean HTML, Markdown or JSON. The website change monitor watches any page - competitor pricing, product pages, terms of service, job boards - and returns a diff of exactly what was added and removed, with a severity score. Dataset Diff sits on top of any other Apify actor and returns only the rows that are new, changed or removed since its last run, with alerts to Slack, Discord, Telegram or a webhook. Two compliance monitors apply the same idea to registers: the EU VAT monitor validates a supplier list against VIES with a consultation number as proof, and the license roster monitor re-verifies contractors, nurses and providers against official US state registries and flags expired, suspended or lapsing licenses.

🧩 5 actors πŸ”„ 516 runs πŸ‘€ 9 users $5 free credit to start

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Dataset Diff - Only New & Changed Items From Any Actor

Point it at any Apify Actor, task or dataset and it returns only what changed since the last run - new rows, edited r…

πŸ”„ 348 runs πŸ‘€ 2 users $2e-05 per item compared

Website Change Monitor - Page & Price Change Alerts

It monitors any web page for changes - competitor pricing, products, terms of service, job boards - and returns a cle…

πŸ”„ 125 runs πŸ‘€ 1 users $0.002 per result

EU VAT Number Validation - Bulk VIES Check & Supplier Monitor

It validates a whole supplier or customer list of EU VAT numbers against the official VIES service, returns the consu…

πŸ”„ 16 runs πŸ‘€ 2 users $0.003 per vat number checked

License Verification & Expiry Monitor - Bulk US License Lookup

It re-verifies a whole roster of contractors, nurses, agents, therapists and healthcare providers against official st…

πŸ”„ 16 runs πŸ‘€ 2 users $0.004 per license verified

Scrape Any Site - Anti-Bot Proxy, JS Render & AI

It is a free web scraper API for any website - rotating anti-bot proxies, JavaScript rendering, screenshots, and both…

πŸ”„ 11 runs πŸ‘€ 2 users ⭐ 5 Free no charge
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  • Pay per result - no monthly minimum
  • Export to CSV, JSON, Excel or Google Sheets
  • Schedule runs and get results by webhook or API
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Developer Tools & APIs - questions answered

Can I call these from my own code?

Yes. Every Apify actor has a REST API endpoint and official Python and JavaScript clients, so you can trigger runs and read datasets from your own application.

Does the scraper API handle JavaScript-rendered pages?

Yes - it renders JavaScript, can return screenshots, and supports both CSS-selector and AI-based extraction, returning clean HTML, Markdown or structured JSON.

What does the change monitor detect?

It returns a clean diff of added and removed content between runs, with a severity score, so you can alert only on meaningful changes like a price or a policy edit.

Can I monitor supplier VAT numbers or contractor licenses?

Yes. The EU VAT Number Validation monitor checks a whole list against VIES and alerts when a number goes invalid or its registered name changes, and the License Verification & Expiry Monitor re-checks a roster against official state registries and returns only the licenses that expired, were suspended or are about to lapse.

Do I need to manage proxies?

No. Rotating anti-bot proxies are built in and managed by the platform.

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