Apify

Apify is a full-stack web data extraction platform that's worth knowing about partly because it was born in Prague — it's a Czech project that grew into one of the most flexible scraping tools in the world. It's built for developers, data analysts, marketers, and companies that need to reliably pull data from websites without dealing with blocks, proxies, and infrastructure themselves.

It works through so-called Actors — ready-made programs that take a simple input (such as a URL or a list of keywords), perform the data collection on the web, and return a clean, structured table as output. You can run Actors manually, via API, or on a schedule, and Apify handles the proxies, IP rotation, and cloud execution for you.