agent-skills

Apify Agent Skills

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

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

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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.

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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.

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Skills

Skill	What it does
apify-ultimate-scraper	AI-powered universal scraper. 130+ curated Actors covering Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, Reddit, Google Maps, Google Search, Google Trends, Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Booking.com, TripAdvisor, Airbnb, Yelp, Telegram, Snapchat, Reddit, GitHub, and more. Falls back to searching the full Apify Store for any platform not covered.
apify-actor-development	Create, debug, and deploy Apify Actors from scratch in JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python. Also generates or updates input and output schemas (input_schema.json, dataset_schema.json, output_schema.json, key_value_store_schema.json) from existing Actor source. Bundled references cover actor.json, README, logging, and standby mode.
apify-actorization	Convert existing code into Apify Actors. Supports the JS/TS SDK, the Python async context manager, and a generic CLI wrapper for any other language.
apify-integration-development	Design and build an official Apify integration for a company's product. Covers workflow-automation apps (Zapier/n8n-style), AI agent harness plugins (OpenClaw/Hermes-style), AI framework packages (LangChain/LlamaIndex-style), and direct application clients via apify-client or REST - with per-category capability matrices and definition-of-done checklists.

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

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Example use cases

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

Use case	Example prompt
Lead generation	Find Italian restaurants in Brooklyn rated under 4 stars on Google Maps. Scrape their reviews, crawl their websites for socials and owner emails, and export a ranked CSV for my CRM.
Competitive intelligence	Pull pricing pages, G2 and Trustpilot reviews, recent job postings, and social posts for Competitor A, B, and C. Summarize positioning gaps and opportunities.
Market research	Scrape pricing, review counts, and bestseller rankings for wireless earbuds across Amazon and Walmart. Flag quality issues from negative reviews and recommend a pricing sweet spot.
Brand reputation	Collect mentions of [brand] on Instagram, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube from the last 30 days. Run sentiment analysis and surface the top 5 complaint and praise themes.
Influencer vetting	Find 20 fitness influencers with 50k-500k followers on Instagram and TikTok. Scrape engagement rates, posting frequency, and past brand deals. Rank by engagement-to-follower ratio.
AI search visibility	Run these 10 queries across Google AI Mode, Perplexity, and ChatGPT. Extract which brands get cited and flag where competitors appear instead of us.
Location intelligence	Scrape Google Maps for all coffee shops within 2 miles of these 5 addresses. Compare competitor density, ratings, price levels, and hours. Recommend the best site.

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

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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