r/apify

Founded April 2020 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Oct 20

Apify is a full-stack platform where developers build, deploy, and publish web scraping and browser automation tools. Every month, we process billions of web pages for customers ranging from small startups to Fortune 500 companies. // Crawlee is an open-source webscraping library for Python and JavaScript, built by Apify for everyone.

Members

2,544

2.5K

Online now

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not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

2.5

from the last 100 posts, spanning 39.4 days

Comments per post

—

no sample yet

Growth · 7d

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not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

+7.8%

+183 members · ≈37d

Promo tolerance

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not assessed yet

Last post

Oct 19

sampled Oct 20

Distinct posters

40%

of the last 100 posts

Tracking since Sep 13 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

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r/apify — frequently asked

How many members does r/apify have?

r/apify has 2,544 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 20. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/apify growing?

Over the last ≈37 days r/apify changed by +7.8% — a gain of 183 members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".

How active is r/apify?

Around 2.5 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 39.4 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.

When was r/apify created?

r/apify was founded in April 2020 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.

Who posts in r/apify?

Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 40% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 19. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.

Can I promote my product in r/apify?

We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/apify yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.

How do I monitor r/apify for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/apify into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.

Can my AI agent read r/apify's stats?

Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/apify's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.

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