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title: "Apify"
description: "Apify on looot as of 2026-09-28: 3 jobs through 3 endpoints, how you reach it, what it costs, and how to run it."
---

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## What it's good for

Apify is in Web data, Advertising. Reach for it to search the Meta ad library; fetch the results of a scrape job; run actors.

As of 2026-09-28 (catalog revision 85280) it serves 3 jobs through 3 endpoints.

## Jobs

| Job id | What it does | Endpoints |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [`actors.run`](/catalog/web-data) | Run actors | 1 |
| [`ads.meta.search`](/catalog/advertising) | Search the Meta ad library | 1 |
| [`web.scrape.job.results`](/catalog/web-data) | Fetch the results of a scrape job | 1 |

## Access

- **Runs on looot's key** for 3 endpoints: nothing to set up, the run spends your looot balance. You can connect your own key instead; see [Bring your own key](/guides/bring-your-own-key).

## Price basis

1 per call (from $0.0001), 2 charged at the cost the provider reports. A call that fails at the provider costs $0; see [What's free](/money/free-and-failures).

## Free first in fallback

No. Every endpoint bills on each answer, found or not, so a fallback walk pays for a miss here. See [Free first](/concepts/free-first).

## Run it

A job run takes shared input names, not Apify's own field names; looot maps them for each provider. For `job:ads.meta.search`, `company` is taken by 2 of its 8 providers. See [Job inputs](/concepts/job-inputs).

Example input for `looot run` or the MCP [`run`](/mcp-tools/run) tool, with placeholder values:

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```bash CLI
looot run job:ads.meta.search --input '{"company":"Example Inc"}'
```

```json MCP
{
  "endpointId": "job:ads.meta.search",
  "input": {
    "company": "Example Inc"
  },
  "idempotencyKey": "<new unique key>"
}
```

</CodeGroup>

A job run picks among all the job's providers. To run Apify itself, name one of its endpoints (MCP [`search`](/mcp-tools/search) with `{"filters": {"provider": "apify"}}` lists them), for example `apify-meta-ads-library-search`: `looot inspect apify-meta-ads-library-search` prints its exact input fields and price.

## In the live catalog

- Browse: [looot.ai/public-catalog/apify-actor-run](https://looot.ai/public-catalog/apify-actor-run), or search [looot.ai/public-catalog](https://looot.ai/public-catalog?text=Apify) for Apify.
- Every endpoint, no account needed: `curl "https://api.looot.ai/v1/public-catalog?provider=apify"`

Apify's name and logo are trademarks of their owner, shown to identify the provider.

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