# Docs: compound ecosystem and integrations **Problem statement:** We have a big overlap between the References/Integrations and Ecosystem/LongChain Ecosystem pages. It confuses users. It creates a situation when new integration is added only on one of these pages, which creates even more confusion. - removed References/Integrations page (but move all its information into the individual integration pages - in the next PR). - renamed Ecosystem/LongChain Ecosystem into Integrations/Integrations. I like the Ecosystem term. It is more generic and semantically richer than the Integration term. But it mentally overloads users. The `integration` term is more concrete. UPDATE: after discussion, the Ecosystem is the term. Ecosystem/Integrations is the page (in place of Ecosystem/LongChain Ecosystem). As a result, a user gets a single place to start with the individual integration.
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Apify
This page covers how to use Apify within LangChain.
Overview
Apify is a cloud platform for web scraping and data extraction, which provides an ecosystem of more than a thousand ready-made apps called Actors for various scraping, crawling, and extraction use cases.
This integration enables you run Actors on the Apify platform and load their results into LangChain to feed your vector indexes with documents and data from the web, e.g. to generate answers from websites with documentation, blogs, or knowledge bases.
Installation and Setup
- Install the Apify API client for Python with
pip install apify-client
- Get your Apify API token and either set it as
an environment variable (
APIFY_API_TOKEN
) or pass it to theApifyWrapper
asapify_api_token
in the constructor.
Wrappers
Utility
You can use the ApifyWrapper
to run Actors on the Apify platform.
from langchain.utilities import ApifyWrapper
For a more detailed walkthrough of this wrapper, see this notebook.
Loader
You can also use our ApifyDatasetLoader
to get data from Apify dataset.
from langchain.document_loaders import ApifyDatasetLoader
For a more detailed walkthrough of this loader, see this notebook.