apify Skills

>- Triage open GitHub bug issues for Apify MCP server. Fetches issues, analyzes root causes, drafts developer-to-developer responses, and posts after user approval. Use when handling user bug reports, responding to issues, or cleaning up stale bugs.

>- Explore, analyze, plan, or spec features for the Apify MCP server. Adapts to what the user asks — from quick code exploration to full GitHub issue specs. Use when the user asks to explore code, understand behavior, plan a change, design a feature, or create an issue spec.

Develop, debug, and deploy Apify Actors - serverless cloud programs for web scraping, automation, and data processing. Use when creating new Actors, modifying existing ones, or troubleshooting Actor code.

Convert existing projects into Apify Actors - serverless cloud programs. Actorize JavaScript/TypeScript (SDK with Actor.init/exit), Python (async context manager), or any language (CLI wrapper). Use when migrating code to Apify, wrapping CLI tools as Actors, or adding Actor SDK to existing projects.

Generate output schemas (dataset_schema.json, output_schema.json, key_value_store_schema.json) for an Apify Actor by analyzing its source code. Use when creating or updating Actor output schemas.

Integrate Apify into an existing JavaScript/TypeScript or Python application using the apify-client package. Use when adding web scraping, automation, or data extraction capabilities to an existing app via the Apify API.

Universal AI-powered web scraper for any platform. Scrape data from Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Google Maps, Google Search, Google Trends, Reddit, Airbnb, Yelp, and 15+ more platforms. Use for lead generation, brand monitoring, competitor analysis, influencer discovery, trend research, content analytics, audience analysis, review analysis, SEO intelligence, recruitment, or any data extraction task.

Use the mcpc CLI to work with MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers from the shell - connect to a server as a persistent session, then list and call tools, read resources, get prompts, and run async tasks. Use --json for scripting and code mode. Reach for this whenever interacting with MCP servers, calling MCP tools, or accessing MCP resources programmatically.

Record or regenerate the mcpc demo GIFs (the README hero docs/images/mcpc-demo.gif and the focused tapes in docs/vhs/) with VHS. Use whenever asked to create, refresh, restyle, shorten, or fix a terminal demo/animation/GIF of mcpc. The tapes drive real mcpc commands; for the authenticated step this skill ALWAYS prompts for a short-lived, low-permission TEST token first (never production). Captures the VHS + mcpc gotchas learned the hard way — read it fully before editing a tape.

Research, spy on, and analyze ads across Meta (Facebook & Instagram), Google (Ads Transparency Center + paid search results), TikTok (Ads Library + Creative Center), LinkedIn Ad Library, and X (Twitter — promoted tweets, best-effort) using Apify Actors. Use when user asks about competitor ads, ad library research, winning creatives, ad copy analysis, landing page audits from ads, cross-platform ad audits, brand transparency checks, or any task involving paid ad creatives, advertiser data, or ad targeting from public ad libraries.

Track whether a brand and its competitors get cited or mentioned across Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini for a defined set of prompts, on a recurring schedule. Use when user asks to track AI visibility, monitor brand mentions in AI search, track ChatGPT citations, do AI search SEO tracking, GEO tracking (Generative Engine Optimization), AEO tracking (Answer Engine Optimization), monitor Perplexity citations, track AI Overviews mentions, see if their brand shows up in AI search, discover which prompts competitors rank for in AI search, find citation opportunities, or audit a website for AI visibility readiness.

Find and enrich B2B leads from Booking.com - hotels, apartments, and vacation rentals - and pull each host's or property manager's real contact details (email, phone, company name, registration number). Use when the user says things like "get emails from Booking.com", "Booking.com lead generation", "find tour operator / property manager / host contacts", "scrape accommodation owner emails", or "build a list of Booking hosts". The host's email is usually already inside the Booking scraper's traderInfo field (EU/AU trader-transparency disclosure) - this skill leads with that and uses a Google Maps email scraper only as a fallback, instead of relying on Google Maps first (which mostly returns the wrong business).

Patterns for invoking the Apify CLI (`apify`) from agents. Covers authentication, creating/running/pushing Actors, calling Actors in the cloud, and reading results from datasets and key-value stores.

> This skill should be used when the user asks to "analyze a competitor", "compare pricing", "competitive landscape", "market research", "what do customers think", "review intelligence", "hiring signals", "content strategy", "SEO battle", "build a battlecard", "competitive analysis", "who are the players", "who competes with", "market intelligence", "competitive positioning", "deep dive on a company", "board prep", "SWOT analysis", "how does [X] compare to [Y]", or mentions competitor analysis, pricing comparison, customer sentiment, or market landscape research. Requires Apify CLI or Apify MCP server.

Scrape e-commerce data for pricing, reviews, bestsellers, and seller discovery across 30+ platforms including Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Shopify, WooCommerce, and more. Use when user asks about product prices, competitor analysis, store scraping, tech stack detection, food delivery, real estate, or marketplace intelligence.

Discover and extract financial news for tracked portfolio companies across 33 verified Tier 1 sources (Bloomberg, Reuters, FT, WSJ, IntelliNews, ČTK, PAP, BTA, TASR, ING Think, ECB, EC Press Corner, ...) plus broad Google News fallback. Use when the user asks to find news about a company, get press coverage, monitor financial press, run a news scan, or check headlines for a portfolio company. Reads tracked companies from data/companies.json. Do NOT use for marketing/social-listening (use apify/awesome-skills) or for morning-briefing formatting (out of scope).

Social-listening signals for tracked portfolio companies via Apify Actors — Reddit sentiment (fatihtahta), Twitter/X real-time mentions (kaitoeasyapi pay-per-result), Trustpilot service quality (getwally.net). Use when the user asks for sentiment, social media mentions, customer reviews, brand perception, crisis signals, OSINT, social listening, "what are people saying about X". Reads tracked companies from data/companies.json. Do NOT use for news (use apify-financial-news) or registry lookups (use apify-public-registries).

| Discover Instagram brand–creator partnerships by chaining Apify Actors. Use when the user asks who collabs with a brand, which brands a creator has done paid posts for, wants to audit an influencer's branded-content history, or wants to scope a brand's sponsorship roster. Works in either direction — brand → creators or creator → brands — and detects direction from the data, so don't ask the user to declare it. Requires Apify MCP tools.

Find sites ranking for target keywords, score every prospect with Ahrefs domain authority and page-level traffic, identify the strongest pitch angle per row ("links to competitor", "mentions brand without linking", "top-3 SERP", "resource page", "outdated content"), generate brand-voice-matched outreach emails using an outreach-type-aware template (unlinked-mention claim, competitor-link replacement, resource-page inclusion, outdated-content replacement, topical niche-edit), and propose a concrete in-article link placement as three artifacts — the verbatim source sentence, the same sentence rewritten with the link spliced in, or a fully-drafted new insertion if no natural fit exists. Use when user asks to find link building opportunities, prospect link partners, recover unlinked brand mentions, replace competitor links, build a tiered outreach list, or run cold email outreach for SEO link building.

Look up official company data from European public registries across 11 countries/regions (CZ, SK, PL, DE, UK, NL, RO, HR, SE + EU-level + ESG). Covers company registration, ownership, financial filings, VAT status, ESG data. Use when the user asks to "look up a company", "check registry", "find company info", "look up IČO/KRS/LEI/CRN", "company due diligence", "check VAT status", "find ownership structure", or needs official data from European registries. Reads tracked companies from data/companies.json. Some lookups use Python scripts (stdlib), some fall back to Apify actors for scraping-based registries.

Builds a list of verified business emails from Google Maps, Google SERPs, or a user-supplied URL list. Verification happens inside the same Apify run — no third-party verifier needed. Use when user asks to find verified emails, build a leads list, scrape emails from Maps or SERP, verify emails for a URL list, or find an Apollo / Hunter alternative.

Discover, pay for, and run any Apify Actor by paying USDC on Base over the x402 protocol with a Coinbase Agentic Wallet (awal) — no Apify account or API key. You buy one small, spend-capped prepaid Apify token, then run as many Actors as the request needs with it. Use when the user wants to use Apify tools without signing up, pay per use with crypto / USDC, set up an agentic wallet, mentions "x402", "awal", "agentic wallet", "Coinbase wallet", "pay with USDC", "no API key", or asks to pull live web data (social media, search, maps, marketplaces, news) while paying on-chain per use.

Create or update OpenAPI specifications and API documentation for Apify endpoints. Use when user says "add API endpoint", "create OpenAPI spec", "document this endpoint", "add code samples for API", "update API docs", or "api-doc". Handles OpenAPI YAML, schemas, code samples, and operation IDs.

Write or edit Apify documentation pages following the style guide. Use when user says "write docs for", "create a new page", "document this feature", "add documentation about", "edit this doc page", or "write a guide for [topic]". Handles platform docs, guides, and reference pages with proper formatting and structure.

Review Apify documentation for style guide compliance, quality standards, and best practices. Use when user says "review this doc", "check this page", "audit documentation", "review before PR", "is this ready to publish", or "review-docs". Runs automated checks and manual review against Apify style guide.

Create structured tutorials for Apify Academy or Platform documentation. Use when user says "create a tutorial", "write a tutorial", "build a step-by-step guide", "convert this guide into a tutorial", or "tutorial for [topic]". Handles tutorial structure, learning objectives, prerequisites, step-by-step instructions, code examples, and troubleshooting sections.