# Apify Platform Documentation

**Apify** is a cloud platform and marketplace for web data extraction and automation tools called **Actors**.

## Get started

Learn how to run any Actor in Apify Store or create your own. A step-by-step guides through your first steps on the Apify platform.

#### [Run Actor from Apify Store](https://pr-2390.preview.docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running.md)

[Apify Store is home to thousands of public Actors available to the Apify community. It's the easiest way for you to start with Apify.](https://pr-2390.preview.docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running.md)

#### [Build your own Actor](https://pr-2390.preview.docs.apify.com/platform/actors/development.md)

[Read about the technical part of building Apify Actors. Learn to define Actor inputs, build new versions, persist Actor state, and choose base Docker images.](https://pr-2390.preview.docs.apify.com/platform/actors/development.md)

#### [Become an expert with Apify Academy](https://pr-2390.preview.docs.apify.com/academy.md)

[Learn everything about web scraping and automation with free courses that will turn you into an expert scraper developer.](https://pr-2390.preview.docs.apify.com/academy.md)

## Contents

#### [Actors](https://pr-2390.preview.docs.apify.com/platform/actors.md)

[Learn how to develop, run and share own web scraping and automation tools.](https://pr-2390.preview.docs.apify.com/platform/actors.md)

#### [Storage](https://pr-2390.preview.docs.apify.com/platform/storage.md)

[Store anything from images and key-value pairs to structured output data.](https://pr-2390.preview.docs.apify.com/platform/storage.md)

#### [Proxy](https://pr-2390.preview.docs.apify.com/platform/proxy.md)

[Learn to anonymously and reliably access websites in scraping/automation jobs.](https://pr-2390.preview.docs.apify.com/platform/proxy.md)

#### [Schedules](https://pr-2390.preview.docs.apify.com/platform/schedules.md)

[Learn how to automatically start your Actor and task runs.](https://pr-2390.preview.docs.apify.com/platform/schedules.md)

#### [Integrations](https://pr-2390.preview.docs.apify.com/platform/integrations.md)

[Learn how to connect the Apify platform with your projects.](https://pr-2390.preview.docs.apify.com/platform/integrations.md)

#### [Monitoring](https://pr-2390.preview.docs.apify.com/platform/monitoring.md)

[Learn how to check the performance of your Actors, validate your data and receive alerts.](https://pr-2390.preview.docs.apify.com/platform/monitoring.md)