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# [](#the-apify-sdk) The Apify SDK
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# [](#crawlee) Crawlee and the Apify SDK
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[**Crawlee**](https://crawlee.dev/) is one of the most fundamental parts of developing for the Apify platform. It is an open-source JavaScript library built on top of these technologies:
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[**Crawlee**](https://crawlee.dev/) is an open source web-automation library developed by Apify, and the Apify SDK one of the most fundamental parts of developing for the Apify platform. Both are built on top of these technologies:
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- Apify actors (which run the Node.js app built with the Crawlee inside a Docker container)
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- The Apify API/Apify Client (on the Apify platform)
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- Your local operating system (for local development)
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- Puppeteer + Playwright (as headless browser managers)
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- Request + Cheerio (for downloading and parsing HTML)
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This library factors away and manages the hard parts of the scraping/automation development under the hood, such as:
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The Crawlee library factors away and manages the hard parts of the scraping/automation development under the hood, such as:
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- Autoscaling
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## [](#docs) Docs, docs, docs
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Crawlee and its resources can be found in various different places:
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Crawlee + the Apify SDK and their resources can be found in various different places:
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1. [Official documentation](https://crawlee.dev/)
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2. [Github repository (source code, issues)](https://github.com/apify/apify-js)
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3. [NPM](https://www.npmjs.com/package/crawlee)
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4. [Help articles](https://help.apify.com/)
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1. [Official Crawlee documentation](https://crawlee.dev/)
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2. [Crawlee Github repository (source code, issues)](https://github.com/apify/crawlee)
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3. [Crawlee on NPM](https://www.npmjs.com/package/crawlee)
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4. [Apify SDK on NPM](https://www.npmjs.com/package/apify)
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<!-- 4. [Help articles](https://help.apify.com/) -->
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## [](#learning) Learning 🧠
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