wtf is apify-actors-directory?

This repository is a directory of over 26,000 automation tools, called actors, that run on a platform named Apify. Apify lets people collect data from websites, such as scraping product listings, business contact details, or social media posts, without writing their own scraping code. The tools are meant to be deployed and run directly on Apify's platform rather than downloaded and run locally, so this repository is a reference catalog rather than a piece of software you install and run yourself. The directory sorts these tools into categories such as lead generation, social media, e-commerce, AI, SEO, automation, developer tools, jobs, real estate, and more, with a markdown file listing the tools available in each category and a rough count of how many exist. Categories range from a few hundred tools up to several thousand, giving a sense of which areas of automation are most crowded on the platform. There is also a table of the fifty most used tools on Apify, showing each one's average user rating, number of users, and pricing model, alongside a link to try it. Popular entries cover things like extracting business listings from Google Maps, pulling posts from Instagram and TikTok, and scraping general search results. Most of the links throughout the README point back to Apify's website through what appears to be an affiliate link, meaning the repository's author may earn a referral benefit when someone signs up or uses a tool through those links. The repository itself does not contain any code that performs scraping. Instead, it functions as a curated index or catalog, helping someone browse and discover existing Apify tools by topic rather than building anything new. There is no information in the README about installation, setup, or how to contribute new listings, and no license is mentioned for the project. Anyone wanting to actually run one of the listed tools would need to follow its individual link over to Apify's own site.