Apify

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Apify is a platform for web scraping and web automation

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Tom
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Best scraping market place on the web

Reviewed on 2024/07/02

Overall I am very happy I stumbled upon this platform - I have learn more making my own actors than...

Overall I am very happy I stumbled upon this platform - I have learn more making my own actors than I would have paying for some low performing apps

Pros

I love that you can easily review and test multiple actors on the market, interact with the developers and do more

Cons

It was a steep learning forever to begin but got the hang of it quickly

Yash
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Highly scalable, robust and ready to use web scraping patform

Reviewed on 2024/08/30

We've had a fantastic experience using Apify for my web scraping projects. The platform is...

We've had a fantastic experience using Apify for my web scraping projects. The platform is incredibly user-friendly, with a clear interface and helpful documentation. We were able to set up my scraping tasks quickly and efficiently, thanks to the pre-built templates and automation features. The scalability of Apify has been a game-changer, allowing us to handle large-scale projects without any issues. Plus, the ability to integrate with other tools and services has made my data processing and analysis workflow much smoother. Overall, we're highly satisfied with Apify and would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a reliable and efficient web scraping solution.

Pros

The ease of using the APIs and the ready-made APIs available is what makes Apify awesome.

Cons

Lack of explanations regarding variability of costs for different APIs is hard to understand.

Alternatives Considered

Zyte and ScrapingBee

Reasons for Switching to Apify

Apify had better pricing and easier to setup APIs/
Dragan
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Dragan Jovanovic- review

Reviewed on 2024/12/11

Pros

simplicity of use, many opportunity.

Cons

nothing, maybe buy some credit instead of monthly subscription

NAFTAL
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 4.0 /10

Feedback from mzawadi

Reviewed on 2024/05/29

Pros

Easy of integration and Clear API documentation

Cons

Payment not clear , too much unclear approaches to payment of different actors.

Alexander
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  • Industry: Media Production
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Apify is great

Reviewed on 2024/11/11

I've used Apify to source data for several different projects and found the platform quite helpful.

I've used Apify to source data for several different projects and found the platform quite helpful.

Pros

It is convenient, easy to use and reasonably priced.

Cons

I can't find any downsides, service has been fantastic so far

Jon
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  • Industry: Wholesale
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

I think Apify is an incredible platform!

Reviewed on 2024/07/31

Once I found it and figured out how it worked I was able to dump my US$600 a month Pitchbox...

Once I found it and figured out how it worked I was able to dump my US$600 a month Pitchbox software and get 10x the amount of marketing emails for 1/10th the cost.

Pros

I can easily, quickly and cheaply scrape the web for marketing emails. Its so good I cannot believe how good it is. I would recommend it to anyone without hesitation.

Cons

There isn't anything I dislike about Apify.

Joshua
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  • Industry: Market Research
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great, accessible web scraping tool

Reviewed on 2024/05/29

Pros

Apify's web scrapers have made it easy not just to pull down data from many of the sources I care about, but also to do so in a very affordable manner. Its proxies are also more reliable than other platforms I've used, which makes me more confident that I can get at the data I need, when I need it.

Cons

I know there is more I could be getting out of the platform in terms of customization, but I would need to brush up on my JSON to do so.

Prakhar
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  • Industry: Internet
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Good but expensive

Reviewed on 2024/12/23

Overall nice ecosystem and exhaustive scrapers available but has been difficult to browse around...

Overall nice ecosystem and exhaustive scrapers available but has been difficult to browse around and find best one for me.

Pros

Easy to use social media scrapers and consolidated services

Cons

Subscription for services apart from usage bill

Lautaro
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Recommended

Reviewed on 2025/02/02

It was awesome. The documentation is complete and easy to understand.

It was awesome. The documentation is complete and easy to understand.

Pros

I like that I’m able to monetize scrapers.

Cons

It is difficult to give visibility to scrapers in order to sell them.

James Bradley
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Apify review

Reviewed on 2024/12/18

Satisfied greatly with the site because of the great plans

Satisfied greatly with the site because of the great plans

Pros

Ease of use as the products i needed were readily available

Cons

Didn’t have real estate skip tracing scrapers that were pay as you go

Boryana
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Good Tools, Great Support, and Swift Developer Responses

Reviewed on 2023/12/21

Overall, my experience has been very positive.

Overall, my experience has been very positive.

Pros

- Trial period with credits to test a few APIs and integrations. The limit was high enough for me to get a good idea of the APIs I want to use and find one that works well for me.
- Direct communication with the developers. I had a small issue which was resolved immediately. I also made a suggestion for one more data point to be extracted. It was added in no time, which was fantastic.
- Support and Apify tour - the chance to talk to somebody from the team about the platform and for them to recommend sections and features based on your needs and use case. I had a session with Cait. She was brilliant, answered all my questions and suggested functionalities that I hadn't discovered but will definitely make use of going forward.
- Swift approval of my application for student discount. Took 2 minutes to get an approval after my application.

Cons

Can't say that I have anything negative to say do far. If I need to add one, that would be price. I have no direct comparison as I have not tested any alternatives. And since I have no time to search for alternative solutions (dissertation deadline fast approaching) and I am happy with this one so far - I will go with it. During my Apify tour, Cait did suggest that students can apply for Student discount. I wish I had known / applied for it before I had moved on to Starter plan. As a student, I am paying for everything by myself and I can already say that I will need to spend $200+ to get the data that I need.

Response from Apify

Hi Boryana, thank you for the detailed review of Apify! We are really happy your experience has been positive so far and that you were also able to utilize the student discount in the end. Best luck with your dissertation thesis!

Pratik
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Apify Review

Reviewed on 2024/08/25

Apify's developer community is very helpful, friendly you can raise your voice their and people are...

Apify's developer community is very helpful, friendly you can raise your voice their and people are ready to help.

Pros

Ease with which I can develop new APIs and start earning from those.

Cons

Their developer analytics is not at all good, no clear analytics about the costs and its usage.

Blessing
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

The best data extraction platform.

Reviewed on 2024/09/03

I have been satisfied with my level of progress since using this software as i can easily get any...

I have been satisfied with my level of progress since using this software as i can easily get any data needed at any given time. Extraction of high volume of data has been made easy to do with this platform.

Pros

Easy to use with a user friendly interface. I can easily get any sort of data using this software as extraction of huge volume of data from different sources could be done easily with this powerful tool so i can easily get the data i need at any time when needed.

Cons

A reduction in the price will be appreciated to enable more access. Apart from this no cons.

Jeff
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  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

THE BEST OF ALL TIMES TOOL FOR DATA EXTRAACTION .

Reviewed on 2023/11/22

Pros

The ease of use and the fact that there are multiple ways of using it...this made it more efficient
Apify has a friendly user interface
I am also impressed by how cost friendly it is it is not expensive

Cons

Nothing really i had a great time using Apify it is on another level hence has not yet found anything to state as a dislike

Peter
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

My earnest feedback about Apify

Reviewed on 2024/08/29

It has been very easy and dependable for the various numbers of times I have used the platform

It has been very easy and dependable for the various numbers of times I have used the platform

Pros

I feel really confident that I can easily scrape qualified information of my highly potential customers with ease and timely.

Cons

Understandings of required input terms (e.g Source Group Name (Title or user name of group)

Michael
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  • Industry: E-Learning
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Easy of use and user Friendly

Reviewed on 2024/05/01

Pros

I am a newbie, I wanted some insights into particular topics, through use of hashtags on Social Media Platforms. Value/quality at Apify is high, given I can extract data at scale. Apify provides a user-friendly interface and tools that simplify the process of web scraping, even for those without extensive coding experience. It has, if you need, rotating proxies, headless browsers, and anti-bot protection to ensure high-quality and reliable data extraction. For me, export tools is great, making it easier to manage and work with the extracted data.

Cons

While Apify supports many common use cases, custom or niche scraping requirements may not be easily achievable on the platform. Sometimes, issues, arise and tools are not available until updates. It can get expensive for large scale projects.

Aria
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  • Industry: Music
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

KORA WORKS - TikTok Scraping for Music Influencer Marketing

Reviewed on 2024/05/16

Pros

It's made our job much easier as most of what we do revolves around tracking our campaigns and how they are performing. So it's much better than going in & individually recording data on each video we work with. Now we get results in minutes and have plugged it into our database so our dashboard can update with newest data & clients know how their campaigns are progressing daily!

Cons

It's not the easiest to understand at first. A colleague of mine who is more familiar with tech & data was able to figure it out but for the rest of us, it's not as easy to understand the functions/how to make things work at first.

Sanjeev
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  • Industry: E-Learning
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

"Quickest and Easiest Data Scraping Tool"

Reviewed on 2024/07/08

I use many data extraction software but what best about apify is it take less time and have many...

I use many data extraction software but what best about apify is it take less time and have many tools to extract data.

Pros

Apify makes data extraction very easy....
Before apify I need lots of time to extract data from web but after using apify scraping very simple and take less time because data that other tools cannot extract is easily extracted by apify.

Cons

I don't have any major issue with apify but my customer support experience is not good.....

Raj
Raj
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  • Industry: Architecture & Planning
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Apify Tools Stability and the Responsive Data Source Connectors are Perfect.

Reviewed on 2023/08/27

The Apify features are easy on navigation and the access control tools and the reporting features...

The Apify features are easy on navigation and the access control tools and the reporting features are very excellent.

Pros

Easy adjusting Apify functions for better and effective quality services generation and the multiple Websites data extraction and excellent mapping capability provided by Apify are profitable.The platform still allows secure data verification and the analytical options and data visualization using Apify features is cost effective.

Cons

Nice and easy multiple projects data migration tool which on my first time was easy and nothing for me to dislike from all Apify features.

František
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Apify experience

Reviewed on 2024/07/31

I really like it, its easy to use, the pricing is okay, and it simplified web scraping process for...

I really like it, its easy to use, the pricing is okay, and it simplified web scraping process for me.

Pros

Its really easy and straightforward to start using Apify platform, the documentation is great. And bonus for webscraping is the open-source Crawlee library, that made my scraping experience 10x faster than doing it the old school way.

Cons

On Apify platform I miss using custom docker images (builds I built myself or in GitHub Actions pipeline), but thats managable.

Vikrant
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  • Industry: Information Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Review for Apify

Reviewed on 2023/07/13

This platform offers scraper the greatest options among the others. It offers scalability and speed...

This platform offers scraper the greatest options among the others. It offers scalability and speed , and is simple to use and manage.

Pros

I can scrap big and large websites precisely how I need to. I also saved a toned of time after I was able to put up automations.

Cons

Nothing up to now. I can only advise using the software if you want to try a scraping tool or are dissatisfied with your present one.

Juliana
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  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great tool for Marketers

Reviewed on 2024/06/26

Really great tool for all marketers to get true insights into what is going on in their fields.

Really great tool for all marketers to get true insights into what is going on in their fields.

Pros

It's easy to use and allows for great insights from all your favorite apps

Cons

I think it's difficult at times to see what is available but all it takes is a little bit of patience

Edgar
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  • Industry: Program Development
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

This platform very helpfull for scraping necessary info, or creating this scrapers for...

Reviewed on 2024/06/07

I'm developing scrapers, as well as testing and working with scrapers already on the platform

I'm developing scrapers, as well as testing and working with scrapers already on the platform

Pros

The platform is easy to operate with a large selection of scrapers with good documentation

Cons

so far I like it and there are no problems that I can mention

Tawakalit
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

APify Review

Reviewed on 2024/09/13

Pros

APify offer free version and they deliver fast scraping speeds

Cons

Mastering APify API requires technical applications and this can be challenging for less technical people who needs data for their analysis.

Harsha
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  • Industry: Management Consulting
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Really Love How Apify Helps Me Automate Stuff

Reviewed on 2023/11/17

It's great and looking forward to exploring the platform more and extract whatever I want.

It's great and looking forward to exploring the platform more and extract whatever I want.

Pros

I really love how Apify helps me with my productivity as someone who doesn't really is in tech. It helps me with readymade quick solutions that surely propels my productivity.

Cons

There's nothing much I can say for now. But, It'd be wise if we can see some tutorials to use certain API's inside each.