Apify: web scraping, data extraction, and automation tools for AI

What do you like best about the product?

I like that Apify is easy to use and costs nothing. Setting up the custom access actors is really good. It also gives us an easy way to get regulatory data for our app and helps us keep it up to date.

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing really

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Apify gives us an easy way to get regulatory data for our app and helps us keep it up to date.

What do you like best about the product?

What I like most about Apify is its well-designed developer ecosystem, especially the Apify SDK and CLI tools. They make it seamless to initialize, test, and deploy code from a local machine straight to the cloud. On top of that, the built-in proxy management saves a massive amount of time when dealing with anti-bot systems. The platform’s serverless architecture also feels highly performant: it handles datasets smoothly and lets lightweight actors run quickly while using minimal RAM.

What do you dislike about the product?

The discoverability for new community actors in the Store is quite low, which makes it hard to get noticed without external promotion. Also, local debugging via CLI can occasionally behave differently than live server runs.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Apify takes care of the infrastructure side by fully managing server hosting, scaling, and proxy configuration. For me, that means I can skip weeks of backend development and keep ongoing infrastructure costs close to zero while building my community tools.

What do you like best about the product?

I use Apify to collect business leads for my outreach campaigns. The Actor marketplace has a ready-made scraper for almost everything I need, so I rarely have to build from scratch. Runs are reliable, results export cleanly to CSV or JSON, and the pay-per-use pricing works well for an independent operator like me. The MCP server is a big plus too. I can call Apify Actors directly from my AI assistant, which makes my workflow much faster.

What do you dislike about the product?

Costs can be hard to predict for large runs, and some community Actors vary in quality, so you have to test a few before finding the right one.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It replaced hours of manual searching and copy-pasting. I can now build targeted prospect lists in minutes and spend my time on the actual outreach.

What do you like best about the product?

I use Apify through its MCP server inside Claude to run a daily job search. The LinkedIn Jobs Scraper (curious_coder) returns 20–25 listings per search URL in about 20–30 seconds, at a fraction of a cent per run, and the web-search and web-fetch tools fill the gaps for sites that block plain requests. Setup through MCP was quick, and having scraping available as a tool inside my AI workflow saves me hours a week.

What do you dislike about the product?

LinkedIn's public search often ignores the remote filter, so I still have to check the results myself. I'd also like a warning before hitting the monthly usage limit, instead of finding out when runs stop.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It runs my daily job search from inside Claude. Because scraping is available as a tool in my AI workflow, I no longer collect listings by hand, and that saves me hours a week. Overall it's reliable, cheap, and easy to plug into an AI agent.

What do you like best about the product?

We run a weekly viral-content scan across TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts with Apify actors, plus contact enrichment inside our n8n pipelines. The Actor Store covers every network we need, the dataset API drops results into n8n in a couple of nodes, and pricing is transparent per run: a full 3-network scan of about 570 videos costs us around $1.90. The Apify MCP server also lets our Claude agents call actors directly without us maintaining scrapers.

What do you dislike about the product?

The MCP server times out on longer runs (even on simple status checks), so we fell back to the REST API for the weekly scan. Runs that return no result are still billed, which adds up on hashtag-based scans. Prepaid usage burns faster than expected: set a monthly spend limit in Billing on day one, we learned that after two 'usage exceeded' emails in one week.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before Apify our SMM team picked content topics by hand and we had no structured source of what is actually going viral in our B2B/AI niche. Now a weekly scan returns about 570 candidate videos from three networks, we filter them by an engagement rule and the owner picks 7 topics for the week in under an hour. On the sales side, Apify actors feed social-profile data into our contact enrichment pipeline, so research that used to be manual is now a step in n8n with a known cost per 1,000 people.

What do you like best about the product?

Apify expedites my job search. I like that it lets me integrate Claude AI into my job search, especially for search and ranking. Once I set everything correctly, the job search worked as expected. The setup was easy, and I’m very impressed with Apify even though I’m not a developer.

What do you dislike about the product?

I did not find any issue besides the first time I set it up, when some jobs were missed. Once I set everything correctly, the job search worked as expected.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Apify expedites my job search.

What do you like best about the product?

I love that Apify has literally everything, so I only need one application instead of migrating between lots of apps. I can connect my AI to Apify and ask it to get whatever information I need, including scraping from places like Instagram and Reddit.

What do you dislike about the product?

I find it difficult to discover and choose between actors. Even for Instagram, there are a number of actors, and I don’t know how to pick one without using AI. The time it takes me to find the perfect actor is very bad.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Apify to scrape everything, from Instagram and Reddit, and get whatever information I want.

What do you like best about the product?

I find Apify pretty handy, and it gives me good results. I like the insight tools for scraping and researching competitors and social media. I can use them to find competitor ads in the Facebook and Google Ads libraries, check which Instagram reels and posts get the most likes and views, and find and verify email IDs. The initial setup was super easy.

What do you dislike about the product?

There are already a lot of useful tools in Apify, but I’d like to see more tools for marketers, especially more insight tools and scrapers. Something that helps with bidding on keywords for Google Ads would be nice too.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Apify to verify and extract email IDs, scrape competitors’ email addresses, and do ad and other research.

What do you like best about the product?

I think this is scraping TikTok posts, comments and shares. It really helps us reduce time to scrape

What do you dislike about the product?

I thought this is about price is high for comment

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

In the usual way, people scrape posts and comments very slowly, and Apify helps

What do you like best about the product?

As a digital marketing agency owner, it helps with competitor research. SEO work that used to take hours now takes minutes, and linking to Apify via CLI has been a massive time saver. We get paid on performance, so research is an integral part of that, but burning hours doing grunt work is now a thing of the past. The pricing is clear, but could be a bit easier to understand. They have a great onboarding team, and tutorial videos on YouTube and webinars help fill in the knowledge gaps.

What do you dislike about the product?

The interface is pretty busy. Thankfully, most of my interaction is via Claude through the CLI, so I don't have to endure the UI.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Competitor research used to be difficult to do. We are UK-based but work primarily with US-based customers, so having to use VPN. Now with Apify, it is faster and more accurate.