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

What do you like best about the product?

my go to software for lead generation, incredibly easy to use and has a very intuitive interface.

What do you dislike about the product?

there isnt really anything i dislike, perhaps the only downside is that its difficult to determine what scrapers are the best value.

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

apify helps us save time otherwise spent on manual lead generation on actually operating our business and helping our clients

What do you like best about the product?

What I like best about Apify is its turnkey cloud infrastructure for handling complex web scraping challenges.

What do you dislike about the product?

Cost can be a bit unpredictable when scraping

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

saving time and bringing down cost per lead

What do you like best about the product?

The pre-built actors make web scraping effortless. It handles proxy rotation automatically, which saves a lot of development time and effort.

What do you dislike about the product?

The proxy billing and compute unit pricing calculation can be slightly confusing to estimate initially.

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

It automates data collection and handles proxy rotation seamlessly, saving us hours of manual scraping work and providing reliable keyword data.

What do you like best about the product?

You can scrap leads for your business to cold call from google maps very fast

What do you dislike about the product?

Having to lay a monthly subscription because you can’t top up on credits

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

I can get qualified leads from google maps who are local to me

What do you like best about the product?

Great reliable API for Instagram scraping
Pros: Extremely fast response times, high data accuracy, and easy API integration. Works smoothly even for larger profile workloads.
Cons: A bit pricey compared to self-hosted setups, though the quality justifies it.
Overall: I'm really satisfied with the results. If you need clean, reliable Instagram profile data without dealing with proxy headaches, Apify is worth every penny.

What do you dislike about the product?

A bit pricey compared to self-hosted setups, though the quality justifies it.

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

We use Apify’s Instagram API to process roughly 1000 profiles every month, and the speed and accuracy have been phenomenal. Before Apify, custom scrapers were constantly breaking due to rate limits, taking up 15–20 hours of engineering time every week just on proxy maintenance and repairs. Apify solved all of that with a 99%+ data delivery accuracy rate. It's slightly on the pricier side, but the speed, reliability, and hundreds of engineering hours saved make the ROI a no-brainer.

What do you like best about the product?

I publish my own automation tools (Actors) on the Apify Store, and the developer experience is the best I've seen on a marketplace of this kind. Support is genuinely effective — real humans who solve the problem, and they even proactively doubled my daily publishing limit when I asked. The documentation walks you through every step of the process clearly, and their YouTube channel is full of best-practice walkthroughs whenever something is unclear. Scheduling, monitoring, proxies and MCP integration work out of the box.

What do you dislike about the product?

Honestly, very little. As a seller I would love richer earnings analytics in the API (today the detailed monetization numbers live only in the Console UI), and new accounts have a daily cap on how many Actors you can publish — though support raised mine quickly when I asked. Neither has stopped me from shipping.

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

Apify gives me the whole business infrastructure for selling data-extraction and monitoring tools: hosting, scheduling, billing, a storefront with real buyers, and pay-per-event monetization. Instead of building payments, infra and distribution myself, I ship an Actor and it is immediately runnable, schedulable and sellable. It turned side-project scrapers into a product line with zero infrastructure work on my side.

What do you like best about the product?

Their actor suite - they have a large variety of use cases.

What do you dislike about the product?

Some actors are only on paid subscription.

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

Getting the right data for client work

What do you like best about the product?

Apify is really good for my project. I used it to get data from websites and it work very well. It was easy to use and I didn’t need to know much coding to start.

The price is very affordable and I can do a lot without paying too much. The actors are simple and help me automate things fast. I like that I can run tasks and get the data I need without trouble.

Overall Apify is great for school projects or small business work. It saves me time and its not hard to learn. I recommend it if you want something easy and cheap that still works good.

What do you dislike about the product?

some actors badly moderated and useless, but still charge money

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

Supporting my background research and backend

What do you like best about the product?

Leads Scraping and so many scraper at one place

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing, everything is too good in apify.

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

It is solving my Lead Gen Agency Data problem

What do you like best about the product?

The actor marketplace. I needed a LinkedIn scraper that returned specific fields like the About section, recent roles, and posts in a clean structured format. Instead of building one myself, I found a maintained actor, configured the inputs, and had it running in minutes. For a solo operation without engineering resources, that is the difference between having a daily lead pipeline and not having one. The pay-per-usage pricing also means I only pay for what I actually scrape, which at my volume works out to a fraction of a cent per profile.

What do you dislike about the product?

Rate limit guidance is missing. I had to figure out through failed runs that LinkedIn scrapes need to go out in small batches with gaps between them, and the platform never told me that upfront. Also, different LinkedIn actors return different fields and there is no clear comparison showing which actor pulls what before you spend credits testing them. I wasted runs discovering that some actors do not return recent posts or activity data, which are the most valuable fields for my use case.

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

Manual lead sourcing did not scale. I consult across five geographies and need to review 15 to 20 new profiles daily to keep my outreach pipeline running. Before Apify, that meant browsing LinkedIn one profile at a time and copying details manually, maybe 8 to 10 on a good morning. Now I run a batch in 30 minutes and get clean structured data I feed directly into my outreach workflow. More profiles reviewed means more personalized connection notes sent, which means more conversations started. One converted lead per month covers my entire annual Apify spend several times over.