The Apify web scraping, data extraction, and automation platform
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Apify is a strong platform for advanced crawling/scraping.
What do you like best about the product?
The best part of Apify was their integrated system (Im an engineer) -- I loved their commandline utiities, it made development and testing a breeze. 2nd to their tooling was their customer support. They have fantastic support.
What do you dislike about the product?
I didn't like the amount of domain knowledge I needed to have in order to get started. What they had me do in code (in some places) I wish I could have also done via GUI on the website (like setting up advanced proxies, or storing data in a data warehouse) -- I wanted just my crawlers to be aware of the page and to abstractly send data for storage, not set the entire thing up in code! That said, it wasn't that big of a deal and it was made a cakewalk with the help of their devs/support team who walked me through it!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed to crawl various websites, in a throttled and controlled manner, save the data, and then do data post-processing on it. Apify removed a lot of barriers to us getting our data.
Most convenient web scraping solution available
What do you like best about the product?
Apify offers a full suite of automated web scraping solutions. Not only do they provide a bunch of awesome open-source scrapers (e.g. for Google Maps), they also provide a cloud platform for which you can actually run these scrapers on top of. This saves users a lot of hassle. They also deal with all of the nitty gritty of web scraping, including IP rotation, which is really important.
What do you dislike about the product?
It takes some time to understand the range of services and products they offer, but it's well worth it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am scraping local business information from Apify. It saves me a lot of time and energy from doing it myself.
Web Scraping - Simplified
What do you like best about the product?
The scripts available for use on Apify's marketplace are great. I extended the functionality of their scraper for my clients doing research in the real estate market. To have written the program myself would have taken a lot of time - the actor had a great foundation for my client's use case and saved me a lot of development time.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only "caveat" is that I run my scripts on a schedule - this can get expensive due to the compute time involved. But, when you factor in the time I save developing and maintaining the applications, it really is a moot point.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're scraping real estate information using Apify. It does it quickly, efficiently, and gives my clients the information they want at a low cost. The scripts are easy to extend and add additional functionality to.
Apify is a lead webscraping platform
What do you like best about the product?
Apify platform provides a very versatile and wide range of services for web scraping. A strong and convenient SDK, cool web UI for visualizing datasets, communication with clients/developers, scrapers overview and configuration etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
From a dev perspective, I'd say that it's high time for Apify team to organize all the SDK best-practice materials for overcoming website anti-scraping technologies into some kind of a separate documentation block.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Apify allows to set up scrapers for getting solid data from various resources such as websites, APIs in any kind of convenient format: excel/csv/HTML tables, JSON, pdf etc. Also, this is a great tool for making automation workers. A cool web interface also adds a lot of cool features for visualizing all this stuff along with extensive API possibilities.
Scrape baby scrape!
What do you like best about the product?
It's really easy to sign up and get started with the $5 credit. I played around on the website, trying out a couple of the scrapers, and found one that I think I'll be using moving forward.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the language on the website can be a bit jargon-y for someone like me who is new to the world of "runs" and "builds"; but the platform does have a fair amount of information about all of this, and each app has an info page that I recommend checking out. Developers seem to be easy enough to reach out to about their products.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm thinking about building out a dataset for qualitative and computational analysis. That can require a small amount of high quality sampled data OR a large amount of structured data. The former is clearly possible with Apify: you can get a small sample of data. The latter might require some more $ and commitment, which is something I'm thinking about doing.
Flexible yet easy-to-use web scraper
What do you like best about the product?
Clean and comprehensive web interface that allows to set up a scraping task quickly. Flexible enough to handle websites of any complexity and size. All in all, a great scraping multi-tool!
What do you dislike about the product?
The Free plan is quite generous to complete even medium-sized scraping tasks. But in the case of reaching monthly limits, the paid plan may seem quite expensive for single non-regular usage. I'd prefer a dynamic plan based on actual usage.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Looking for web-scraping solutions I've tried various options ranging from no-code apps to Node libraries and found Apify to be the best of both worlds. It gives great flexibility to set up even complex scraping tasks in a quite short time. I like the well-thought web interface and a nice dashboard that shows the scraping process in full detail.
Super powers await
What do you like best about the product?
We were able to get up and running without getting bogged down in technical details.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are still a lot of technical details ;)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are figuring out our potential market size by compiling data on possible leads.
Extremely extensive scraping capabilities
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about Apify is the selection of scrapers. Social networks, search engines, database websites (like yellowpages), can all be scraped with simple-to-use scrapers that export data succinctly. There are also a lot of choices for proxies that Apify provides making scraping reliable. Scraper bot/script builders have many different ideas that all contribute to this platform which is great as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
The tedious nature of having to reload your cookies (for sites that require login) every time. Can also be waiting for support for extremely long periods (days on end, but they have since added AI chat support that helps alleviate this.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Main problem I'm solving is gathering large amounts of social media profile data to accentuate written content. It allows me to be more productive and navigate my content ideas with much more detail.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get used to the settings of each scraper first. Take a look at the library of scrapers and make sure to have proxies available if you're doing large amounts of data.
Easy to use yet powerful web harvesting
What do you like best about the product?
The templates are really helpful to get going quickly
What do you dislike about the product?
User interface took a little while to get used to.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collecting data from different websites to match customer requirements with partner products.
Does what it promises
What do you like best about the product?
For scraping the internet Apify works great. We had gotten a lot of valuable data for a relatively cheap price
What do you dislike about the product?
Can be a bit difficult to understand the platform in the beginning but you will quickly get the hang of it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Getting a lot of quality data specified to your needs
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Go for it
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