The Apify web scraping, data extraction, and automation platform
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Affordable Data Scraping with Great Scalability
What do you like best about the product?
I use Apify for real estate and lead data scraping. Apify is really good at scaling my project with low cost. There are many actors that I can choose from, and they are very cost-friendly. I find the quality of the data reasonable compared to its cost. It provides developer-friendly CLI and endpoints, so I can integrate it into my project with no sweat. Apify offers more scrapers than BrightData and is also cheaper for our data requirements. As a developer, I found setting up Apify quite easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
Overall it was a good experience for me but a few things worth pointing out. Actors have filtering options and fields in their runs but some of them are not working as expected. Of course, we can do additional filtering after generation, but if this works, then that will be helpful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Apify for real estate and lead data scraping, and it efficiently scales my data processing with low cost.
The most robust and scalable web automation platform on the market
What do you like best about the product?
The most helpful aspect of Apify is the combination of a powerful cloud infrastructure and the extensive Actor Store. It effectively handles complex anti-scraping measures like browser fingerprinting and proxy rotation automatically. Being able to deploy pre-built scrapers for major sites in minutes, rather than writing custom code for weeks, is a massive upside for our productivity.
What do you dislike about the product?
The credit-based pricing system can be somewhat difficult to predict for complex, large-scale crawls, which makes budgeting a bit of a challenge. Additionally, while the platform is incredibly powerful, the sheer number of features creates a steep learning curve for non-technical team members who just need to download a simple dataset.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Apify solves our core problem of gathering reliable, real-time data from highly dynamic websites that frequently change their layout. It benefits us by automating our entire market intelligence pipeline—we no longer have to manually track competitor pricing or availability. This automation has reduced our data collection time by over 70% and ensures that our business decisions are based on the most current information available.
Cost-Effective Lead Scraping Made Easy
What do you like best about the product?
I love using Apify for its usability and price. You get a lot for free, which is awesome. The initial setup of Apify is very easy; it's a straightforward process.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would love for more of the scrapers to not have monthly subscriptions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Apify to scrape leads in a cheap and effective way.
Versatile with Room for Proxy Improvement
What do you like best about the product?
I like that Apify has a large community and that it's versatile, allowing me to do a lot with it. It gives me lots of options, and the initial setup was very easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like the proxy management and proxy quality.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Apify provides a marketplace and a large community, offering versatility with lots of options.
Effortless Web Scraping with Apify
What do you like best about the product?
I use Apify to get LinkedIn posts, which helps save time and allows me to focus on more important things. I appreciate its ease of use and the variety of different scrapers it offers, especially because I can set it up easily with my cursor. I like all the different Apify scrapers, mainly using the LinkedIn post scraper to summarize insights from the people I'm interested in.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the actors are not maintained, there's bugs, and they're kind of expensive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Apify to get LinkedIn posts, which saves me time and allows me to focus on more important tasks.
User-Friendly Actor Forms Make Technical Work Easy and the data I've recieved is accurate and useful
What do you like best about the product?
I like that it's user friendly. These are very technical tools that would ordinarily require JSON coding, but the actor forms make it easy for the rest of us.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not all of the actors work like they say they will, and I haven't found an effective method up finding leads through Google Scrapes then enriching those leads with better contact data, but I probably just haven't found the right tool yet.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's finding me companies with real world, real time data if you know what and where to look.
Review of Apify
What do you like best about the product?
Apify has become an integral part of our operations, particularly in streamlining our web scraping and data extraction processes. We leverage Apify to tackle several business challenges, including acquiring real-time market data, monitoring competitors, and automating routine data collection tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
Learning Curve: For team members new to web scraping, there may be a steep learning curve associated with understanding the platform and its capabilities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We primarily use Apify for competitive analysis, where we track competitors' pricing, product offerings, and marketing strategies. Additionally, we employ it for lead generation by scraping websites for potential clients. The flexibility of Apify's platform allows us to adapt our scraping strategies as our business evolves, making it an invaluable tool in our arsenal.
Solid Community Support, Premium Pricing
What do you like best about the product?
I like that Apify helps keep scrapers updated and maintained, which is a huge relief because scrapers are very hard to upkeep. I appreciate that the community upholds and updates scrapers consistently. I also find it great that we can connect Apify to N8N to create larger workflows and use it as modules. The initial setup of Apify was very simple, making it easy to get started.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing is VERY expensive
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Apify because scrapers are very hard to upkeep, and Apify manages that for us.
Fast, Secure, and Comprehensive Data Scraping Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Apify is fast and secure, which I really appreciate. It's an interactive platform that lets me understand things easily and gather data and information all in one place. It feels like a one-stop shop for my needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think it should be easier for beginners to understand how Apify works, maybe with a video trial to help them out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Apify is fast and secure, providing an interactive platform to easily access all my data in one place. It's a one-stop shop for my real estate information needs.
Affordable, High-Performing Instagram Reels APIs on Apify
What do you like best about the product?
I was searching for an API for Instagram Reels. Those are quite hard to find, and if you find them you need enterprise contracts with expensive pricing. On Apify, there are a lot of different providers for Instagram APIs and I found 2 good ones which have very good pricing (per usage, not monthly!) and good performance.
What do you dislike about the product?
For each data source, there is a lot of possible APIs. For Instagram at least 5 or even 10. This means, you have to spend some time trying them out, looking what data they give you, how the performance and cost is. But once you find something, it works quite well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have to extract recipes from Instagram Reels captions. Without an external API like by Apify it would be impossible to solve this problem, because Instagram does not provide an API for this use case.
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