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Apify is the go-to scraping tool for freelance automation and lead generation
What do you like best about the product?
Apify saves me hours of manual prospecting on every client project. The prebuilt Actor library covers almost every source I need — Google Maps, LinkedIn, e-commerce sites — and each Actor comes with a simple input form that works without writing any code. The best part is the native API and webhook support that lets me connect Apify directly to my n8n workflows so scraped data flows automatically into Google Sheets or a CRM without any manual steps. The scheduling feature is rock solid and keeps lead lists fresh on autopilot.
What do you dislike about the product?
The compute unit pricing can get expensive on high-volume jobs, which means I have to factor Apify costs into every client quote. Some prebuilt Actors also break without warning when target websites update their layout, and the error logs during failed runs are too technical to quickly debug.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Apify eliminates the need to build and maintain custom scraping infrastructure from scratch. It reduces my lead research time by around 80 percent and allows me to deliver fully enriched, CRM-ready lead lists to clients within the same day of receiving a project brief.
Intuitive, Reliable Automation with Apify That Saves Hours Every Week
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Apify is how intuitive and reliable the platform is, even for someone who isn’t a developer. It turns complex web automation into a simple, repeatable workflow that saves me hours every week. The combination of ready‑to‑use Actors, clear documentation, and seamless integrations makes it incredibly easy to build and scale automations without worrying about infrastructure. I also appreciate how stable the runs are and how consistent the data output is — it gives me confidence that my processes will work the same way every time. Overall, Apify removes friction instead of creating it, which makes it one of the most efficient tools in my workflow.
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn’t much I genuinely dislike about Apify, but there are a few areas where the experience could be even smoother. Debugging can sometimes feel a bit unclear, especially when different errors look similar and require extra time to interpret. The versioning workflow in the Web IDE could also be more intuitive, as it’s not always obvious which build is currently active. These aren’t major downsides, but small improvements here would make an already excellent platform even more seamless to use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before using Apify, a lot of my work depended on manual data collection, repetitive browser tasks, and inconsistent information from websites without APIs. Apify solves this by automating the entire workflow — from extracting structured data to sending it directly into my tools — which has reduced my manual workload by more than 70%. It also ensures accuracy and consistency, which has improved my lead‑generation results and allowed me to scale processes that would be impossible to maintain manually. Overall, Apify helps me save time, reduce errors, and run a more efficient and predictable operation.
Apify: Powerful Data Scraping with a User-Friendly Interface
What do you like best about the product?
apify is a very powerful tool for scraping data anywhere. and it has a user friendly interface
What do you dislike about the product?
there isnt actually a downside to using apify as far as my experience is concerned
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
automating data gathering and scraping for my various projects
Great for Creating Personas with Claude
What do you like best about the product?
Great to create persona with Claude very nice.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some times it very slow and takes time to give the answer
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Creating the right ICP for my information and industry as well
Essential scraping layer for a small team tackling hostile platforms
What do you like best about the product?
It handles the scraping targets that would otherwise be impossible for a small team - Facebook, Instagram, and Cloudflare-protected sites like Resident Advisor. Instead of fighting constant UI changes and bot protection, we plug in a managed actor, get clean JSON, and focus on the actually differentiated parts of our product (AI extraction, search UX). The pay-per-use pricing and ready-to-run actor store make it viable even for a small side project.
What do you dislike about the product?
Actor discovery is the weakest part. Searching for something like "facebook events" returns a dozen overlapping actors with no clear signal on which is officially maintained, actively updated, or reliable in production. Trust badges, last-updated dates, and a recommended output schema per platform would save a lot of trial-and-error evaluation time. Cost predictability for long crawler runs could also be better - a dry-run estimator would help.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Apify solves our hardest scraping problem: reliably extracting event data from platforms that actively fight scrapers — Facebook, Instagram, and Cloudflare-protected sites like Resident Advisor. Building and maintaining those scrapers ourselves would require a full-time engineer, so Apify is effectively the difference between our product existing and not existing.
Concrete benefits: we cover 16+ event sources with a two-person team, our source list grows automatically via the Google Search actor + AI evaluation pipeline, and engineering time goes into the differentiated parts of the product (AI extraction, genre classification, search UX) instead of babysitting fragile scrapers every time Meta ships a UI change.
Concrete benefits: we cover 16+ event sources with a two-person team, our source list grows automatically via the Google Search actor + AI evaluation pipeline, and engineering time goes into the differentiated parts of the product (AI extraction, genre classification, search UX) instead of babysitting fragile scrapers every time Meta ships a UI change.
Powerful Scraping at Scale—Love the Facebook & Meetup Scraper
What do you like best about the product?
How many websites we can scrape. We love the Facebook and meetup scraper
What do you dislike about the product?
I some times get lost with previous tools I have used.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am getting local business contact info to call and email. Its amazing to build a list.
Powerful Data Extraction with a Learning Curve
What do you like best about the product?
I really like the wide selection of prebuilt tools that Apify offers, especially because they are reliable for the specific sites I need. The actors available are reliable, allowing me to pull data and let Apify do its thing without me having to constantly interrupt. It's great that the exported data is structured nicely and cleanly, making it easy to integrate with other tools in my pipeline. I appreciate the comprehensive documentation that makes it easy to understand the inputs and outputs, reducing the need for trial and error and fitting well into my existing workflow. Also, the amount of data I can access is more than what I was using before, and I get it faster and cheaper. Functionality-wise, Apify is exactly what I need and has made my life much easier.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's a bit of a learning curve. The user interface can be a bit overwhelming. There's a lot of options, which can feel suffocating at times. The initial learning curve is definitely something that is challenging.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Apify to scale pulling real estate data, eliminating manual data gathering and expensive services. It helps me run scrapers for fresh data, crucial in deal evaluation. Initially, the setup was challenging, but once familiar, it fits seamlessly and makes my life much easier.
Intuitive Scraping Bypasses Anti-Spam with AI Chatbot and n8n Workflows
What do you like best about the product?
It bypasses strong anti-spam protections on websites and lets me scrape useful data for my business. It’s also very intuitive. The pricing is OK for what it does. I also like the AI chatbot, which gives me answers whenever I need them. On top of that, I can use it very easily with N8N to build complex, powerful workflows.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it fails on a few scrapes, but it’s marginal and rare. In some cases, I think the issue is the website I’m scraping rather than Apify. Also, the AI bot sometimes disappears and then comes back the next day. It’s a bit weird, because I need it at times and it’s just not there.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps me get around powerful anti-scraping and bot protections. It’s been useful for the company I run, especially for analyzing website data.
Powerful Data Scraping Across Many Sources
What do you like best about the product?
I like that it can scrape data from many different sources.
What do you dislike about the product?
The CU model is fair once you understand it, but estimating the cost of a new Actor before running it is largely guesswork. Clearer upfront estimates or a proper dry-run mode would help significantly with budgeting.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Building and maintaining scraping infrastructure is a full-time job
Apify removes the need to manage proxies, CAPTCHA handling, retries, and site changes ourselves. For a small team, that alone frees up significant engineering time we'd otherwise spend on undifferentiated work.
Apify removes the need to manage proxies, CAPTCHA handling, retries, and site changes ourselves. For a small team, that alone frees up significant engineering time we'd otherwise spend on undifferentiated work.
Great for vibecoders
What do you like best about the product?
I discovered Apify a couple of months ago because I needed a way to scrape different sites (YC, WellFund, LinkedIn) for a small Saas I'm building (vibecoding) and it was super easy to incorporate the API calls into the program. The tricky thing is to find the right actor according to what you need, but once you do, it works perfectly and smoothly. The ability to test actors before you start making API calls is very useful.
What do you dislike about the product?
search console should be able to easily go to the main search console, not just the actors I've used
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
easy scraping
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