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Apify

Score8.5 out of 10

13 Reviews and Ratings

What is Apify?

Apify is presented as a full-stack platform for web scraping, data extraction, AI agents, and automation, offering an ecosystem where developers can build, deploy, and publish web scrapers, AI agents, and automation tools calledActors.

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Screenshot of the Apify Store, a growing automation marketplace.
Screenshot of Actors, which feature an auto-generated UI for setting their input.
Screenshot of the Actors' scheduling and integration interface, where users can connect them with platforms such as Zapier, the Google Suite, GitHub or feed LLMs through LangChain and LlamaIndex.
Screenshot of the web scraping templates. Or, users can import existing code from a Git repo and publish a project in the Apify Store and earn passive income.

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Screenshot of the Apify Store, a growing automation marketplace.

Who Buys & Uses Apify

Apify Reviews

What users are saying about Apify.
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Pros

  • Efficient web data scraping and extraction
  • Reliable pre-built 'Actors' and templates
  • Seamless integration with automation tools like Make.com and n8n

Cons

  • User interface can be difficult to navigate for new users
  • Perceived high cost, especially for paid features
  • Pricing fluctuations due to changes in actor costs

I wish I knew about Apify earlier

Nicole Martinez
Head of Short Form Video Services in Marketing at Hype (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use it every week to pull TikTok creator + profile analytics since I hire lots of creators for my 9-5. I need it to give weekly analytics reports to our clients. Since I hire a mix of UGC creators starting new brand pages and influencer who just post 1 video, I needed to extract data from both complete profiles (by their usernames) and individual links. Apify's TikTok Data Scraper does this.

Pros

  • Web scraping
  • Data extraction
  • Web crawling

Cons

  • Automatically Recurring Runs
  • Would be great if the data can be visually more appealing

Return on Investment

  • It's been positive because I can show our TikTok creator analytics (500k+ views per client) easily

Usability

Creating with Apify has increased productivity.

Incentivized
Ray Eason
Freelancer in Marketing at Ray Eason Consulting (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Apify to create Make automations for scraping Upwork job leads, proposals, and connections. I also plan to do the same on Indeed. The platform is simple to use but has many options. There are many automations to choose from on the platform, which makes it nice to use.

Pros

  • Creating Actors
  • Integrating with Make
  • Proxy Configurations

Cons

  • Starter Pricing could be a lower for those learning and getting started.
  • Email notification of new billing cycles.

Return on Investment

  • Still in development but it has the potential to minimize the time it takes searching platforms for data.
  • Has the potential to increase ROI by helping to filter through the good, bad and relevant data.
  • Definitely a consideration use in our lead generation work.

Usability

Apify Review

Veysel Reşit ÇaçanView profile
Computer Science Engineer in Engineering at Revlo (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Apify is an absolute game-changer for web scraping and automation. The platform is incredibly powerful, reliable, and surprisingly easy to use, even for complex tasks. It has drastically cut down development time and provided scalable data solutions—highly recommend!

Pros

  • Robust Anti-Blocking Infrastructure
  • Integrated Workflow Orchestration and Scheduling

Cons

  • Steep Learning Curve for Customization
  • Debugging and Scraper Maintenance

Return on Investment

  • Massive Reduction in Technical Debt and Development Time

Usability

Apify lived pretty much to the expectations and I love it

David Matias
CEO in Sales at fermi (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our AI and automation agency sends around 200 cold emails every day so I need Apify to scrape leads from apollo, then scrape the lead's linkedin and linkedin posts for specific information like achievements, client wins, recent projects, differentiation points, etc... We use this information as a point of conexion to create a personalized message to increase reply rates.

Pros

  • Apify linkedin actor worked perfect so far
  • The API connects easily
  • It wasn't very difficult to become used to the user interface. I think it is fairly easy to learn

Cons

  • I'm pretty happy with the actors I use but more actors in the lead generation space would always be better.
  • Some actors are too expensive. I just use the free ones.

Return on Investment

  • With my email personalization I almost doubled the conversion rates of my email campaigns

Usability

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Hamed Latif
Founder in Sales at NewNode AI (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Apify is extremely good for running api's or other automations as well as using other platforms. The actors make it very easy to find ways to automate behaviour e.g. scraping tools for websites. Makes everything easier. Very well worth it.

Pros

  • Automations
  • apis
  • integrations

Cons

  • more actors

Return on Investment

  • found more clients

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Apollo.io

Other Software Used

n8n

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