Apify vs. Visual FoxPro (Discontinued)

I use Apify for webhooks, API calls, and lead gen, particularly. Some people use it to scrape socials and other platforms. So, it’s really up to the user how they want to make the most of the platform and how it can be used to produce the best results for business or personal use.

Incentivized

Legacy applications already on VFP are a good candidate. If you plan to move to iOS and Android apps, VFP is not for you. Also, in future access to VFP programmers may be limited. You could use VFP as a powerful database tool. I know of many programmers who love to exploit the features of VFP to create easy to use applications.

• To obtain well-structured information from the internet.
• Providing access to data in a variety of forms via an API.
• Proxy rotation is already built in.

Incentivized

• Treat data from files
• Reporting

Incentivized

• Pricing: it’s a little high if you have a lot of runs per month.
• Renting actors: when you rent actors the price is taken out of your monthly allowance.
• Nothing else to report. It’s pretty good.

Incentivized

• Microsoft stopped selling this and stopped supporting it in 2014. It still works on Windows 10, but if you have a problem, you are on your own.
• The look and feel of screens and displayed text is getting a little dated.
• It's really designed for desktop/server environments rather than the cloud.

Incentivized

I find it simple to use and the features are very clear. The documentation is also good. Perhaps some videos in other languages ​​would help people using the solution in non-English speaking countries, but other than that nothing else seems to be missing at this point. The use is very simple and intuitive.

There are several easy to use and powerful features of VFP that programmers like.

I was very happy with the support I received from Apify. They are always ready to answer all your questions and help solve problems you have.

Although MS has discontinued support of VFP there is a good community of programmers that are available for help. In fact we have several programmers at Apptread that are skilled not only in VFP but also .NET so that if there is a need to migrate some parts of applications to .NET , it is easy for us to do that.

APIFY is easy to use in automation created on make or Zapier. It also has API features so you can connect it directly to any service you want. I mostly use Make for most of my scrapping project or lead generation project and it goes pretty smooth from start to end.

Incentivized

We are only using FoxPro because it is the only way to add custom plugins into the software we use to manage our stock. FoxPro is a semi-oriented object language and should clearly not be compared with recent technologies.

Incentivized

• Data gathering process is fully automized with high relevance output.
• Data are up-to-date with minimum delay.
• We use extra time for better decision making process instead of report preparation.

• Positive impact is that the value of FoxPro applications has continued to increase over the years, so we are in high demand for our services.
• Negative impact is that sometimes you have difficult to support scenarios where you might have to spend many hours to just keep something functional.
• A negative impact is that this language is taught in very few places, either in schools, or private learning centers.

Incentivized