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Apify

Overview

What is Apify?

Apify is a cloud platform for web scraping, browser automation, and extracting data.It is used to build web scrapers, known as Actors, that can automate tasks normally done manually in a web browser. Apify Store offers 2,000+ ready-made Actors that…

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It is easy to extract data from the web with this tool

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 7, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Apify is our go-to tool to collect information from a wide variety of sources. Apify, in contrast to other programs, is not constrained by a point-and-click interface; as a re...
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Marie M. Bennett
Administrator - Information Technology
System Administrator
Kyndryl
Apify3 years of experience

Apify is simply amazing with scraping

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 2, 2021
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Many of my clients use Apify to extract data from various sources. We provide the software that is Apify platform-based and it helps them to create intelligence out of that da...
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Dhrumil Bhankhar
Consultant - Information Technology
Senior Technical Specialist
Techvasu Solutions
Apify5 years of experience

Satisfied with Apify as a Research Tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 28, 2021
Vetted ReviewVerified User
I am the first (and as of now, only, as far as I know) user of Apify at my organization. I am currently working on a research project that requires a great deal of data collec...
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Fran Hodgens
Contributor - Finance and Accounting
Undergraduate Research Fellow
Boston College Carroll School of Management
Apify1 year of experience

Great product for automating your processes!

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 28, 2021
Vetted ReviewVerified User
We use Apify for data extraction/web scraping of different social platforms and websites. Unlike other tools, Apify is not limited by a point-and-click interface, so we are ab...
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Katarína Majgotová
Employee - Marketing
Junior Content Marketing Specialist
CloudTalk
Apify1 year of experience

Up-to-date and relevant data for growing our own business

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 4, 2021
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Solutions built on the Apify platform help us to gather important data for making good decisions that are valuable for our own customers.
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Miroslav Dzurenko
Project Manager - Information Technology
Project Manager
Story TLRS
Apify1 year of experience
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Pricing

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Starter Plan

49 USD

Cloud
per month

Scale Plan

499 USD

Cloud
per month

Business Plan

999 USD

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://apify.com/pricing?utm_source=de…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $49 per month
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Product Demos

How to Scrape YouTube Videos, Channels, and Comments

YouTube

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YouTube

How to Scrape Airbnb Data, Listings, Prices and Reviews

YouTube
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Product Details

What is Apify?

Apify is a cloud platform for web scraping, browser automation, and extracting data.


It is used to build web scrapers, known as Actors, that can automate tasks normally done manually in a web browser. Apify Store offers 2,000+ ready-made Actors that extract structured data from any website, or automate web workflows. Actors are serverless cloud programs that run on the Apify platform or locally and perform computing jobs. They are called Actors because, like human actors, they perform actions based on a script. Apify works with Python and JavaScript, and supports libraries such as Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, and Scrapy.


Product description:

  • Crawls websites and extracts data for sentiment analysis, market research, competitor tracking, or product development in structured formats such as JSON, XML, CSV, and Excel. -Automate manual workflows and processes on the web, like filling in forms or uploading files.
  • Integrations connect Apify to any favorite cloud apps, web services, and APIs. For more complex workflows, add custom computing and data processing steps.
  • Apify’s boasts a pool of data centers and residential proxies that never get blocked, with smart IP address rotation with human-like browser fingerprints.
  • Store structured data or binary files, and export results in CSV, JSON, Excel, and other dataset formats.

Apify Screenshots

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.

Apify Videos

How Apify web scraping works
What is Apify
How to feed LLMs with web data

Apify Integrations

Apify Competitors

Apify Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesUSA, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Global
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

Apify starts at $49.

Zyte, Import.io, and ScrapeStorm are common alternatives for Apify.

The most common users of Apify are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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It is easy to extract data from the web with this tool

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
July 07, 2022
MM
Marie M. Bennett
System Administrator
Kyndryl (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Apify
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Apify is our go-to tool to collect information from a wide variety of sources. Apify, in contrast to other programs, is not constrained by a point-and-click interface; as a result, we are able to scrape any page, regardless of how complicated it may be. Due to Apify's high degree of adaptability, we are able to analyze and convert data even while it is being extracted.
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • Managing a big number of people and tasks.
  • Larger scale monitoring system.
  • Allow users to search and replace datasets by enhancing APIs.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is common practice for developers to search for REST endpoints on other websites in order to retrieve data from other websites in a structured format such as JSON. However, not all websites have built distinct REST APIs; in this situation, Apify is quite beneficial. The majority of the time, the data that an organization collects is what is considered to be of the utmost importance. In comparison to the other systems that are currently accessible, Apify makes it simple to supply clean data.

Apify is simply amazing with scraping

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 02, 2021
DB
Dhrumil Bhankhar
Senior Technical Specialist
Techvasu Solutions (Information Services, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Apify
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Many of my clients use Apify to extract data from various sources. We provide the software that is Apify platform-based and it helps them to create intelligence out of that data really quickly.

Most of the time, it's data that is most important for organizations. Apify makes it easy to deliver clean data compared to other available platforms.
Pros
  • Extracting well structured data from web
  • Exposing data as an API and in multiple formats
  • Built in proxy support with rotation
  • Very rich and open source SDK
  • Whole platform available as an API to be connected with your own software
  • Handling small scale to very large scale easily and quickly
  • Scheduling over the cloud is very easy
Cons
  • Organizing tasks/actors at large scale
  • Better monitoring system for larger scale
  • Enhance dataset APIs to provide search and replacements
Likelihood to Recommend
- Very good at extracting data from web
- When regular/scheduled extraction is required, Apify is good and quick
- Very cost effective and comes with built-in proxies so that rotating proxies is easy and available
- When you want to run any NodeJS script on regular basis, Apify is good
- You can do headless browser puppeteer in no time on Apify.

Satisfied with Apify as a Research Tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 28, 2021
FH
Fran Hodgens
Undergraduate Research Fellow
Boston College Carroll School of Management (Research, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Apify
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I am the first (and as of now, only, as far as I know) user of Apify at my organization. I am currently working on a research project that requires a great deal of data collection from a platform that is traditionally unfriendly towards web scraping. After facing many problems with existing solutions and solutions I built, I decided to give Apify a try. Apify easily handled everything I needed it to handle, and it has opened up more time for me to perform detailed analysis as a researcher.
Pros
  • Customer support
  • User-friendly interface
  • Excellent student pricing
Cons
  • I am not a professional in this particular field, so I do not have anything that I can think of.
Likelihood to Recommend
In my own experience (primarily in academia), Apify is very well suited for web scraping projects that require data collection from websites that are designed to prevent most data collection. I will certainly recommend Apify to my research colleagues and classmates because of its effectiveness in gathering the necessary data and offering a human-friendly interface from start to finish.

Up-to-date and relevant data for growing our own business

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 04, 2021
MD
Miroslav Dzurenko
Project Manager
Story TLRS (Marketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Apify
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Solutions built on the Apify platform help us to gather important data for making good decisions that are valuable for our own customers.
Pros
  • Fast response time, easy to talk to on human and technical level.
  • Scalable solution capable of adding additional feature requirements.
  • Well documented API, we are able to do some changes by ourselves.
Cons
  • Would be great to have a custom library for handling web socket communications without a browser.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's great for scraping and gathering data for different kinds of websites. Provides servers with locations all over the world, which is demanding for running the solution locally when needed.

Great product for automating your processes!

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 28, 2021
KM
Katarína Majgotová
Junior Content Marketing Specialist
CloudTalk (Telecommunications, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Apify
1 year of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Apify for data extraction/web scraping of different social platforms and websites. Unlike other tools, Apify is not limited by a point-and-click interface, so we are able to scrape any website no matter how complex it is. Apify actors are very flexible, which allows us to clean, process, and transform data during an extraction and send it to other tools like Keboola for further processing.

Pre-built scrapers are a great way to get started, plus it's free. If your company needs a custom solution, Apify can make your own scrapers.
Pros
  • Integration with Keboola
  • Amazon and e-commerce web crawlers
  • Reliable and accurate data
  • Great support team
Cons
  • Can be a bit technical
Likelihood to Recommend
It helps us and mainly saves a lot of time in everyday tasks. Also the integration with Keboola is very easy and fast.
What we also really appreciate is the user interface, which makes the job so much easier.
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