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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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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

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How to Scrape Airbnb Data, Listings, Prices and Reviews

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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

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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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Simplify with Apify

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 07, 2022
Vetted Review
Verified User
Apify
1 year of experience
We use Apify to extract data from various sources. 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 is very flexible, which allows us to process and transform data during an extraction.
  • Great support team
  • Scheduling over the cloud is very easy
  • Reliable and accurate data
Cons
  • Could provide a better monitoring system for major scale.
  • Improve dataset APIs to provide search and replacements.
Really good for scheduling over the cloud and is very easy. It has built-in proxy support.
  • Built in proxy support
  • Online code editor
  • The process is now much more productive.
  • Lesser DevOps time spent.

Apify is simply amazing with scraping

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 02, 2021
DB
Vetted Review
Verified User
Apify
5 years of experience
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.
  • 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
- 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.
  • Built in proxy support
  • Dataset as an API
  • Platform can be connected to your system as an API
  • It makes scraping much more productive
  • Less development time in data harnessing
  • Less DevOps time spent in setting up infrastructure
Apify has been my first choice always.
Not Sure
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
I have contacted Apify support many times and every time it was nice experience.
Not Applicable
Yes
Yes, resolved within 24 hours
During June 2021 was the last instance I remember

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

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 07, 2022
MM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Apify
3 years of experience
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.
  • 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.
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.
  • Open source SDK with a lot of features.
  • The entire platform is available as an API for your own program to use.
  • Easily and rapidly deal with tiny to extremely big scales.
  • It's a huge time-saver when it comes to scraping.
  • It takes less effort to gather and analyze data.
  • Infrastructure setup takes less time for DevOps.
Apify is, in my experience, the most successful choice when it comes to web scraping for academic reasons, despite the fact that the goals and purposes of all three applications are very different from one another. In spite of the fact that I have only been web scraping for a short period of time (a few months), I have found Apify's thorough blog entries and very nice customer care to be quite helpful over the course of my study.

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

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 04, 2021
MD
Vetted Review
Verified User
Apify
1 year of experience
Solutions built on the Apify platform help us to gather important data for making good decisions that are valuable for our own customers.
  • 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.
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.
  • Possibility to run solution from different locations.
  • Integration with Slack to immediately see ongoing process and discuss directly issues with the Support team.
  • Flexible platform for adding additional websites for scraping.
  • 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.
It's about people we know and previous references we've got. We've started with a smaller project and we're very satisfied with how the overall process was. From the first contact till the successful delivery. Thus, we decide to continue our collaboration with Apify on further bigger projects.
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