Item: Apify
Rating: 9
Author: Szymon Pindor

Overall Satisfaction with Apify

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Apify helps us in challenging situations whenever social media pages change their layouts and we need some time to fine-tune our in-house webscrapers. Thanks to various actors available on the site we can keep monitoring data important to our operations, especially because of its flexibility and ease of configuration whenever we need new kinds of data.

Pros and Cons

Pros

easily connect to api
work reliably to scrape social media data
versatility - many different actors

Cons

sometimes I see missing data - for example in tiktok comments

Return on Investment

Helps minimize downtime in data scraping

Usability

It is easy to implement in our Python scripts

Key Insights

Do you think Apify delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Apify's feature set?

Yes

Did Apify live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Apify go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Apify again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Microsoft Excel, PostgreSQL, Python IDLE

Likelihood to Recommend

Apart from occasionally seeing missing data in the Apify outputs, we can almost always count on actors available on the site to help us in case of internal issues. For example when the layout of tiktok changed and we needed to get comment data, it was quick to switch from our solution to Apify and get the data in time.

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