Great for Automation With Room to Improve

Overall it’s easy to use once you get familiar with the platform, but there’s still a learning curve, especially for beginners. The interface is straightforward and the templates help a lot, but some advanced features like setting up custom actors or debugging failed runs aren’t always intuitive.

If you need to scrape hundreds or thousands of pages reliably product data, listings, profiles, Apify handles it very well. If you need data updated every few seconds or extremely low latency, Apify isn’t ideal. It’s optimized for batch scraping, not real-time feeds.