Best tool for data scraping
December 27, 2025

Best tool for data scraping

Fabian Figueroa-Authenac | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Apify

The main business problem Apify addresses is the need for real-time, comprehensive market intelligence and competitive analysis. Before Apify, gathering this crucial data was a slow, manual, and resource-intensive process, leading to delayed insights.Our use case scope involves running several custom and pre-built 'Actors' to monitor hundreds of competitor product pages, track pricing fluctuations, and aggregate customer reviews from various e-commerce sites. This allows our sales and product teams to quickly identify market trends, optimize our pricing strategy, and improve our product offerings based on data-driven feedback. Apify has become an indispensable backbone for our market research pipeline.

Pros

  • Scraping
  • Google Maps Scraping
  • Bots

Cons

  • Tutorials - Step by Strep Explanation
  • Built-in Advanced Data Transformation Features
  • More Flexible Scheduling Options
  • Reduced Data Gathering Cost by 60%
  • Automated 80+ Hours of Monthly Labor:
  • Increased Market Responsiveness by 48 Hours:
I rated the usability a 7 because, while the core platform is exceptionally powerful and the pre-built Actors are extremely easy to use, the learning curve for developing and maintaining highly customized or complex Actors still requires a specific technical skill set. The console interface for monitoring and basic operation is intuitive, but the debugging process for new users could be simplified. Overall, the effectiveness of the tool easily outweighs this slight complexity, making it highly valuable.

Do you think Apify delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Apify's feature set?

No

Did Apify live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Apify go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Apify again?

Yes

I was struggling with scraping the correct data and none of those tools worked - Apify was the only tool that I could leverage and due to the free credits I could try it out without any commitment

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