The Ultimate Tool for Data Scraping and Automation
January 28, 2026
The Ultimate Tool for Data Scraping and Automation
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Overall Satisfaction with Apify
One of my friends in Denmark wanted to search for startups in the EU startup marketplace "TheHub". Then he introduced me to Apify. Apify seems interesting to me, therefore I started learning this platform and also started developinga crawler for "TheHub". Apify surprised me a lot because it gives developers the independence to build an Actor that meets their needs and provides a serverless platform where they can earn passive income. As an independent developer and entrepreneur, this is a golden opportunity to test my skills and innovate something. Most exiting thing is that you can easily integrate its API endpoints into other applications or frontend and also connect to the MCP server to the MCP clients.
Pros
- AI orchestration
- Crawling and collecting data
- A server that you can run without any tension to manage anything
Cons
- I think monetization part needs some improvement. Sometimes it stops working.
- Second issue is that when you run actor locally on your device using Apify run command, it runs fine and does not show errors. However, when you run on Apify platform, it starts showing error that this python based library is not supported etc. I think, error logging needs to be improved.
- Issue support is very slow. If you create an issue it takes a lot of time that somebody reply.
- Automated testing also needs to be improved. Testers run simple tests and if extra keys are used or something else, test is failed.
- I am a freelancer, and its crawlers helped me to search connections and do lead generation.
- Participating in the $1M challenge is fun, and I will continue to develop even after this.
- Great for passive income for independent developers and also for the business owners
Apify stacks up against them because it gives users independence. n8n is a visual platform, but it limits your creativity and is considered a low-hanging or low-code platform. However, Apify is not like this. Apify is developed for programmers with a serverless platform. It manages data very well and gives Apify endpoints to clients. Not only this, but it also gives solid opportunities to developers to earn passive income.
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?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Apify go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Apify again?
Yes
Using Apify
1 - They are related to sales and marketing. They use it for web scraping purposes.
- Web Scaping
- Market analysis
- Lead generation
- Market Analysis
- Lead Generation
- Web Scrapping
- To create more actors to generate passive income
- To help organizations to scrap specific type of data
- Creating A- based actors
Evaluating Apify and Competitors
- Scalability
- Integration with Other Systems
- Ease of Use
Integration with other systems is the most important factor. You can integrate Apify with other systems easily using Apify endpoints. You can also create front-end applications.
Maybe I will change when I learn more about Apify.
Apify Implementation
- Implemented in-house
- No significant issues because I developed actors for myselfs
Apify Support
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Quick Resolution Good followup Kept well informed Immediate help available Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | Escalation required Need to explain problems multiple times |
No because I do not know about it
Using Apify
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- Web Scraping
- Coding
- Testing
- High-Volume, Real-Time Data Fetching
- Deeply Dynamic or "Anti-Scraping" Heavy Sites
- Complex Data Transformations
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