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Apify Custom Web Scraping & RPA Solutions

ScraperAPI

Overview

Apify is the largest marketplace of tools for AI. Thousands of Actors get web data and automate tasks.

ScraperAPI web-scraping tool is software with which web content can be scraped and further processed using an API call. Requests up to 2 MB are supported – this includes HTML content, PDF files, documents, and images.

Platforms supported

Web-based
iPhone app
Android app
Windows Phone app

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Customer support

Phone
Online
Knowledge base
Video tutorials

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Platforms supported

Web-based
iPhone app
Android app
Windows Phone app

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Customer support

Phone
Online
Knowledge base
Video tutorials

view more detailsview details

Video & Screenshots

No videos yet

Pricing

Starting from

Per month

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

Starting from

Per month

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

User reviews

4.8

619

531

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

94%

would recommend this app

4.6

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

82%

would recommend this app

Pros

“We use it primarily for web scraping, and it integrates seamlessly with Claude (Anthropic's AI) to process and analyze the scraped data.”

Nihal P.

PRODUCT

“It has helped automate repetitive web data collection tasks, especially for competitor ad monitoring and market research, saving hours of manual work while providing reliable, scheduled data.”

Bhargav P.

Aification specialist

“Beyond that, it's a proper infrastructure platform, not just a scraper: schedules, datasets, key-value stores, proxies, and a clean REST API all sit behind the same account, so wiring it into an agent pipeline is straightforward.”

Eris T.

AI Automation Developer

Pros

“The ease of use, simplicity, and reliability of the service is top notch.”

John S.

Founder

“Ease of use and the API functionality makes it easy for anyone on my team to use and can be quickly added to analysis projects to gather additional data or verify existing.”

Bryan H.

Director of Technical Operations

“Google has been pretty good at blocking programmatic requests even for non-commercial, self-archival purposes and ScraperAPI has been extremely effective and getting around those. While getting the requests routed through ScraperAPI has been much slower than say, routing it through one of the free proxy servers,”

Arun K.

Associate Research Scholar

Cons

“Logs, proxy settings, the request queue, and dataset preview live in different Console screens, so a failed run still means a lot of tab-hopping before you know whether it was proxy, timeout, or extraction.”

Viktor K.

Senior Manager

“The main drawback is that some advanced features can be challenging for new users to master. While basic scraping tasks are straightforward, building complex workflows involving custom Actors, APIs, webhooks, and large-scale automation requires a deeper understanding of the platform.”

Pietro B.

Cons

“The next day, a large portion of your scrape requests will timeout with no explanation.”