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Amiya S.
Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Used monthly for 2+ years
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The huge number of plugins available in the marketplace makes it a one stop shop for every need.
None so far, every time it works as I imagined it should work.
Josh K.
Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
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I'm shocked I just recently heard about this platform. I've been sharing it with my friends who run similar businesses as much as I can.
I'm not the most techy person, but I can easily configure their actors with Apify's UI and then copy the input json to make.com to create automated lead gen scrapes. I love this!
It can be a little buggy when actors are running and watching the latest actor runs page, but everything catches up and displays correctly once the actors finish. No a big deal.
Tomas A.
Internet, self-employed
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Web scraping
I think it is most powerful on Web scraping.
I don't what is the least about Apify.I am really enjoy it
Simon S.
Publishing, 1-10 employees
Used monthly for 1-2 years
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I have undertaken critical tasks fairly easily with Apify
Apify makes it relatively easy to extract data - there is a learning curve as with any tool but it achieves the tasks proficiently.
There is a bit of a learning curve and it appears complex at first, but out-of-the-box- profiles for common tasks really help
Shiv Pujan S.
Computer Software, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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Great set of tools to make complex scraping easy.
Everything good till now. I have not found any issue.
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Internet, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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Awesome
Easy to use, business model on demand fit for me
Some searches requiere customization and monitor
Fabian M.
Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees
Used monthly for less than 6 months
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Overall it is a realy convenient en flexible tool for data extraction. I'm using it on an episodic basis to shorten the development and deployment time of my automation workflow.
Super flexible tool for data extraction. IP proxies are super helpful for some data sources like google search. The wide library of rebuild actors allows deploying automation workflow really quickly.
Apify is a tool for developers, it is pretty hard to get started with it for non-technical users.
Franco Q.
Computer Games, 11-50 employees
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It is simple, easy to use, very varied in APIs
It needs to be easier when I create my developments
František K.
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
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I really like it, its easy to use, the pricing is okay, and it simplified web scraping process for me.
Its really easy and straightforward to start using Apify platform, the documentation is great. And bonus for webscraping is the open-source Crawlee library, that made my scraping experience 10x faster than doing it the old school way.
On Apify platform I miss using custom docker images (builds I built myself or in GitHub Actions pipeline), but thats managable.
Shu Hong C.
Computer Software, self-employed
Used daily for less than 6 months
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Easy to set up the actors and scheduling
not method to download multiple files at the same time
Barry S.
Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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We are capturing data about different consumer offerings.
The price point is low. The documentation. Support is responsive. Management is responsive
The website does not have enough advanced examples.
Luke R.
E-Learning, 1-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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Great. I will continue to use this software and explore where else I can utilize it.
The trial account is sufficient to get to know the too. The support through the people who make Apify work. The market place to get help from developers to set things up.
More hands on example on how to do coding yourself.
Erik D.
Research, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
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We used Apify to extract scientific articles from our affiliaties in an automated way for reporting and publishing. It was fast and spot on.
Configuring an actor and obtaining the data was an efficient process, and we obtained the required information easily.
Proper configuring and extraction requires an user with a certain degree of technical knownledge. They might reason on adding a few more preconfigured examples or tutorials.
David A.
Food Production, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
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Pleasantly surprised I managed to stumble on it
They reply instantly to queries, they are super helpful and they care about the consumer. They don't grab your money, they grab your loyalty by being nice. Thanks to Tsveta for the help. Product is amazing and does more than needed.
Maybe slightly tough to learn for a tech newbie like me, but still has great explanations for certain tools.
Jorge D.
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
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Frustrating, almost 1 week to setup an account, no support , far from being a serious platform
Nothing, i have not found any useful about this product, since i was not able even to setup the account an use within an organization
Really frustrating, impossible to setup an account and be part of the organization, no support
Hi Jorge, really sorry to hear about your trouble. I have investigated the issue internally to see what went wrong and it seems that your domain did not have an email server set up, so your email was considered invalid and hence your account also wasn't verified (as verification email wasn't sent). We believe the situation has been resolved, but if you run into any issue or need any help you can also reach us directly at support [at] apify.com Thank you for understanding and apologies one more time for your troubles. Best regards, Oliver
Andrei R.
Marketing and Advertising, self-employed
Used weekly for less than 6 months
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It's like an app store for scrapers (and more) - no company on it's own could make so many amazing scrapers, but Apify's business model is genius, and that's why there's so many great tools at a great price (for many of them).
Sometimes the best actors are behind a rental paywall - but I can't even get mad at that because the best coders will want to be reimbursed well.
Robert R.
Financial Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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I use Apify's web crawlers for Instagram, Twitter and Reddit to monitor any mention of our company and to identify new opportunities.
It's easy to use and pretty straightforward, it works well without any bugs unlike other solutions in the market.
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Computer Software, 1-10 employees
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Earlier I used to write custom scripts for scrapping data & I used to use a lot of tools to validate the query such as Postman, since I started using APIFY, my productivity has increased & I'm able to finish the task within the given deadline.
Recently I used API features for my personal project related to scrapping data from E-Commerce websites & it works smoothly.
Till now no such cons, I found Apify very useful.
vinh thuy t.
Entertainment, 1-10 employees
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Simplicité et large gamme de source de données font de cette solution un incontournable
Je ne vois pas encore à ce jour de point négatif. Peut etre une facturation important avec des volumes importants ? A suivre
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Luis V.
Higher Education, 501-1,000 employees
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The flexibility of the platform help to reduce the cost in the research of human behavior.
The flexibility for developing a platform that help to research the human behavior.
I would like more a total SaaS system.
Husain M.
Food & Beverages, 11-50 employees
Used monthly for 6-12 months
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With a little effort I think anyone can use Apify and it's what the money spent for the data we need
I find apify to be the best website to extract data and export it according to my needs as a best scrapers and supports various websites and API
It can be a little difficult for a non technical background person to select the parameters and extract the right data
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Computer Software, 1-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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I like the friendly interface and easy to use.
The configuration of the local environment is a bit long and the configuration can become complex depending on the equipment you have
Pavlo K.
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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Turning any information website into an API that can overcome challenges of the web and its stability
I believe that some parts can be even more automated, but its more technical matter for now
Rakshit C.
Staffing and Recruiting, 5,001-10,000 employees
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Compared to other platforms, his platform gives scrapers the most alternatives. It is easy to use and manage, offers scalability, and speed.
Apify is a versatile, strong, and simple-to-use solution that enables secure data storage while enabling the development of dependable and very valuable web scraping through its straight forward API and built-in tools, the platform simplifies these procedures while yet providing the scalability, flexibility, and dependability required for more complex use cases.
There is nothing I dislike about this method, which offers good quality web data extraction.Prices are unjust.Price i think are high so they have to work on that.
Ondřej H.
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
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Overall experience is great I had mostly no issue with the platform. Sometimes I found some actors that were not working out of the box. I use the platform for my hobby projects and it works very well for my usecase.
It is easy to use, offers great SDK for easier and faster development and is easy to add to your automated workflow.
I miss some middle ground in the pricing between Free and Personal plan. I find the Personal plan too expansive and would love something like Hobby plan which would be cheaper but still offered some of the paid features.