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Overview

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PhantomBuster is a data extraction software designed to help businesses automate sales and marketing processes by scraping...

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Get a complete end-to-end solution from Apify experts for all your web scraping, data extraction, and web automation needs....

  • 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
  • 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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Pricing

Starting from

59

Per month

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

Starting from

49

Per month

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

User reviews

4.6

61

5

4

3

2

1

47

9

1

1

3

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
93%
would recommend this app

4.8

187

5

4

3

2

1

150

31

5

0

1

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
98%
would recommend this app

Pros

It is great for us to get data from social media profiles, which help us on our marketing efforts. Their support was not so quick but they were effective in answering my questions.
Their LinkedIn APIs are amazing, and they keep coming out with great APIs for other platforms that empower marketers.
The interface is good, the tutorials are also very good, making it relatively easy to get started on the automation universe.

Pros

I liked how easy it was to get started, the apify team supported me from the beggining to the end of the development, it help me make a perfect solution for our use case in juste a few hours.
Apify wins in my book based on its excellent customer support and its effective and proven actors.
Actually writing this review is even more time that I spent with APIFY on setting up an actor - this is is a reliable and great service. Very user friendly as well.

Cons

Sometimes it can be hard to set up the automation. For social medias functions, you have to limit yourself with the usage to avoid to get ban.
I think it could be dangerous for the risk of being banned from LinkedIn.
I think the fact that they don't offer any free plan is a pity, but that's the only negative point so far.

Cons

The pricing was a bit confusing. I wanted to buy more memory to get a bigger database but I think that even If I bought a month more, my data transfer was way too high due to using the trial.
Apify core devs are sometimes so agile that it makes it hard to keep track of all the new features released.
I struggle with finding something I did not like about apify.
  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review7 months ago
  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review7 days ago

Key features

  • Total features11
  • AI/Machine Learning
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Auto Extraction
  • Batch Processing
  • Bot Mitigation
  • CAPTCHA Solving
  • Compliance Management
  • Customizable Fields
  • Customizable Forms
  • Customizable Reports
  • Customizable Templates
  • Customization
  • Dashboard Creation
  • Data Aggregation
  • Data Aggregation and Publishing
  • Data Capture and Transfer
  • Data Cleansing
  • Data Connectors
  • Data Extraction
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Mapping
  • Data Mining
  • Data Storage Management
  • Data Synchronization
  • Data Transformation
  • Data Verification
  • Data Visualization
  • Document Extraction
  • Email Address Extraction
  • Error Handling
  • Forms Management
  • Geotargeting
  • HTML Parsing
  • IP Address Extraction
  • IP Rotation
  • Image Extraction
  • Integration Management
  • JavaScript Rendering
  • Job Scheduling
  • Metadata Extraction
  • Metadata Management
  • Mobile Access
  • Multi-Channel Data Collection
  • Multi-Device Support
  • Multiple Data Sources
  • Multiple File Format Support
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Offline Response Collection
  • Optical Character Recognition
  • Phone Number Extraction
  • Pricing Extraction
  • Proxy Rotation
  • Query Builder
  • Real-Time Data
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Rules-Based Workflow
  • Scheduling
  • Search/Filter
  • Secure Data Storage
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • User Management
  • Version Control
  • Visual Analytics
  • Visual Discovery
  • Web Data Extraction
  • Website Crawling
  • Workflow Management
  • Total features70
  • AI/Machine Learning
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Auto Extraction
  • Batch Processing
  • Bot Mitigation
  • CAPTCHA Solving
  • Compliance Management
  • Customizable Fields
  • Customizable Forms
  • Customizable Reports
  • Customizable Templates
  • Customization
  • Dashboard Creation
  • Data Aggregation
  • Data Aggregation and Publishing
  • Data Capture and Transfer
  • Data Cleansing
  • Data Connectors
  • Data Extraction
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Mapping
  • Data Mining
  • Data Storage Management
  • Data Synchronization
  • Data Transformation
  • Data Verification
  • Data Visualization
  • Document Extraction
  • Email Address Extraction
  • Error Handling
  • Forms Management
  • Geotargeting
  • HTML Parsing
  • IP Address Extraction
  • IP Rotation
  • Image Extraction
  • Integration Management
  • JavaScript Rendering
  • Job Scheduling
  • Metadata Extraction
  • Metadata Management
  • Mobile Access
  • Multi-Channel Data Collection
  • Multi-Device Support
  • Multiple Data Sources
  • Multiple File Format Support
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Offline Response Collection
  • Optical Character Recognition
  • Phone Number Extraction
  • Pricing Extraction
  • Proxy Rotation
  • Query Builder
  • Real-Time Data
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Rules-Based Workflow
  • Scheduling
  • Search/Filter
  • Secure Data Storage
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • User Management
  • Version Control
  • Visual Analytics
  • Visual Discovery
  • Web Data Extraction
  • Website Crawling
  • Workflow Management

Integrations

  • Total integrations13
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Google Ads
  • Google Analytics 360
  • Google Sheets
  • HubSpot CRM
  • Mailchimp
  • Meta for Business
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Salesforce Sales Cloud
  • Shopify
  • Slack
  • Snowflake
  • Stripe
  • Tableau
  • Twitter/X
  • Xero
  • Zapier
  • Total integrations14
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Google Ads
  • Google Analytics 360
  • Google Sheets
  • HubSpot CRM
  • Mailchimp
  • Meta for Business
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Salesforce Sales Cloud
  • Shopify
  • Slack
  • Snowflake
  • Stripe
  • Tableau
  • Twitter/X
  • Xero
  • Zapier

User reviews that mention these apps

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Hugo G.

Information Services, 1-10 employees

Used weekly for 1-2 years

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Overall Rating
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Apify

Affordable and versatile webscraping platform

Reviewed 3 years ago

This is a versatile tool for webscraping which is absolutely affordable for startup businesses. I've found it particularly useful for scraping information from Instagram. If you want to use the software for scraping individual websites, then Apify also provides easy-to-understand guides for this process. Having no prior knowledge of writing code, I used these guides to put Apify's webscraper to the task at a basic level.

Pros

Customer service is excellent - Apify is always quick to respond and happy to help with queries.

Cons

The last time I checked, there were no existing actors which allowed me to scrape content published by brands on LinkedIn. For this process I used PhantomBuster instead.