Apify is s a one-stop shop for web scraping, data extraction, and robotic process automation (RPA) projects. The web is the largest source of information ever created by humankind, and Apify enables forward-thinking companies to leverage its full potential and rich data that it has to offer.
More than 15,000 companies from 179 countries use Apify for:
– Web Scraping – Crawl millions of websites and extract data you need for market research, competitor tracking, product development or other use cases in any format you need.
– Web automation (Web RPA) – Automate manual workflows and processes on the web, such as filling in forms or uploading files. Let robots do the grunt work and scale up.
– Web integrations – Connect web services and APIs, and let data flow between them. Add custom computing and data processing steps for more complex workflows.
Our mission is to let people automate mundane tasks on the web and spend their time on things that matter. We strive to keep the web open as a public good and a basic right for everyone, regardless of the way you want to use it, as its creators intended.
Bryce D.
Advanced user of Apify
★★★★★
Powerful Web Scraping Software That Can Scale
What do you like best?
I really like the flexibility and power behind the Apify platform. It has everything you need to build customized web scrapers that work on even the most complicated websites. Support is excellent, with the team always on hand to answer any queries and great help site documentation. Unlike a lot of other tools, the developer environment is outstanding, with a marketplace full of pre-built web scrapers being developed all the time. Finally, for really large web scraping jobs, Apify has all the tools you need for handling these jobs (proxies, API support etc) that make it stand out.
What do you dislike?
I'd say the only drawback with Apify would be the initial learning curve with the system. If the site you're scraping isn't too popular and there isn't a pre-made web scraper in the marketplace, you'll need to write one yourself, which requires coding know-how. In a funny way, this was actually good in the end as I taught myself to code them fairly quickly and learned a new skill along the way. I would just factor this in if you're non-technical - talk to the team at Apify and see if there can point you to someone who can support you or look up their library of pre-built web scrapers to see if the site is supported.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Talk to the team at Apify and see if it meets your needs, I've used many different web scraping tools, and I keep coming back to Apify for its power and flexibility.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
Apify automates data collection which I use for sales & marketing campaigns and market research on behalf of my clients
Review source: G2.com
