Apify

Vorteile

The level of control, robustness of the actors and the amazing team at apify ready to help and also the community based section. Also i love that the major actors we use are maintained by apify so we fully trust them to work at all times

Nachteile

we discussed this with the product advocate at apify as well, currently there is a feature to queue runs when running through api, for example: if you send 300 request and you have 256gb ram allocation on apify it will limit it to obviously 256 concurrent runs assuming that each run takes up 1gig of ram, which is different for every actor; so in this case the rest of the runs 44 will not run at all they will not queue up you have to wait for the runs to finish so that you can run these separately in the next batch.

Vorteile

The Best product for Automation and AI-Powered tools! I like the design function spesifically for content ceation.

Nachteile

The customs scripts love to see more from here

Vorteile

Easy to use with a user friendly interface. I can easily get any sort of data using this software as extraction of huge volume of data from different sources could be done easily with this powerful tool so i can easily get the data i need at any time when needed.

Nachteile

A reduction in the price will be appreciated to enable more access. Apart from this no cons.

Vorteile

I am a newbie, I wanted some insights into particular topics, through use of hashtags on Social Media Platforms. Value/quality at Apify is high, given I can extract data at scale. Apify provides a user-friendly interface and tools that simplify the process of web scraping, even for those without extensive coding experience. It has, if you need, rotating proxies, headless browsers, and anti-bot protection to ensure high-quality and reliable data extraction. For me, export tools is great, making it easier to manage and work with the extracted data.

Nachteile

While Apify supports many common use cases, custom or niche scraping requirements may not be easily achievable on the platform. Sometimes, issues, arise and tools are not available until updates. It can get expensive for large scale projects.

Vorteile

Affordable - This platform is very much affordable in terms of it's services.

Data collection - You can easily extract plenty of data which other softwares can't do.

Tools - It has number of tools that make web scraping easier for those users who lack in coding.

Nachteile

Well! Everything is good but it takes alot of time while setting up it for first time.

Vorteile

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.

Nachteile

On Apify platform I miss using custom docker images (builds I built myself or in GitHub Actions pipeline), but thats managable.

Vorteile

Social media scraping, Instagram scraping actor is very important.

Nachteile

better if almost all actors have timestamp when scraping.

Vorteile

After learning the basics it's an easy and complete way to scrape the web

Nachteile

lack of examples and documentation, it's hard to find what you need

Vorteile

Whether I opt for web scraping templates, Python/JavaScript SDK, or Crawlee, Apify gives me the flexibility to build custom tools

Nachteile

I absolutely love this tool there’s no cons.

Vorteile

I like that I’m able to monetize scrapers.

Nachteile

It is difficult to give visibility to scrapers in order to sell them.

Vorteile

Possibilidade de uso gratuito, grande variedade de possíveis atores para extração de dados e funciona muito bem.

Nachteile

Relativamente limitado no planos grátis, mas nada que inutilize o uso.

Vorteile

Apify is a managed service that scales to the user needs, It's support team helped to navigate and setup the project it reduces our time to go to market. their web scrappers helped and saved a lot of time for the developers.

Nachteile

It's harder to navigate to each feature, Since we are using it on a weekly basis each time a new feature get updated, their pricing is little bit a higher for the startups.

Vorteile

- Powerful data extraction
- Scalable infrastructure
- Scheduling & feature rich

Nachteile

- Customer support is worst nightmare with them
- Pricing is unfair (They even don't have clarification on how you billed certain amount)
- It has bugs which are lasting months even after reporting. Actor gets stuck forever causing you billing
- Reporting is not integrated part of dashboard

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

Warum Apify gewählt wurde

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Apify

Vorteile

Apify is true force thanks to the amazing platform. Setting up a variety of software systems management and administrative aspects.

Nachteile

i dont have anythig to complain about thsi product Apify.

Vorteile

Apify platform provides a very versatile and wide range of services for web scraping. A strong and convenient SDK, cool web UI for visualising datasets, communication with clients/developers, scrapers overview and configuration etc.

Nachteile

From a dev perspective, I'd say that it's high time for Apify team to organize all the SDK best-practice materials for overcoming website anti-scraping technologies into some kind of a separate documentation block.

Vorteile

Apify seems to be by far the most advanced scraping platform. They have ready-made web crawlers and we can also build our own or get a custom scraper from Apify. Their documentation is also very comprehensive and support team is responsive. It is our one-stop shop for web scraping needs. We've built several applications for our own or for clients use.

Nachteile

Nothing comes to mind, perhaps notifications about proxies could be less annoying.

Vorteile

1. Short learning curve such that it reduces the time needed to setup what you need in a relatively short time. it also offers a simple yet rich interface that automatically guides you to the features you want.
2. Customizability is also an advantage of using Apify since it offers a wide variety of options that meets your business need.
3. It offers a useful API to automate the process and easily put the scraping logic in your code.

Nachteile

Nothing serious. It offers a trial period thus allowing you to give it a try and see if it meet your business requirements.

Vorteile

I use Apify's Web Scrapers almost daily. It saves me a lot of time as I don't have to manually copy paste information I need for my work. I like simplicity of it and that it JUST works. I tried different web scrapers before but they were buggy and always had some issues.

Nachteile

No cons I can think of, support is timely and very helpful, I feel appreciated as a customer.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

Warum Apify gewählt wurde

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Apify

Vorteile

Anybody looking for strong automation platform should definitely checkout Apify. The tool is quite adaptable and can handle a variety of jobs, from straightforward data extraction to intricate web automation.

Nachteile

Nothing to complaint just prices is higher which can be reduced

Vorteile

This is working pretty well.
Good documentation. Lots of examples. Good blog articles.

Nachteile

understanding the usage credit is tedious.

Vorteile

Apify is helping us extract data from many company websites and even mobile apps without having to deal with proxies, recaptchas and other web scraping issues. It has helped us to make our data more reliable and we are able to connect this data with other tools we use to automate our workflows as well.

Nachteile

Nothing we'd dislike, Apify's support team is available 24/7 for any questions we might have.

Vorteile

The effectiveness of the software. It enables me to scrape large websites exactly like I needed. Additionally, after I was able to set up automation, I also saved a ton of time.

Nachteile

Nothing so far. I can only recommend the software for people who would like to try a scraping tool, or are tired of their current one.

Vorteile

Great tool for content extraction and analysis

Nachteile

Need dashboard to cancel tasks in the queue.

Vorteile

Turning any information website into an API that can overcome challenges of the web and its stability

Nachteile

I believe that some parts can be even more automated, but its more technical matter for now

Vorteile

Easy to use, many options, predeveloped actors

Nachteile

At this level I have nothing against, everything is great

Vorteile

Working with Apify opened the door for a new era of more effective development and data extraction and processing. As a pleasant side effect, it gave us the opportunity to reach out to broader customer audience.

Nachteile

Apify core devs are sometimes so agile that it makes it hard to keep track of all the new features released.