Apify

It was the first solution i Found that I could start using almost right out of the box, without an insurmountable learning curve like other scraping solutions that I looked at. The premade actors really made it easy to get my feet wet and start extracting data. Later I moved on to schedules and integrations which just made my life entirely more easy. Now I just get new results and they're put in a database, autopilot for my needs. Premade actors are great, but frankly, the rent+usage model that some of the actors have is just not ideal. I would like to test these out more thoroughly beyond a 3 day free trial. I would suggest that you consider a purely pay for usage model with slightly higher cost, but doping away with this rent + usage. Apify is what enables my startup project to start being developed. My entire service is focused on being able to scrape from 3-4 sites and processing it to make it valuable for customers. So it solves my raw materials good. It's not that I couldn't do it with other services but simply Apify is the easier one and more straightforward to use; so another problem it solves is a learning curve that would make my project co much slower.

Apify did a great job at building a user-friendly platform for web scraping and automation, allowing non-tech users to scrape and integrate multiple services. Developers can built their own solutions and easily publish on Apify store, which has over 1000 actors already. The support is pretty good for both users and developers. There are some limitations, like not being possible to upload a file directly on the actor input or being able to retry failed requests from a actor run, it would be great to have a 'Retry failed requests' button. It would be great if the actor could produce a file as the output, instead of a dataset. Automating tasks that would take hours.

You get a chance to fully try the product! it's esy to use when you know what to do, and there is a great community around willing to help you. Maybe some more guiding at the beginning if you are not technical it could be a bit difficult to find how to intergrate this via API. Capturing data from websites of like 50 sites a day, would take me a crazy amount of time.

I had no idea of web scraping. Once I learned about it and looked at a few of the players I landed on Apify. Building lists of prospects in minutes has been an absolute game-changer. You could say the cost makes it a bit hard to swallow but if I consider the amount of time it saves me every month then it is a non-starter. Getting started with Apify and learning what an actor is and finding the right one for your purpose takes some time. I consult with local businesses on how they can best use the Internet to grow their business. One of the pieces of information I deliver my clients is a market overview; all their competitors analyzed and the results presented in a for they can understand. Apify actors make this simple.

There are many solutions that allow you to have access to the information you need, with broad coverage and multiple possibilities. It seems to me that it has a lot of potential for use, however, there are certain very technical terms in the description of the actors and in the description of the payment packages that, for someone who is not a technology developer, is very difficult to understand. With the new rise of social networks and online pages to monitor, the need to capture information and automate processes increases.

When I contact support, I use a translation app to communicate with them. What I found to be kind is that when you translate the other person's text, it becomes easier to understand.

It was the first solution i Found that I could start using almost right out of the box, without an insurmountable learning curve like other scraping solutions that I looked at. The premade actors really made it easy to get my feet wet and start extracting data. Later I moved on to schedules and integrations which just made my life entirely more easy. Now I just get new results and they're put in a database, autopilot for my needs. Premade actors are great, but frankly, the rent+usage model that some of the actors have is just not ideal. I would like to test these out more thoroughly beyond a 3 day free trial. I would suggest that you consider a purely pay for usage model with slightly higher cost, but doping away with this rent + usage. Apify is what enables my startup project to start being developed. My entire service is focused on being able to scrape from 3-4 sites and processing it to make it valuable for customers. So it solves my raw materials good. It's not that I couldn't do it with other services but simply Apify is the easier one and more straightforward to use; so another problem it solves is a learning curve that would make my project co much slower.

Apify did a great job at building a user-friendly platform for web scraping and automation, allowing non-tech users to scrape and integrate multiple services. Developers can built their own solutions and easily publish on Apify store, which has over 1000 actors already. The support is pretty good for both users and developers. There are some limitations, like not being possible to upload a file directly on the actor input or being able to retry failed requests from a actor run, it would be great to have a 'Retry failed requests' button. It would be great if the actor could produce a file as the output, instead of a dataset. Automating tasks that would take hours.

You get a chance to fully try the product! it's esy to use when you know what to do, and there is a great community around willing to help you. Maybe some more guiding at the beginning if you are not technical it could be a bit difficult to find how to intergrate this via API. Capturing data from websites of like 50 sites a day, would take me a crazy amount of time.

I had no idea of web scraping. Once I learned about it and looked at a few of the players I landed on Apify. Building lists of prospects in minutes has been an absolute game-changer. You could say the cost makes it a bit hard to swallow but if I consider the amount of time it saves me every month then it is a non-starter. Getting started with Apify and learning what an actor is and finding the right one for your purpose takes some time. I consult with local businesses on how they can best use the Internet to grow their business. One of the pieces of information I deliver my clients is a market overview; all their competitors analyzed and the results presented in a for they can understand. Apify actors make this simple.

There are many solutions that allow you to have access to the information you need, with broad coverage and multiple possibilities. It seems to me that it has a lot of potential for use, however, there are certain very technical terms in the description of the actors and in the description of the payment packages that, for someone who is not a technology developer, is very difficult to understand. With the new rise of social networks and online pages to monitor, the need to capture information and automate processes increases.

When I contact support, I use a translation app to communicate with them. What I found to be kind is that when you translate the other person's text, it becomes easier to understand.

Awesome! Apify customer support is what set them apart from the competition. Love the tool and love the fact that they are customer-centric. Clearly set them apart from the competition!