Apify: web scraping, data extraction, and automation tools for AI

What do you like best about the product?

I publish my own automation tools (Actors) on the Apify Store, and the developer experience is the best I've seen on a marketplace of this kind. Support is genuinely effective — real humans who solve the problem, and they even proactively doubled my daily publishing limit when I asked. The documentation walks you through every step of the process clearly, and their YouTube channel is full of best-practice walkthroughs whenever something is unclear. Scheduling, monitoring, proxies and MCP integration work out of the box.

What do you dislike about the product?

Honestly, very little. As a seller I would love richer earnings analytics in the API (today the detailed monetization numbers live only in the Console UI), and new accounts have a daily cap on how many Actors you can publish — though support raised mine quickly when I asked. Neither has stopped me from shipping.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Apify gives me the whole business infrastructure for selling data-extraction and monitoring tools: hosting, scheduling, billing, a storefront with real buyers, and pay-per-event monetization. Instead of building payments, infra and distribution myself, I ship an Actor and it is immediately runnable, schedulable and sellable. It turned side-project scrapers into a product line with zero infrastructure work on my side.

What do you like best about the product?

Apify is really good for my project. I used it to get data from websites and it work very well. It was easy to use and I didn’t need to know much coding to start.

The price is very affordable and I can do a lot without paying too much. The actors are simple and help me automate things fast. I like that I can run tasks and get the data I need without trouble.

Overall Apify is great for school projects or small business work. It saves me time and its not hard to learn. I recommend it if you want something easy and cheap that still works good.

What do you dislike about the product?

some actors badly moderated and useless, but still charge money

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Supporting my background research and backend

What do you like best about the product?

Leads Scraping and so many scraper at one place

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing, everything is too good in apify.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is solving my Lead Gen Agency Data problem

What do you like best about the product?

The actor marketplace. I needed a LinkedIn scraper that returned specific fields like the About section, recent roles, and posts in a clean structured format. Instead of building one myself, I found a maintained actor, configured the inputs, and had it running in minutes. For a solo operation without engineering resources, that is the difference between having a daily lead pipeline and not having one. The pay-per-usage pricing also means I only pay for what I actually scrape, which at my volume works out to a fraction of a cent per profile.

What do you dislike about the product?

Rate limit guidance is missing. I had to figure out through failed runs that LinkedIn scrapes need to go out in small batches with gaps between them, and the platform never told me that upfront. Also, different LinkedIn actors return different fields and there is no clear comparison showing which actor pulls what before you spend credits testing them. I wasted runs discovering that some actors do not return recent posts or activity data, which are the most valuable fields for my use case.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Manual lead sourcing did not scale. I consult across five geographies and need to review 15 to 20 new profiles daily to keep my outreach pipeline running. Before Apify, that meant browsing LinkedIn one profile at a time and copying details manually, maybe 8 to 10 on a good morning. Now I run a batch in 30 minutes and get clean structured data I feed directly into my outreach workflow. More profiles reviewed means more personalized connection notes sent, which means more conversations started. One converted lead per month covers my entire annual Apify spend several times over.

What do you like best about the product?

I use Apify for scraping information for outreach, such as LinkedIn job scrapers, reviews, email verification, and ad lookups. I like that it provides one platform with a huge variety of different scrapers, allowing me to choose the most affordable and suitable ones for each task, and pay for all with a single bill. Most I like the fair billing and, most importantly, the extensive integrations via API and MCP, which let a Claude Code agent perform work on my behalf. These integrations are a game changer because I can instruct it to scrape job postings on LinkedIn and look up local documents like what filters to use, and then run the scrape on Apify and automatically pull results.

What do you dislike about the product?

The biggest problem is that many scrappers provide poor results, often needing to try a few scrappers before finding one that works correctly and perfectly. Although reviews help with that, they aren't always reliable. It would also be great to see an output preview for each scrapper because currently, I need to run the scrapper and spend money just to see the output, only to realize that it doesn't have the necessary columns I need. Additionally, it was a bit difficult to understand how it works at first. The onboarding process isn't too easy, with many confusing specific terminologies, but once I learned it, it became easy.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Apify for scraping various data like LinkedIn jobs and reviews. It offers many scrapers on a single platform, providing flexibility with cost-effective options. Integrations with API and MCP allow automated operations with tools like Claude Code, simplifying my workflow.