Apify vs. Octoparse

Apify is great for web scraping, web crawling, and data extraction. I'm sure it's great for other things I don't use it for, but that's what I can confirm. I use it for pulling weekly analytics of 50+ TikTok UGC creators that I hire for brands. If you want a nice UX platform to share with clients, you would need to vibe code it and feed it the Apify data or use a more costly program.

I used Octoparse to get mostly ecommerce data and it is working well. I think it can get data from most web pages as long as you can see it on the pages. Because it is scraping the data by getting into the source code of the page or something. And it is good for people who do research: the software can organize and clean the data, so you are able to export structured data into Excel or CSV. This is convenient for further analysis.

• easy-to-use Actor for crawling arbitrary web pages and extracting structured data from them using a few lines of JavaScript code
• Apify is helping us extract data from many company websites and even mobile apps without having to deal with proxies
• Apify has built a solid reputation in the scraping community – neutral, diverse, and dependable.

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• Web-scrapping
• Importing the scrapped data in user-defined chunks
• Extraction and organising of compliicated scrapped data
• Different modes of extraction

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• sometimes the devs are working on one of the scrapers when it breaks and you don't really get a notice for that, it just doesn't work. Esp starts to be a problem when it's supposed to be running in the background.
• Loading cookies into the different actors is kind of a pain.
• vague pricing models. all the actors are priced differently, and the difference between "usage" "result" and "event" is pretty confusing

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• Concurrent extractions can be improved.
• Download the results in the form of graphs after processing (Could be the new feature).
• Time to access extracted data from cloud.

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It's the best because you can just load in a limited amount of money and limit your financial exposure to using a tool like this. so renewing isn't a big consideration... i know that i'm going to need the tool in the future and i'll load it with money accordingly when im ready.

The site is laid out pretty well. There is a learning curve, but it is not steep. Integrations are fairly straightforward using the API and JSON files. Integrates well with Make automations, which is essential for our team and organization. I am pleased with the performance and flexibility of the platform.

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I was very happy with the support I received from Apify. They are always ready to answer all your questions and help solve problems you have.

The reason we prefer Apify to other alternatives is that it has more functionality and APIs that serve different purposes. In addition, thanks to its libraries prepared for easy integration into many programming languages, it becomes very easy to integrate into every project in different languages. In this way, it deserves to be ahead of its competitors.

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Other similar products like webautomation.io and webscarpper.io were tried and implemented along with Octoparse. Thier trial versions have much more limited features. The complexity while using Octoparse is relatively low and much more effecient and powerful to implement as compared to other softwares. Also usecases are quick to learn and implement.

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• results-based pricing is huge - across the whole platform I can try different actors and not have to change payment plans all the time
• the time saving here is unimaginable - imagine trying to build a scraper for every site that you needed and maintain all of them: disgusting. Instead, we get to use Apify.
• $39/mo to scrape any data off the internet = crazy ROI

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• I have the free plan. Every time I land a cold lead generated through scraping it's 100% profit.

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