This product overview synthesizes insights from 15 recent reviews to provide a comprehensive assessment of Apify. Apify is primarily used for web scraping, data extraction, and automation, with a significant portion of users leveraging it for lead generation from platforms like Google Maps, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. Users also employ Apify for workflow automation, often integrating it with tools like Make.com and n8n to streamline processes such as content creation and competitor analysis. Reviewers highlight Apify's web scraping capabilities as a key strength, with 7 out of 15 reviewers specifically praising its ability to extract data from various online platforms. However, some users express concerns regarding pricing and billing, with 4 out of 15 citing issues such as high costs and a lack of transparency. Additionally, 3 out of 15 reviewers found the user interface difficult to understand, suggesting improvements to enhance usability. Overall, Apify offers significant value in terms of time savings and efficiency gains, with 5 out of 15 reviewers reporting considerable time savings through automation and efficient data extraction. The platform also contributes to improvements in data extraction and lead generation for 4 out of 15 reviewers.

Pros

Efficient web scraping from platforms like Instagram, Google Maps, and LinkedIn (7 of 15 reviewers)
Automation capabilities for tasks like content creation and competitor analysis
Workflow integration with platforms like Make.com and n8n
Significant time savings through automation and efficient data extraction (5 of 15 reviewers)
Improved data extraction and lead generation (4 of 15 reviewers)

Cons

Concerns regarding pricing and billing transparency (4 of 15 reviewers)
User interface and usability issues (3 of 15 reviewers)
Perception of high costs

What positive or negative impact (i.e. Return on Investment or ROI) has Apify had on your overall business objectives?

From 15 reviews

Summary

This report analyzes 15 recent product reviews to assess Apify's return on investment (ROI) and impact on business objectives. Reviewers most frequently cited time savings and efficiency gains as a primary benefit. Specifically, 5 of 15 reviewers mentioned significant time savings through automation and efficient data extraction. Beyond time savings, 4 of 15 reviewers highlighted improvements in data extraction and lead generation as a positive impact on their business objectives. However, given the small sample size, these findings should be interpreted as indicative rather than definitive.

Top Quotes

Time Savings and Efficiency

“Investment into the time spent HIGH”

Data Extraction and Lead Gen

“More data for prospects”

Describe how you use Apify in your organization. What are the business problems the product addresses and what is the scope of your use case?

From 15 reviews

Summary

This report synthesizes 15 recent reviews to understand how users are employing Apify within their organizations, focusing on the business problems the product addresses and the scope of its use cases. A significant portion of reviewers, 7 out of 15, highlight Apify's role in lead generation and scraping data from various platforms, including Google Maps, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. This capability allows them to access databases and structured data from websites that lack official APIs. Furthermore, 6 out of 15 reviewers utilize Apify for automation and workflow integration, often in conjunction with platforms like Make.com and n8n, to streamline processes such as content creation, job filtering, and competitor analysis. The reviews suggest that Apify helps users save time by automating tasks such as scraping leads for outreach campaigns and gathering information for social media content.

Top Quotes

Automation and workflows

“I use Apify to do multiple things. I use it scrape businesses on Google maps so I can contact them as leads.”

Lead generation and scraping

“I use Apify to do multiple things. I use it scrape businesses on Google maps so I can contact them as leads.”

Please provide some detailed examples of areas where Apify has room for improvement.

From 15 reviews

Summary

This analysis of 15 recent Apify reviews identifies areas where users see room for improvement. A significant portion of reviewers, 4 out of 15, express concerns regarding pricing and billing, citing issues such as a perception of high costs, lack of transparency, and difficulty in understanding the billing structure. User interface and usability also emerge as areas for potential enhancement, with 3 out of 15 reviewers finding the interface difficult to understand and suggesting improvements to make it more user-friendly. Given the small sample size, these findings should be interpreted as indicators of potential areas for improvement rather than definitive conclusions about the platform's overall weaknesses.

Top Quotes

Pricing and billing

“It is a little bit pricey on paid things”

User interface and usability

“Hard to understand interface”

Please provide some detailed examples of things that Apify does particularly well.

From 15 reviews

Summary

This report synthesizes 15 recent product reviews to identify areas where Apify is perceived to perform well. A significant portion of reviewers, 7 out of 15, highlight Apify's web scraping capabilities, with specific mentions of scraping data from platforms like Instagram, Google Maps, and LinkedIn. In addition to web scraping, some reviewers (3 out of 15) positively mention the platform's 'actors', though without detailed elaboration on specific actor functionalities or benefits. Given the small sample size, these observations provide an initial indication of perceived strengths, but may not represent the experiences of all users.

Related topics

Web Scraping Actors

Top Quotes

Web Scraping

“Google Map data crawler”

Actors

“Good actors”

Reviews

64 Reviews

Great Product

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 26, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I'm scraping posts and profile data from various platforms such as LinkedIn. I also use it to scrape Jobs.

Basically, I'm using Apify for lead generation purposes or for building various automations, such as job filtering, CV customization automation, and other similar use cases that I need in my business.

Pros

Scraping LinkedIn Jobs
Scraping LinkedIn posts
Scraping Instagram Reels

Likelihood to Recommend

It depends on the available actors. If you have a great actor for a specific scenario, then it's great to use. Otherwise, you'll need to build it.

Ionut Preda

Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Grownected (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Great All in One Platform

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 24, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Apify is a great platform for scraping data. Work life's been way easier since we've started using Apify backed n8n workflows. We use it for lead generation and lead enrichment from various platforms like Linkedin, twitter, Instagram etc. It's reliable, data-rich, cost effective. Plus it's easy to use and backed by a great community.

Pros

Data Scraping
Data Enrichment
Transcription Finder

Cons

Must have more AI Agents
Must have a built in database for saving data

Likelihood to Recommend

We use various scrapers in our n8n workflows usually for data scraping and enrichment. It's a lot cheaper than using expensive platforms like clearbit, hunter, apollo etc.

Vansh Arora

Co-Founder in Information Technology at Xpanse AI (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

View profile

I love Apify

Rating: 10 out of 10

June 24, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I absolutely love Apify. As a beginner who is using Apify to create automations, I can say that it works super smoothly and I've not experienced any issues with it. There are so many different actors available on the marketplace and I look forward to exploring more of the actors available.

Pros

smooth experience
no tech issues
many actors available in the marketplace

Likelihood to Recommend

I use it for instagram post scraping, instagram reel scraping, youtube scraping, and youtube transcript generation

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Multiple sources to extract data from

Rating: 9 out of 10

June 23, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Apify has proven to be a very useful tool for aggregating data quickly. So far, the bugs that appear are being fixed. Although we have only been using it for about a month, we are quite satisfied.

Pros

large amount of actors
actors mantained by Apify do usually work very well

Cons

Some actors present problems, and response times could be better. Especially those maintened by community

Likelihood to Recommend

Apify is suited if you have expertise to automate tasks using APIs. Depending on manual runs can be a challange.

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Marketing (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Apify review Best data extractor tool

Rating: 7 out of 10

June 23, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I mainly use Apify to scrape Linkedin profile data of various leads that I reach out to in my cold outreach email campaign. I integrate it with Make.com via Api and it makes the whole process even smoother. The interface is a bit difficult understand though. But other than that, its good.

Pros

Scrape Profile Data
Ease of integrations with other platforms
Data Extraction

Cons

Hard to understand interface
Should be made more user friendly

Likelihood to Recommend

Well for cold outreach. To scrape data of various leads to then send them personalized messages, Apify is the go-to took. Its very easy to integrate it with make.com through an api key. I last used Apify to automate the process of mass email outreach which had personalized icebreakers for each and every lead

Firdavs Shodmanov

Founder in Sales at sellsmarter.ai (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Nice to use

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 17, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

need to web scrapper but don't have the skill set. By using Apify, I can web scrapper with different actors to speed up the progress

Pros

actors
template
step by step guide

Cons

chinese version
auto recommend how to scrap upfront
Ask my purpose and suggest me actors accordingly (automation)

Likelihood to Recommend

google map scrapper

Ren Yee Quek

Co-Founder in Sales at La Sheng Co., Ltd (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

View profile

APIFY IS AMAZING

Rating: 10 out of 10

June 12, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Apify to do multiple things. I use it scrape businesses on Google maps so I can contact them as leads. I put all of these leads and contacts on a spreadsheet that I can export from Apify. I also use the indeed scraper so I can scrape jobs on indeed and implement it in another spreadsheet for my own self

Pros

Good actors
Support
Apis

Cons

It is a little bit pricey on paid things
Some api end points are sometimes hard to understand but still ok
More free credits

Likelihood to Recommend

Ilyaas Rayyan

Student in Marketing at Daydream services (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Apify allowed us to solve a challenging problem including direct access to the developer

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 11, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Apify allowed us to get access to an entire database which was otherwise inaccessible other than record by record, query by query. For a small investment in time and money, we captured data which would have cost 10-20X elsewhere. We also had direct access to the developer who was willing to make updates quickly based on our requirements. This ended up being the fastest, simplest method to secure the entire database results vs. any other option.

Pros

Data extraction from web pages
Easily connect extracted data to external applications
Access to developers for enhancement of actors

Cons

For users unfamiliar with APIs, or the end data source, its interface can require finessing to get your desired results
Failed runs can clutter up successful runs
Actor price changes may impact cost of project depending on length of data extraction project

Likelihood to Recommend

Perfect solution for extracting data from websites which otherwise would be impossible to access

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Product Management (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Apify is my third hand

Rating: 9 out of 10

June 10, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am content crator by crawling popular YouTube videos and publish on major content platforms. However, I also have Make.com and n8n automation agents to sell small companies to grab insights, emails, address, locations and so on. Apify is my best friend to get ready datas and create useful tasks accordingly. Mainly I use Google Maps, Youtube Transcrip Crawler and website crawler actors according to per requests and demands.

Pros

YouTube crawler
Google Map data crawler
Website crawler

Cons

I'm asking for different updates in case of requiring new specifications and has to change actors. There should be co-actor options to use 2 or more actors together to use benefits from per actor. Becauase, what has on actor, other has no included. I am gathering different datas on excel

Likelihood to Recommend

Youtube transcript, map datas email informations, linkedin datas

Selcuk Aslantas

Area Sales Manager in Sales at Boyteks (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

14 years of experience

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Easy to USE

Rating: 9 out of 10

June 5, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I was looking for local service providers actual email address, physical mailing address, phone number either mobile of land line, and physical names of owners. These are all super important details to have when you are looking to start to market to someone. I really appreciated the fact that I could determine if it was a mobile number or a landline that way I could tag this person and send them down a certain path.

Pros

Scrapes Instagram Posts
Scrapes Google Maps
Scrapes Phone Data
Enriches Data!

Cons

Consistency
pricing
Validation of scrapes from 3rd parties

Likelihood to Recommend

Overall, Apify is a really easy product to use and has a lot of great features and gives you the capability to scrape just about anything!

Brent Herrig

Owner in Marketing at CCA Marketing (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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