Apify Reviews

Apify Help me to build my own app for getting the data of some social media platform.

Not so cheap, a little bit expensive. and some time I will get some data I don't need but still cost.

I need to get the data from the different social platform.

The marketplace apps are very broad and useful. There's one for everything. Affordable. Integrates well with ai agents

Sometimes for scraping tools, the emails are sometimes bad quality. not entirely Apify's fault. but about 10% bounce rate

It's getting me more leads

.price is very friendly, and the quality is good

crawler quality yield, dedups and invalid accouns

scraping

We have been using Apify for several months and the results have exceeded expectations. The Actor model abstracts away all the messy infrastructure, including proxies, retries, captcha solving, and data storage, so our developers focus on what matters rather than fighting UI changes from social media platforms every week. The MCP server integration is genuinely a game changer, letting Claude call Apify Actors as native tools and return structured results directly into the conversation. Scheduling, webhooks, and dataset APIs work reliably and integrations with data warehouses like Snowflake and BigQuery via Airbyte make it easy to pipe scraped data into our existing analytics stack. Highly recommended for any team serious about web data at scale.

Pricing transparency is poor with no real-time spend alerts, the Actor Store feels cluttered making it hard to identify the most reliable options, and some advanced features like custom proxy configuration have a steep learning curve for newer users.

Apify eliminates the need to build and maintain custom scraping infrastructure from scratch, saving significant engineering time and cost. It solves the challenge of scraping JavaScript-heavy, bot-protected sites by handling proxies, retries, and anti-blocking automatically. The MCP server integration lets our AI workflows access live web data on demand, turning Claude into an autonomous research agent that delivers real results instead of just cached knowledge.

What I like most is the flexibility of the platform. I use Playwright Actors, scheduling, datasets, and integrations to automate data collection for travel websites and Telegram workflows.

Once everything is configured, the automation runs reliably without needing to maintain my own servers. It has saved me many hours of manual work and made it much easier to manage recurring scraping tasks.

The biggest challenge is the learning curve. If you are new to web scraping or automation, it takes some time to understand Actors, proxies, datasets, and all the available options.

You can scrape literally anything. This is the first place I go to.

Sometimes there are way too many actors, and it might be difficult to choose the right one, but that's what we want, right? To have options.

Automating literally everything that

.easy to use for scraping social media profiles and posts

would like to see cheaper plans and greater usage limits

helping us enrich lead clients by scraping their social media profiles

.It just does whats promised, for using the actors, integrating over mcp, documentations for easy access and learning, all does its best, i would say actors publised few sometimes feel below average or doesnt work, i would say more better modertation is needed or the team themself being among the contributors in building their own to show really makes impact i can say Yes it was completely worth it Yes it was completely worth it

The quality of actors are sometimes not that great, need to have better actors or support

It solves the biggest headache of automation of scrapping datas from various sites, i am using actors to scrap job postings and find postings to apply as im searching phase

It's a great service that can reach where others can't. I use it to gather information about new investments from industry news sites. Many of them have built-in protections against bots reading their news. I've automated the whole lead-finding process on a virtual server, so thanks to Apify I can automatically read and process the best sources of information.

I did not find something bad in Apify services. All looks good for me.

I'm scraping industry news sites for information on new construction projects in Europe. A lot of them have anti-bot blocks. Thanks to Apify, I can search for data in places where I'd otherwise have to browse for new stories every day.