Apify

APIFY has let me create a fully automated SDR

Vorteile:

APIFY has both a marketplace for pre-made automations and a way to create custom automations. This bot alone has generated $100k+ in revenue. https://apify.com/big-brain.io/upwork-application

Nachteile:

Requires users to be fairly technically savvy to get the most value.

Web Scraping and Web Automation that WORKS

Kommentare: Very happy, I am able to download data on competitors' pricing as well as to do additional research on new prospects and key accounts that I would have to do manually otherwise. I'd recommend Apify.

Vorteile:

I use Apify's Web Scrapers almost daily. It saves me a lot of time as I don't have to manually copy paste information I need for my work. I like simplicity of it and that it JUST works. I tried different web scrapers before but they were buggy and always had some issues.

Nachteile:

No cons I can think of, support is timely and very helpful, I feel appreciated as a customer.

Good for extraction but customer support is pathetic

Kommentare: Overall good platform for data extraction but customer support is pathetic even when you are paid subscriber

Vorteile:

- Powerful data extraction - Scalable infrastructure - Scheduling & feature rich

Nachteile:

- Customer support is worst nightmare with them - Pricing is unfair (They even don't have clarification on how you billed certain amount) - It has bugs which are lasting months even after reporting. Actor gets stuck forever causing you billing - Reporting is not integrated part of dashboard

Apify is excellent to get databases based on webscrapping

Kommentare: Excellent. Of al the webscrapping tools I have used or try to use, Apify was the best solution.

Vorteile:

I loved how easy it was to understand and to work with. I have a limited knowledge of coding so I needed a solution easy to manage.

Nachteile:

The pricing was a bit confusing. I wanted to buy more memory to get a bigger database but I think that even If I bought a month more, my data transfer was way too high due to using the trial. I didn't understood that.

Affordable and versatile webscraping platform

Kommentare: This is a versatile tool for webscraping which is absolutely affordable for startup businesses. I've found it particularly useful for scraping information from Instagram. If you want to use the software for scraping individual websites, then Apify also provides easy-to-understand guides for this process. Having no prior knowledge of writing code, I used these guides to put Apify's webscraper to the task at a basic level.

Vorteile:

Customer service is excellent - Apify is always quick to respond and happy to help with queries.

Nachteile:

The last time I checked, there were no existing actors which allowed me to scrape content published by brands on LinkedIn. For this process I used PhantomBuster instead.