Zapier
Automation platform with AI-assisted workflows across business apps.
AutomationFreemium
Web scraping and automation platform with thousands of ready-made scrapers for sites like Google Maps, LinkedIn and Instagram.
Overview
Apify is a cloud platform for web scraping, browser automation and data extraction. Its marketplace, Apify Store, offers thousands of ready-made Actors built by Apify and third-party developers for sources such as Google Maps, Google Search, Amazon, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and news sites; a user picks an Actor, sets inputs like a search term or location and runs it without code. Developers can also build custom Actors in JavaScript or Python with Crawlee and Playwright, and AI agents can call Actors as tools through an MCP server. Results export to JSON, CSV, Excel, Google Sheets or go through webhooks, Zapier, Make and an API. Small marketing and sales teams use it to pull local business leads, reviews and competitor product data. Pricing is prepaid usage; plans include a platform credit that compute, proxies and Actor fees draw down. A pilot is running the Google Maps scraper on the free plan for one city and category. Caveat: many Store Actors add per-result fees on top of compute, and unused credit expires each month.
Web research
Bulk collection of search results, reviews, listings and social posts with prebuilt scrapers.
1 week to value · Low effort · Medium risk · low
Lead enrichment
Extracting local business leads from Google Maps with phone, website and rating fields.
2-4 weeks to value · Medium effort · Medium risk · low
Market intelligence
Monitoring competitor prices, product catalogues and review sentiment on a schedule.
2-4 weeks to value · Medium effort · Medium risk · low
Verdict
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Automation platform with AI-assisted workflows across business apps.
Visual automation platform for complex workflows and integrations.
AI-powered sales prospecting, enrichment, research, and outbound workflow platform.
No-code web scraping and monitoring tool that trains robots by point-and-click and exports data to Sheets, Airtable or an API.
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