Apify | News, Hiring, Layoffs, Competitors, CEO, Fundraising Insights

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Apify is a full-stack web scraping and browser automation platform that allows users to extract data from websites and automate workflows on the web. They offer ready-made scrapers, automation tools, custom solutions, and a marketplace for developers.

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🛍️ Apify Product and Pricing News

• Apify released version 1.9.3 of their Python API client on April 14, 2025, which includes features like automatic retries and asynchronous usage support.
• Apify added a new tool, the Truth Social Scraper by Muhammet Akkurt, for extracting and analyzing content from Truth Social profiles, including Donald Trump's, for political monitoring and market research.
• Apify updated its pricing model to a 'pay as you go' system, offering prepaid usage credits for spending in the Apify Store or on Actors, and increased its customer base from 12M+ to 17M+.
• Apify replaced the Playwright Cloud Runner with a new focus on integrating with Retool, a platform for building internal tools and workflow automations.
• Apify launched the Medieval Scraper Guild to automate tasks like mapping castles and decoding feudal registries using Apify Actors.

• Lindy has integrated Apify to enable over 5,000 new AI agent use cases, making it the top platform for AI integrations.
• Apify now allows running up to 4000 actors in Claude using the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Apify launched a new S3 Uploader to automate data export to Amazon S3, supporting various formats like JSON, CSV, and XML.

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👔 Apify CEO, Management and Leadership Team

• Dusan Antos

  
  Chief Financial Officer
  [email protected]

• Jan Curn

  
  CEO of Apify, a leading platform for web scraping and data for AI.
  [email protected]

• Marek Trunkat

  
  CTO
  [email protected]

• Ondra Urban

  
  COO
  [email protected]

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⚔️ Apify Alternatives and Competitors

• Octoparse
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• ScrapingBee
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• ScrapeHero
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• Navigation RPA
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• Microsoft Power Automate
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• Bright Data
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• Fivetran
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• UiPath Business Automation Platform
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• PhantomBuster
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• Magical
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• Zyte
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• Crawlbase
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• Diffbot
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• Mozenda
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• Spider Free
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• AirCode
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• Browse AI
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• ZenRows

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💼 Apify Hiring and Layoffs

• Apify is hiring and promoting a workplace culture of transparency, flexibility, and trust as of April 17, 2025.
• Michelle Macias Mendez has been promoted to Event Marketing Manager at Apify, enhancing the company's focus on industry events.
• Apify is hiring for a full-time hybrid remote Legal Counsel & Operations role, focusing on automating legal tech tools and improving procurement and sales contracting processes.
• Apify is hiring a Product Manager for Universal Scrapers to lead the development of their core Actors and enhance user experience.

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🤖 Apify Developer, Integration and Automation News

• Apify has partnered with Lindy to provide over 4,000 web scrapers for accessing data from platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and X.
• Igor Levi, founder of Eightception, uses Apify with Make to automate research and create AI-driven case studies.
• Apify powers lead generation and social media automation for over 350 businesses, as highlighted by a user on April 8.
• Apify is being used in a marketing automation role alongside N8N and Airtable as of March 16, 2025.
• Hiten Bharti, a Data Analyst at EPL Limited, used Apify and Make.com to automate lead generation by scraping and organizing data from Google and LinkedIn into Google Sheets.

• Marius Olesen uses Apify to automate the extraction of ad comments for eCommerce brands, integrating it with Make and Anthropic for data processing and insights.
• A client used Apify's API to scrape data and close a $250K deal in 60 days by targeting funding announcements, hiring data, and PR releases.
• Apify recently migrated from NewRelic to a self-hosted Grafana setup to reduce costs and improve flexibility, despite facing challenges during the transition.

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📈 Apify Financials, Fundraising and Valuation News

• Apify achieved 6.8 billion API calls today, with APIs powering 87% of Actor runs.

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