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 Alternatives and Competitors →

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🛍️ Apify Product and Pricing News

• Apify added new scrapers for Clutch.co and Bundesagentur für Arbeit, expanding their data extraction capabilities to include comprehensive company information and public job postings from Germany's official job search website.
• Apify introduced a new Firestore Import Actor to automate data imports from Apify datasets into Firebase Firestore with configurable conflict resolution and data transformation options.
• Apify announced a hybrid licensing model allowing users to monetize their open-source Actor while maintaining transparency and community contributions.
• Apify now offers a tool that scrapes business data from Gelben Seiten, available for a $25 monthly rental after a 3-day free trial.
• Apify has added new integration actors including GCP Uploader, Facebook Reel Scraper, Polymarket Scraper, Pinecone Integration, and Crexi.com Property Listings Scraper, while removing several others like PDF Text Extractor and Naukri Jobs Scraper.

• Apify introduced a new TripAdvisor Reviews Scraper by The Wolves, offering a cost-effective rate of $0.50 per 1000 reviews, capable of retrieving 100-200 reviews per second.
• Apify introduced the SUPERSCRAPER API, an open-source REST API for website scraping, as a replacement for services like ScrapingBee and ScraperAPI.
• Apify introduced a new Pinecone integration for data transfer from Apify Actors, enhancing capabilities for question-answering, search, or RAG use cases.

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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

• 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.
• Zuzka Pelechova, Head of Apify Store, announced significant growth in the Apify Store, community, use cases, and team.
• Marian Kamenistak, CTO at Apify, has been instrumental in stabilizing and maturing the company's engineering after a period of growth.

• Matyas Cimbulka has joined Apify as a Web Automation Engineer in Czechia, previously working in a similar role.

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🤖 Apify Developer, Integration and Automation News

• 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.

• Apify's Google Maps Extractor is automating lead data enrichment and opportunity prioritization for Smartbox Group, enhancing their marketplace of premium experiences.
• Apify is helping Smartbox find premium experiences faster using their Google Maps Extractor.
• Daffodil uses Apify to automate data collection for nonprofits, helping them communicate their impact to donors effectively.

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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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