Apify | Competitive Intelligence Profile

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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.

🛍️ Apify Product and Pricing News →

👔 Apify CEO, Management and Leadership Team →

⚔️ Apify Alternatives and Competitors →

💼 Apify Hiring and Layoffs →

🤖 Apify Developer, Integration and Automation News →

📈 Apify Financials, Fundraising and Valuation News →

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🛍️ Apify Product and Pricing News

• Apify announced a new feature to extract YouTube data directly in Make, allowing users to set input by URL, subtitle type, or count and feed results to Slack, Sheets, or AI stacks.
• Apify introduced new actors including CHEERIO SCRAPER, WEB SCRAPER, PUPPETEER SCRAPER, LEGACY PHANTOMJS CRAWLER, RAG WEB BROWSER, and PLAYWRIGHT SCRAPER, while removing several others like BESTBUY PRODUCTS and GITHUB CHAMPION.
• On April 30, 2025, Apify announced a major upgrade to Crawlee, emphasizing Python as a first-class language alongside JavaScript, and introduced a new language-agnostic landing page for improved navigation and seamless language switching.
• Apify has integrated with Weaviate to transfer data from Apify Actors, compute text embeddings using LangChain, and store them in a Weaviate database for applications like question-answering and search.
• Apify has launched the PGVector Integration, allowing users to transfer data from Apify Actors to PostgreSQL databases with text embeddings and incremental updates, priced at $0.05 per request with a free tier available.

• Apify expanded its offerings by introducing new Instagram Reel and Full Profile scrapers, while discontinuing the Mentions and Export Comments and Posts scrapers.
• On April 23, 2025, Apify introduced new AI agent templates and integrations with Airtable, Firestore, and Amazon S3, enhancing data management and AI development capabilities.
• On April 24, Apify showcased new integrations and MCP server with tool discovery features during a live demo at a meetup.

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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

• Lenka Stuhlová has joined Apify as part of their team in May 2025.
• 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.
• MAHESHWARI ELECTRICAL AGENCY is using Apify.com and Playwright for web scraping in their work-from-home internship program.
• 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.

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📈 Apify Financials, Fundraising and Valuation News

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