What I like most is the flexibility of the platform. I use Playwright Actors, scheduling, datasets, and integrations to automate data collection for travel websites and Telegram workflows. Once everything is configured, the automation runs reliably without needing to maintain my own servers. It has saved me many hours of manual work and made it much easier to manage recurring scraping tasks.

I'm a computer science student from Namibia who started building web scraping actors on Apify about 6 months ago. I now have 2 live monetized actors on the Apify Store covering African real estate and e-commerce data, and I've already received my first payout. The platform is genuinely well built. The actor system makes it easy to package and monetize scraping tools, the proxy infrastructure is reliable, and the store gives you real distribution. The documentation is solid and the developer relations team has been supportive. If you're a developer looking to build and monetize data products, Apify is the best platform I've found for it. The pay-per-result pricing model works well for both sides.

I really like that once the data is downloaded with Apify, I can integrate it with various programs like Gephi to analyze interaction networks or in geographic information systems like QGIS and some qualitative data analysis projects like Atlas.TI. This allows me to have a clear understanding of what I am analyzing. Additionally, I appreciate that it is really easy to set up, not complicated, it was very intuitive. The platform is very useful for academic research and sociodigital network analysis, and what I value most is the wide variety of actors available that allows me to obtain structured data without developing a scraper from scratch for each project.