# Apify

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Apify and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend Apify as a marketplace of over 8,000 ready-made tools called Actors for extracting web data and automating web tasks.

## Why people recommend it

- Marketplace of 8,000+ ready-made Actors (1 comments): "We're running a marketplace of 8,000+ tools called Actors for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798048))
- Useful for specialized or unique data (1 comments): "I can understand something like Apify + Exa where you need specialized/unique data" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49333338))
- Good for scraping Google ranked pages (1 comments): "Apify is great for getting google ranked pages" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49333690))
- Large pool of residential IPs (1 comments): "try services like Bright Data or Apify that have a ton of residential IPs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46156317))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Firecrawl](https://hackerapproved.com/p/firecrawl.md): 17 recommend
- [Bright Data](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bright-data.md): 10 recommend
- [Jina Reader](https://hackerapproved.com/p/jina-reader.md): 5 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://apify.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Apify", https://hackerapproved.com/p/apify/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).