Apify Automation Agency — Extract Any Data from the Web at Scale

Apify is a cloud platform for web scraping and browser automation. It provides infrastructure for running web crawlers and scrapers at scale, with pre-built actors for popular scraping tasks (Amazon, Google, LinkedIn) and tools for building custom scrapers. Common use cases include competitor price monitoring, lead generation, content aggregation, SEO analysis and market research.

Web scraping publicly available information is generally legal, subject to terms of service compliance and data protection laws. Scraping personal data requires compliance with GDPR and other privacy regulations. Scraping data protected by login requirements or circumventing access controls carries greater legal risk. We advise on the legal parameters of each specific scraping use case.

Apify supports schedules from every minute to weekly. For most competitive intelligence use cases (daily pricing, weekly catalogue monitoring), daily scheduled runs are appropriate and cost-effective. High-frequency scraping (every few minutes) is available but incurs higher platform costs.

Apify includes built-in proxy rotation, browser fingerprint randomisation and request delay configuration that help navigate basic anti-bot measures. For sites with sophisticated bot detection (Cloudflare, PerimeterX), we develop custom actor logic with appropriate rate limiting and request behaviour that avoids detection.

Apify pricing is consumption-based — compute units per actor run. Pre-built actors from the Apify Store often have their own pricing. A typical monitoring use case (daily competitor pricing from 10 sites) might cost £20–£100/month on Apify platform plus actor costs. We estimate costs during scoping.