Apify AlternativesWeb Scraping Tools and other similar apps like Apify

Apify is described as 'Cloud-based platform for extracting data and automating website workflows, featuring headless browser support, advanced web crawling, reusable code acts and scalable storage' and is a Web Scraping tool in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Apify, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including SaaS, Windows, Linux and Mac apps. The best Apify alternative is Scrapy, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Apify are Portia, Anakin.io, ScrapingDuck and Cockroach Crawler.

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  1. Scrapy icon
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    Scrapy is a free and open-source web-crawling framework written in Python. Originally designed for web scraping, it can also be used to extract data using APIs or as a general-purpose web crawler. It was developed and is maintained by Zyte formerly Scrapinghub, a web-scraping...

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  2. Portia icon
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    Portia is an open source visual scraping tool, allows you to scrape websites without any programming knowledge required! Simply annotate pages you're interested in, and Portia will create a spider to extract data from similar pages.

    93 Portia alternatives

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
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  3. Anakin.io icon
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    Anakin.io is a web scraping and structured data extraction API built for developers and AI teams. It converts any website into clean Markdown or JSON with a single API call - handling JavaScript rendering, anti-bot bypass, proxy rotation, and authenticated scraping (behind login...

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    • Online
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  4. ScrapingDuck icon
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    ScrapingDuck is a simple web scraping API that handles headless browsers and rotating proxies, so you can scrape any JavaScript-heavy website without getting blocked.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  5. Cockroach Crawler is a governed web acquisition and extraction layer for AI agents. It supports bounded public-web crawling, searchable site maps, robots handling, JavaScript rendering, readable text and Markdown, JSON and JSONL, structured fields, CSS, XPath, restricted-regex...

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Linux
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  6. Lookyloo icon
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    Lookyloo is a web interface that allows users to capture a website page and then display a tree of domains that call each other.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  7. Import.io icon
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    AI-powered web data extraction platform for turning websites into structured, reliable data with no-code tools, monitoring, and APIs.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  8. FoxPull icon
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    Describe the data you need in plain words — Foxpull crawls it live, prices it up front, and delivers a clean spreadsheet on a schedule.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  9. UiPath icon
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    A free, fully-featured, and extensible tool for automating any web or desktop application. UiPath Studio Community is free for individual developers, small professional teams, education and training purposes.

    124 UiPath alternatives

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    • Free Personal
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  10. Lindra AI icon
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    Automate any website with AI agents that click, filter, and navigate like a human. Like UIPath but usable in natural language.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  11. ReefAPI icon
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    One API key and one credit pool for 150+ live web-data APIs — search, e-commerce, real estate, social, reviews and more, as clean JSON.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  12. artoo.js icon
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    artoo.js is a piece of JavaScript code meant to be run in your browser's console to provide you with some scraping utilities.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Google Chrome
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
     
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