Apify vs. Price2Spy

It is common practice for developers to search for REST endpoints on other websites in order to retrieve data from other websites in a structured format such as JSON. However, not all websites have built distinct REST APIs; in this situation, Apify is quite beneficial. The majority of the time, the data that an organization collects is what is considered to be of the utmost importance. In comparison to the other systems that are currently accessible, Apify makes it simple to supply clean data.

Incentivized

It generates reports to be analyzed through diagrams and graphs that allow price differentiation on the product in real-time. It extracts IP addresses, e-mails, and images, since the platform does not limit its search to present elements, but also does it internally. It manages product data, price list data, profit margins against competitors, multi-channel communication, import/export data, sales data, customizable data, etc.

Incentivized

• Fast response time, easy to talk to on human and technical level.
• Scalable solution capable of adding additional feature requirements.
• Well documented API, we are able to do some changes by ourselves.

• Monitor your competitors' prices and promotions in real time.
• Allows you to offer deep discounts on your products at a specific time of day, or when a competitor has an offer.
• Track the evolution of your competitors' prices over a period of time, and plan accordingly.

Incentivized

• Managing a big number of people and tasks.
• Larger scale monitoring system.
• Allow users to search and replace datasets by enhancing APIs.

Incentivized

• Being a low-cost system the company does not sell a complete package with all the applications that the organization needs.
• The packages are adapted to the demands of the client.
• The incorporation of products is limited, only 25 products can be uploaded.

Incentivized

I was very happy with the support I received from Apify. They are always ready to answer all your questions and help solve problems you have.

Although the purposes and aims of all three products vary widely, I have found Apify to be the most effective option for web scraping for academic purposes. As someone with only a few months' worths of experience with web scraping, I have found Apify's detailed blog posts and very friendly customer support invaluable in my research.

• Data gathering process is fully automized with high relevance output.
• Data are up-to-date with minimum delay.
• We use extra time for better decision making process instead of report preparation.

• Study and analysis of the product within the web (performance, behavior, demand, supply, etc.).
• Supervision, control, and monitoring of the product and the brand against the competition.
• Monitoring of sites (URLs) according to their internal position on the web.

Incentivized