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Dev tools · October 20, 2015

Apifier

The web scraping and automation platform

Apifier launched on October 20, 2015 with 223 votes, #93 of 4,175 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

Visit apify.com ↗Apifier alternativestop 2% of October 2015

What it does

https://www.apifier.com extracts data from websites, crawls lists of URLs and automates workflows on the web. Turn any website into an API in a few minutes! See our relaunch as Apify: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/apify-1

Thousands of tools to automate your business. Get real-time web data, track competitors, generate leads, and integrate your apps and AI agents.

Apify is a marketplace of ready-to-run tools for AI. Get real-time web data, track competitors, generate leads, monitor social media, and integrate your apps and agents. Extract data from TikTok videos, hashtags, and users. Use URLs or search queries to scrape TikTok profiles, hashtags, posts, URLs, shares, followers, hearts, names, video, and music-related data. Export scraped data, run the scraper via API, schedule and monitor runs or integrate with other tools. Extract data from thousands of Google Maps locations and businesses, including reviews, reviewer details, images, contact info, including full name, email, and job title, opening hours, prices & more. Export data, run via API,…from apify.com

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