apify
Website Content CrawlerCrawl websites and extract text content to feed AI models, LLM applications, vector databases, or RAG pipelines. The Actor supports rich formatting using Markdown, cleans the HTML, downloads files, and integrates well with 🦜🔗 LangChain, LlamaIndex, and the wider LLM ecosystem.
Publisher description, verbatimbest #1 for “content”
Good at accurate, fast, and easy extraction for most sites with flexible formatting, but it can be unreliable on tricky pages, expensive, and hit hard page/feature limits.
| Theme | Sentiment | Said | What they mean |
|---|---|---|---|
| Does it run | 2 praised · 7 complained | 9 | reliable in Cheerio mode and as fallbackfrequent failures and returning no data“Did not work. The content on the site is in a JavaScript-rendered table. Even though this actor claims to render JavaScript (tested with both recommended options), it returned nothing. Instead, it just cycled through pages and ran up usage costs.” — 1/5 |
| What it costs | 0 praised · 6 complained | 6 | high cost and paywalled features“Why does this need to be a paid AI application? I figured it would scrape what it determines as "important" pages but this is simply scraping every page of a website, this could easily be done with a simple python script and not be paid.” — 1/5 |
| Does it return everything | 3 praised · 4 complained | 7 | comprehensive extraction with formatting optionsmisses some data like emails and websites“Good not great, scarping behind a newpaper paywall i have access to. does some urls, not others, when i redo the ones missed it again does some and not others. basically from a list of 50 urls I've had to scrape 4 times to get the 50” — 3/5 |
| Setup and docs | 6 praised · 1 complained | 7 | easy to use, saves time and effort“I am amazed, this is so cool. The scraping with Google Maps was so straightforward, but i notice i couldn't scrape for email without paying.” — 5/5 |
| How fast | 1 praised · 1 complained | 2 | often fast and responsiveoccasionally very slow and laggy“Je l’aime parce qu’il est rapide” — 4/5 |
| Caps and ceilings | 0 praised · 1 complained | 1 | enforces hard page limits per site“Can we maybe not crawl all pages, create a hard limit on pages per website?” — 5/5 |
| What it supports | 1 praised · 1 complained | 1 | works for most standard websitesstruggles with tricky or complex sites“Very good Crawler. Works better than others and is useful for most of the websites. Keen to see if this can be improved for other websites that are tricky to handle.” — 5/5 |
| Is the data right | 1 praised · 0 complained | 1 | high crawl accuracy and data quality“Very happy with the Crawl quality and ability to select different formattings” — 5/5 |
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