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Marketing & growth
Apify
Web scraping and automation platform, including a Google Maps scraper.
Web scraping and automation platform, including a Google Maps scraper.
Apify is a cloud platform for web scraping, browser automation, and pulling data for AI projects. Instead of writing your own scraping code, you can run any of more than 35,000 ready-made tools, called Actors, that pull data from sites like Google Maps and other platforms.
You pick an Actor, enter what you're looking for, such as a keyword, a location, or a profile URL, and it returns structured data you can export as a spreadsheet or feed into another tool. Apify also lets developers build custom scrapers and automation workflows when the pre-made ones don't fit.
Alec Saluga used Apify's free-tier Google Maps scraper in Episode 002 to pull a prospect list by keyword and geo while testing how fast an AI-built company could source real leads. He came back to Apify in Episode 004, one of seven under-the-radar AI tools featured that episode, this time using its off-the-shelf scrapers for social platforms to pull data for prospecting instead of coding a custom crawler.
We keep Apify in the stack because the Google Maps Actor does, for free, what tools like Apollo.io charge for: a targeted list of businesses by category and location, ready to plug into outreach. The practical takeaway is that you don't need a developer or a paid data provider to build a first prospect list. You need a keyword, a place, and a few minutes on Apify's free tier before you decide whether a paid tool is worth it.
Apify itself is a developer platform underneath. It's built around code templates, APIs, and configurable scraping jobs, and the full toolset assumes some technical comfort. But the specific use we recommend, running the pre-built Google Maps Actor, is simple: you enter a search term and a location and download a list, no code required. Treat Apify as a tool where you use one packaged feature rather than the platform at large, and leave the rest of it to the developers.
Genuine substitutes for Apify that we've also run on stage:
Yes, Apify has a free tier. Free tier available; usage-based paid plans.
Free tier available; usage-based paid plans.
Alec Saluga used it in Episode 002 for scraping prospect lists from Google Maps by keyword and geo; Alec Saluga used it in Episode 004 for pulling social platform data with off-the-shelf scrapers; Alec Saluga used it in Session 006 for scraping an attorney lead list to feed the cold-email agent.
Apify itself is a developer platform underneath. It's built around code templates, APIs, and configurable scraping jobs, and the full toolset assumes some technical comfort. But the specific use we recommend, running the pre-built Google Maps Actor, is simple: you enter a search term and a location and download a list, no code required. Treat Apify as a tool where you use one packaged feature rather than the platform at large, and leave the rest of it to the developers.
Tools we've also used live that can stand in for Apify: Apollo.io, Firecrawl.
| Category | Marketing & growth |
|---|---|
| Pricing | Free tier available; usage-based paid plans. |
| Free tier | Yes |
| Used live in | Episode 002 and Episode 004 and Session 006 |
| Operator(s) | Alec Saluga |
| Website | apify.com |
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A former B2B salesman with no technical background who self-taught AI. He builds and deploys AI-driven marketing and websites, and has grown a following of over 15,000 teaching AI adoption.
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