Apify ranked #1 because it can automate anything you can do manually in a web browser, and run it at scale. They are a one-stop shop for web scraping, data extraction, and web robotic process automations, which let the robots do all the grunt work. Zyte was a solid product, but their customer service channels & ratings left a little wanting.

Apify & Zyte is a clear winner. Zyte automatic extraction is a great ‘do it yourself’ option while Apify does a quicker, cleaner job of crawling arbitrary websites, extracting structured data from them and exporting it to formats such as Excel, CSV or JSON. Not to mention its cheap. Based on this, we recommend trying Apify first.