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AlternativeTo Scraper - Get Software Alternatives & Reviews

Scrape the fastest-growing software directory. Extract app alternatives, competitor software, categories, user reviews, ratings, and features from AlternativeTo.net. Bypasses Cloudflare instantly. Perfect for market research, SEO, and competitive analysis. 100% proxy-free!

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from $1.30 / 1,000 results

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AlternativeTo Scraper

Extract software alternatives, reviews, and category listings from AlternativeTo.net.

This scraper provides structured data for competitive analysis, market research, and lead generation without the need for manual browsing. It easily handles pagination and bypasses Cloudflare anti-bot mechanisms.

Features

Software Alternatives (mode: software): Extract all alternatives for a specific software.
Software Reviews (mode: reviews): Extract all user reviews for a specific software.
Category Explorer (mode: category): Extract a list of software URLs from a specific category.

Input Configuration

The actor accepts the following inputs via the Apify Console or API:

Field	Type	Description	Default
`mode`	String	Scraping mode: `software`, `category`, or `reviews`.	`software`
`startUrls`	Array	List of AlternativeTo URLs to start scraping from.	`[{"url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/notion/"}]`
`maxItems`	Integer	Maximum number of items to scrape. Set to `0` for unlimited.	`200`
`includeReviews`	Boolean	If `mode` is `software`, setting this to `true` will also scrape reviews for that software.	`false`

Example Input

{
    "mode": "software",
    "startUrls": [{"url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/notion/"}],
    "maxItems": 100
}

Output Fields

Software Alternative Output (`mode: software`)

Field	Type	Description
`name`	String	Name of the alternative software.
`alternativeFor`	String	The main software it is an alternative to.
`alternativeToUrl`	String	URL of the alternative software on AlternativeTo.
`description`	String	Short localized description of the app.
`likes`	Integer	Number of likes the alternative received.
`tags`	Array	License tags (Free, Open Source, Freemium, etc.).
`platforms`	Array	Supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Web, etc.).
`sourceUrl`	String	The pagination URL where this item was found.
`imageUrl`	String	Thumbnail image URL.

Review Output (`mode: reviews`)

Field	Type	Description
`software`	String	Name of the software being reviewed.
`reviewer`	String	Name/username of the reviewer.
`rating`	Float	Star rating (out of 5).
`title`	String	Title of the review.
`body`	String	Review content/body text.
`pros`	String	Mentioned pros.
`cons`	String	Mentioned cons.
`date`	String	Date the review was published.

Compute Unit Consumption

This actor uses a lightweight HTTP crawler (BeautifulSoupCrawler), making it extremely fast and cheap to run. It does not use real browsers (Playwright/Puppeteer), meaning memory consumption is minimal (approx. 256MB) and speeds are very high.

100 records typically take less than 5-10 seconds and consume less than 0.001 CU.

Limitations

AlternativeTo heavily relies on heavily nested pagination (?p=2); the scraper correctly handles this but maxItems applies globally across all queued pages.

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