Market research

Use web scraping to uncover deep insights from reviews, social media, comments, and forums. Find out what real customers are saying about you and your competitors.

Get data from the web and learn more about your customers

Web scraping gives you the tools to gather data from product reviews, news articles, social media, and forums. Use that data to make informed decisions on product development, marketing strategies, pricing, and distribution.

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Competitor research with AI

After extracting the data you need, use our AI Product Matcher to find product pairs in provided datasets to i.e. compare your prices with your competitors.

Get a head start with further data manipulation, all while keeping your data safe within Apify's ecosystem, where you can integrate your workflow with other platforms and schedule your tasks to run on a regular basis.

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4 steps to scrape market research data

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Sign up

First, create an Apify account. It’s free, no credit card is required, and you get $5 free prepaid platform usage every month!

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Choose an Actor

Apify Store features hundreds of pre-built tools (we call them Actors) for extracting data from different websites. Check out the market research scrapers that could fit your use case.

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Get your data

After everything’s set up, run the Actor. As soon as it’s successful, you’ll be able to download your data in Excel, JSON, HTML, and many other formats.

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Schedule, integrate, monitor

You can further automate your workflow by saving the data to Google Drive, sending automated Gmail and Slack notifications, or monitoring and scheduling your Actor runs.

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We truly care about the satisfaction of our users and thanks to that we're one of the best-rated data extraction platforms on both G2 and Capterra.

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Monitor your runs

With our latest monitoring features, you always have immediate access to valuable insights on the status of your web scraping tasks.

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Export to various formats

Your datasets can be exported to any format that suits your data workflow, including Excel, CSV, JSON, XML, HTML table, JSONL, and RSS.

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Integrate Apify to your workflow

You can integrate your Apify runs with platforms such as Zapier, Make, Keboola, Google Drive, or GitHub. Connect with practically any cloud service or web app.

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Frequently asked questions

What is web scraping and how can it help me with market research?

If you were to do market research prices manually, you'd probably have to pay a lot of money (typically more than $15,000) for a custom industry report or collect data online yourself. Then you would need to put it into a structured database or even just an Excel spreadsheet. Web scraping does this job for you and creates datasets of structured data from the web pages that you point it to. Scraping is essential if you want to do market research at scale and it will save you an immense amount of time.

It is legal to scrape publicly available data such as product descriptions, prices, or ratings. On the other hand, certain types of data, such as personal data or copyrighted content, are under special legal protection and you should not scrape these without first making sure you follow the relevant laws and regulations. Read through our blog post on the web scraping legality to learn more about the law and extracting data from the web. Web scraping for market research is specfically permitted in the European Union by the DSM directive.

I couldn’t find a scraper for my specific website. Can I build it?

Knock yourself out! Our platform was built to host and run thousands of scrapers. You can customize a universal Web Scraper or start a new one with some of our ready-made templates in Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript. You can keep the scraper to yourself or make it public by adding it to Apify Store (and even make a little cash out of it). You can also integrate your scraper with other popular data processing services such as Keboola, Airbyte, or Zapier.

I don’t need to download scraped data. Is there an API I can use instead?

Yes, there is. You can have programmatic access to any scraper on the platform via Apify's web scraping API. It is organized around RESTful HTTP endpoints and can be accessed either by using Python or Node.js clients, or manually. This API will enable you to fetch results directly from any of your datasets. Check out the Apify API reference docs for full details.

I'm not a developer. Can you build a custom market research scraper for me?

Sure! We can build you a custom web scraper or, if you're searching for a more affordable solution, get an external developer to create the scraper for you via our Apify freelancer program.

I don’t need scrapers for market research, but I know somebody who does. Can I refer them?

Yes. Our affiliate program offers up to 50% recurring commission for its participants. You can check out the terms & conditions and sign up for Apify Affiliate here.

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