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Apify
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Full-stack platform for web scraping, data extraction, and automation; category leader.
👁 4.4M/mo♥ 2.0K
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Semantic Scholar
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Widely used AI research engine for scientific literature discovery with API.
👁 7.9M/mo♥ 13K
Pricing
No public pricing
Free: $0/mo ($5 included usage)
Starter: $29/mo ($26/mo billed annually)
Scale: $199/mo ($179/mo billed annually)
Business: $999/mo ($899/mo billed annually)
Free trial available
Free Plan: $0 one-time
Hobby: $16/month
Standard: $83/month
Growth: $333/month
Auto Recharge Credits: $11/mo for 1000 credits
Credit Pack: $9/mo for 1000 credits
Enterprise Plan: Contact for Pricing
No public pricing
Core features
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- ✦Web scraping
- ✦Data extraction
- ✦Browser automation
- ✦AI agents
- ✦Anti-blocking
- ✦Proxy rotation
- ✦Open-source tools (Crawlee)
- ✦Ready-made tools and code templates
- ✦Web scraping
- ✦Web crawling
- ✦Data extraction in Markdown, JSON, and screenshot formats
- ✦Dynamic content handling
- ✦Rotating proxies
- ✦Rate limits management
- ✦Open-source availability
- ✦Media Parsing
- ✦AI-driven search and discovery of scientific literature
- ✦Semantic Reader for augmented reading
- ✦API for developers
- ✦Search 226,403,244 papers from all fields of science
Use cases
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- →Data for generative AI
- →Lead generation
- →Market research
- →Sentiment analysis
- →Powering AI assistants with real-time web content
- →Enhancing sales data with web information
- →Adding scraping capabilities to code editors
- →Enabling customers to build AI apps with web data
- →Extracting comprehensive information for in-depth research
- →Discovering relevant research papers
- →Augmenting the reading experience with Semantic Reader
- →Building scholarly apps using the API
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