Apify — scraping & enrichment actors

Ask Apollo Space to “find 50 pizza places in São Paulo,” and a few minutes later your pipeline holds 50 new leads — names, addresses, phone numbers, and for many of them an email already pulled from their website. Nobody opened a browser tab or copied a row. That whole motion runs on Apify. The grunt work of building a list — searching, scraping, deduping, hunting down a contact — leaves your plate. You ask in plain language; an agent does the gathering and hands back a clean pipeline.

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What it is

Apify is a platform that runs actors — pre-built scraping/extraction programs for specific sources (Google Maps, LinkedIn, websites, etc.). Apollo Space uses Apify in two critical CRM flows:

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Connection (BYO key)

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What each actor does

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Maps lead search

Searches Google Maps by niche and region and returns a list of businesses with:

• Business name
• Full address
• Phone number (when public)
• Website (when public)
• Latitude / longitude
• Rating and review count
• Category and business hours

Optionally, it can also extract text reviews (up to N per business) — useful for mining pain points.

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Website contacts enrichment

Given a site URL, it crawls the pages looking for:

• Emails (with a same-domain filter to avoid service-provider emails listed in footers)
• Phone numbers in E.164 format
• Social profiles (LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, etc.)

Apollo Space combines the Apify result with an internal lightweight scraper. Apify runs first (more robust); if it returns no same-domain email, the fallback scraper tries. No fabrication: if nothing works, the lead is marked as “no email.”

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How costs are calculated

Apify charges per actor run + per result. For each of the two flows: Prices are visible directly in the Apify dashboard — we are not an intermediary. Apollo Space reads the execution result and deducts Stars proportional to usage.

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Agent tools

You never call Apify directly. Your agents do — reaching for the right actor the moment a request needs one. Apify is exposed to them as two tools: Both generate a trace and an entry in the org’s usage history, auditable in the Billing dashboard.

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Costs

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Known limitations

• Google Maps rate limits — Apify has its own proxy infrastructure, but very aggressive searches can be detected. Apollo Space applies a conservative internal cap to avoid this.
• JavaScript-heavy sites — some single-page-app sites return empty HTML. The contacts actor does not run JavaScript by default (the cost would be high). In these cases the fallback scraper also fails.
• Bulk Google Maps reviews — extracting 50 reviews × 100 businesses is expensive. Apollo Space limits to a few reviews per place by default on large searches; opt in for extended extraction.

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Next steps