USE CASE:
SaaS companies and the cost of page discovery
This page is about page discovery for SaaS companies: the options you actually have, what each one costs, and which one we would pick. The tools we name are Mamba Labs Apify actors, priced per row, and Page Finder Extractor is the one pointed at SaaS companies.
The situation
SaaS companies complicate page discovery, for a reason specific to them. Any page discovery method has to survive this: SaaS companies sell to other businesses and publish almost nothing about their own numbers. On SaaS companies, page discovery rarely catches this: headcount flatters them, because contractors and alumni linger on a company page for years. We keep 1 preconfigured task for page discovery on SaaS companies, across 1 tool.
What is at stake
The question about SaaS companies is simple and the work is opening several hundred websites and clicking around each one.
Traditional Search Tools
- G2, for SaaS companies. Categories and review counts, free to read, and it only covers vendors that asked to be listed.
- Google with a site operator. Free and precise. Fine for twenty companies, and rate limited into uselessness past that.
- Screaming Frog. Crawls a whole site and finds every page matching a pattern. Built for one site at a time rather than a list of hundreds.
- Guessing the URL. Try slash pricing. It works surprisingly often and fails silently, which is the problem.
- Search the site. A site search in Google with the term you want gets you there in one query per company. Reliable, and it is still one query per company.
Preconfigured tasks
A task is one of these actors with the inputs already filled in for a specific version of this job. Open one, swap in your own list, and run it without setting anything up from scratch.
Mamba Labs Apify Actors
These are the actors we built for this job. If yours is not covered here, search from the bar at the top of the page or contact us here and tell us what you need.
- Page Finder Extractor1 preconfigured task on this page's job.