Most Trusted Apify Lottery Draws API Review
Apify Lottery Draws API Rating
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Coverage
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Uptime
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Ease of Integration
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Trust & Continuity
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Pricing & Plans
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Customer Support
Summary
The Lottery Draws API provided by Apify is fairly decent with a good coverage of lottery games. However, there may be a slight learning curve with the use of their “Actors” and they can also do better with their customer support.
We signed up and tested the Lottery Draws API provided by Apify.
Coverage
The Lottery Draws API provided by Apify supports more than 500 games in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, UK and USA.
Uptime
Apify has an uptime of 99.9% to 99.99%. This is acceptable but not great, as compared to today’s best-in-class websites with 99.99% to 100% uptime.
Ease of Integration
It was very easy to sign up but the set up is quite complicated with the need to create “Actors” in the dashboard. The client script will then connect and execute these “Actors”. It took us 1-2 hours to successfully retrieve the draws for Powerball and Mega Millions.
The documentation in the site is not very clear and partial sample codes are provided in different programming languages. The API response is available in different formats.
Trust & Continuity
Apify was founded in 2015 and it has been around for slightly more than 10 years.
The Apify website is well-designed with clear privacy policy and terms of service. With many APIs and Actors in Apify, it is likely that Apify will be around for a fairly long time.
However, the APIs in Apify are provided by other developers and API providers. Hence, we cannot be sure how long the Lottery Draws API will be maintained and continue to be available in Apify.
Pricing & Plans
Apify provides 5 different subscription plans to meet different needs, starting from a Free plan to an Enterprise plan with unlimited usage.
Customer Support
Apify has a “Contact sales” form but there is no way to reach out to their technical support. We submitted the “Contact sales” form with a technical query related to the use of PHP and we did not get any response after 2 days!
