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I built this actor; it's a paid tool on Apify with a free trial credit. Y Combinator lists every company it has funded at ycombinator.com/companies:…
TL;DR: You do not need to keep a product page open in a tab and refresh it like it owes you money. There are three ways to get told the moment a pri…
Vinted runs 26 separate marketplaces, and the same jacket can show up on vinted.de, vinted.fr and vinted.it at once. If you resell, track second-han…
How to Build an Anti-Bot Web Scraping MCP Server for Claude & Cursor with Clean Markdown Extraction in Python Autonomous AI assistants in Claude…
A site's sitemap is the cheapest full list of its pages you will ever get: the site publishes it for search engines, it usually carries a lastmod da…
OLX.pl is where a large share of Poland's used cars get listed, by dealers and private owners alike. The site has good filters, but there is no expo…
Allegro is the biggest marketplace in Poland, and if you sell there (or compete with people who do) you end up checking prices by hand far too often…
If an API takes a dateTo parameter, does dateTo: "2026-08-31" include results from the 31st, or exclude them? The honest answer is: it depends on wh…
Glassdoor is one of the few job boards that shows a salary range next to the job : either the employer's own or a Glassdoor estimate. It also shows…
Key Takeaways Telegram provides a free official API. So, the main challenges lie in following privacy regulations, adapting to MTProto, and managing…
Disclosure: I build TubeText . This post uses our TikTok Shop Actor on Apify. The numbers below are from a run I did today. If you search for a "Tik…
Disclosure: I built the Apify Actor used in this tutorial. This post was written with AI assistance. If you are watching the market for one specific…
I run a visa agency in Bali. The other half of my week goes into Apify Actors, and one of them profiles Shopify stores: you hand it a list of domain…
Every tutorial for this is the same twelve lines. I ran them today, logged every status code, and the interesting part is not that it failed. It is…
AliExpress search pages round sales into buckets like "10,000+ sold". That hides the difference between a product with 10,100 orders and one with 19…
If you've ever tried to chart 12 keywords from Google Trends, you've hit the wall: the compare box takes 5 terms max . The obvious workaround (run t…
I run a visa agency in Bali. The half of my week that is not visas goes into Apify Actors, and one of them reads B2B software reviews — Capterra, So…
A polite scraper checks robots.txt before each host, identifies itself, and slows down. This post shows how to do that with Python's standard librar…
Maryland publishes every layoff notice it gets on one web page . It's a table, it's public, it's current, and you can't do anything with it. No sort…
The Actor "UK Public Contracts Lookup" returns UK public procurement notices from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder in one fixed row per notice, ne…
JobSpy (speedyapply/JobSpy on GitHub) is a popular Python library for job search data (about 4,500 GitHub stars): one scrape_jobs() call returns Lin…
The most common message in our support inbox is a variation of “it worked yesterday on my machine”. It did, and it will again — on that machine. Ins…
Visas pay my bills — I run an agency in Bali. The other half of my week goes into Apify Actors, and one of them reads the three Australian supermark…
I run a visa agency in Bali. The other half of my week goes into scrapers on Apify, and one of them reads Booking.com search pages: destination in,…
Most collection pipelines count a fetch as a success when the HTTP status starts with 2. That works right up until the day a site hands you a polite…
1. Introduction Extracting market intelligence from Latin America's largest classifieds marketplace— OLX Brazil ( olx.com.br ) —can be a technical n…
If you sell local SEO, web design or lead-gen services, you probably look at a lot of small-business homepages. Checking them one at a time in a bro…
If you've used youtube-transcript-api , you know the feeling: it works perfectly on your laptop, you deploy it to a server, and every request fails…
Scrapy vs BeautifulSoup for Public-Data Collection: Where Each One Starts Costing You Every scraping tutorial starts with pip install scrapy or pip…
I've only used HikerAPI as the data backend for a self-hosted OSINT tool, and so far just for setup and testing, so this is an early look rather tha…