How Resellers Price Flips With Real Mercari Sold Data (No Manual Digging)
The problem If you resell on Mercari, or you price inventory against it, you already know the annoying part. There's no export button. No bulk downloa…
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I Built a Free World Cup 2026 Live Scores API on Apify — Here's How
The World Cup is here and getting clean, structured match data is surprisingly painful. The official FIFA site has no public API. Third-party services…
Building a Lean, Single-Worker Broken URL Monitor for Data Pipelines
The Technical Problem: Websites Drift, Pipelines Don't Know Long-running scraping pipelines have a structural assumption baked in: the URLs you config…
Twitch Chat Scraper: export any VOD's full chat replay for $1.05/1K
Quick answer: Twitch stores a complete timestamped chat replay for every public VOD but exposes no public API or bulk-export endpoint for it. To get t…
Threads Reply Scraper: export the full conversation tree of any public post
Quick answer: Meta's official Threads API is gated behind a developer-account review and refuses third-party conversation reads. To export the full re…
Steam Regional Price Data: fetch 60 regions in one run for $1.05/1K
Quick answer: Steam publishes regional prices on the public store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails endpoint — but it returns one currency at a time, ti…
I shipped 7 production MCP server Actors in two weeks — here's what the docs don't tell you
I shipped 7 production MCP server Actors in two weeks — here's what the docs don't tell you The first Actor took most of a day. The seventh took under…
Reverb Scraper: pull historical sold prices for any musical gear
Quick answer: The Reverb Price Guide is the largest public dataset of used-instrument sale prices on the internet — millions of completed transactions…
LLM API pricing comparison: one schema across all 7 providers for $5.05/1K
Quick answer: There is no unified official API for LLM pricing. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Groq, Together AI, and DeepSeek each publish their…
Kick Chat Scraper: archive live chat before it disappears forever
Quick answer: Kick.com exposes no API for past chat and no download button. A kick chat scraper connects to Kick's public Pusher WebSocket — the same …
Bing Search API Replacement: scrape SERP results for $1.05/1K
Quick answer: Microsoft retired the Bing Search API on August 11, 2025. There is no longer an official endpoint. A Bing search scraper hits the same w…
ATS Tech Stack Detector: pull company back-end stacks from jobs for $5.05/1K
Quick answer: Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby each publish a public job-board API that any job aggregator can hit — no auth required. An ATS tech stack d…
Google AI Overview Tracker: 8-selector battery + citation drift telemetry
Quick answer: Google publishes no API for AI Overview citations. The only way to get the data programmatically is to render Google SERPs in a real bro…
How I built a Bluesky scraper using the AT Protocol API (and published it on Apify)
Bluesky hit 40 million users earlier this year, and unlike Twitter, it runs on an open protocol — the AT Protocol — where public data is genuinely pub…
Your recurring scraper is re-downloading data that didn't change. Here's the 15-line fix (conditional GET)
Note: This is a cross-post. Canonical version (full long-form) lives on my blog: https://blog.spinov.online/blog/ethical-scraping-is-a-rate-limit-ques…
How to set up refresh-token-only OAuth for a multi-tenant Apify Actor (Gmail, 10 minutes)
How to set up refresh-token-only OAuth for a multi-tenant Apify Actor (Gmail, 10 minutes) If you're shipping an Apify Actor that calls a per-user Goog…
GEO для Яндекс Нейро: 4 метрики, которые отвечают на главный вопрос «почему меня нет в выдаче»
Когда в 2023-2024 году Яндекс и Google запустили генеративные ответы поверх поисковой выдачи, классические SEO-метрики начали ломаться по одной. Позиц…
Why my Reddit scraper went from 92% to 61% success rate in 30 days (and the one-line fix)
Why my Reddit scraper went from 92% to 61% success rate in 30 days (and how I fixed it in one config flag) I publish a small Reddit scraper actor on t…
Track brand mentions across China's top 5 social platforms in one API call — $0.045 per mention
If your brand competes for Chinese consumers and you're not actively monitoring conversations on Weibo, RedNote, Bilibili, Douban, and Xueqiu, you're …
Sample dataset analysis: a 100-row snapshot of Sitemap
I pulled a 100-row sample of Sitemap to see whether the dataset is rich enough to support pipeline health checks, content auditing, structured-data va…