How to scrape OLX.pl car listings by make, year and mileage with Python
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…
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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…
Many startups and tech companies host their careers pages on Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby . All three publish a free, public job-board API : the JSON…
Hey everyone, I do a lot of web scraping and lead generation, and I was getting frustrated with how slow and expensive it is to use AI just to extra…
We re-read a few hundred fee schedules every week, many of them published as PDFs, and check that a quoted amount is still on the page. One bank's p…
If Claude and Codex Can Scrape the Web, Why Do We Still Need Web Scraping Tools? This question has been on my mind lately. Tools like Claude and Cod…
When a competitor launches a new offer, you usually see it in their ads first: a new headline, a new landing page, a new video, a webinar promo. You…