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Three small API-backed actors I've shipped recently (Docker Hub, lead extraction, SEC Form 4)
I build small, narrow Apify actors — each one wraps a single official API or data source and does one job well, rather than trying to be a general-p…
Headless browsers vs. SERP APIs: Why your Playwright scraper fails in production
Every developer who builds web scrapers goes through the same initial rite of passage. You need search engine data for an SEO tracking tool, an AI r…
How We Sneaked a 1024-Dimensional AI Visual Brain Directly into a Browser Tab (With Zero Cloud Costs)
Picture this all-too-familiar developer or designer headache: You are scrolling through an image-heavy web portal—say a design showcase, an asset li…
Reverse Proxies vs Forward Proxies: Which Architecture Do You Need?
Introduction When you're scaling infrastructure or managing network security, proxies become essential tools—but they solve fundamentally different…
Why Your AI Agent Gets Blocked and Your Chrome Doesn't
Two months ago I gave an agent a simple job: log into a vendor portal, download last month's invoice PDF, rename it, drop it in a folder. It worked…
Building an x402-aware crawler in Go: what Cloudflare's Monetization Gateway means for web scraping
57% of internet traffic today is AI and web scraping bots — up from just 20% in 2021. For site owners, this has meant a frustrating binary: block bo…
Building an Enterprise Football Data Pipeline: Decoding Flashscore's Protocol for xG & Referee Analytics
Most football data scrapers on the market only extract high-level final scores (e.g. 2-1 ). But quantitative sports analysts, data scientists, and p…
Job Postings Are the Most Underused B2B Intent Signal (And You Don't Even Need to Scrape)
A funding announcement tells you a company has money. A job posting tells you exactly where they're about to spend it — and it's published weeks bef…
Company Enrichment Without the Per-Credit Tax: Website to Firmographics JSON With an LLM
Most of what B2B enrichment vendors sell is information companies publish about themselves, for free, on their own websites. What you're paying per-…
I Built a Production Job Scraper in 4 Days — Here's What I Learned
I spent the last 4 days building a multi-site job scraper. Not a toy project — an actual production tool that runs on Apify and works reliably. This…
The Hidden Reason Government Funding Data Is So Hard to Trust
Every government funding program answers the same five questions: who can apply, how much money, what it's for, what the deadline is, and how to app…
I Built a Self-Healing Web Scraper That Refuses to Break
Every developer who has worked with web scraping knows the pain: a website updates its UI, a CSS class name changes, and suddenly your entire data p…
A permissive robots.txt is not a licence
I have a scraper that watches ten sites I consider adjacent to my work. It has been running since early July. The output goes into a vector store th…
Scraping Sites That Block Bots: Cloudflare, DataDome & PerimeterX
For most of the web, scraping is a solved problem: fetch the URL, parse the HTML, done. The interesting sites — the ones with prices, listings, revi…
How to Build a Web Crawler with Scrapy
How to Build a Web Crawler with Scrapy tags: python, scrapy, webscraping, tutorial How to Build a Web Crawler with Scrapy: A Step-by-Step Guide Imag…
Half the web already hands you clean product data. You just have to ask.
I once spent an afternoon writing selectors to pull a price off a product page. Wrote the CSS path, handled the currency symbol, dealt with the sale…
Scraping millions of pages a day: what actually breaks
I ran a scraping platform that processed millions of pages a day at roughly 95% extraction success, around three seconds per page. The fetch-and-par…
Google Trends ties its data tokens to your IP and it broke my scraper in a way I didn't expect
I just shipped a Google Trends scraper as an Apify Actor ( https://apify.com/swiftscrape/google-trends-fast-scraper ), and the most interesting part…
I built a tool that checks whether ChatGPT recommends your brand (Python + Apify)
Your customers have stopped Googling "best note-taking app." They're asking ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini instead — and getting back a short list…
Scraping Indian government open data in 2026: what actually works
I maintain Village Finder , an open-source mapping project tracking over 78,000 Indian villages. It works by pulling daily raw updates straight from…
Lead Enrichment Pipeline: From Domain to Full Company Profile (Free Stack)
The standard playbook for a BDR or founder-led sales effort goes roughly like this: get a list of target domains, enrich them with a paid tool (Clea…
CDP Browser Control: Driving Real Chromium from Python
Playwright and Selenium are great until you hit bot detection. Google OAuth, Cloudflare, and Vercel checkpoints all flag headless browsers. Here's h…
WAFER Deep Crawler: 8-Layer Stealth Architecture - Fingerprint Layer
WAFER Deep Crawler: The 8-Layer Stealth Architecture - Fingerprint Layer Deep Dive Part of the WAFER Deep Crawler Series Suitable for developers wit…
Migration Playbook: Cron Script Actor. Six Steps, No Rewrites.
TL;DR — Migrating a long-running cron-based scraper to an actor architecture does not require a rewrite. It requires six structural changes applied…
Why Data Collection Systems Work for 10 Minutes and Fail After 10,000 Requests
Most data collection systems do not fail immediately. They fail slowly as request volume exposes patterns that were invisible during testing. Many d…
How We Optimized a Django Playwright Scraper to Save 60% on Rotating Proxy Bandwidth
As indie hackers and backend developers, we love using modern browser automation frameworks like Playwright to handle heavy, JavaScript-rendered dyn…
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 conf…
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 transactio…
I scraped 50,000 G2 reviews to map the 2026 SaaS Battlecard Atlas
The 2026 SaaS Battlecard Atlas: What 50,000 G2 Reviews Reveal About 25 of the Most-Used B2B Tools A few weeks ago I got tired of guessing which B2B…