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…
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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…
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…