I measured what my 11 Actors cost to run. The 96x spread was mostly one config field.
I wrote this article twice. The first version was finished, proofread, and queued to publish. Then someone asked a question about one number in it,…
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My 11 Actors were invisible in Apify Store for a week. One query parameter proved it.
I published eleven Actors on Apify at the end of August. A week later they had, between them, zero users who were not me or Apify's own daily QA run…
Two Actors, one agent, and the three ways my chain broke
A client asked a question that sounds simple: which sellers on the marketplaces are risky to buy from? Answering it takes two steps. Find the seller…
I let an Apify Actor read my docs and write one GitHub issue. It found a 404 without cloning the repo.
A broken-link checker usually starts from a deployed website. Mine needed to start one step earlier, in Markdown that lives in GitHub. That distinct…
From an $11.1B trade flow to two GST-active supplier candidates: building a sourcing agent with Apify MCP
A supplier search usually starts too small. You type a product into a marketplace, get a page of companies, and start opening tabs. You still do not…
My AI agent found 129 resolving subdomains. The Actor classified 98 as wildcard-likely.
The first version of my report looked excellent: 129 hostnames, 129 DNS resolutions, and a neat table of HTTP status codes and page titles. It was a…
I gave an Apify Actor three GitHub tools. It found 16 dependency advisories without touching the code.
Most dependency-security demos end with an impressive list and an awkward handoff. Someone still has to find the repository, copy the vulnerable ver…
A scraper isn’t a monitor: detecting new Telegram posts with Apify and n8n
My Actor run succeeded. It returned five recent Telegram posts, each with an ID, timestamp, and permalink. Then I asked the question the automation…
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…
Reverse-Engineering YouTube's InnerTube Search API (WEB Client + Continuations)
Reverse-Engineering YouTube's InnerTube Search API (WEB Client + Continuations) YouTube search in a browser loads HTML. YouTube search as a client s…
I shipped a Tokopedia scraper that undercuts the incumbents 5x — here's the boring part
I shipped a Tokopedia scraper that undercuts the incumbents 5x — here's the boring part Indonesia's biggest marketplace has a data problem: everyone…
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…
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…
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 und…
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 the…
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 Go…