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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…
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…
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…
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…
Originally published on proxymint . Read and write proxy strings: host:port:user:pass, user:pass@host:port, http:// vs socks5h:// URLs, separate fie…
Google Hotels quietly does something very useful: for any hotel and any dates, it lists the price on the hotel's own website and on Booking.com, Exp…
If you've been paying attention the last few years, you know prices for nearly everything have increased significantly. This is well reflected in ma…
"What browser MCP to bypass Cloudflare?" is a live question on r/ClaudeAI, and the honest answer for most of 2026 was: none of them reliably, ours i…
I built this actor; it's a paid tool on Apify with a free trial credit. Google Hotels shows you a price for every hotel in a city, but there's no of…
Every "watch mode" Actor in our catalog — the ones that poll a source and only deliver new rows since the last run — keeps a baseline of ids it has…
I wanted to build a project that combined several technologies into one practical automation pipeline: Node.js Web scraping RSS Offline NLP Generati…
Every one of our Actors is HTTP-only — no Puppeteer, no Playwright, no headless Chromium in production. We say this is faster and cheaper. This post…
I scrape data for a living, and most of that job is the same fight over and over: a site has data I need, and it really doesn't want me to have it.…
Quick answer: we asked Facebook's own internal pagination for 40 posts per Page. Across three unrelated Pages — NASA, Nike, Microsoft — we got back…
One Google Maps query stops at roughly 200 results. Every other decision in this pipeline falls out of that single number. I live in Dubai. Google M…
Originally published at linkdigest.dev , where I build this. Every number here came from a live link on 2026-09-08 and 2026-09-10. The failure descr…
Most browser automation examples start with selectors. Find the button, identify the input, write the script, and hope the page does not change befo…
The modern web is honestly astonishing. There are layers upon layers of security mechanisms working behind the scenes, and some of these systems are…
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…
Quick answer Craigslist search pages ship two copies of every listing: a static HTML list, and a JSON-LD <script> block with images, currency,…
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…
We keep a written do-not-build list. Vinted has been on it for months, with a one-line reason: DataDome, plus a saturated incumbent at 108k runs and…
I recently shipped a small Apify Actor — a keyword-based monitor for a government data portal, built with Playwright + Camoufox (a hardened Firefox…
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,…
Sports data is one of those areas where the gap between "public information" and "affordable to obtain" is absurd. Scores and results are facts, pri…
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…
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…
Introduction Browser automation has become essential infrastructure for web scraping, testing, SEO monitoring, and competitive intelligence. Yet raw…