UK public procurement notices in one schema: Find a Tender and Contracts Finder
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…
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How to bulk-audit local business websites
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…
How to track new jobs from Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby (daily alerts, no HTML scraping)
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…
5 Public-Record Checks for KYB Entity Verification
Know Your Business (KYB) starts with a boring question: does this company actually exist, and is it in good standing? Most onboarding flows still tr…
How to Pull App Store App Intelligence Without a Paid API
The problem Tracking a portfolio of iOS apps — competitors, prospects, or your own releases — sounds trivial until you do it by hand. Rating, review…
Checking If a Business's Google Profile Actually Matches Its Own Website
If you do local SEO work, you've run into this: a client's Google Business Profile says one phone number, their website footer says another, and nob…
Turning Google Maps Scraper Output into a 0-100 Lead Priority Score (No Scraping, No LLM)
If you've ever built a lead-gen pipeline for a local SEO or web design agency, you know the pattern: scrape a bunch of businesses off Google Maps, t…
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,…
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…
The last mile of a scraper is a human copying a spreadsheet
I scrape product cards from online stores for a content bank with an Actor of my own . The Actor finishes, the dataset fills up, and then a person e…
My Actors worked fine until an AI agent called them
On 27 July I published a scraper that pulls product cards and specifications from online stores. It was my fourteenth Actor. The others cover compan…
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…
Read any BetterStack status page as JSON
Status pages are built for humans: a page per vendor, each with its own markup. If you want the same data as JSON — which components exist, what sta…
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…
Find YouTube Channels by Topic, Language, and Country
Most tools that find YouTube channels by topic treat the search as one keyword and one result page. That works for lookup. It misses how creator dis…
YouTube Channel Scraper in Python: Filter Active Creators
A YouTube channel scraper in Python can collect channel names, subscriber counts, and URLs. That solves extraction. It does not solve creator qualif…
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…
How We Built a Modular Etsy Research Pipeline with Apify
When people think about scraping Etsy, they often imagine a single script that collects everything in one run. That approach works for small experim…
How Resellers Price Flips With Real Mercari Sold Data (No Manual Digging)
The problem If you resell on Mercari, or you price inventory against it, you already know the annoying part. There's no export button. No bulk downl…
I Built a Free World Cup 2026 Live Scores API on Apify — Here's How
The World Cup is here and getting clean, structured match data is surprisingly painful. The official FIFA site has no public API. Third-party servic…
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…
Twitch Chat Scraper: export any VOD's full chat replay for $1.05/1K
Quick answer: Twitch stores a complete timestamped chat replay for every public VOD but exposes no public API or bulk-export endpoint for it. To get…
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…
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,…