I Built Skills That Let AI Agents Query 14 European Government Registries
TL;DR I built 14 Apify actors that scrape official government registries across Poland, Spain, Austria, and France To make them accessible from AI cod…
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I built a competitor pricing monitor in 3 days, here's how it actually works
I lost a deal last month. Prospect told me my competitor had dropped their pricing two weeks earlier. Found out during a live demo. Looked completely …
How to scrape RedNote (Xiaohongshu) with Python in 2026 — the auth/signing problem and how to handle it
RedNote (Xiaohongshu, 小红书, sometimes "Little Red Book" or just XHS) is the platform a lot of Western teams realized they needed to monitor in 2024-202…
The Apify Actor Execution Lifecycle: 8 Decision Engines
The problem: Apify gives you SUCCEEDED or FAILED . That's it. No "your input had 3 unknown fields the actor will silently drop." No "your output's ema…
Event-Driven Scraping vs Cron Jobs: What Actually Works at Scale
Why this comparison matters now Most scraping systems start with a cron job. It’s simple. Schedule a script, run it every few hours, collect data, sto…
Building a Lightweight Media Downloader with Modern Web Techniques (Pinterest Case Study)
In the modern web ecosystem, media consumption has shifted heavily toward short-form visual content. Platforms like Pinterest have become massive disc…
Selenium keeps getting blocked by Cloudflare? Here's what the fingerprint actually catches (and how to stop triggering it)
A post on r/webscraping this week asked a question that keeps coming up: "I'm using Selenium through Chrome, need to scrape ~1M pages at ~1s/page, but…
Building an End-to-End Amazon Movers & Shakers Data Pipeline: Engineering Guide from Real-Time Crawling to Automated Alerting
Background I've been building data infrastructure for Amazon seller tools for the past three years. The most consistently requested feature from our s…
Korea's #1 Real Estate Platform Has No Official API — So I Built a Scraper. Then Got Blocked.
Korea has a real estate problem. Not in the market — in the data. Naver Real Estate (land.naver.com) is South Korea's dominant property platform. Mill…
Weekend Project: Build a ₹0 Amazon India Price Tracker in 50 Lines of Python
Saturday afternoon. You've been eyeing that ₹45,000 laptop on Amazon India for three weeks. Does it dip during the Great Indian Sale? Does it spike on…
How to Scrape Websites with Claude Code (2026 Guide)
Claude Code can edit files, run shell commands, and write tests — but it cannot fetch live web pages on its own. Connect it to CrawlForge MCP and it g…
How to Scrape Telegram Channels in 2026 (Without API Keys or Phone Numbers)
Telegram has 950+ million monthly active users and has become the go-to platform for crypto communities, news channels, research groups, and brand com…
Web scraping for AI agents: How to give your agents web access
AI agents are only as useful as the information they can act on. A reasoning model with a January knowledge cutoff can't tell you today's pricing, yes…
CRBR Scraper: Beneficjenci Rzeczywisci z API
TL;DR CRBR (Centralny Rejestr Beneficjentow Rzeczywistych) to polski rejestr beneficjentow rzeczywistych - wymagany przez dyrektywy UE AML Kazda polsk…
What the Scrapy Maintainer Thinks About AI-Generated Scrapers
I sat down with Adrian Chaves, one of the lead Scrapy maintainers, who also works at Zyte, to ask him the questions I've been chewing on since Zyte la…
Why We're Switching 7 Web Scrapers to Pay-Per-Result on April 17
On April 17, we're flipping the pricing model on seven of our Apify web scrapers from free-to-use to pay-per-result. Twitter, Facebook Ads, Reddit, Et…
I Built an SEO API That Runs 14 Analysis Modules for $0.003 Per Call
Every time I needed to check a page's SEO, I ended up paying $100+/month for tools that gave me raw data and no clear direction. Semrush, Ahrefs, Scre…