I publish data Actors on the Apify Store as Yappman Data, all on pay-per-event pricing. This is a list of things I got wrong about pricing and charging, and what I did about each. It is not a recipe. It is the short version of my own notes, in case it saves you the same detours. 1. I thought…
Product research on the Apify Store usually starts with two questions: what is selling on Amazon, and what does it cost on AliExpress. This post compares the most-used scrapers for each with the two I built, using the prices each Store page listed at the time of writing. Disclosure: I'm Aurelix…
Job data on the Apify Store comes from two kinds of tools: scrapers of a job board such as LinkedIn, and scrapers of employers' own career sites (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and the like). This post compares the most-used tools of each kind with the two I built, using the prices each Store page listed…
Most scraping jobs end in the same place: someone wants the rows in a spreadsheet. A recruiter wants new job posts, a marketer wants a list of competitor URLs, a founder wants leads they can sort and comment on. And often the reverse is needed too: a sheet of inputs (domains, keywords, product IDs)…
By the end of this tutorial, you will have a short Python script that turns public Instagram usernames and post links into structured rows: caption, like and comment counts, image link and date for each post, plus follower, following and post counts for each profile. We use two Apify Actors that…
You want to know what a YouTube channel said about a topic, and hear about it when it says it again. This walkthrough uses the YouTube Transcript Scraper Actor, which I built. Disclosure: it is my own Actor, priced at $1.50 per 1,000 transcript hours on the Free and Starter plans (a video under an…
Scraping 50k Spanish Public Tenders (PLACSP) into Clean JSON in <26s with Apify Public procurement in Spain represents over €100 billion annually . The Spanish central government, 17 autonomous regions, and thousands of municipal councils publish every tender, contract award, and minor RFP on the…
