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If you sell to local government (IT services, construction, janitorial, consulting), you know the...


An agent repairs a Scrapy spider after a redesign, then heals a live crawl mid-run through Spidermon...


Every tutorial for this is the same twelve lines. I ran them today, logged every status code, and th...


You have a list of target companies from a trade-show catalogue or a CRM export, and you need each.....


The best deals on Vinted go within minutes, and refreshing the same search all day doesn't scale....

250 per page, a hard 25,000-product cap, and short pages that silently break the usual pagination lo...


If you want job-market data — who is hiring for a role, where, and whether it's remote — most...


24 booking sites priced one Marriott for the same two nights. The hotel's own website came 21st.


Last month I rebuilt a scraping pipeline that had been limping along on a bargain-bin datacenter...


Disclosure: I built the Apify Actor used in this tutorial. This post was written with AI...


Scrape Vinted listings from two countries, compare prices with pandas and set up new-listing alerts,...


Disclosure: I built the Actor used in this tutorial, Bilibili Scraper on Apify. Bilibili (哔哩哔哩,...


A 200-line Python CLI measures what a cheap proxy really costs per 1,000 usable requests: real probe...


Price vs. 30-day success rate for 1,568 established Apify scrapers. The correlation is 0.02, and the...


How to evaluate scraping APIs by checking whether the scrape is defined in code, how jobs run, and w...


I didn't change a line of code. The feed changed, and Google News had been saying no the whole...


If you've ever fed a website into a RAG pipeline, you know the boring part isn't the embeddings. It'...


Correction, 2026-09-10 (second update, same day). This post has now been corrected twice, and the...


If you've ever written pytrends.build_payload(...) and seen TooManyRequestsError: The request failed...


If you're job hunting on an H-1B, OPT, STEM OPT or TN, you know the routine. You find a role that...


More IP rotation isn't always better for web scraping. If you're collecting data from hundreds of.....


Our earlier Apple Podcasts post mapped the four public JSON endpoints — charts, search, show lookup,...


Three LaTeX papers read on 19 October 2026. pdfTeX sets word spacing so narrow that standard extract...


One run, two inputs, the same amount of speech. Fetching audio out of a social video page was 82% of...