Apify Blog: Web scraping and automation stories

How do proxies affect digital freedom?

Proxies and VPNs can affect internet transparency in many ways. They can unlock geo-restricted content, prevent discrimination, and grant digital freedom under oppressive regimes. Learn more about online openness and censorship.

5 min read Jan 26, 2022

Cheerio Scraper

How to efficiently scrape any website with Cheerio Scraper

Matt Stephens

Find out how to use Cheerio Scraper to quickly and easily extract data from the web. No programming experience necessary!

7 min read Jan 25, 2022

Web Scraping

Web scraping vs. screen scraping

Theo Vasilis

Web scraping vs. screen scraping. Find out the differences, their uses, and which tools to use.

4 min read Jan 24, 2022

Ecommerce

How to scrape data from Walmart

Tuğkan Cengiz

Go beyond the official Walmart API and use web scraping to extract product info, prices, images, and more from Walmart.

2 min read Jan 23, 2022

JavaScript

Web scraping with JavaScript vs. Python in 2022

Percival Villalva

Python and JavaScript are two of the most popular programming languages. Find out which one you should use for web scraping in 2022.

16 min read Jan 21, 2022

Booking

How to scrape hotel data from Booking.com

Natasha Lekh

The availability of data on travel destinations, reviews of places to stay, comments and user profiles on Booking.com opens up unlimited opportunities for its use. Here’s just a couple of data-backed examples of how you can extract data from Booking.com and use it for your business.

7 min read Jan 20, 2022

Proxy

What is a proxy server?

Mariachiara Faraon, Theo Vasilis, Dávid Lukáč

Find out everything you need to learn about proxies, what they are, how they work, how to get one, and how Apify Proxy can help, with this quick guide to proxy servers.

5 min read Jan 19, 2022

Engineering

How to turn any website into an RSS feed

Marek Trunkát

What if a website you want to integrate does not provide an RSS feed? In this article, we’ll show you how to build a simple crawler and publish its content in an RSS feed.

4 min read Jan 13, 2022