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Product updates, tips and stories from the world of web scraping and automation.

Illustration showing how Intercom's new AI chatbot uses Apify to ingest web data for customer support

AI

Use cases

How Intercom uses Apify to feed web data to its AI chatbot for customer support

Find out how Fin, Intercom’s new customer support AI chatbot, uses Apify's web crawling technology to leverage data from customer websites and documentation.

Aug 15, 2023

Web scraping and AI finding missing children in Egypt

Use cases

Web scraping

AI

How web scraping and AI are helping to find missing children

The Missing Children initiative began with a Facebook page. Web scraping Facebook for data labeling has taken it to a whole new level and the initiative is now reuniting families all over Egypt.

Aug 7, 2023

Google Maps scraping manual

Google Maps

Data extraction

Google Maps scraping manual: how to extract reviews, images, restaurants, and more 📍 📚

Welcome to your comprehensive guide to extracting valuable data from Google Maps. In this manual, we will walk you through various techniques and tools to help you scrape images, extract restaurant data, gather contact details, scrape reviews, and much more.

Jul 26, 2023

What is generative AI?

AI

LLMs

Machine learning

What is generative AI?

What you need to know about generative AI and what it means for developers.

Jun 23, 2023

Top 5 JavaScript libraries for data scraping

JavaScript

Web scraping

Top 5 JavaScript libraries for data scraping

Explore the benefits of JavaScript for web scraping. Dive deep into the top 5 libraries and find the optimal tool for your data extraction tasks.

Sep 25, 2023

How AI is shaping work

AI

LLMs

Of centaurs and cyborgs: how AI is reshaping work

Reflections on Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier.

Sep 25, 2023

Error 1020 Cloudflare access denied: illustration of barriers to website access

Web scraping

What is error 1020 access denied - and why are you getting it when web scraping?

Ever bumped into Cloudflare's pesky error 1020 while web scraping? Find out what's going on, why it happens, and how you can avoid it like a pro.

Sep 23, 2023

Top 5 social media scrapers to download comments in 2023

Social media

Data extraction

Instagram

Top 5 social media scrapers to download comments in 2023

Discover the power of social media scraping with these five exceptionally fast tools that allow you to extract user-generated data from any platform.

Sep 22, 2023

Playwright selectors for automation, testing, and web scraping: hands on a keyboard

Playwright

Automation

Web scraping

How to use Playwright selectors

A complete guide to Playwright selectors with code and examples.

Ayodele Aransiola

Sep 21, 2023

What is data labeling?

AI

Machine learning

Data

What is data labeling in AI?

Methods and uses of data labeling for AI and machine learning applications.

Sep 20, 2023

Data collection for AI and machine learning models

AI

Data extraction

Data processing

What is data collection for machine learning?

Learn the whole process of collecting data for AI, from acquisition to generating new datasets.

Sep 19, 2023

AI data extraction: how to deal with insufficient data in ML

AI

Data extraction

Machine learning

AI and data extraction: how to deal with lack of data in machine learning

6 ways to deal with insufficient data for AI models.

Sep 18, 2023

Booking.com data export

Travel

Data extraction

Tutorial

How to scrape hotel data from Booking.com

How to use web scraping to quickly extract useful data from any listing on Booking.com.

Sep 17, 2023