How to set up a content change watchdog for any website in 5 minutes
Use our actor to regularly check specific content on any website and send you an email notification whenever it changes.
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Apify Blog
Product updates, tips and stories from the world of web scraping and automation.
How to scrape Instagram posts, comments, and photos
How to use our unofficial Instagram API to extract Instagram profile data, comments, hashtags, likes, locations, and photos.
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Top 10 free web scraping tools for data analysts, powered by Apify
Discover top 10 free web scraping tools for data analysts. Learn about the difference between web scraping tools, techniques and companies
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Pros and cons of web scraping
If you've ever heard of web scraping or web crawling, this post is for you. In this article, we will talk about the pros and cons of using web scraping tools and technologies.
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How to scrape Google Trending Searches
Our Google Trending Searches actor lets you extract data on what people are really searching for, with no limits or quotas.
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August updates from Apify
Check out our new UI on Apify platform, our take on Captcha/Anticaptcha, a Google Maps scraping tutorial and a list of updated scrapers.
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Is web scraping legal?
We cover the most important areas of confusion surrounding the legality of web scraping and give you some useful tips to keep your scrapers compliant and ethical.
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How to scrape Google SERPs
Find out how you can scrape Google Search result pages (SERPs) and extract reviews, organic and paid results, ads, prices, People Also Ask, and more.
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5 powerful scrapers to add to your SEO tool kit
How to use web scraping to monitor your own website, keep an eye on competitors, perform SEO audits, and scrape Google.
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Apify is growing: 3 big changes you should know about
We're making some changes to make it even easier for our users and clients to work with us.
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How to scrape data from Google Maps
Guide to scraping reviews, popular times, photos and more from Google Maps. Go beyond the limits of the official API and get unlimited results
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Why CAPTCHAs are bad UX and how they get bypassed
How much do you know about captchas? Why do we need them, are there alternatives, and do they even still work on the modern web? Read our exploration of the CAPTCHA, how it fails on multiple fronts, and how it might even result in some exploitative practices across the world.
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