How to scrape data from Google Maps
Guide to scraping places, reviews, popular times, images, and more from Google Maps.
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Apify Blog
Product updates, tips and stories from the world of web scraping and automation.
How to build a 15-minute city: a question answered by map data
Find out how extracting quantitative data from Google Maps can help us understand and suggest improvements in the urban environment.
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Cypress vs. Selenium: choosing the right web testing and automation framework for your project
We explore the advantages and disadvantages of Cypress and Selenium to help you decide which one to choose for your web testing and browser automation needs. But here’s the kicker: you might not even have to make that choice.
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How to extract all data from Facebook Ads
Facebook is more than just social media. It’s also a powerful business platform and one of its strongest features is that it directly connects consumers to brands.
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Beautiful Soup vs. Scrapy for web scraping
Many people who are just starting out with web scraping wonder what the differences are between Beautiful Soup and Scrapy. This post should shed some light on their different features and purposes and help you decide which one is better for your project.
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Facebook data mining with web scraping
Facebook data mining lets you dive deeper into market demographics, helps you to offer products based on people’s personal choices, and makes it possible to identify consumer behavior. But data mining can’t happen without web scraping. Find out why you need a Facebook scraper for Facebook mining.
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Scraping single-page applications with Playwright
Switching to Playwright with headless Chrome provides a more powerful and flexible way to scrape SPAs. Automate browser interactions, wait for dynamic content updates, intercept API requests, and extract data using the DOM API.
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Apify ❤️ Python: Releasing a Python SDK for Actors
Whether you are scraping with BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, Selenium, or Playwright, the Apify Python SDK helps you run your project in the cloud at any scale.
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How to set up a content change watchdog for any website in 5 minutes
Learn how to automate website monitoring and get notified whenever a website changes.
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How to scrape Facebook data from Facebook pages
Your detailed step-by-step guide to scraping Facebook Pages without using the official Facebook API. You’ll be able to scrape any publicly available information about any page, without running up against Facebook’s limits.
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Your step-by-step guide to scraping Amazon product data
How to extract product information without Amazon API, including title, URL, descriptions, features, prices, images, seller, stock status, ASINs.
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How to scrape posts and comments from Facebook Groups
Scraping Facebook data, especially scraping Facebook Groups is no easy task. Learn how to get group posts without official Facebook Groups API.
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