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David Barton

Head of Content at Apify since 2016. MSc in Computer Science from TCD. Former game designer and newspaper production manager. I take complex things and make them clear.

Glob vs. regex: old and young data scientist puzzling over a magnifying glass

Tool comparisons

Programming

Glob vs. regex

Sep 27, 2023

Programmer passive income - illustration of software developer revenue

Programming

Developer community

Programmer passive income: how to get new customers for your web scrapers

Sep 5, 2023

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

Case studies

AI

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

Aug 15, 2023

Illustration of hackers and AI brain for post on Prompt injection and AI: hidden threat to AI web scraping?

AI

Thought leadership

Prompt injection: hidden threat to AI web scraping?

May 26, 2023

Apify leaves 2021 in the dust and accelerates into 2022

Apify updates

Apify leaves 2021 in the dust and accelerates into 2022

Feb 10, 2022

Illustration of how scraping Google Trends can give you insights into future trends

Tutorial

Google

How to scrape Google Trends

Nov 5, 2021

What is an API?

APIs and integrations

What is an API?

Sep 21, 2021

Map illustting US devided between Kroger, Target and Costco.

Tutorial

Google

How to scrape Google Trending Searches

Sep 2, 2021

5 powerful scrapers to add to your SEO tool kit

Tool comparisons

Marketing and lead generation

5 powerful scrapers to add to your SEO tool kit

Aug 24, 2021