David Barton

Apifier since 2016 so learned about web scraping and automation from the experts. MSc in Computer Science from TCD. Former game designer and newspaper production manager. Now Head of Content at Apify.

web scraping guide illustration showing web pages being scraped to structured data formats like json csv and xml

Web scraping

Tutorial

Beginner's guide to web scraping

Sep 30, 2022

How to make an animated scrolling GIF of any web page

Tutorial

Web images

How to make an animated scrolling GIF of any web page

Feb 24, 2022

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

How to scrape a website

Tutorial

Web scraping

Automation

How to scrape a website

Nov 26, 2021

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

Tutorial

Google Trends

Web scraping

How to scrape Google Trends

Nov 5, 2021

What is an API?

API

Google Maps

YouTube

What is an API?

Sep 21, 2021

Map illustting US devided between Kroger, Target and Costco.

Tutorial

Google Trends

Web scraping

How to scrape Google Trending Searches

Sep 2, 2021

5 powerful scrapers to add to your SEO tool kit

SEO

Google

Google Trends

5 powerful scrapers to add to your SEO tool kit

Aug 24, 2021

Illustration for post on why CAPTCHAS are bad UX and how CAPTCHAs get bypassed

Captcha

Automation

Web scraping

The downside of CAPTCHAs: why they're bad UX and how they get bypassed

Aug 11, 2021