Natasha Lekh

How to scrape Transfermarkt

Our short how-to guide will demonstrate how to extract the player, teams, transfers, market value, coach stats, league data from one of the biggest European soccer stats aggregators - transfermarkt.com

5 min read Oct 24, 2021

Apify Updates

September updates from Apify

Natasha Lekh

Check out our new piece on the legality of web scraping, our tech post on MongoDB performance, 2 use cases of scraping real estate for research, and a couple of small how-to tutorials on scraping Google and Instagram.

4 min read Oct 7, 2021

RPA

BPA vs. RPA technologies: which one to use for business optimization?

Natasha Lekh

Should you apply RPA and BPA to automate manual tasks? The answer is: BPM and RPA combined can accelerate the ways you operate your business much better than when used separately.

7 min read Oct 6, 2021

Monitoring

How to set up a content change watchdog for any website in 5 minutes

Natasha Lekh

Use our actor to regularly check specific content on any website and receive an email notification whenever it changes.

7 min read Sep 16, 2021

Web Scraping

Top 10 free web scraping tools for data analysts, powered by Apify

Natasha Lekh

Discover the top 10 free web scraping tools for data analysts. Learn about the difference between web scraping tools, techniques and companies

10 min read Sep 14, 2021

Contact Information

How to extract emails, phone numbers, and social profiles from websites

Natasha Lekh

Automatically scrape emails, phone numbers, and Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram profiles from web pages

7 min read Sep 7, 2021

Web Scraping

Pros and cons of web scraping

Natasha Lekh

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.

13 min read Sep 2, 2021

Apify Updates

August updates from Apify

Natasha Lekh

Check out our new UI on Apify platform, our take on Captcha/Anticaptcha, a Google Maps scraping tutorial and a list of updated scrapers.

3 min read Aug 31, 2021

Google

How to scrape Google SERPs

Natasha Lekh

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.

8 min read Aug 25, 2021

Google Maps

How to scrape data from Google Maps

Natasha Lekh

Guide to scraping reviews, popular times, photos and more from Google Maps. Go beyond the limits of the official API and get unlimited results

8 min read Aug 12, 2021

Booking

How to scrape hotel data from Booking.com

Natasha Lekh

The availability of data on travel destinations, reviews of places to stay, comments and user profiles on Booking.com opens up unlimited opportunities for its use. Here’s just a couple of data-backed examples of how you can extract data from Booking.com and use it for your business.

7 min read Jul 22, 2021

Careers

Sorting through CVs with two kids and Molly the dog

Natasha Lekh

Many roads can lead to a career at Apify. Think you don’t have the right background or experience? Think again.

4 min read Jun 29, 2021