Natasha Lekh

Using web scraping to preserve digital memory of war crimes in Ukraine

Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has prompted the grievous mission to collect and archive digital evidence of war crimes. Read how Mnemonic is using web scraping to collect social media data for further use in international law, journalism, research, and memory preservation.

4 min read Aug 8, 2022

Data Analysis

Czech media and their word choices: before and after the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Natasha Lekh

Inspired by the book on combatting disinformation by Ján Markoš, Data Academy students decided to dedicate their data project to analyzing the Czech media narrative of the ongoing war in Ukraine.

13 min read Aug 1, 2022

Tutorial

How to scrape Airbnb data

Natasha Lekh

Browsing Airbnb listings is the go-to way for finding accommodation anywhere in the world. Here's how to use our Airbnb Scraper to extract Airbnb data on rental offers, including prices, size, reviews, and host details.

7 min read Jul 22, 2022

Google

Top Google search APIs

Natasha Lekh

Not all websites share their APIs with the public. Luckily for us, the biggest website in the world, Google Search, offers quite a few Google APIs. Or does it? Let's break down the most commonly asked questions about Google Search API.

5 min read Jul 21, 2022

Life in Apify

How Apify founder teaches coding to kids (and how your kids can learn to program)

Mariachiara Faraon, Natasha Lekh

While there are a lot of available computer literacy and coding courses for kids online, none of them can replace the value of interactive learning. Check out Apify co-founder's tips on how to teach coding to kids.

6 min read Jul 14, 2022

Business

5 best practices of web scraping for improving your business

Natasha Lekh

Discover how web scraping technologies can facilitate lead generation, market and product research, and competitive intelligence on the web.

5 min read Jul 4, 2022

AI

Building functional AI models for web scraping

Natasha Lekh

Combining machine learning and web scraping is a natural next step in web automation. Let's explore how this comes into reality with three AI-based web scraping projects: Product Mapping, Automated Product Detail Extraction, and Browser Fingerprint Generator.

9 min read Jun 23, 2022

Tutorial

What is an online aggregator and how to create your own BuzzFeed website

Natasha Lekh, Josef Válek

What online aggregators are, how they differ from one another, why you should create one, and how you can make it happen.

9 min read Jun 13, 2022

Apify Freelancers

The new way to hire web scraping developers 🧑‍💻👩‍💻

Natasha Lekh

Tired of looking for the right web scraping developer on freelancer websites? Read about a shortcut way to find and hire a software specialist for a data scraping project.

6 min read Jun 9, 2022

Tutorial

Powerful tool to check broken links on any website

Natasha Lekh

Read on how and why using a free broken links checker can keep your SEO score healthy.

7 min read May 10, 2022

Life in Apify

A Series of Unfortunate Events or What it Takes to Organize an Apify Teambuilding

Karolína Jánošíková, Natasha Lekh, Mariachiara Faraon, Theo Vasilis

Apifiers vs. the bad luck - who will win? Not to spoil the good fun, but nothing can stop an Apifier when teambuilding is at stake. Well, almost nothing ;)

5 min read Apr 7, 2022

Tutorial

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.

6 min read Jan 20, 2022