Percival Villalva

Former medical student turned marketer and coding aficionado. Interested in technology, biological sciences and their joint potential to improve lives.

7 posts

Building an audio processing application - Python Simplified code jam winners

Percival Villalva

Code jams are the perfect opportunity to improve your programming skills, connect with talented developers, and get your hands dirty with coding.

7 min read Oct 18, 2022

Apify Updates

Announcing Crawlee: the web scraping and browser automation library

Percival Villalva

Crawlee is an open-source web scraping and automation library that helps you build reliable scrapers. Fast.

4 min read Aug 11, 2022

Apify SDK

Migrating from Scrapy to Apify SDK

Percival Villalva

What if a single decision could cut your scraping costs by 90% while improving efficiency up to 60%? That's precisely what the retail data company, Daltix, experienced by migrating their scrapers from Scrapy to Apify.

7 min read Apr 4, 2022

Web Scraping

Web Scraping trends for 2022

Percival Villalva

Web scraping is key to unlocking the web's full potential in 2022. From AI to e-commerce, web scraping is paving the way for applied data in 2022.

6 min read Mar 14, 2022

Proxy

How anti-scraping protections work and how they get bypassed

Percival Villalva

Websites have protections to stop malicious bots. But not all bots are created equal. Find out about the methods used to avoid being blocked while scraping the web legally and ethically.

9 min read Feb 1, 2022

Web Scraping

Web scraping with JavaScript vs. Python in 2022

Percival Villalva

Python and JavaScript are two of the most popular programming languages. Find out which one you should use for web scraping in 2022.

16 min read Jan 21, 2022

Crypto

Crypto Trading Bots: Should you use them? 🤖

Percival Villalva

Trading bots are becoming increasingly popular in cryptocurrency markets. But are they the right choice for you?

5 min read Dec 15, 2021