Apify Blog

Product updates, tips and stories from the world of web scraping and automation.

How to get data from AliExpress to create a drop shipping store

Scraping AliExpress is now a piece of cake for Apify users with AliExpress Scraper. Extract name, specs, store info, categories, photos, SKU options, prices, and more.

4 min read Nov 4, 2021

Job Listings

Scraping job listings data for a competitive edge

Guest Author

Read about why and how data-driven companies are using web scraping and RPA tools for collecting job information.

8 min read Oct 24, 2021

Tutorial

How to scrape Transfermarkt

Natasha Lekh

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

Company

Apify celebrates 6 years

Natasha Lekh

Is 6 years a lot or a little for a startup like ours? You tell us, but we’re feeling very positive about it, and we’ve got a couple of good reasons why. We’ll let the numbers speak for themselves.

4 min read Oct 20, 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

Web Scraping

What is the difference between web scraping and crawling?

David Barton

Web crawling vs web scraping. We explain the differences and how web scraping can create an API for any website.

5 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