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

Launching Apify’s new billing system, pricing plans, team account, and notifications center

Today, we’re launching the largest Apify update this year: a new billing system with new monthly and annual plans, flexible pay-as-you-go…

6 min read Dec 10, 2020

Black Friday

Black Friday 2020 — rays of hope for a better future

David Barton

Some old tricks and deceptive practices, but two e-shops have seen the light and are being honest with their customers — with our help.

15 min read Dec 3, 2020

Covid 19

How Apify created custom APIs to track COVID-19 worldwide

David Barton

Apify aggregates data from official coronavirus stats in 50 countries. Find out how we created an automated, open-source scraping solution.

11 min read Dec 1, 2020

Black Friday

Black Friday 2020 — getting better

Jakub Balada

Results of our annual Black Friday 2020 analysis for Czechia. Improvements in discounts, but some still misleading. In Czech language only.

15 min read Nov 30, 2020

Facebook

How to scrape Facebook pages, posts, comments, photos, and more

David Barton

Step-by-step guide to scraping Facebook Pages without the official API. Extract and download Facebook posts, comments, reviews, and photos.

7 min read Nov 18, 2020

Diversity

Czechitas and Apify: empowering women in IT

David Barton

Czechitas is empowering women to learn new skills and careers. We asked three graduates who now work with Apify about their experience.

5 min read Nov 11, 2020

Zillow

Step-by-step guide to scraping Zillow

David Barton

Guide to scraping listings and more from the Zillow real estate marketplace. Extract and download data in multiple formats for free.

3 min read Nov 10, 2020

Real Estate

How web scraping is revolutionizing the real estate business

Administrator

Web scraping is driving four big revolutions in the real estate industry: business intelligence, investment, marketing, and PropTech.

5 min read Nov 10, 2020

Marketplaces

Apify Marketplace and 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics — what’s in common?

Sapiens Malti

We calculated the standard deviation of bids placed by devs on Apify Marketplace and were surprised to find price convergence over time.

3 min read Nov 2, 2020

Web Scraping

Step-by-step guide to scraping Amazon

David Barton

Guide to using Apify’s Amazon Scraper to automatically extract product data from Amazon. Get prices, descriptions, images, reviews.

4 min read Oct 27, 2020

Web Scraping

How the media can use web scraping and automation

David Barton

13 ways the media can use scraping, data, and RPA to track new trends, automate grunt work, make better content, and even fight fake news.

7 min read Oct 22, 2020

Indeed

Step-by-step guide to scraping job listings on Indeed

David Barton

Indeed is a website devoted to helping people get the jobs they want. Web scraping Indeed enables you to extend the official API.

3 min read Oct 22, 2020

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