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True stories from the world of web scraping and web automation. These accounts of real-world scenarios are here to inspire your own projects. Find out how Apify has helped companies, institutions, and individuals. Get a taste of what Apify can do to make your work more efficient, profitable, and useful and add value to everything you do.
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Black Friday 2023 in Czechia — Are the new rules working?
From 2023, Black Friday should be fairer. Read a comprehensive analysis of how Czech e-shops have coped with the amendment to the Consumer Protection Act. See who's sticking to the law, who hasn't caught up and who's looking for ways around it.
Groupon reaches new merchants thanks to web data collection
How did Groupon create a rich lead generation database? In a word: Apify.
How Intercom uses Apify to feed web data to its AI chatbot for customer support
Find out how Fin, Intercom’s new customer support AI chatbot, uses Apify's web crawling technology to leverage data from customer websites and documentation.
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.
How web scraping and AI are helping to find missing children
The Missing Children initiative began with a Facebook page. Web scraping Facebook for data labeling has taken it to a whole new level and the initiative is now reuniting families all over Egypt.
How to build a 15-minute city: a question answered by map data
Find out how extracting quantitative data from Google Maps can help us understand and suggest improvements in the urban environment.
How web scraping helps an IT company eat better
Not knowing which restaurant to eat at during your lunch break might be a first-world problem, but it’s a problem nonetheless. This clever IT company solved it by web scraping restaurant menus.
How web scraping, AI, and the European Commission have come together to sweep away fake discounts in Europe
Even if you didn’t know it, before the COVID-19 pandemic, another plague was sweeping Europe, and it’s still prevalent today: fake discounts.
Black Friday 2022: the final countdown for Czech e-commerce discount tricks
Is this year's Black Friday the last chance for e-commerce stores to artificially inflate their discounts? Hopefully, yes, thanks to new law based on EU directive.
How web scraping is bridging language barriers
When a research team set out to build a machine translation module for Syrian and Moroccan migrants and refugees, it faced a significant challenge: how do you get enough data for dialects used only in casual conversation? This is how web scraping became the solution.
Migrating from Scrapy to Apify SDK
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.
How Apify uses traffic monitoring to ensure fair billing
Discover the importance of efficiently monitoring the traffic users generate and how Apify ensures that customers are fairly billed for the resources they consume.
Black Friday 2021 in Czech Republic - real discounts and same old tricks from retailers
Our 5th annual analysis of discount tactics used by the largest Czech e-commerce retailers around the time of Black Friday.
Black Friday 2020 — rays of hope for a better future
Some old tricks and deceptive practices, but two e-shops have seen the light and are being honest with their customers — with our help.
Black Friday in Czechia — magical prices one year on
After last year’s revealing analysis of Black Friday discounts, Apify again decided to look at what the three largest Czech e-shops are up to this year.
One Crawler to Audit Them All
Read about how Agency Analytics only needed a single generic Apify crawler to power their SEO Audit Tool. They were also able to set it up themselves, with just a little support from the Apify team.