How to collect data from a website: a comprehensive guide
Learn how to collect data from a website using code and no-code tools and master web scraping with ease.
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Data extraction
Explore expert tips and tricks for online data extraction with Apify's tools, and learn how to integrate them seamlessly into your data workflow.
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Scaling email marketing and lead generation with itrinity and Apify
How itrinity uses Apify to take its email verification and outreach strategies to another level.
Data provenance: how to apply it to scraped data
Did you know that web scraping platforms can aid in capturing essential data provenance information?
What is data parsing? Process, techniques, tools, and use cases
Discover all you need to know about data parsing. Learn how it works, common techniques, popular tools, and uses.
How to send HTTP headers with cURL
Learn how manipulating HTTP headers can enhance the data transfer process.
The definitive guide to text scraping
How to extract text data from URLs and PDFs for text mining and analysis.
How to parse JSON in JavaScript
A guide to the JSON data format and parsing operations in JavaScript applications.
How to extract and download news articles online
Want to download multiple online articles for text research? Here's the quickest and easiest way to get the job done.
Data parsing with regex: when and when not to use regular expressions for data extraction
Learn about using regular expressions for data parsing and when to avoid them.
How to find (and avoid) tourist traps using data from Google Maps
How to scrape ATMs to map out areas of gentrification and tourist traps.
How to scrape TikTok data
Remember when vertical videos were considered nonsense? Well, meet Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and Facebook Stories - they all ended up emulating the success of one little app, TikTok. So how do you scrape it?
Groupon reaches new merchants thanks to web data collection
How did Groupon create a rich lead generation database? In a word: Apify.
10 Google search tricks (that are also Google scraping tricks)
Can you apply Google search tricks to scraping and data extraction as well? Let’s put it to the test!
What is data ingestion for large language models?
Learn about the process of collecting and preparing data for your own LLMs. Tools and tips included.
How to do question answering from a PDF
A comprehensive tutorial that shows you how to build an intelligent QA system that can extract answers from PDF documents.
Synthetic data generation vs. real data for AI
60% of all data for machine learning will be synthetic by the end of 2024. This is bad news for AI!
A guide to data collection for training computer vision models
How to create datasets from image and video data for machine learning applications.