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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

Careers

Want to see me do my best work? Tell me something can’t be done!

Václav Růt

When the going gets tough, our Head of Delivery gets going. This is the story of Vaclav's six-year career at Apify. Find out about the Delivery Team and what to expect if you join them.

5 min read May 31, 2022

Careers

How to make money from coding

Dávid Lukáč

Getting income by coding can go much further than just being a developer. Learn about all the different ways you can monetize your programming skills, including teaching, content creation, competitions, and various forms of employment.

9 min read Apr 6, 2022

Engineering

Handling IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses in Node.js

Jiří Moravčík

Why IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses are used and how you can handle them properly in Node.js.

5 min read Oct 4, 2021

Engineering

Tuning MongoDB performance for production systems

Marek Trunkát

Techniques and MongoDB Cloud features we used to debug performance issues and expose sub-optimal queries.

6 min read Oct 1, 2021

API

What is an API?

David Barton

Heard the term API, but don't know exactly what it means? We explain the basics and list 7 characteristics of a good API.

10 min read Sep 21, 2021

Captcha

Why CAPTCHAs are bad UX and how they get bypassed

David Barton

How much do you know about captchas? Why do we need them, are there alternatives, and do they even still work on the modern web? Read our exploration of the CAPTCHA, how it fails on multiple fronts, and how it might even result in some exploitative practices across the world.

9 min read Aug 11, 2021

Developer

Building a Top-Tier Product: 15 Tips For Streamlining Tech Workflows

Guest Author

Take a look at the main roadblocks that product development teams are facing and go over actionable tips that’ll help business owners and software developers quickly develop high-quality products.

7 min read Jul 27, 2021

Developer

Best incentives for devs to keep working remotely

Guest Author

The remote work culture in the IT industry keeps growing, even though the problems created by the pandemic are slowly disappearing. Thanks to its benefits for both employees and employers, remote work might become the future of work for the IT industry even after the pandemic.

3 min read Jul 7, 2021