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We share hard-won insights, tips, and tricks we learned while building an open web scraping and automation platform from scratch.
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What is a dynamic web page?
Dynamic vs. static web pages: learn the difference and why it matters for web scraping.
Playwright web scraping: how to scrape the web with Playwright in 2024
Playwright is now an established player in the web scraping and automation world. In 2024, there's really no reason to use Puppeteer instead.
How to efficiently scrape any website with Cheerio Scraper
Learn to use Cheerio Scraper to extract data quickly and easily from the web.
How we develop the Apify platform locally
See why our full stack engineering team decides to run all of Apify products and dependencies directly on their computers, and how they make it happen.
How to use web scraping to find and buy the perfect bike
Finding the perfect bike can be made easier with web scraping and automation tools. Join Pavel as he uses the Apify platform to get his dream bikes and the gear to go with them.
How to generate OG images
Your cheatsheet on what OG images are for, why it's important to have an open graph generator, and how we generate OGs on our platform.
Want to see me do my best work? Tell me something can’t be done!
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.
One week in Apify engineering
From a Financial Controller to Engineer: read about Kačka's coding journey and what her regular week in the Apify Engineering team looks like.
Web scraping with client-side Vanilla JavaScript
The free Vanilla JS Scraper tool makes web scraping more accessible by easing the learning curve. Get right into writing your first web crawler without the need for any new knowledge beyond Vanilla JavaScript.
How we monitor infrastructure that processes 1 petabyte of data every month
What happens at Apify when AWS or DockerHub go down? Find out about our monitoring and alerting architecture. How we use New Relic, LogDNA, Sentry, and PagerDuty to keep our systems up and running.
How we manage our content at Apify
Managing a startup's content is easy. All you need is a few web pages, some documentation, a couple of blog posts, and you're good to go, right? Well, not really. Find out how Apify creates and manages its blog, docs, jobs, and more.
How to turn any website into an RSS feed
What if a website you want to integrate does not provide an RSS feed? In this article, we’ll show you how to build a simple crawler and publish its content in an RSS feed.
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.
Apify ❤️ Python, so we’re releasing a Python API client
Announcing the Apify API client for Python. Giving you more ways to structure your data acquisition and processing pipelines.
Handling IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses in Node.js
Why IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses are used and how you can handle them properly in Node.js.
Tuning MongoDB performance for production systems
Techniques and MongoDB Cloud features we used to debug performance issues and expose sub-optimal queries.
Tunneling arbitrary protocols over HTTP proxy with static IP address in Node.js
How to connect from a Node.js application running on a server with a random IP address to an external service protected by a firewall.
Learn how to connect from a Node.js application running on a server with a random IP address to an external service protected by a firewall that only allows access
