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

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

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

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

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

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.

At Apify, we have taken up the ambitious task of making the web more open.

Nový projekt nad daty, které sbírá Apify, Vám pomůže včas odhalit vysněnou nemovitost a poradí, jestli je to dobrá investice.

TLDR: V letošním Black Friday bylo na největších českých eshopech dvakrát více produktů, průměrné uváděné a reálné slevy podobné jak loni.

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.

Po loňské úspěšné analýze slev v rámci Black Friday jsme se opět rozhodli podívat na to, jak největší české e-shopy pracují s tímto fenoménem. Hlavně nás zajímalo, zda stále čarují se slevami, převážně pomocí umělého navyšování původních cen, ze kterých vypočítávají slevy.

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.

Apify crawlers work behind the scenes to help KNOMI collect product data from the best independent and luxury boutiques across London.

Using the Apify platform to scrape prices, we ran an extensive analysis of the three leading Czech e-shops for the month leading up to Black Friday and found some surprising results.