Use Cases

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.

14 min read Dec 6, 2021

Tutorial

Tunneling arbitrary protocols over HTTP proxy with static IP address in Node.js

Jarda Hejlek

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

5 min read May 2, 2021

Black Friday

Black Friday 2020 — rays of hope for a better future

David Barton

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

15 min read Dec 3, 2020

Use Cases

How Apify created custom APIs to track COVID-19 worldwide

David Barton

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

11 min read Dec 1, 2020

Black Friday

Black Friday 2020 — getting better

Jakub Balada

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

15 min read Nov 30, 2020

Real Estate

How web scraping is revolutionizing the real estate business

Guest Author

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

5 min read Nov 10, 2020

Use Cases

How the media can use web scraping and automation

David Barton

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.

7 min read Oct 22, 2020

Use Cases

Apify loves puppies

Sapiens Malti

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

3 min read Jul 30, 2020

Web Scraping

Realitní pes upozorní na nové příležitosti ke koupi či pronájmu nemovitostí

Jakub Drobník

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

2 min read May 4, 2020

Black Friday

Black Friday 2019 — s Hlídačem shopů

Jakub Balada

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

13 min read Dec 1, 2019

Black Friday

Black Friday in Czechia — magical prices one year on

David Barton

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.

3 min read Dec 13, 2018

Black Friday

Black Friday počesku — kouzla se slevami po roce

Jakub Balada

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.

11 min read Dec 7, 2018