All is well at Apify! We hope that you’re staying safe and well too.
We’re in full work-from-home mode, and since we already support remote work by default, the transition has been smooth for us. All systems are designed to run without any manual intervention and our staff
Apify turns websites into APIs, so we decided to do our part in the fight against COVID-19 by turning official COVID-19 stats into APIs that can be used by other apps.
Welcome to the third issue of our series to keep you up to date with the newest features of the platform.
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Actor updates
Google Search Results Scraper (apify/google-search-scraper)
We released
Submit your project on Apify Marketplace and get offers from certified developers who can deliver a quality, cost-effective web scraping or robotic process automation solution just for you.
We’re excited to announce the launch of Offers — a feature on Apify Marketplace that allows developers to prepare proposals for projects and share them directly with customers.
In this technical post, you’ll learn how to set up a man-in-the-middle proxy and install a self-signed certificate on your mobile phone in order to intercept HTTPS communication between any mobile app and its backend API.
The new Apify app for Zapier now lets you extend your workflows with arbitrary web scraping, data processing or web automation tasks.
The new Apify app for Zapier now lets you extend your workflows with arbitrary web scraping, data processing or web automation tasks.
On September 30, 2019, we’ll be retiring the legacy Apify Crawler product together with Apify API version 1. Please migrate your crawlers to tasks of the new apify/legacy-phantomjs-crawler actor, which provides the same functionality, configuration options and results as Apify Crawler.
Use our Google Places crawler to scrape data from Google Maps
Our Google Places crawler lets you get lots more information from Google Maps than the official API
From the early days of Apify we knew that some of our customers didn’t have the time or technical expertise to build web scraping or other automation solutions themselves. To help these customers with their projects, we were always ready to build a custom solution for a fee. We
We’ve launched the largest upgrade to Apify actors so far. First, we’ve added an option to provide actors with an automatically-generated user interface to enter their input configuration. Second, you can now save the input configuration of an actor as a task that can be reused later.
We’ve released the Apify SDK — an open-source Node.js library for scraping and web crawling. There was one for Python, but until now, there was no such library for JavaScript, THE language of the web.