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  • From hackathon winner to building community in San Francisco
  • Martina Gelnerová: from travel agency to data analyst
  • Builder spotlight: Goldmine automated outreach and won on Apify

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blog.apify.com /1 month ago

From hackathon winner to building community in San Francisco

Petros Hong won his first Apify hackathon. Four months later, he joined the team. Now he's building San Francisco's developer community from the ground up, one hackathon and after-...

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blog.apify.com /3 weeks ago

Martina Gelnerová: from travel agency to data analyst

Apify mentors a team at every Czechitas Digital Academy. Martina Gelnerová was one of those students, and now she mentors there herself.

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blog.apify.com /1 month ago

Builder spotlight: Goldmine automated outreach and won on Apify

He was leading a development team when he built a LinkedIn scraper to unblock his colleagues, and he couldn't work out how to host it. Two years later, he's a top-rated Apify devel...

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blog.apify.com /2 days ago

How three solo founders built local event guides on Apify's Facebook Events Scraper

A developer in the Polish mountains, a marketer in Lithuania, and an ex-Google engineer building a game for couples have each made the event guide their corner of Europe was missin...

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blog.apify.com /2 weeks ago

New Apify Store categories: browse by the job, filter by what you get back

Apify Store categories are being rebuilt around the job you're trying to do - a use-case tree plus filters for industry, site, output, and Actor type.

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blog.apify.com /1 month ago

Moving house, Apify-style, with Martina Bovanova

Somewhere in the middle of building Apify's new office, Martina developed very serious opinions about millimeters, sockets, and which way doors should open. Her story of memories,...

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dev.to /1 month ago

Three small API-backed actors I've shipped recently (Docker Hub, lead extraction, SEC Form 4)

I build small, narrow Apify actors — each one wraps a single official API or data source and does one job well, rather than trying to be a general-purpose scraper. Here are three r...

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blog.apify.com /1 month ago

Create an Actor with a Git repo in a few clicks

Pick your provider during setup, and Apify handles the rest: repository created, template code pushed, builds configured. Every push from then on builds your Actor.

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blog.apify.com /1 week ago

ParseForge aimed for 1,000 Actors by 2027. It hit 2,000 in 2026.

A team of four built 2,000 Actors well ahead of schedule, and its Actor Factory now ships a new one in about an hour.

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blog.apify.com /1 week ago

Grundwerk Digital finds the leads B2B databases miss with Apify

“There’s no other possibility than using Apify.” How a Berlin outbound agency reaches the businesses no database lists, and checks every prospect before it writes.

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blog.apify.com /3 weeks ago

Give your LangGraph agent real-time web data with Apify

Connect a LangGraph agent to Apify through the official langchain-apify integration or Apify MCP Server, and give it real-time web search, scraping, and social media data.

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blog.apify.com /4 weeks ago

What the Apify MCP server does to your Actor before an AI agent ever sees it

One of my popular Actors is a LinkedIn Sales Navigator scraper. It has dozens of users, but is also completely unusable by an AI agent, and I did not know that until I checked.

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blog.apify.com /1 week ago

How I turned a Spanish public-tenders scraper into a tool my AI agent can call

How a developer who bids on Spanish public contracts filtered the PLACSP tender feed into something an AI agent can query, then connected his Actor to Claude Desktop through the Ap...

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blog.apify.com /1 month ago

Apify vs. Exa: which gives AI agents better access to web data?

Choose your AI agent’s web tools based on actual evidence. Compare what Apify and Exa returned, what they missed, how long each task took, and how much it cost.

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blog.apify.com /1 month ago

Turn Apartments.com listings into rental market insights with Apify

Collect Apartments.com listings at scale with Apify, then use ChatGPT to compare nearby properties in an interactive market report.

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blog.apify.com /1 month ago

Parallel’s Extract API vs. Apify’s Web Fetch: how agents read the web

The real choice is not marketplace vs. retrieval API, but whether your agent primarily needs fast, search-oriented web retrieval or direct, controllable extraction from the source.

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blog.apify.com /1 month ago

Firecrawl vs. Apify: 2026 guide for AI and data teams

A detailed comparison of Firecrawl's unified AI-driven scraping and Apify's comprehensive, flexible ecosystem. We explain what each does best.

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blog.apify.com /1 month ago

ChatGPT web scraping guide for 2026

You need the data, but collecting it has become a chore. Let ChatGPT and Apify handle the work for you.

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blog.apify.com /1 month ago

Build a live RAG pipeline with Apify, n8n, and Qdrant

Crawl a site with Apify, sync it into Qdrant from n8n, and re-embed only the pages that changed. Step by step, with measured runs and real cost figures.

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blog.apify.com /1 month ago

Builder spotlight: John Cole won $20,000 on Apify without a CS degree

Nearly 100 Actors, 15K users, and a battery of tests behind every one. How a self-taught builder took second in the Apify $1 Million Challenge.

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blog.apify.com /1 month ago

Turn Slack into your team's AI research analyst with Apify MCP

Build an AI research analyst in Slack using n8n and the Apify MCP server to answer team questions with live web data.

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blog.apify.com /1 month ago

Builder spotlight: Gui Stetelle won with a niche Actor and no code

He's a salesperson, not a developer. He built an "absurdly specific" Actor with a prompt, Apify docs, and Gemini and won the $2,000 LATAM prize in the Apify $1 Million Challenge.

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blog.apify.com /1 day ago

How to use MCP with Apify Actors

Connect AI agents to Apify through MCP, discover and run Actors, and give Claude and other AI applications access to live web data.

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blog.apify.com /1 day ago

Get more people to use your Actor with task examples

Publishing task examples doubled my Actor's organic traffic and grew search impressions 10x in a month. Here's how to do the same for yours.

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