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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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-...
Apify mentors a team at every Czechitas Digital Academy. Martina Gelnerová was one of those students, and now she mentors there herself.
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...
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...
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.
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,...
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...
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Collect Apartments.com listings at scale with Apify, then use ChatGPT to compare nearby properties in an interactive market report.
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.
A detailed comparison of Firecrawl's unified AI-driven scraping and Apify's comprehensive, flexible ecosystem. We explain what each does best.
You need the data, but collecting it has become a chore. Let ChatGPT and Apify handle the work for you.
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.
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.
Build an AI research analyst in Slack using n8n and the Apify MCP server to answer team questions with live web data.
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.
Connect AI agents to Apify through MCP, discover and run Actors, and give Claude and other AI applications access to live web data.
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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