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Leaving Medium: the Apify blog is moving 🧳🚚

Although we’ve been happy on Medium for the last few years, we feel that the time has come for the Apify blog to try something new.

1 min readApr 29, 2021

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How to scrape Twitter

Our scraper lets you extract unlimited data from Twitter. No Twitter account needed. No rate limiting. No registered app or API key.

6 min readFeb 8, 2021

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How to scrape Twitter

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How to scrape Google Trends

Google Trends gives you superhuman powers of prediction. Extend those powers with web scraping and gain an edge over the competition.

5 min readDec 21, 2020

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How to scrape Google Trends

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Black Friday 2020 — rays of hope for a better future

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 readDec 3, 2020

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Black Friday 2020 — rays of hope for a better future

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How Apify created custom APIs to track COVID-19 worldwide

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

11 min readDec 1, 2020

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How Apify created custom APIs to track COVID-19 worldwide

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How to scrape Facebook pages, posts, comments, photos, and more

Step-by-step guide to scraping Facebook Pages without the official API. Extract and download Facebook posts, comments, reviews, and photos.

7 min readNov 18, 2020

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How to scrape Facebook pages, posts, comments, photos, and more

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Czechitas and Apify: empowering women in IT

Czechitas is empowering women to learn new skills and careers. We asked three graduates who now work with Apify about their experience.

5 min readNov 11, 2020

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Czechitas and Apify: empowering women in IT

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How to scrape Zillow

Guide to scraping listings and more from the Zillow real estate marketplace. Extract and download data in multiple formats for free.

3 min readNov 10, 2020

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How to scrape Zillow

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How to scrape Amazon

Guide to using Apify’s Amazon Scraper to automatically extract product data from Amazon. Get prices, descriptions, images, reviews.

4 min readOct 27, 2020

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How to scrape Amazon

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How the media can use web scraping and automation

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 readOct 22, 2020

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How the media can use web scraping and automation

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David Barton

David Barton

Head of content at Apify and editor at Erste Group Research. Former creator of World of the Living Dead game & designer at DMG Media.

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