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Show HN: Crawlee – Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js(crawlee.dev)
282 points by jancurn 4y ago|80 comments
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Python is now first-class citizen on Apify – releasing new Python client(github.com)
2 points by jancurn 5y ago|0 comments
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by jancurn 5y ago
Last week we "officially" launched something that we worked on for the past few years. The real motivation for this project comes from a simple frustration that it's not easy to make living out of developing your hobby open s
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Get passive income building actors: Pays more than open source, easier than SaaS(blog.apify.com)
3 points by jancurn 5y ago|1 comments
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by jancurn 5y ago
Today we're "officially" launching something that we worked on for the past few years. The real motivation for this project comes from a simple frustration that it's not easy to make living out of developing your hobby o
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Show HN: Make regular passive income developing web automation actors(blog.apify.com)
4 points by jancurn 5y ago|1 comments
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The Beginner's Guide to Web Scraping(apify.com)
2 points by jancurn 6y ago|0 comments
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Scientists Monitored 631 People as They Died. This Is What They Found(medium.com)
3 points by jancurn 6y ago|0 comments
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by jancurn 6y ago
Apify | Marketing & Growth, Product, ... | Prague | Full-time ONSITE | https://apify.com/jobs Apify builds software technology and infrastructure that helps anyone leverage the full potential of the largest source of in
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by jancurn 7y ago
> PayPal only just dodged this bullet. After they merged with X.com, the new CEO wanted to switch to Windows — even after PayPal cofounder Max Levchin showed that their software scaled only 1% as well on Windows as Unix. Fortunately for
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Open APIs for Covid-19 statistics in various countries(apify.com)
4 points by jancurn 7y ago|0 comments
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Gilead’s update on response to COVID-19 using Remdesivir(gilead.com)
19 points by jancurn 7y ago|6 comments
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by jancurn 7y ago
Awesome, thanks!
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Ask HN: Is there a map of all Covid-19 cases shown as points?
2 points by jancurn 7y ago|3 comments
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by jancurn 7y ago
Hello HN! This is Jan, co-founder of Apify. Web Scraper (apify/web-scraper) is our new actor in Apify Store which aims to be a general-purpose tool for web crawling and scraping. Under the hood, it uses headless Chrome and the data ext
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Show HN: Web Scraper – Extract data from websites with a few lines of JavaScript(apify.com)
19 points by jancurn 7y ago|1 comments
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by jancurn 7y ago
Yes, it can! See https://apify.com/marketplace Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of Apify :)
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Secret_do_not_pass_this_or_you_will_be_fired(twitter.com)
7 points by jancurn 7y ago|0 comments
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by jancurn 8y ago
Another sign the interweb as we know it is falling apart, https://www.example.com is not working anymore.
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“www.example.org” SSL certificate is expired(example.com)
4 points by jancurn 8y ago|1 comments
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by jancurn 8y ago
Apologies for sneaking into this thread. You can schedule batch jobs using Apify Actors and Scheduler. The actor can run any Docker image at times specified using a cron expression. Just have a look at: https://www.apify.com&#x2F
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by jancurn 8y ago
Thank you so much!
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by jancurn 8y ago
The SDK runs anywhere where you have Node running. And if you can run headless Chrome with Puppeteer there too, than you can use it in the SDK too. This might require several libraries and configuration settings. If I’m not mistaken, Google
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by jancurn 8y ago
Awesome, looking forward to hear what you think :)
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by jancurn 8y ago
Hey guys, today we’re showing HN a new open-source library that we have been working on for almost a year. It incorporates lessons learned from scraping of thousands of websites over the last 4 years. We figured there was no such universal
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Show HN: Apify SDK – A scalable web crawling and scraping library for JavaScript(github.com)
78 points by jancurn 8y ago|8 comments
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by jancurn 8y ago
It's nice to see serverless platforms adding support for headless Chrome. But there's still one problem with AWS Lambda / Cloud Functions / Zeit Now - the run time is limited to a few minutes. If you want to run any long
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by jancurn 8y ago
I forgot to add, we're also looking for junior web developers
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by jancurn 8y ago
Apify | Full-stack software engineer | Onsite - Prague, Czech Republic | Full-time Apify is a web scraping and automation platform that enables people to turn any website into an API. In the fall of 2015, we participated in the Y Combinator
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by jancurn 8y ago
Amazing work guys! I'm only wondering, is this ready for production environments?

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