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Building honest web scrapers. 12 Actors on Apify - no login, no cookies, no invented numbers. If a derived number has an error margin, the margin ships with it.
Joined on Aug 27, 2026
https://apify.com/northbell
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Building web scraping Actors on Apify
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Apify
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JavaScript, Node.js, HTTP scraping without headless browsers, input schema design, data validation
Currently hacking on
Actors that measure their own coverage instead of claiming it. LinkedIn's public job search does not paginate honestly, so mine estimates what it missed by mark-and-recapture and reports the gap.
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Questions about any of my Actors, and bug reports where the output looks wrong. If a number my scraper produced does not match what you see on the page, I want to know.
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I measured what my 11 Actors cost to run. The 96x spread was mostly one config field.
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Sep 5
I measured what my 11 Actors cost to run. The 96x spread was mostly one config field.
# apify
# javascript
# webscraping
# devjournal
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My 11 Actors were invisible in Apify Store for a week. One query parameter proved it.
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Sep 3
My 11 Actors were invisible in Apify Store for a week. One query parameter proved it.
# apify
# webscraping
# debugging
# sideprojects
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My scraper returned 660 jobs. There were 880. Nothing in the output said so.
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Sep 1
My scraper returned 660 jobs. There were 880. Nothing in the output said so.
# webscraping
# javascript
# datascience
# algorithms
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I scraped 89 job postings to find out how my salary parser was lying to me
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I scraped 89 job postings to find out how my salary parser was lying to me
# webscraping
# javascript
# regex
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