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• Automating Data Collection with Apify: From Script to Deployment

  In this article, I will walk you through everything, from crafting your initial scraping script (Actor) using the Apify SDK for TypeScript to deploying it to the Apify Actors Store for seamless data collection, and then, I will show you how to run your deployed Actor on the Apify platform. With Apify, you don't need to be a programming pro to harness the power of web scraping and start gaining insights. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Web Scraping in Python – The Complete Guide

  I am surprised nobody mentioned https://apify.com/ and they even offer discount for YC startups as ex-graduate from the YC Combinator program. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• AI tools I have found useful w/ research. What do you guys think? What did I miss?

  Web Scraping, Data Extraction and Automation · Apify ( https://apify.com/ ). Source: about 1 year ago

• How to scrape the web with Puppeteer in 2023

  At this point of the tutorial, I'll take the opportunity to do a bit of self-promotion. I'm the COO of Apify, a cloud platform that helps you develop, run, and maintain your web scrapers easily and efficiently. It comes with tons of features like queue storages and proxies, and it supports Puppeteer without any extra configuration. You can run the above scraper, save results and control everything with a powerful... - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Web Search and Scrape

  Apify a saas that can be helpful in this situation since you can use its api to call actors from your java code. Source: over 1 year ago

Cracked mentions (84)

• If a kid being sent to one of those "kidnap you in the night" bootcamps kills someone during the kidnap, is it self defense?

  Yes. There are a lot of them, and they are popular in Utah, and the Dominican Republic. Its for parents who think their kids is out of control because they take drugs, or hang around the wrong people, or don't want to go to church, or date the wrong person, or aren't getting good enough grades, or are manifesting behaviour because of trauma, or come out as gay (this is a common one, they are usually religious... Source: 7 months ago

• I need a game where you can commit financial fraud.

  Can I interest you in Eve Online? That link takes you to a cracked.com article about how one guy scammed folks out of millions of dollars. Source: 10 months ago

• People hate guns until they find themselves in a situation where they needed one.

  I really had no idea how bad the suicide stat was until cracked.com brought it up years ago (when it was good). It was somethign like nearly half or more gun deaths were straight suicides. Source: about 1 year ago

• Does anyone else feel a lot younger than their peers?

  Like why would I want to watch Breaking Bad or any serious drama when I already lived serious drama all through childhood? Jokes and silliness or I turn it off. Firefly or House MD are about my limit for serious entertainment. And my favorite news channel is one of those old cracked.com comedy writers on YouTube. Source: about 1 year ago

• Did you think you could have survived if project zomboid was real?

  The rotting thing is a point ignored by almost all zombie medium. Of course, getting around the initial "dead thing can walk" is a pretty big leap in itself. There's a hilarious article (or there used to be at least) on cracked.com named something like "10 Reasons a Zombie Apocalypse Would Fail (quickly)" and rotting was reason #1 or 2. Best line from the whole article though was "We (humans) are a zombie's... Source: about 1 year ago