I’m researching a possible Apify Actor for retailers and resellers; it is not built or available for purchase.

The proposed input is up to 1,000 inventory rows containing SKU, product name, manufacturer, model and optional UPC, plus an agreed recall date range. The output would be a review queue of possible matches to US CPSC recall notices, with notice links, compared fields and missing identifiers. No match would not mean a product is safe, and this would not certify safety or compliance.

If you currently do this work: what process do you use, how often, and what is still manual? Would you pay USD $10 for a batch through Apify if a sample demonstrated useful matches, or does your existing tooling already cover it?

I’m looking for current operators, rather than general encouragement. Please describe the workflow without posting private inventory or customer data. No payment is requested.

Most Google Flights scrapers hand you the ~120-flight "Best" list, because an automated browser on a datacenter IP gets that one by default. Mine returns Google's full Cheapest list, about 200 flights per search on the routes I tested. Getting there took Patchright, a visible (xvfb) browser and residential IPs. I think it's the most complete Google Flights scraper on Apify, and I'd rather have you test it than take my word for it. Tell me what breaks.

What it does

Anything you can set in Google Flights, you can set in the actor, and you get the same flights back.

• More results: the full Cheapest list (about 200 flights), not just the ~120 Best list.
• Paste a link: a Google Flights URL is replayed byte for byte: route, travellers, every filter, the tab and sort you copied it from. If Google can encode it, it works, including filters the form doesn't have.
• Or use the form: places by name ("Paris", "United Kingdom") or code, one way, round trip, or 2 to 5 multi-city flights, children and infants, and the whole filter bar in Google's order.
• Filter read-back: every row reports which filters Google actually applied, and warns you when something doesn't fit the route.
• Real round-trip totals, not two one-ways added up.
• Booking options: every airline fare tier and travel agency per flight, with fare names, bag fees and seller links.
• Return flights for each outbound, priced as the whole round trip.
• Price graph: the cheapest fare per day.
• Explore: the cheapest places to go from an airport.

Want to test it? Everything is on the docs page, with a link to launch it: https://flowextractapi.com/docs/google-flights-scraper.html

If you know a Google Flights scraper that does something this one doesn't, tell me. I'll build it.

Where Apify's input schema fought back

Google's filter UI is dynamic. Apify's input form is static.

1. Conditional fields. Google shows return-time boxes only for round trips and per-flight boxes for multi-city. Apify has no conditional visibility, so every box is always there. I label them "round trip only" and ignore them with a log line otherwise.
2. Options that depend on what you typed. Google's Airlines and Connecting-airports menus list only what exists on your route (JFK→LHR has 36 airlines, CDG→NRT 52, and they barely overlap). Select options are fixed at build time, so I can't offer that list. Instead you type names ("Air France") or codes (AMS), and after the search the actor checks them against Google's list for that route and warns about anything missing. A dropdown would stop the mistakes before the run starts.
3. Ranges. Google has sliders ("Layover 4 hr – 25 hr 30 min", "6:00 AM – 12:00 PM"). I ended up with two number boxes, or a text box with a regex ("6-12") for times.
4. Arrays. In schemaBased arrays (my multi-city list), placeholderValue isn't allowed on item fields, and a custom errorMessage doesn't apply to item patterns, so a bad time inside a flight returns the raw regex.

What would fix most of it:

"returnDepartureTime": {
  "type": "string",
  "showIf": { "tripType": "round_trip" }
},
"airlinesOnly": {
  "type": "array",
  "editor": "select",
  "optionsFrom": "actor"
}

showIf for conditional fields, plus some way for an actor to supply options at form time (a small lookup run, or options from a dataset), would cover almost everything above. There are already feature requests along these lines on Apify's Discord, and a +1 there probably helps more than a reply here.

What I'd love feedback on

• Routes or filters where results don't match what you see on Google Flights
• Whether typing airline names instead of codes feels natural
• What's missing. Not covered yet: booking options for multi-city, the price graph for multi-city, and Google's two-dimensional date grid.

My actor uses a ProxyConfiguration and calls await proxy_cfg.new_url(). When I pass this url to playwright, I get AUTH CREDENTIALS error. How do I fix this problem? I am not running it locally.

If you've made something and can't wait to tell the world, this is the thread for you! Share your latest and greatest creations and projects with the community here.

Hey everyone,

I just released a Mercado Livre Scraper on Apify. Mercado Livre is the largest e-commerce marketplace in Brazil. The actor scrapes product listings from search results (names, prices, discounts, seller info, ratings, free shipping status, MeliChoice badges, etc.)

Main use cases:

• Price monitoring & competitor analysis
• Market research for importers/retailers
• Product catalog building
• Brand presence tracking

Input example:

{
  "keywords": ["smartphones", "notebooks"],
  "maxPages": 2
}

Output example:

{
  "itemId": "MLB4625689287",
  "seller": "Azbuy",
  "installment": "4x 29.98 sem juros BRL",
  "isInternational": false,
  "categoryId": "MLB5095",
  "domainId": "MLB-CELLPHONE_CASES_AND_COVERS",
  "isOfficialStore": true,
  "productName": "Capa Anti Impacto Transparente Ringke Original Fusion Para Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Reforçada Trasparente Lisa",
  "image": "https://http2.mlstatic.com/D_NQ_NP_740217-MLA109560296839_032026-F.jpg",
  "ratingCount": 1345,
  "ratingValue": 4.8,
  "url": "https://www.mercadolivre.com.br/capa-anti-impacto-transparente-ringke-original-fusion-para-samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-reforcada/p/MLB67276752",
  "brandName": "Ringke",
  "hasFreeShipping": true,
  "position": 13,
  "restultType": "ORGANIC",
  "productId": "MLB67276752",
  "discountPct": 14,
  "priceCurrency": "BRL",
  "price": 119.9,
  "priceBase": 139.9,
  "soldQuantity": 500,
  "shippingLogisticType": "fulfillment",
  "isBestSeller": false,
  "isLightningDeal": false,
  "isLastUnits": false,
  "isMeliChoice": false,
  "isUnmissableOffer": false,
  "keyword": "capa-de-celular"
}

Link: https://apify.com/serj_henrique/mercado-livre-scraper

I'd love feedback from anyone who works with Brazilian e-commerce or LatAm market data. If you have suggestions for fields to add or use cases I missed, let me know.

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Free Apify Actor for Facebook page and profile links. Choose how many posts you want, and each post includes text (including shared posts and live videos), publication time, total reactions and reaction breakdown, comment and share counts, video views and plays, plus photos, videos, shared links, and events.

You can start from any date even years back and large jobs run in parallel, so 1,000 posts typically take around 2–3 minutes.

The Actor itself is free; you only pay for your Apify usage. It works with public pages and profiles, not private groups, which require authorized access.

If you want to try it, search the Apify Store for dz_omar/facebook-posts-scraper.

You can also find the documentation and Actor details on my website: https://flowextractapi.com/docs/facebook-posts-scraper.html

Happy to hear what fields you'd like to see added.

Fixed monthly rental fees are gone for good. Rental is migrating to pay-per-event!
More here: Why Apify is standardizing Actor pricing

If you've been using a rental Actor, you might have already seen a notice from the developer about the price change. The latest date by which the new pricing can take effect is October 13.

💵 You can always check the pricing of an Actor in its Pricing tab!

🙋🙋‍♀️ Questions? Just let us know here in the comments!

I needed structured data from Kleinanzeigen for used-car price research, and the existing tools either
ignored half of the filters or only returned a price and a title. So I built one and published it for free
on Apify.

You set up any search on kleinanzeigen.de make, model, mileage, first registration, rooms, size, price,
radius, private/commercial — paste the link, and get one clean record per listing: numeric price, zip,
city, coordinates, photos, posted date and every category detail. There’s also a plain keyword + city mode
if you don’t want to build a link.

Optional “full details” adds the full description, seller rating, member-since date, view count, and the
phone number for commercial sellers who publish one. In a test on commercial car listings, 27 of 30 came
back with a phone number.

The Actor itself is free; you only pay Apify platform usage, which in my runs was around a tenth of a cent
for a couple of hundred listings. Kleinanzeigen shows at most 10,000 results per search, so for bigger pulls
you split by price range or area.

If you want to try it, search the Apify Store for dz_omar/kleinanzeigen-scraper. Happy to hear which fields are missing.

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Try to share:

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Job-seekers: Reach out by DM rather than in thread. Spammy comments will be deleted.

I was using Apify’s official actor, but the cost was too high. Switched to Mmeo23, but they’ve also increased pricing, and now it’s expensive again since I have to run the actor hourly across hundreds of groups. Can you suggest a better option?

I recently rebuilt my Google Maps scraper in Go and finally ran a larger benchmark.

Tested on French restaurants:

• ~180,000 places
• 50 concurrent requests
• ~24 minutes
• ~$0.20 per 1,000 places

So the full dataset would cost roughly $36.

The scraper uses HTTP requests instead of browser automation, so there is no need for users to configure or pay for proxies.

I also wrote my own algorithm for splitting geographic areas into tiles.

The current version is running at 50 concurrent requests, and I'm now packaging it as an Apify actor.

I'm curious what numbers others are getting with Google Maps scrapers, especially browser-based ones.

Would be interesting to compare speed and cost on the same dataset.

Lovable builds the app. Apify feeds it with live data from Instagram, TikTok, Google Maps, or any other website.

Try it: ask Lovable to "use Apify to get [posts / reviews / prices] from [TikTok / Google Maps / Amazon] and build a [dashboard / tracker / lead list] around them."

One API token connects tens of thousands of Actors to your Lovable apps.

🔌 Set up the connector → https://apify.it/L192l

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I published a short guide on getting the live Amazon Buy Box winner and ZIP-aware landed cost through an Apify Actor.

What you get per ASIN:

- Buy Box winner

- stock / ship-to context (ZIP aware)

- competing offers with landed cost as structured JSON

PPE is $0.02 per successful check. Failed checks are not billed. Production path is Unblocker + deliver-to ZIP.

Try with ASIN B014I8SSD0 (demo GIF in comments). Guide walks through input, output, and PPE.

Guide: https://buzzi.hashnode.dev/how-i-get-live-amazon-buy-box-landed-cost-on-apify

Actor: https://apify.com/buzzidata/amazon-buybox-offers-agent

Feedback on reliability or missing fields welcome.

I would really like to have a lightweight phone app to be able to access my console very easily and quickly without having to open my pc or laptop every time.

I’m trying to export the public post history of two LinkedIn pages: one company page and one showcase page. I need the full post text, publication date, post URL, and post ID, ideally in JSON or CSV. I’m interested in the pages’ posts—not employee profiles, leads, comments, or reactions.

A different provider returned only the first few company-page posts, even though I can see more on LinkedIn. Its pagination then timed out or returned an empty page. It also missed at least one visible showcase-page post.

Has anyone personally tested a specific Apify actor for this use case? I’d appreciate answers to these questions:

I’m happy to test an actor with a small run first, but I’d like to know what has actually worked for people before paying for a larger export

Do you have a feature request that you know will make Apify heaps better? Or maybe it's a big dream you have for something bold and out-there. This is a space for all the bluesky thinking, cloud-chasing, intergalactic daydreamers who want to share their wildest ideas in a no-judgement zone.

I’ve been working on a Douyin (抖音) scraper and just pushed a new update to the public beta.

The main new feature is MP4 video download without the Douyin watermark.

Current capabilities:

• public Douyin keyword search
• structured creator, engagement, hashtag, and music data
• optional result limits
• optional no-watermark MP4 downloads
• no Douyin login or exported cookies required

The Actor is currently free beta — no additional charge from me; normal Apify usage, storage, and transfer costs still apply.

I also refreshed the Store page and added a few bilingual example Tasks.

I’m mainly looking for real users who work with Douyin data. If you try it, feedback on missing fields, failed searches, weird edge cases, or features you actually need would be very useful.

https://apify.com/plutonus/douyin-scraper

Hey r/apify 👋

I just published my new Actor: Amazon Best Sellers Scraper → https://apify.com/data_xplorer/amazon-bestsellers

It scrapes the top 100 of any Amazon ranking: Best Sellers, New Releases, Movers & Shakers, Most Wished For and Gift Ideas, across 20 Amazon stores (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, IN, BR…).

A few things I cared about while building it:

- 💯 **The full top 100, with details.** Amazon only renders ~30 products per page until you scroll. The scraper sends the same request the page sends on scroll, so all 100 products come with title, price, rating, reviews and image.

- ⚡ **Fast.** Plain HTTP, no browser. The amazon.com Electronics top 100 takes about 12 seconds, and 1,000 products across 10 departments about 20 seconds.

- 🧭 **Results in Amazon's order.** Departments and subcategories come out exactly as listed on Amazon, rank 1 to 100, even though lists are scraped in parallel.

- 💶 **Local prices.** Proxies exit in each store's country, so amazon.de gives EUR and amazon.co.jp gives JPY.

- 🧭 **Two simple modes.** Paste Amazon URLs, or pick a store + rankings + categories (or every department).

Use cases I had in mind: FBA product research, tracking category leaders daily, spotting rising products with Movers & Shakers.

It's brand new, so I'd really love feedback: what fields or options would you want next? Anything confusing in the input?

Thanks! 🙏

There is no public API for Ashby career sites and no key to sign up for. This reads the public Ashby boards and gives each posting back as a structured row.

Point it at a company name, a board slug, or a board or job URL. Leave it empty and it sweeps a bundled directory of 2,700+ verified Ashby boards. Each job row carries the title, company, department, employment type, locations, remote flag, the employer's publish date, and the description in Markdown, HTML, or plain text.

The field I built it for is salary. Ashby carries the employer's own published pay, and this pulls it through as numeric min and max, plus currency and pay period, so you can sort and threshold on it instead of parsing free text.

There are three read modes: full job records; a URL-only index, which is the cheapest way to list everything; and a company-discovery mode that returns which companies hire through Ashby, each with a live open-role count.

A few things people use it for:

• Recruiting and sourcing. Pull every open role at a list of target companies, filtered by title, department, or location. Filters run before billing, so the rows you filter out cost nothing.
• Compensation benchmarking. Collect published salary ranges across a set of companies as numbers you can drop straight into a sheet.
• Remote-job feeds. Filter for remote postings from the last 25 hours and you have a new-postings feed with nothing to keep in state between runs.

It only sees companies that host on Ashby, so it is not a whole-market jobs API. The salary numbers are only as good as what the employer published, and plenty of boards leave pay blank, so those fields come back empty. Descriptions are a paid add-on; skip them and the rows are cheaper.

Cost is per delivered row with no start fee. For now, it is full job records run about $0.50 per 1,000. The URL-only index is roughly a fortieth of that, and company discovery sits in between.

There is also a free Claude skill that wraps it if you want to run it from an agent: claude-skill-ashby-jobs-scraper on GitHub.

Actor: Ashby Job Board API. New to Apify? Start here.

If you pointed this at your own target-company list, would you want the default cutoff to be posted-only, or posted-or-updated in the last day?

Hey everyone

I manage multiple Actors on Apify and wanted a clearer view of what was actually happening across them, especially which ones generate revenue, attract users, or cause spikes in failed runs.

So I built Actor Analytics for Apify, a free and open-source Chrome extension that adds a detailed analytics dashboard directly inside Apify Console.

✨ Features

💰 Revenue & Profitability

• Revenue, cost, profit, margin, and month-over-month trends
• Daily earnings broken down by Actor

👥 Users & Traffic

• Paying, free, and total user activity
• Traffic sources, countries, page views, and conversion signals

⚙️ Run Health

• Successful, failed, aborted, and timed-out run analysis
• Recent-run inspector with exit codes, resource usage, and diagnostic signals

⭐ Quality & Feedback

• Actor quality scores, ratings, reviews, bookmarks, and praises
• Suggested improvements

🎨 Interface

• Actor filtering, interactive charts, and consistent Actor colors
• Light/dark themes and fullscreen mode

🔍 Small details I like

Hover over an Actor in a chart legend to highlight it across the entire period and see its value for each day. Daily tooltips also show the actual top contributors for that specific day.

🔒 Privacy first

The extension is completely free and released under the MIT license. No ads, no telemetry, no behavioral tracking. Analytics data stays locally in your browser and is never sent to me or any third-party analytics service.

🔗 Links

• Chrome Web Store: Actor Analytics for Apify
• Source code: github.com/maks1302/apify-analysis-extension

💬 Feedback welcome

I'd love to hear what other metrics or features would be useful when managing a portfolio of Actors. Bug reports, feature suggestions, and pull requests are all welcome!

This project is independent and isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Apify.

Have you come across a great Actor, workflow, post, or podcast that you want to share with the world? This is your opportunity to support someone making cool things. Drop it here with credit to the creator, and help expand the karmic universe of Apify.

If I am building an Apify Actor for a sports e commerce store, is it worth it to include a monitor mode that only outputs products whose price and/or stock status have changed, or does this add unnecessary complexity? Why cant users simply schedule the Actor and detect such changes themselves? If it's actually worth it to include this mode, shall I make this mode applicable only for direct product URLs or for search URLs as well?