Jan Čurn

jancurn

Joined October 2015

Founder and CEO of Apify. I still enjoy coding.

Public actors

Metadata Extractor

jancurn/extract-metadata

A small efficient actor that loads a web page, parses its HTML using Cheerio library and extracts the following meta-data from the <HEAD> tag, such as page title, description, author etc.

HTML to PDF Converter

jancurn/url-to-pdf

Loads a web page in headless Chrome using Puppeteer and prints it to PDF. The input is a JSON object and output is a PDF file.

Broken Links Checker

jancurn/find-broken-links

Crawls a website and finds broken links. Unlike other similar SEO analysis tools, the actor also reports broken URL #fragments. The results are stored in a JSON and HTML report.

Screenshot Taker

jancurn/screenshot-taker

Takes a screenshot of one or more web pages using the Chrome browser. The actor enables the setting of custom viewport size, page load timeout, delay, proxies, and output image format.

PDF to HTML Converter

jancurn/pdf-to-html

Converts a PDF document to HTML using the pdf2htmlEX tool.

Naked Domains Analyzer

jancurn/analyze-domains

Crawls and downloads web pages running on a list of provided naked domains e.g. "example.com". The actor stores HTML snapshot, screenshot, text body, and HTTP response headers of all the pages. It also extracts email addresses, phones, social handles for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.

Residential Proxy Probe

jancurn/residential-proxy-probe

Find residential proxy sessions on Apify Proxy with target IP addresses geo-located in specific postal codes or DMAs.

Algolia Webcrawler

jancurn/algolia-webcrawler

Crawls a website using one or more sitemaps and imports the data to Algolia search index. The text content is identified using simple CSS selectors.

Webpage DOM & CSS Analyzer

jancurn/example-analyze-dom-css

Example showing how to use headless Chromium with Puppeteer to open a web page, fetch the list of DOM nodes on the pages and obtain CSS styling information for each HTML element. The actor uses the Chrome DevTools Protocol to access the required browser functionality.

Probe Page Resources

jancurn/probe-page-resources

Sequentially loads a list of URLs in headless Chrome and analyzes HTTP resources requested by each page. Source code at https://github.com/jancurn/act-probe-page-resources

Selenium Custom Firefox POC

jancurn/selenium-custom-firefox

Uses Selenium to run custom build of Firefox that is harder to detect. The actor just saves a screenshot and snapshot of the HTML.

Example Sitemap Cheerio

jancurn/example-sitemap-cheerio

An example actor that first downloads a sitemap in XML format and the crawls each page from the sitemap using the fast CheerioCrawler from Apify SDK.

Product Hunt User Finder

jancurn/product-hunt-user-finder

Scrapes details on users on Product Hunt based on a provided list o Twitter usernames.

Probe Resources Plus Webhook

jancurn/probe-resources-plus-webhook

Calls jancurn/probe-page-resources and then invokes a hard-coded webhook. The act takes same input as jancurn/probe-page-resources

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