
John
johnvcI build reliable, production-grade data crawlers and scrapers that power finance and investing workflows.
johnisanerd
@johnbuildsinpub
Joined May 2025
ACTOR STATS
15 public Actors
2.1K total users
186 monthly users
>99% runs succeeded
7.7 hours issues response
Hello!
I originally built these actors to power my own production workflows. They scrape structured financial and investor data and are battle-tested in real ETL pipelines. I’m excited to share them with the community — they’re designed to be reliable, configurable, and easy to integrate.
My goal is to make Actors that are as easy as possible to use!
Quick highlights
- Production-ready defaults: retries, timeouts, and sensible concurrency.
- Clear input schema and example outputs.
- Built for integration: works with Apify key/value store, datasets, and webhooks.
- Observability: structured logs, run metadata, and run IDs for debugging.
Tutorials
I have published tutorials to help you use these actors in Python.
- Yandex Search Scraper - Tutorial in python on how to scrape Yandex.
- Baidu Search Scraper 🇨🇳 - Tutorial on how to scrape Baidu with python examples.
- DuckDuckGo Search Scraper - Tutorial on how to scrape DuckDuckGo with python examples
- Google Jobs Scraper - Tutorial on how to scrape Google Jobs with python examples
Feedback and Errors
I actively maintain them and ship regular updates focused on stability, performance, and usability. Your feedback is invaluable—if you run into a problem, please report it with clear details so I can fix it fast.
When reporting issues, please include:
- What happened: exact error message and expected vs. actual result
- Steps to reproduce: minimal input, actor settings, target URL(s)
- Logs: relevant excerpts (mask any secrets)