Maksym Bohomolov

Hi. The Actors here extract data from sites I personally find useful.

Most websites either have an internal API or return everything in rendered HTML. Building a scraper around that, instead of around a headless browser, takes more development time but cuts the compute cost of every run dramatically - without losing data quality.

When a site genuinely requires a browser, I use one. When it doesn't, I don't. Only public data, only the fields a normal user can see.

Python is the main tool, plus whatever's right for the specific site. I also contribute to Crawlee - the framework most Apify Actors are built on.

The Issues tab on each Actor is the fastest way to reach me. That's where I look first.