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Cloud platform for running web scraping and automation programs ("Actors") in metered containers, with a marketplace for developers to publish and sell them.
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Amadeus disabled its Self-Service API keys on 17 July 2026 and archived its official SDKs the same day. Code failing against test.api.amadeus.com needs a migration, and only the read-only price calls have a drop-in path.
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Seven variations of the old ytInitialPlayerResponse scrape returned zero bytes from a clean residential IP on 2026-09-21. Getting text back now costs either a maintained library or a headless browser per request.
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The same Camoufox code cleared Mercado Libre's proof-of-work challenge six times in twelve at 4096 MB and nine times in ten at 8192 MB, with the low-memory failures reporting an error that looks exactly like a target hanging up.
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The Form D filed on September 14th dates the first sale to August 31st, 2026. The case for that much money rests on figures Firecrawl reports itself: 180,300 GitHub stars and an ARR claim on its Y Combinator profile.
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In three days of building pay-per-event scrapers on Apify, the first bug was a billing one. The charge call resolved, the browser died in the next line, and the run billed for a detail row anyway.
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A developer logged every byte his own Apify Actor sent back over raw JSON-RPC. The agent receives 9,135 characters of schema, 23 properties deep, with the Console form's emoji intact and nothing marked required.
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Apify's input schema spec says prefill only touches the Console form while default is substituted for any caller that omits the field, and an agent calling through MCP counts as a caller. Seven of one catalogue's nine chainable Actors carried both.
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The costs came from Apify's own accounting rather than an estimate, and correcting one memory field moved the measured spread from 96x down to 33x. Requests per row still explains everything left.
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A week of rewriting descriptions could not have moved the number, because Apify's Store endpoint was filtering all eleven Actors out of results by default, and the identity check that lifts the filter rejected every Japanese document the publisher had.
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Two Apify Actors that work fine alone returned a clean bill of health on eleven sellers nobody had checked, because the field the answer depended on was allowed to arrive empty and the row counts matched all the way down.
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An Apify Actor read a manifest, queried OSV, and filed one triage issue, with no branch or merge rights anywhere in its schema. The run that mattered was the second one, which updated the issue instead of filing a duplicate.
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Wildcard DNS answers names nobody configured, which makes a resolving hostname weak evidence. So the control experiment moved into the Actor's output contract: three random probes per run, four evidence classes, 98 of 129 rows flagged.
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The author of 51 Apify scrapers behind seven MCP servers charged users for empty results in four different ways. Agents take an empty answer and move on, so the only outward symptom was healthy revenue.
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Three of the four public ATS endpoints wrap their list in a jobs key, so the parser passes its first test and then reports an empty array whether the vendor is wrong, the board is empty or the upstream threw a 502.
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A build wave shipped four Apify Actors with clean lints, valid schemas and green tests. All four were still running the scaffolder's placeholder, and one monetized listing had been billing customers.
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One team's account of wiring government open data into agent-callable evidence: the failure mode is a valid response that is only page one, and an agent that reads a cap as "no records".
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A week of logged requests shows rotating residential exits mixing currencies into one price column, and the euro-to-dollar error is small enough to pass every sanity check.
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A developer's 23 marketplace listings held top search slots and drew one user in 89 days. The corpus analysis he ran to explain it was rigorous, defensible, and pointed away from the fault.
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