
Apify
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Apify is a JavaScript & Node.js based data extraction tool for websites that crawls lists of URLs and automates workflows on the web. With Apify you can manage and automatically scale a pool of headless Chrome / Puppeteer instances, maintain queues of URLs to crawl, store crawling results locally or in the cloud, rotate proxies and much more.
Loadster is a cloud-based load testing and synthetic monitoring platform for engineers who want to know how their applications behave under real traffic.
Tests run with three types of bots: Protocol Bots for HTTP testing, headless Browser Bots that render full pages and execute JavaScript in real Chrome browsers, and Playwright bots for when you want to use Playwright JS directly.
Loadster scripts can be recorded from Chrome or Firefox with the Loadster Recorder extension, edited in a built-in editor with variables, datasets, and shared includes, and then replayed from multiple cloud regions.
Each test run returns detailed page timings (TTFB, FCP, LCP, CLS, etc) alongside resource waterfalls, screenshots, and full traces you can step through in a self-hosted trace viewer. Tests scale from a handful of virtual users (bots) to hundreds of thousands across distributed cloud engines without you provisioning anything.
The same scripts can be set up as monitors that run on a schedule from chosen regions. Notification policies route incidents to email, SMS, voice, or integrations like Slack and PagerDuty. Projects, roles, and shared test history keep teams aligned on what passed, what failed, and what changed.
Pricing is usage-based via Loadster Fuel, with 50 free units on sign-up and no credit card to start.
Apify
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Data collection: Apify actors, one per source, that scrape the open-data endpoints and normalize them. Quebec RBQ ships a daily bulk CSV (inside a 10.8 MB zip, ~924k rows that dedupe to ~54k active licences). Ontario HCRA has no bulk file โ it's an internal JSON API behind the public registry. - Source: dev.to / 3 days ago
Create a free Apify account and grab your API token from Settings โ API & Integrations. - Source: dev.to / 11 days ago
BYOK. It runs on your own Apify token. No shared keys, no lock-in, no licensing chokepoint โ a lesson the whole "Proxycurl shut down and stranded everyone" saga taught the space. - Source: dev.to / 25 days ago
You need apify-client installed (pip install apify-client pandas scikit-learn). Get a free Apify API token at apify.com โ no card required, every account starts with $5 of credit. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago
A free Apify account (for the API token). - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago
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