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Apify mentions (48)

• I let an Apify Actor read my docs and write one GitHub issue. It found a 404 without cloning the repo.

  The first network smoke labeled https://apify.com/ inconclusive even though the page was healthy. The response carried a Content Security Policy header larger than aiohttp's default 8 KB field limit. The client failed while parsing headers, before I saw the 200. - Source: dev.to / 3 days ago

• How to pull every open job from Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and SmartRecruiters with public APIs (and monitor changes)

  Native @apify scheduling, dataset exports (CSV/JSON), webhooks, and it's callable by AI agents via Apify MCP. - Source: dev.to / 15 days ago

• Google's News API has been gone since 2016, and people still search for it

  That runs News Scraper on Apify, which is the same forty lines plus the parts that are Tedious rather than hard: both feeds, the nested publisher element, the date Normalisation, and deduplication. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

• WHOIS is gone, RDAP replaced it, and a 404 does not mean what you think

  That runs an Apify Actor I maintain, Domain Scraper, because the Tedious parts are the RDAP bootstrap, the vcard unpacking and the provider Fingerprinting rather than the HTTP call. If you would rather do it yourself, Https://rdap.org/domain/ is the whole API and it needs no key. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

• How I Turned Canadian Open Government Data Into a Live Licence-Verification Site + API (Build Log, 2026)

  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 — it's an internal JSON API behind the public registry. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

Progressier mentions (14)

• Don't upload your PWA to the app stores

  I built Progressier to provide developers with the best possible browser-based PWA installation experience. And I can say, it's nearly as good as Google/Apple's app store installation experience. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• How to fix iOS push subscriptions getting terminated after 3 notifications

  That's it for me! Hopefully, now you know how to get around push subscriptions being canceled after 3 push notifications. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me here. - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago

• Web push notifications coming to iOS this year

  When I made Progressier compatible with the desktop Safari update from last October, I had to rewrite a thing or two to put the request for permission inside a click event listener. Doesn't work otherwise. I'd be willing to bet mobile Safari will have the same requirement. Source: over 3 years ago

• Show HN: I made an indie app store alternative with a twist

  The twist is that although it does (part of) the job of an app store, it's not (nor aims to be) an app store. It's a script you add to your existing web app that makes it "self-distributing". Check it out: https://progressier.com. Under the hood, it leverages the concept of "PWA", but it goes further: 1. It creates an installation page for your app that looks like an app store listing. Demo example:... - Source: Hacker News / about 4 years ago

• Does calling the image URL cost anything?

  With something like Progressier, you can set up a caching strategy that essentially says "cache all images located on firebase.whatever-the-url-is.com and never request it from the network after that". It would take approximately 2 minutes to set up -- no code required. Source: over 4 years ago