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Every article tagged “Web Scraping” on the Heyperai blog.
Scrape Google Maps for local business leads with Apify: inputs that avoid the 120-place cap, about $5 per 1,000 places with website emails, the free-plan add-on trap, CRM import and GDPR.
Indexing a 500-page site costs under a dollar in embeddings. Here's the Python and n8n build for a RAG chatbot from your website, with real costs and the token check that decides them.
Markdown cut our test pages' tokens by 70 to 79% versus raw HTML. Stripping link URLs cut up to 45% more. Here's the full pipeline for LLM-ready web data, and what it costs.
Firecrawl turns a web page into JSON in about ten lines of Python, at 5 credits a page. We ran it: here's the real output, the 404 that came back as a valid record, and the code that catches it.
Playwright is free and Firecrawl charges per page, so Playwright wins, right? Not once sites start blocking you. Here's the cost per 1,000 pages on each, and which one fits your scraper.
Your AI agent needs to read the web. Firecrawl turns any page into clean Markdown in one call, but one setting decides if a page costs 0.1 cents or 1.6.
Apify and Firecrawl both get you data off the web, and both are increasingly pitched at AI builders. That is roughly where the similarity ends. Firecrawl is an API that turns any…
Apify turns a three-week scraping project into a form and a run button. So why do some teams walk away a month later? The Store, the platform, and the bill.
Apify's $19 plan isn't a subscription. It's $19 of credit that compute, proxies, storage and Actor fees all eat into. Here's how to estimate your real bill.