Anyone with experience scraping Linkedin posts? (I think they are public)

Question: Is there a way to report callers who are abusing your actors by creating multiple accounts and trying to bypass the free tier limits? I track everything in my dashboard and I can clearly see list of free account users trying to hit via different accounts and orchestrating the whole free tier abuse calling it via API. I would be helpful to report it somewhere as actor developers to prevent abuse.

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Hi, Is there any way that users cannot try my Actors free? My Actors are AI based and I got bills only for trying.

Only useful way to protect is to limit your actor functionality for free users yourself as easiness of account creation seems to be integral part of apify

The same answer, there is environment variable which lets you know if the user is free so you can restrict usage for him but easiest would be setting tiered pricing so that free users get so high pricing they will be able to run the actor only limited times

Do you have a documentation link that tells how to use that environment variable in code?

https://docs.apify.com/actors/development/programming-interface/environment-variables look for APIFY_USER_IS_PAYING

hello did apify changed something on how they evaluate output schema

my scraper show that it scrape results

but stores nothing

ok nvm, the website just changed its html and bamboozled me

Web scraping in a nutshell 😭

Hi all 👋 I've wrapped my Actors in an open-source MCP server, so Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor can call them as simple tools (search_flights, search_hotels, get_youtube_transcripts, find_local_businesses and 13 more). Each call runs the Actor on the user's own Apify account, with a spending cap per run. https://github.com/retracn/automationnation-mcp Also on Smithery as automationnation/data-tools. Feedback on the tool design or which Actors you'd want next is very welcome.

Someone on apify.com/ideas asked for an "Apollo" for Indian SMBs: founders, CEOs, heads of sales and operations at 10–500 person companies in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Pune and nine more cities, no agencies, no recruiters, emails first. That's one input in our B2B Leads Finder: job titles, seniority, company size, city, industries, excluded titles. Every row has a work email at the person's current company or a personal one, and people without one are skipped and not charged. From $1.50 per 1,000 leads. https://apify.com/b2bsearch/b2b-leads-finder The one thing from the idea we don't have yet is the tech stack. Tell us if you need it.

@kevin_team @AutomationNation Please keep to #1053269275781115975 for posts like these

Hey all, @fabian and I are in https://discord.com/channels/801163717915574323/1130490451812700250/1555201793783374009 to talk about What to Build @User

Question for the Apify team: is the developer rewards programme (points for articles, videos and templates about our Actors) still running? The last points I can see in #1471469652206158046 date from April, and a question asked there in early September has no answer yet. Asking before I fill in the form for a few things published this week. Thanks!

I’d be careful with rotating providers just because they’re cheap. I’d first keep the target, browser setup and request pattern fixed, then compare providers on: - success rate - retries - latency - session stability - effective cost per successful result Otherwise it becomes hard to tell whether a provider is actually better or you’re just seeing different behavior from the target. Cheap $/GB can still be expensive if it creates a lot of failed requests.

Please could you respond also to my ideas from 2024, from sentimental reasons, thanks 🙏

@xMiso just advanced to level 11! Thanks for your contributions! 🎉

Fair point 😄 I didn’t notice how old that thread was when I replied. My bad.

how did bro scroll back that far XD

Hi all, New Actor dev here (fuze, 20+ Actors live: https://apify.com/fuze). Honest question for those earning consistently: 1. Where do your paying users come from: Store search, Google, MCP/AI agents, or your own marketing? 2. Did lowering or raising your pay-per-event price change anything? 3. If you started over, what would you build first? Thanks, happy to share my own numbers as I go 🙏

What's the best way to include a video in the README?

Hi creators & Apify team! New creator here (TubeText Labs). I noticed Apify's X account sometimes features Store Actors, e.g. a TikTok transcript Actor yesterday. Is there a way to be considered for those social features or the Store's featured lists: a form, some criteria, or the right channel to ask? Our most distinctive one is Video Breakdown AI (hook, shot list, cut pacing, products and ad/affiliate intent for TikTok, Reels and YouTube). Happy to share sample outputs or a short demo. Thanks!

UI bug I can't see the last options in a dropdown list when choosing Input fields https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1090592836044476426/1557749962144612402/image.png?ex=6ac8ef34&is=6ac79db4&hm=054fdafdf8cf7bd717d7b47b1b6ba80c0b63c73e17a2e4796d57838a6daba8e9&

I've also reported this before. It only happens with personal actors. On the public page, this won't happen because there's a wrapper around the whole page that hides the overflow content.

The workaround I've found is to click on Run options so that the height of the page increases.

happy Friday y'all! newbie here.. i've been testing some actors out.. specifically this one: https://console.apify.com/actors/mgaavSb81Q81YMtW5 ( an Instagram Story Downloader ) from : https://apify.com/crawlerbros and they managed to suddenly DISAPPEAR! 1. is this normal?? do these 3rd party actors ghost often? 2. if so - what would be a legit reason for this rugpull? 3. how easy is it to remake the same actors with Apify's new AI? any feedback would be appreciated 🙏🏻