Tthen-purple
API scraping
Hi, want to make a bot extract all the data from an API endpoint and store it on my database to create a history of the values.
I tried making the script without Apify, but the script took ages to finish and after some request my IP was blocked.
So the solution I found is to use Apify, because of the anti blocking solutions and the concurrency.
The problem is that I want to create a custom actor, and I did not find much information about scraping an API. I don't know if this is because this isn't the right tool for my problem.
In addition to that, I would love to know how are the actors expected to work, at the moment I have a script that create a bunch of URLs for all the pages (pagination) and another that go on each page and make the request.
For the actors, I need to create one actor that can make a request and call it for each URL, or the best approach is to have one actor that can make a bunch of requests and receive a list of URLs as arguments. I am asking taking in count that concurrency and proxy use is important, and I don't know if each actor manages this by itself.
I tried making the script without Apify, but the script took ages to finish and after some request my IP was blocked.
So the solution I found is to use Apify, because of the anti blocking solutions and the concurrency.
The problem is that I want to create a custom actor, and I did not find much information about scraping an API. I don't know if this is because this isn't the right tool for my problem.
In addition to that, I would love to know how are the actors expected to work, at the moment I have a script that create a bunch of URLs for all the pages (pagination) and another that go on each page and make the request.
For the actors, I need to create one actor that can make a request and call it for each URL, or the best approach is to have one actor that can make a bunch of requests and receive a list of URLs as arguments. I am asking taking in count that concurrency and proxy use is important, and I don't know if each actor manages this by itself.
