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Apify & Crawlee9mo ago
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google maps scrapper faster response?

Hi i've just started using Apify to scrape some data for my web app. Essentially I'm trying to replace usage of serpAPI for scraping google maps places and videos as the cost is abit too much. so was trying out google maps scrapper by Compass, which works for me, but i'm curious if theres a way to get quicker response maybe by having the actor on standby mode (although this can be costly as well but considering) so that we wont have to wait for the cold start of docker on every request?

The app im building requires an on demand data, based on a user's query, eg. "hiking in Japan", then show about 10 places min (with 1 image per result). currently it takes more than 15s using the scraper. so was wondering if there's any way to make the run time faster apart from the actor standby mode or optimistic loading of those places? the one by Huncho is $50/m so I'm trying to see if can make it work with google maps scraper instead
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