Apify & Crawlee•4mo ago

Please stop shamelessly mentioning your

Please stop spamming and mentioning your scrapers on another developers issues page

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azzouzana•9/9/25, 5:18 PM

Why is that bad if the actors are similar and if the actor they're promoting resolves the problem for the user?

Saurav Jain•9/9/25, 5:19 PM

hey its not allowed to promote actors in someone else issues.

azzouzana•9/9/25, 5:19 PM

That's something I didn't know. Is this mentionned somewhere?

Saurav Jain•9/9/25, 5:19 PM

and please be respectful to each other. both of you are respected members of the community. lets be nice to each other and refrain from using strong words.

Saurav Jain•9/9/25, 5:19 PM

azzouzana•9/9/25, 5:20 PM

ofc, I'm totally being respectful, I'm just sharing my opinion here

Saurav Jain•9/9/25, 5:20 PM

i will share t and c later

Sstandard-azure Why is that bad if the actors are similar and if the actor they're promoting res...

brilliant-limeOP•9/9/25, 5:23 PM

@Saurav Jain Thanks for clarifying.

Saurav Jain•9/9/25, 5:23 PM

@prakashgp please next time use nicer words in community

it can be framed nicely! thanks!

brilliant-limeOP•9/9/25, 5:24 PM

Sure man, i will fix that

brilliant-limeOP•9/9/25, 5:59 PM

@Saurav Jain can you ask him to remove the comments he posted on issues

brilliant-limeOP•9/9/25, 6:02 PM

He posted on almost 25 issues

dzomar | Web Scraping•9/9/25, 6:26 PM

promoting your own Actor on another developer’s issues page feels wrong.

dzomar | Web Scraping•9/9/25, 6:26 PM

It’s like if you owned a shop, and a competitor walked in and started selling their products inside your store

dzomar | Web Scraping•9/9/25, 6:26 PM

nobody would accept that

dzomar | Web Scraping•9/9/25, 6:28 PM

dropping promotions in issue trackers YouTube comments, or under someones Facebook ad is not the right way to compete, even if your actor is better

dzomar | Web Scraping•9/9/25, 6:29 PM

the issue tracker should stay focused on solving problems with that actor not on advertising

azzouzana•9/9/25, 6:32 PM

It’s like if you owned a shop, and a competitor walked in and started selling their products inside your store

=> I don’t think it would be a fair comparison if the actor is operating normally. But if it’s broken and there’s an alternative, I don’t see anything wrong with that, users have free will anyway.. It would only be wrong if the actor isn’t broken or if the user is spamming, which is definitely unacceptable. I think there’s a fine line between advertising and genuinely offering an alternative that could save the day...

That’s just my belief, anyway.

Aciku•9/9/25, 6:33 PM

A more accurate analogy would be if someone is standing in the customer support line of a company to resolve an issue with their product, and you walk in handing out flyers for a competitor right in the middle of the line.

dzomar | Web Scraping•9/9/25, 6:34 PM

were supposed to be a community where we learn from each other and find solutions together

dzomar | Web Scraping•9/9/25, 6:35 PM

not envy or undercut each other

dzomar | Web Scraping•9/9/25, 6:35 PM

competition is fine

azzouzana•9/9/25, 6:36 PM

Anyway, if that's against T&C I believe Apify might simply block entering actors URLs that don't match the actor developer or something like that

dzomar | Web Scraping•9/9/25, 6:36 PM

but it should be healthy competition like two teams that respect each other and push each other to do better

dzomar | Web Scraping•9/9/25, 6:37 PM

thats how we all rise

Ddzomar | Web Scraping not envy or undercut each other

azzouzana•9/9/25, 6:40 PM

That's for sure, but there's a fine line where someone genially wants to offer an alternative and one is aggressively advertising. That's my point.

azzouzana•9/9/25, 6:40 PM

Anyway, is there a broken actor so I can quickly develop & spam a solution

azzouzana•9/9/25, 6:41 PM

Great conversation guys

Saurav Jain•9/9/25, 6:41 PM

Issues section, as name explains, is for reporting issues. As simple as that.

Aaccused-moccasin It’s like if you owned a shop, and a competitor walked in and started selling th...

brilliant-limeOP•9/9/25, 7:17 PM

I have been on apify since past 2 years and and no one did such unethical practice, it is common sense, but some people never understand. There is no point in arguing with such people, requesting @Apify to implement anti spam measures to prevent this in future.

azzouzana•9/9/25, 8:13 PM

Insecurities aside, let the best win