xenial-black•7d ago
Hey guys, I've been using Apify actors
Hey guys, I've been using Apify actors for a while, and as I'm new here I'd like to ask about somthing:
Problem: I'm scraping Airbnb and Booking. I'm currently using Bright Data, however it doesn't work very fast, sometimes output is not exactly how it should be and errors happen often - especially for Booking.
Apify as a service is much better in that case, and before switching to BD I've been using Apify wildly (business plan).
The reason I switched to Bright Data was that their scrapers have more data in the returned JSON, and actually the data quantity comes often with the specific data I need that was often missing in Apify scrapers.
Now I'd like to go back to Apify somehow, and I prepared the exact list of things I'd like to scrap from single Booking and Airbnb listing. If such two scrapers exists, I would switch to Apify in an instant
What are my options?
1. Adjusting current actors output to better suits my needs (some tweaks in returned JSON needed) and therefore increase my usage of them (by contacting their author? how?)
2. Writing new actor from scratch? (however I don't have capabilities to write it myself probably)
What should I do in such case?
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1. Contact author via issues tab on the actor page
2. Hire someone to create an Actor specifically for your needs