The latest articles on DEV Community by LatentLark (@latentlark). https://dev.to/latentlark https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4239562%2F3da92b49-de45-4945-a6ad-79968c29c452.png https://dev.to/latentlark en LatentLark Sat, 14 Nov 2026 20:15:59 +0000 https://dev.to/latentlark/we-made-our-google-lsa-and-local-lead-audit-scrapers-about-2x-faster-1jaj https://dev.to/latentlark/we-made-our-google-lsa-and-local-lead-audit-scrapers-about-2x-faster-1jaj <p>We shipped speed and reliability fixes to two of our Apify Actors this week.</p> <p><a href="https://apify.com/latentlark/google-local-services-ads" rel="noopener noreferrer">Google Local Services Ads</a>: a 500-provider run dropped from about 12 minutes to about 6, at half the compute. A 1,500-provider run finished in 570 seconds with no timeout. We also fixed short runs that sometimes returned 0 providers, and memory creep on big runs.</p> <p><a href="https://apify.com/latentlark/local-lead-audit" rel="noopener noreferrer">Local Lead Audit</a>: 160 sites went from 287 s to 149 s at the same compute cost. A 143-site batch that used to time out at 900 s now finishes in 565 s. Time-limited runs now end cleanly, unfinished sites aren't charged, and duplicates are free.</p> <p>If you pull US home service leads, we'd love to hear what breaks for you.</p> apify webscraping showdev automation