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SIÁN Agency

1st prize winner of the Apify 1 million challenge. Owner of an automation and data pipeline agency. We focus on SMBs who want to get rid of repeating processes.

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Schema Drift Is the Silent Killer. Here's What to Log So You Actually Catch It.

Schema Drift Is the Silent Killer. Here's What to Log So You Actually Catch It.

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One Playwright Selector Trick Nobody Talks About: getByRole

One Playwright Selector Trick Nobody Talks About: getByRole

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Scraping Without Tests Is Gambling. And the House Always Wins.

Scraping Without Tests Is Gambling. And the House Always Wins.

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Why Your Requests + BeautifulSoup Stack Will Fail in Production

Why Your Requests + BeautifulSoup Stack Will Fail in Production

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Stop Fighting the DOM. Selector-First Thinking Will Save Your Scraper.

Stop Fighting the DOM. Selector-First Thinking Will Save Your Scraper.

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A 10-Line Playwright Trick That Saved Me Hours on Every Sephora Run

A 10-Line Playwright Trick That Saved Me Hours on Every Sephora Run

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Stop Building Fragile Scrapers — Build Actors Instead

Stop Building Fragile Scrapers — Build Actors Instead

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If Your Scraper Uses Regex on HTML, You're Already Broken

If Your Scraper Uses Regex on HTML, You're Already Broken

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Rate Limits Are a Feature, Not a Bug

Rate Limits Are a Feature, Not a Bug

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Instagram Reel Transcripts in 5 Lines — and Word-Level Timestamps Are Free

Instagram Reel Transcripts in 5 Lines — and Word-Level Timestamps Are Free

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I Stopped Writing TikTok Scrapers. Five Lines of Python Replaced Them.

I Stopped Writing TikTok Scrapers. Five Lines of Python Replaced Them.

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