r/apify

Wanted to share a project that I’m working on to make using Apify easier to use for ‘plug and play’ applications.

I posted before about using one of the Reddit actors for scraping for a personal project and I was considering making it more conversational so I built a nice way to query the api by literally saying what exactly I was looking for and it would go grab the relevant posts/comments, outputting a json.

It occurred to me that I could build this more multiple actors, because all I need to do is have the agent find the IDs, have it build a filter, then viola I have the data I’m looking for.

Still a work in progress, because I need to code validation features so the ai agent doesn’t start going on a tangent and blowing up my bill. Curious how others are making filters and how they figure out mapping fields from Apify API

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Hello, I am a musician with an upcoming album launch and party.

I am trying to use apify for two specific purposes, I am not a coder, so I have not been able to get it to do what I need so far.

1. I want to scrape my Instagram followers and using information in their bio field, filter out the ones who are located within 10 miles of me, e.g. using keywords such as big towns and my county which is Dorset.

Then I plan to auto DM them with information on an event I'm putting on. I'm hoping that as they are my followers, this will not be considered any violation of terms of service. I can also DM them manually as there are not likely to be more than 50 or so.

I've tried a few different Instagram scrapers but none of them seem to be able to scrape the data from the bio field and include it in results. It could be just me doing this wrong for the first time but none of the scrapers seem to be able to do this and I have tried inserting code as suggested by the AI chat.

2. I want to do the same with SoundCloud, scrape my followers and any mention of these towns or places, filter the results and then DM them.

I'd be really grateful for any help with this, suggested actors to use from the store and suggested code to insert if needed.

Thank you!