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Ever hit a wall trying to scrape data for your AI project? Here’s how I finally got reliable, compliant feeds without the usual blockers
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Ever hit a wall trying to scrape data for your AI project? Here’s how I finally got reliable, compliant feeds without the usual blockers

I’ve found myself in the same spot—needing a fresh list of product prices, SERP rankings, or live travel data, only to have a scraper trigger a block, the IPs get black‑listed, or I’m unsure whether the data is even collectible.

After spending several hours on “scrape‑or‑die” services that either got me blocked or raised compliance alerts, I searched for a solution that could pull massive amounts of data—petabytes worth—while staying within legal and ethical boundaries.

That search led me to a platform that pairs a huge residential proxy pool—over 400 million IPs, filterable by country, city, carrier, and ASN—with Web Access APIs that let you build and scale crawlers without the constant battle against CAPTCHAs or IP bans. A few features that made a real difference:

  • On‑demand data feeds – real‑time, pre‑collected, or historical data delivered in a clean, structured format ready for AI/ML pipelines.
  • AI‑ready output – compatible with TensorFlow, PyTorch, and most data warehouses straight out of the box.
  • Ethical & compliant – opt‑in peer network, no personal data collection, GDPR/CCPA compliance, and a clear Acceptable Use Policy.
  • Security checks – integrated with VirusTotal, Avast, and AVG, scanning billions of domains for malicious content.

With this setup I stopped tripping over 403s, could launch dozens of parallel crawlers, and knew the collection respected privacy rules. It’s been a game‑changer for my side project that powers a recommendation engine.

Anyone else facing the same blockers? Which tools have you tried, and how did you resolve the compliance headache? Let’s share stories and tips.

Learn more: https://get.brightdata.com/3ndryr71koz6

u/Otherwise-Resolve252 — 2 days ago
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Ever spent an hour tweaking a prompt just to get a decent thumbnail for a blog post, only to see the bill stack up? I was in the same boat until I stumbled on a text‑to‑image actor on Apify that runs on NVIDIA's Flux 2 Klein model.

You feed it a simple description and pick an aspect ratio (1:1 for Instagram, 16:9 for YouTube thumbnails, etc.) and it spits out a 1024‑1568 px image in seconds. The price is literally a thousandth of a dollar per successful image, so a batch of ten costs less than a cent.

What I’ve been using it for:

  • Quick mock‑ups for product pages
  • Custom illustrations for blog posts
  • Eye‑catching social‑media graphics without a designer

The workflow is straightforward: paste your prompt, choose the ratio, and you get a public URL (or Base64) back. No hidden fees for failed runs, and the quality is surprisingly good for the price.

Has anyone else tried a low‑cost AI image generator? How do you balance speed, cost, and quality for your content needs?

Learn more: https://apify.com/akash9078/ai-image-generator

u/Otherwise-Resolve252 — 3 days ago
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Using apify to scrape location on insta and soundcloud followers.

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.

  1. 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!

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u/Hungry_Man_Music — 7 days ago