Nikita Iakovlev

Nikita Iakovlev

Sep 18

Scraping Meta's Ad Library Without a Browser: the 200 OK That Means Blocked

#python #javascript #api #webdev

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Nikita Iakovlev

Sep 18

Why Your YouTube Transcript Scraper Says 'No Captions Found' on a Video That Has Captions

#python #api #webdev #data

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Nikita Iakovlev

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Scraping Meta Threads Without a Login — What the Search Page Actually Returns

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Nikita Iakovlev

Sep 11

I made my Apify Actor an AI agent tool, then read every byte it sent back

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Nikita Iakovlev

Sep 7

Phone Number Validation Without a Paid API — What the NANPA File Actually Tells You

#python #api #data #webdev

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Nikita Iakovlev

Sep 7

The Same Seat, Three Prices: Reading Google Flights Booking Options in Python

#python #api #webscraping #tutorial

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Nikita Iakovlev

Sep 4

Email Verification Without Sending a Single Email (And Why Port 25 Is a Dead End)

#python #api #webdev #data

8 min read

Nikita Iakovlev

Sep 4

Telegram Channel Analytics Without an API Key — Subscriber Counts Lie, Reach Doesn't

#python #api #datascience #webdev

6 min read

Nikita Iakovlev

Sep 4

Hotel Review Data in 2026 — Why Agoda Gives You Two Datasets for the Price of One

#webscraping #api #data #travel

5 min read

Nikita Iakovlev

Sep 4

Google Flights Data Without an API — What You Can Actually Get in 2026

#python #api #travel #webscraping

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Nikita Iakovlev

Sep 4

Every US Company That Registered This Week Is Public Data. Here's How to Read It

#api #data #sales #python

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Nikita Iakovlev

Sep 4

I Measured 900 Apify Actors and Got the Price Wrong by 100x. Here's the Corrected Data

#webscraping #data #startup #api

6 min read

Nikita Iakovlev

Sep 4

Scraping Southeast Asian Marketplaces in 2026 — Shopee and Tokopedia Without a Browser

#webscraping #ecommerce #python #api

6 min read

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Scraping Meta's Ad Library Without a Browser: the 200 OK That Means Blocked

Why Your YouTube Transcript Scraper Says 'No Captions Found' on a Video That Has Captions

Scraping Meta Threads Without a Login — What the Search Page Actually Returns

I made my Apify Actor an AI agent tool, then read every byte it sent back

Phone Number Validation Without a Paid API — What the NANPA File Actually Tells You

The Same Seat, Three Prices: Reading Google Flights Booking Options in Python

Email Verification Without Sending a Single Email (And Why Port 25 Is a Dead End)

Telegram Channel Analytics Without an API Key — Subscriber Counts Lie, Reach Doesn't

Hotel Review Data in 2026 — Why Agoda Gives You Two Datasets for the Price of One

Google Flights Data Without an API — What You Can Actually Get in 2026

Every US Company That Registered This Week Is Public Data. Here's How to Read It

I Measured 900 Apify Actors and Got the Price Wrong by 100x. Here's the Corrected Data

Scraping Southeast Asian Marketplaces in 2026 — Shopee and Tokopedia Without a Browser