Jan Čurn – Medium

Jan Čurn
in
Apify Blog

Make regular passive income developing web automation actors

Developers can now charge for their Apify actors! Keep working on hobby software projects, get a regular income, and keep your freedom.

7 min readApr 27, 2021

--

Freelance developer shipping code to a company

--

Jan Čurn
in
Apify Blog

Launching Apify’s new billing system, pricing plans, team account, and notifications center

Today, we’re launching the largest Apify update this year: a new billing system with new monthly and annual plans, flexible pay-as-you-go…

6 min readDec 10, 2020

--

Launching Apify’s new billing system, pricing plans, team account, and notifications center

--

Jan Čurn
in
Apify Blog

Running Scrapy spiders written in Python on Apify

You can now run your Scrapy spiders written in Python on the Apify cloud platform using the new Scrapy Executor actor.

4 min readSep 4, 2019

--

2

Running Scrapy spiders written in Python on Apify

--

2

Jan Čurn
in
Apify Blog

My Summer 2019 Internship at Apify

Internships at Apify are both fun and challenging. One Harvard student spent summer 2019 getting to know the Apify company culture.

5 min readSep 4, 2019

--

My Summer 2019 Internship at Apify

--

Jan Čurn
in
Apify Blog

Extract emails, phone numbers and social profiles from websites

Scrape emails, phone numbers, and Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram profiles from web pages using a new actor on Apify.

5 min readJun 10, 2019

--

Extract emails, phone numbers and social profiles from websites

--

Jan Čurn
in
Apify Blog

The Apify Master Plan

How we’re going to build a social development and computing ecosystem where anyone can find, build, buy, and run cloud programs.

6 min readApr 8, 2019

--

The Apify Master Plan

--

Jan Čurn
in
Apify Blog

Actors reimagined: auto-generated user interfaces and tasks

We’ve launched the largest upgrade to Apify actors to make them much more accessible to people without programming skills.

8 min readNov 5, 2018

--

Actors reimagined: auto-generated user interfaces and tasks

--

Jan Čurn
in
Apify Blog

Why the world needs a universal web scraping library for JavaScript

We’ve released the Apify SDK — an open-source Node.js library for scraping and web crawling. There was one for Python, but none for JS.

1 min readOct 5, 2018

--

Why the world needs a universal web scraping library for JavaScript

--

Jan Čurn
in
HackerNoon.com

Why the world needs a universal web scraping library for JavaScript

We’ve released the Apify SDK — an open-source Node.js library for scraping and web crawling. There was one for Python, but none for JS

5 min readSep 25, 2018

--

2

Why the world needs a universal web scraping library for JavaScript

--

2

Jan Čurn
in
Apify Blog

Announcing another investment from Reflex Capital

We raised a "bridge" investment round from one of our current investors - Reflex Capital, putting the value of the company to $5.5 million.

1 min readJun 12, 2018

--

Announcing another investment from Reflex Capital

--

Jan Čurn

Jan Čurn

Founder and CEO of Apify — the web scraping and automation platform. Ph.D. in AI. Y Combinator Fellow. https://apify.com/jancurn

Following

Help
Status
About
Careers
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams