USE CASE:

Reading page discovery for the case study page

Here is how page discovery for the case study page actually gets done, what it costs each way, and where each way stops working. Mamba Labs writes Apify actors for work like this, and Page Finder Extractor is the one that reads the case study page.

Where this starts

Page discovery for the case study page the shortcuts stop working, for one specific reason. The case study page sits at no fixed URL, because there is no convention and never was one, which shapes page discovery. What catches people out on the case study page, page discovery included: guessing the path works often enough to look reliable and fails silently when it does not. Page Finder Extractor carries 1 ready made setup for page discovery on the case study page.

Why it matters

There is no convention for where the case study page lives, so guessing the path works often enough to look reliable and fails silently when it does not.

Traditional Search Tools

  • A site search operator, for the case study page. Free, precise, and rate limited into uselessness past twenty companies.
  • Google with a site operator. Free and precise. Fine for twenty companies, and rate limited into uselessness past that.
  • Screaming Frog. Crawls a whole site and finds every page matching a pattern. Built for one site at a time rather than a list of hundreds.
  • Guessing the URL. Try slash pricing. It works surprisingly often and fails silently, which is the problem.
  • Search the site. A site search in Google with the term you want gets you there in one query per company. Reliable, and it is still one query per company.

Preconfigured tasks

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