USE CASE:
The leadership page and the cost of page discovery
This page is about page discovery for the leadership page: the options you actually have, what each one costs, and which one we would pick. The tools we name are Mamba Labs Apify actors, priced per row, and Page Finder Extractor is the one pointed at the leadership page.
The situation
Page discovery for the leadership page stops being a lookup and becomes a project. Start from this: the leadership page sits at no fixed URL, because there is no convention and never was one, and page discovery follows. Worth knowing about the leadership page, since page discovery inherits it: guessing the path works often enough to look reliable and fails silently when it does not. We keep 1 preconfigured task for page discovery on the leadership page, across 1 tool.
Why anyone bothers
There is no convention for where the leadership 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 leadership 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
A task is one of these actors with the inputs already filled in for a specific version of this job. Open one, swap in your own list, and run it without setting anything up from scratch.
Mamba Labs Apify Actors
These are the actors we built for this job. If yours is not covered here, search from the bar at the top of the page or contact us here and tell us what you need.
- Page Finder Extractor1 preconfigured task on this page's job.