USE CASE:
The pricing page and the page discovery problem
What follows is the honest set of ways to get page discovery on the pricing page, including the ones that are not ours. Mamba Labs builds the Apify actors named here, so Page Finder Extractor is something you run yourself against your own list of the pricing page.
What is actually going wrong
Page discovery for the pricing page is where the assumptions get expensive. The pricing page sits at no fixed URL, because there is no convention and never was one, and page discovery inherits that. Know this about the pricing page before any page discovery: 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 pricing page.
Traditional Search Tools
- A site search operator, for the pricing 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.