Topic desk 05
Data operations
Actor selection, APIs, datasets, validation, crawler access, SEO, GEO, and reliable production delivery.
Operations guide 07 · 7 min read
Google Trends Data as an API: Programmatic Keyword Research Without the Export Button
How to turn Google Trends into a repeatable data feed for SEO and market research: batching keyword comparisons, reading interest timelines, and mining rising queries at scale.
Field note 02 · 8 min read
How AI Crawlers Read Websites: HTML, Robots, and Retrieval Access
A technical guide to the crawler roles, HTML requirements, robots controls, redirects, and CDN settings that determine whether AI search can retrieve a site.
Field note 04 · 8 min read
How to Choose an Apify Actor for a Production Data Workflow
A source-first method for comparing Apify Actors by entity, geography, schema, freshness, pricing, limits, and a real sample run before scaling.
Operations guide 05 · 11 min read
How to Run an Apify Actor by API in a Production Application
A production integration pattern for Actor input, asynchronous runs, status handling, datasets, secrets, retries, idempotency, and observable delivery.
Operations guide 06 · 10 min read
How to Validate Scraped Data Quality Before It Reaches Production
A reusable quality gate for scraped datasets covering source evidence, completeness, validity, duplicates, freshness, drift, anomalies, and manual review.
Field note 01 · 9 min read
SEO and GEO for Data API Pages: A 2026 Field Guide
A practical framework for making data API and Apify Actor pages crawlable, useful, quotable, and easy to select in both search engines and AI answers.
Field note 03 · 10 min read
What Improves AI Citations? An Evidence-First Content Playbook
A measured guide to citation-ready writing: direct answers, sources, statistics, topical coverage, freshness, and the tactics that should not drive a content strategy.
The product layer
Find the matching live contract.
Filter the AgentX directory, open the current Actor page, and prove a narrow sample before scaling.