Guides and tutorials

Practical walkthroughs for common data jobs, each with a sample input, sample output and copy-paste API code.

Business Leads & Company Data

How to Get Local Business Leads Without Scraping Google Maps

Query the open Overture Maps places dataset by city and category with Business Places Data to get names, addresses, phones, websites and emails for…

How to Find a Company's Job Board and ATS (Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby)

Open any job on the company's careers page and look at the host: myworkdayjobs.com, greenhouse.io, lever.co, ashbyhq.com and similar tell you the…

How to Get SEC Form D Startup Funding Data as a Daily Feed

Use Startup Funding Rounds to read EDGAR's daily Form D indexes and parse each filing into a row with issuer, amounts, industry and exemption.…

How to Export UK Company Directors from Companies House in Bulk

Give Companies House Enrichment a list of company numbers or a SIC code, status and location filter, keep includeOfficers on, then flatten the…

How to Use UK Planning Applications as Sales Leads

Pull each council's weekly list of newly validated applications with UK Planning Applications, filter the proposal text for the work you do, and…

Documents, OCR & AI-Ready Text

How to Convert PDF to Markdown for RAG Pipelines

Send your PDF links to the Any URL to Markdown actor, read the markdown field of each result, then split it by heading into token-sized chunks…

How to Extract Text from Images and Screenshots in Bulk

Send image URLs to the Image to Text OCR actor, use the sparse segmentation mode for screenshots, and read the text and confidence per image. It…

How to OCR Scanned PDFs to Text with an API

Send scanned PDF links to the PDF OCR actor, get text back one row per page with a confidence score, and use that score to flag pages for review.…

SEO & Marketing Intelligence

How to Audit Every URL in Your Sitemap and Find Orphan Pages

Run the SEO Audit Crawler with useSitemap on and maxPages above your site's size; it audits every page it can reach plus every sitemap URL, and…

How to Track Google Trends Trending Searches by Country

Run the ActorForge Google Trends actor with a list of country codes, schedule it daily with only-new mode, and keep a small pandas history to see…

How to Monitor Competitor Ads in Google Ads Transparency Center

List your competitors' domains or advertiser names, run the ActorForge Ads Transparency actor daily with only-new mode, and route the new ads into…

How to Use a Wayback Machine Snapshots API and See When a Page Changed

Query archive.org's captures through the Wayback Snapshots actor with collapse set to digest to keep only versions where the content changed, then…

E-commerce & App Stores

How to Check If a Phrase Is Trademarked (USPTO, in Bulk)

Run your phrases through USPTO Trademark Search in contains mode with the classes for your product (25 for clothing, 21 for mugs). Anything marked…

How to Export Shopify Store Product Data to CSV or JSON

Give the ActorForge Shopify Store Scraper a store URL, let it page through the public products.json feed, then download the dataset as CSV or JSON…

YouTube & Video Data

How to Get YouTube Data With the Official API (Free Key, No Code)

Create a free YouTube Data API v3 key in Google Cloud (no billing account), paste it into an ActorForge YouTube actor, and get video, channel…