FetchSmith

Pay-per-result web data extraction tools. Each Actor in actors/ targets one site or one kind of page, reads only what is publicly accessible (no logins, no personal-data harvesting), and returns tidy JSON.

Every Actor is HTTP-only — no headless browser anywhere in the stack. That is why they start in well under a second and never pay Chromium's launch time or memory footprint. We benchmarked the difference on a 1 vCPU / 2 GB box: 0.2 s and 50 structured records vs. 7 s, 146 MB and 83 unstructured links for the same page.

They run on Apify Store with pay-per-event pricing (you pay per result returned, no per-run start fee) and are catalogued with docs and sample output at fetchsmith.com.

Actors

Actor	What it returns	Links
Google News Scraper	Articles by keyword, topic or publisher with the resolved publisher URL (not Google's redirect token), plus optional full article text, author, image and keywords. Any language or country.	Apify Store · Docs · Source
App Store Reviews Scraper	Apple App Store reviews for any iOS app and country storefront: rating, title, text, version, author, date, plus app metadata.	Apify Store · Docs · Source
Google Play Reviews Scraper	Google Play reviews and app details by app ID or search term: rating, text, date, developer replies, installs, score.	Apify Store · Docs · Source
Shopify Products Scraper	Full product catalog of any Shopify store or collection: prices, compare-at prices, currency, variants, SKUs, stock, images, tags.	Apify Store · Docs · Source
Hacker News Scraper	Stories, comments, Ask HN, Show HN and Who's Hiring threads via the official Algolia API, with author, points, comment-count and date filters.	Apify Store · Docs · Source
Substack Scraper	Any Substack publication as structured data: posts with full cleaned article text, engagement stats and comment threads. Custom domains supported.	Apify Store · Docs · Source
Apple Podcasts Scraper	Four modes in one Actor: every episode of a show with its direct audio file URL, listener reviews, podcast search, and country top charts.	Apify Store · Docs · Source
Steam Reviews Scraper	Steam player reviews with full text, playtime at review and total, recommended/not, helpfulness votes and verified-purchase flag — plus a game-details mode (price, genres, review score).	Apify Store · Docs · Source
Scholarship Scraper (bold.org)	Every bold.org scholarship as a row: award amount and number of awards, deadline (rolling flagged), the actual essay prompt with word limits, eligibility and a competitiveness ratio.	Apify Store · Docs · Source
EU TED Tenders Scraper	The EU's official TED public-procurement journal by country, CPV code and date: buyer, value, deadlines and notice links, deduplicated and language-flattened.	Apify Store · Docs · Source
UK Public Contracts	Both official UK portals in one deduplicated feed — Find a Tender (above threshold) and Contracts Finder (sub threshold): buyer email, phone and address, contract value, CPV codes, lots and deadlines.	Apify Store · Docs · Source
USAspending Scraper	Every US federal contract, IDV, grant, loan and direct payment from USAspending.gov: recipient UEI and address, awarding/funding agency, NAICS/PSC, CFDA program, place of performance.	Apify Store · Docs · Source
FDA Recall Scraper	Every US FDA product recall from the official openFDA enforcement API — food, drug and device in one schema: Class I/II/III severity, recalling firm, reason, ISO dates, plus NDC/UPC/brand/substance on drug recalls.	Apify Store · Docs · Source
Federal Register Scraper	US Federal Register rules, proposed rules, notices and presidential documents from the official government API: comment-close deadline, EO 12866 significance, RIN, docket IDs, CFR references — cursor paging past the API's own 10,000-row wall.	Apify Store · Docs · Source
ClinicalTrials.gov Scraper	US clinical trials from the official NIH API: condition, intervention, sponsor, location, status, type and phase filters, plus an optional one-row-per-trial-site mode for site-selection. No contact people, phones or emails shipped, ever.	Apify Store · Docs · Source
Grants.gov Scraper	US federal grant opportunities from the official Grants.gov API: keyword, agency, status, eligibility and funding-category filters, plus optional detail enrichment for award ceiling/floor, applicant-eligibility text and the full synopsis.	Apify Store · Docs · Source
NIH RePORTER Scraper	NIH-funded research projects from the official RePORTER API: keyword, fiscal year, institute, activity code, organization, state and PI filters, award amounts, study sections and an optional join to the PubMed papers each project produced — auto-chunks past the API's 15,000-row offset wall.	Apify Store · Docs · Source
ATS Jobs Scraper	Live job postings from any company's Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, Recruitee, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Workday, Teamtailor, Personio or Breezy career board, normalized into one schema: location, remote status, salary where the ATS exposes it, department, team, employment type. Companies that moved off an ATS are skipped, not failed.	Apify Store · Docs · Source
FEC Campaign Finance Scraper	US federal candidates (House, Senate, President) from the official FEC open.fec.gov API, by name, state, office, party or election cycle, with each candidate's campaign financial totals — receipts, disbursements, cash on hand, individual contributions.	Apify Store · Docs · Source
Court Records & Case Law Scraper	US federal court dockets (the free PACER/RECAP mirror) and published opinions from CourtListener's public API — parties, attorneys, law firms, assigned judge, nature of suit, filing entries, citations and cite counts. No API key or registration needed.	Apify Store · Docs · Source
Trademark Search Scraper	Registered trademarks across 70+ national and regional offices (USPTO, EUIPO, UK, DE, JP, WIPO and more) via the official TMview database in one call: status, type, application/registration numbers and dates, applicant names, Nice classes, Vienna codes and mark image URL.	Apify Store · Docs · Source
SAM.gov Scraper	Six public SAM.gov datasets in one Actor (dataType), no API key or login: contract opportunities (presolicitations, solicitations, sources sought, awards), Davis-Bacon/Service Contract Act/CBA wage determinations, CFDA grant/loan programs, and organization-only exclusion (debarment) records. Keyword, NAICS, set-aside, notice-type and state filters, plus optional detail enrichment for contracting-officer contacts, NAICS, set-aside and place of performance.	Apify Store · Docs · Source
Remote Jobs Scraper	Remote job postings from seven public job boards — Remotive, Remote OK, Jobicy, Arbeitnow, Working Nomads, Himalayas and We Work Remotely — in one newest-first schema with no API key or login. De-duplicated across boards before charging, so a job syndicated to two sites is billed once and carries an alsoOn list; filter by keyword, company, location, salary presence and posted-date window, with parsed salary min/max/currency/period where the board publishes one.	Apify Store · Docs · Source
SEC Insider Trades Scraper	SEC EDGAR Form 3/4/5 insider ownership filings, one flat row per reported transaction (not a filing index): insider name/role, all 17 transaction codes decoded, shares, price, a signed pre-computed transactionValueUsd, shares held after, Rule 10b5-1 flag and footnotes. No personal address ever emitted.	Apify Store · Docs · Source
Website Screenshot Scraper	Screenshot any public URL as JPEG, PNG or PDF with a real Chromium browser: full-page or viewport, four device presets or a custom viewport, single-element CSS-selector capture, a fixed 1200x630 Open Graph card render, and raw-HTML input. A failed URL returns an error row and is never charged.	Apify Store · Docs · Source

Guides

Write-ups of things we hit while building these — each one is a real, reproduced finding, not a tutorial rehash.

• Eight government JSON APIs that need no key — and the specific way each one lies to you
• Does a watchChanges deadline alert actually fire? We seeded 711 opportunities and forced it to find out
• Google News RSS gives you encoded redirect links — here's how to resolve them
• We tested "JSON-LD only" article extraction against 8 real news sites. It got 0.
• Apple's App Store review feed has holes — and whether you hit one depends on your HTTP client
• Every Shopify store's catalog is public JSON — no login, no browser, no API key
• Shopify's bulk products.json hides stock counts and barcodes — the per-product endpoint doesn't
• Hacker News's search API: commas mean AND, not OR
• HN search caps every query at 1,000 hits, no matter what nbHits claims
• A Hacker News comment has no URL of its own — so GitHub links get attributed to the wrong repo
• We timed HTTP-only scraping against a headless browser on the same page. It wasn't close.
• Apple Podcasts has a public JSON API — four endpoints, no key, and one that doesn't exist

Layout

• actors/<slug>/ – one Apify Actor (Node 20, apify SDK, HTTP-only, pay-per-event charging)
• actors/_template/ – starting point for new Actors
• site/ – FastAPI app behind fetchsmith.com (catalog, docs, guides, credit API)
• bin/ – operations helpers (publishing, health checks, revenue snapshot)
• notes/, tasks/, state/ – the autonomous operator's playbook, task queue and status

How these are built

FetchSmith is run end-to-end by an AI agent: it picks the niches, writes and tests the Actors, publishes them, writes the guides, and answers support mail. The playbook it follows is in notes/PLAYBOOK.md and its running notes are in notes/LEARNINGS.md — both are worth reading if you are curious what that actually looks like in practice. Every Actor is re-tested nightly against the live source.

Issues and requests: [email protected]