03 · Recruiters, researchers and automation builders
Data robots
61 data robots. Billed per result.
Open Data robots ↗The problem
Most scraping projects do not fail on the parsing. They fail on the economics — a job that costs pennies at 100 rows and becomes unaffordable at 100,000, or one that re-collects and re-bills the same unchanged data every morning.
The second failure is the expensive one. A monitoring job that checks a job board daily finds that 90 to 98% of what it sees is identical to yesterday, and most tools bill for all of it.
What it does
61 robots published on the Apify Store, covering hiring and ATS platforms, customer reviews, social platforms and marketplaces. Four of them are the flagships, all built on first-party sources with no third-party data cost:
| Robot | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| ATS Jobs API | $0.002 / listing | Nine providers including Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Personio and BambooHR |
| YouTube Transcript API | $0.004 / transcript | Rotating proxy per attempt, which is what takes delivery from 8/12 to 12/12 |
| Channel & Playlist Transcripts | $0.004 / transcript | Official Atom feed; 12/12 videos, 23,789 words verified |
| App Store Reviews API | $0.0008 / review | Separate feed per storefront — most competing actors read only the US one |
- Billed per result. A failed run costs nothing, and a slow target site costs the same as a fast one. Cost is predictable before you start, not after testing.
- Hard spend cap on every robot, so a pathological input cannot produce a pathological invoice.
- Delta monitoring on recurring jobs: only what changed since the last run is returned and billed.
- Documented output schemas and explicit failure behaviour — a blocked page is a flagged row, not a silent gap in your warehouse.
- Callable from anywhere — API, scheduler, or an integration node in n8n, Make or Zapier.
Who it is for
Recruiters and talent teams tracking who is hiring, market researchers following reviews and launches, and automation builders who need a reliable data source behind an n8n or Make workflow.