Issue 02AgentX field manual2026-08-08
The field manual for working web data.
Choose the source. Understand the contract. Run a narrow sample. BestCrawler maps every public AgentX Actor and publishes the practical guide that belongs beside it.
Choose a desk
01—05Start with the question,
not the scraper.
Five topic desks connect a real research or automation need to the right current AgentX route.
Job data
Multi-source job collection, hiring signals, salary research, company enrichment, and production job-data pipelines.
02Read desk ↗Social intelligence
Public community, creator, trend, post, and audience research across Telegram, Reddit, Instagram, and TikTok.
03Read desk ↗Video knowledge
Transcripts, captions, translations, downloads, and reusable knowledge pipelines for public video sources.
04Read desk ↗Market signals
Commerce, property, vehicle, local-business, inventory, pricing, and listing intelligence across markets.
05Read desk ↗Data operations
Actor selection, APIs, datasets, validation, crawler access, SEO, GEO, and reliable production delivery.
The directory
Current / 2026-08-08Six useful ways in.
Popularity is a discovery signal, not a quality verdict. Open the live contract and test the output that matters to your workflow.
Browse all 76 Actors →All Jobs Scraper (39 Sites)
39 Job Platforms → 1 Dataset → 39 Standardized Fields. Collect jobs from global platforms and receive a unified schema with 39 fields, including normalized salaries, required skills, company information, and verified hiring contacts for outreach.
Glassdoor Jobs Scraper
Scrape Glassdoor job listings by keyword, country, location, remote, job type, and recency with structured roles, salaries, company data, and ratings.
Telegram Member Scraper
Pull the full member roster from any public Telegram group — up to 10,000,000 users per run, with optional Deep Search to surface hidden and historical members the standard API hides. Each member record includes username, names, premium flag, language, and last-seen signal.
Video Transcript
Video Transcript is a universal video-to-text API for automation. Submit one supported public URL or an audio/video upload up to 8 GB; receive detected-language text, ordered timestamped segments, source metadata, and optional translation into 133 languages. Transcript pricing begins at $0.3483.
Instagram Trending Scraper
Unofficial Instagram Explore scraper for public posts and reels by country, with section and topic labels, captions, engagement metrics, creator, location, comments, audio, and automatically archived images and videos. Not affiliated with Instagram or Meta.
TikTok Transcript
TikTok Transcript converts one public TikTok video into machine-ready text for trend tracking, hook analysis, and content workflows. It returns language detection, ordered timestamped segments, post metadata, and optional translation into 133 languages. The initial transcript tier is $0.2592.
Order uses public Apify Store 30-day user totals captured 2026-08-08. The linked Actor page remains authoritative.
The journal
20 guides / 5 desksNo-fluff guides for the work after “scrape it.”
Selection, normalization, quality, evidence, delivery, and the limits that keep a dataset honest.
Open the full journal →Jobs guide 01 · 9 min read
How to Collect Job Listings From Multiple Sites in One Dataset
A practical guide to multi-source job data: when to use an orchestrator, which fields to normalize, how to deduplicate listings, and how to verify coverage.
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.
Jobs guide 04 · 11 min read
How to Build a Hiring Intelligence Pipeline With Public Job Data
A production blueprint for turning public job listings into hiring signals: collection, raw storage, normalization, deduplication, enrichment, QA, and alerts.
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.
Market guide 01 · 10 min read
How to Build an Ecommerce Price and Assortment Monitor
A source-first blueprint for monitoring product prices, availability, sellers, promotions, and assortment changes without confusing observations with ground truth.
Market guide 02 · 11 min read
Real Estate Listing Data: A Multi-Market Collection and Normalization Guide
How to collect and normalize public property listings across marketplaces while preserving price, address, area, agent, source, and observation context.
The four-step test
A tool is only useful when the contract survives contact with real data.
Open the playbooks →Name the entity
Job, company, profile, post, video, product, place, property, or vehicle—the contract starts with the row.
Choose the source
Use a multi-source route for one schema; use a dedicated Actor when a source-specific field is decisive.
Prove a sample
Inspect source URLs, missing fields, dates, units, duplicates, and failure behavior before increasing volume.
Keep the evidence
Raw rows, run metadata, source links, and transformation versions stay attached to every conclusion.
Desk notes
Before you run.
What is BestCrawler?
BestCrawler is the editorial discovery layer and field manual for AgentX public Apify Actors. It helps a team choose a data route, validate the contract, and open the current Actor on Apify.
How many AgentX Actors are indexed?
The directory contains 76 public AgentX Actors returned by the Apify Store API in the 2026-08-08 catalog snapshot.
Are the guides generated product descriptions?
No. The journal is organized around real workflow questions, source evidence, data contracts, quality checks, and explicit limitations. Product-specific behavior is always verified on the linked live Actor page.
Where should a new user start?
Start with one of the five topic desks, then compare the recommended Actors and run a narrow sample using the current input and output contract on Apify.