Guides
Practical guides
Short, hands-on articles about the data behind our four Apify Actors: where it comes from, what to watch out for, and how to get it into your own tools. Each guide ends with a working example you can copy.
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Legal data · RAG
German court decisions for RAG: a practical guide
Where German federal case law comes from, why chunks should follow the structure of a decision, how marginal numbers (Randnummern) give your assistant exact citations, and how to keep the index current every day.
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Telegram · Monitoring
Monitoring Telegram channels for keywords: a practical guide
Reading public channels without an account, keyword matching that avoids noise, tracking post IDs so no post is missed or reported twice, and alerts to Slack, Discord or a webhook.
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Google Ads · Competitor research
Tracking competitors’ Google ads: a practical guide
Following competitors through the Google Ads Transparency Center, finding every advertiser account from a domain, reading search ads as text, spotting long-running ads, and getting told about new ones.
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AI search · Brand tracking
Measuring your brand in AI answers: a practical guide
How to measure whether ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity name your brand: choosing prompts, sampling each one several times, ranges instead of single numbers, telling real changes from noise, and reading the citations.