apify-data-gathering SKILL.md skillA
apify-data-gathering from anton-abyzov/vskill is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add anton-abyzov/vskill/apify-data-gathering@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- anton-abyzov/vskill
- Path
plugins/marketing/skills/apify-data-gathering/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Oct 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 17, 2026
- Size
- 7,214 bytes
- Repository stars
- 48
- License
- MIT
Get public web data the cheapest legal way, with Apify as the paid fetch layer: choose official API, plain fetch or an Apify Store actor, cap every run's spend, and save evidence. Activate when the user wants to scrape, crawl, extract, monitor or enrich data: lead lists from Google Maps or directories, contact emails from websites, social listening on X, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok or YouTube, Google SERP rank tracking, competitor site or pricing changes, review mining, job-post signals, or…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Apify data gathering Apify is a **fetch layer**: maintained scrapers (Actors), browsers, proxies and storage you pay for per result or per compute unit. It is not a strategy. This skill decides when Apify is the right door, keeps every run inside a budget, and leaves a dataset someone can audit. The official [apify/agent-skills](https://github.com/apify/agent-skills) teach the platform (Actor catalogue, building Actors). This skill is the operating discipline around them: door choice, legality, budget, caching, evidence. Use both if both are installed. ## 1. Pick the door, cheapest first | Tier | Door | Cost | Use when | |---|---|---|---| | 0 | Official API, export, RSS, sitemap, JSON-LD, the site's own XHR/GraphQL | $0 | Always check first. GitHub API, HN Algolia API, YouTube Data API, Reddit JSON, Google Places API, a league's JSON endpoint. | | 1 | Plain fetch and parse (curl/httpx + selectors, or a single-page fetch tool) | $0 | Static HTML, a handful of pages, no bot wall. | | 2 | Apify Store Actor | per result / per event | A maintained Actor exists for the site (Maps, Instagram, X, TikTok, Google SERP, reviews), or you need JS rendering or proxies at volume. | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add anton-abyzov/vskill/apify-data-gathering@sha256:c6f35f3757854e16The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Oct 17, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-10-17 | d92eee8 | 7,214 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-17 | 0e3fecd | 7,056 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7214 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
anton-abyzov/vskill · 48 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ilsx7sey26ox3anu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=anton-abyzov/vskill/apify-data-gathering GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c6f35f3757854e1690c36e0ce26f53fae2c25bd5a14e17b013c28fcb11ed7000
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.