How to Analyze Any Web Page Locally for $0.02 Using Apify and Ollama
If you’ve ever tried to build an automated web scraping and content analysis pipeline, you know the billing shock that follows. Crawling 1,000 pages and feeding them into OpenAI’s GPT-4o or Claude 3.5 Sonnet to extract key data can easily cost you $50 to $100. Doing this daily or at scale quickly turns a neat side project into a financial black hole. But what if you could scrape any website using a robust cloud-based crawler, clean up the clutter, and feed it into a powerful local LLM running on your own hardware? ...