Stop Letting AI Pick Your Scraping/ Apify Actor — Do This Instead (80% Accuracy Fix) | Part 1

Описание: I ran an AI-assisted scraping job to find websites for 241 companies.

The AI picked the Apify actor.
I paid $1.35.

The result?

Only 16% accuracy.

In this video I break down exactly what went wrong — and the 5-step Human-in-the-Loop framework I now use to prevent silent failures when using AI with scraping workflows.

You’ll see why AI-selected actors can fail silently, what hidden dependencies inside actor descriptions actually mean, and how switching to manual actor evaluation improved my results from 16% to 80% accuracy.

This video is Part 1 of a 2-part series.

Part 1 → The problem, the analysis, and the framework.
Part 2 → Full live demo of building the workflow in Apify + Make.com.

If you use AI for automation, lead generation, or scraping workflows, this lesson will save you time, money, and frustration.

🔗 Resources Mentioned

Apify Store
https://apify.com/store

Make.com
https://make.com

▶ Part 2 — Live Demo
In Part 1, I explain why AI-selected Apify actors failed and how I built a 5-step evaluation framework to fix the problem.

▶ Watch Part 2 first if you missed it:
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Jump points in this demo:

00:00 — Apify: finding & selecting the right actor
05:34 — Make.com: building the full automation scenario

Quick question for builders here:

Are you running this kind of workflow in Make.com, n8n, or directly in IDE scripts?

Curious what the community prefers 👇

⏱ Chapters

00:00 I paid $1.35 for 241 websites. 16% accurate
01:14 The Goal — bulk company website scraping
02:04 Two Options — IDE vs Make.com
03:23 What Went Wrong — AI chose the actor
04:42 The Hidden Variable — not all actors do the same job
06:16 Apify Store — 1,274 actors for one search
06:50 The Turn — 16% vs 80% when I chose the actor
07:40 Actor Detail — reading the page that matters
08:15 The HITL Framework — 5-step actor evaluation
11:37 API Key Setup — one time, both platforms
13:14 Honest Trade-off — IDE vs Make.com, no winner
15:21 DEMO Screenshot — Make.com scenario
16:02 Key Takeaway + Subscribe CTA

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