The Creator Developer Economy offers developers the chance to turn their skills into a passive income stream. In this talk, I’ll explore how developers can leverage Apify’s tools to build, deploy, and monetize web scraping solutions. From using Crawlee for Python to create efficient scrapers to publishing and earning. This session will showcase the journey of building and monetizing data extraction tools in 4 steps:

1. Development.
2. Publication and set up of monetization.
3. Testing.
4. Promotion.

This will be followed by a live demo of Apify’s CLI—a tool to quickly build and deploy Actors. We’ll walk through various types of scrapers, or “Actors” as we call them, that can be created. I’ll share tips on optimizing these tools for monetization and explain how to engage with the developer community on Discord for support.

To wrap up, I’ll share real success stories from developers who earn thousands of dollars monthly by using Apify’s platform, highlighting the potential of this ecosystem.