Joshua Smith

Solo dev. I build small, open-source data APIs that charge per result instead of per month, tech stacks, PageSpeed, app reviews, PDFs, feeds. I write up how each one works.

Tennessee, USA Joined on Sep 22, 2026 https://apify.com/josh99smith

Work

Building pay-per-result data APIs on Apify Store

Joshua Smith

Oct 16

Weekly PageSpeed monitoring in Google Sheets, with an alert that ignores one-off dips

#webperf #seo #automation #googlesheets

5 min read

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Joshua Smith

Oct 15

Compare PageSpeed Insights before and after a deploy, and fail CI on regressions

#webperf #devops #api #testing

5 min read

Joshua Smith

Oct 14

Turn a list of prospect websites into honest page-speed reports for outreach

#seo #webperf #api #marketing

5 min read

Joshua Smith

Oct 10

Track competitor YouTube uploads every week and send them to Slack or Google Sheets

#youtube #automation #marketing #api

5 min read

Joshua Smith

Oct 9

Find bug reports and feature requests in YouTube review-video comments

#youtube #productmanagement #api #python

5 min read

Joshua Smith

Oct 8

Build a YouTube influencer shortlist from subscriber counts and recent views

#youtube #marketing #api #data

5 min read

Joshua Smith

Oct 7

Sentiment analysis on YouTube comments with Python: handling sarcasm, emoji and spam

#youtube #python #api #nlp

5 min read

Joshua Smith

Oct 6

Export every video from a YouTube channel, with views and subscribers, to a spreadsheet

#youtube #api #webdev #productivity

5 min read

Joshua Smith

Sep 30

RSS, Atom and JSON Feed to clean JSON, with feed discovery and only-new-items mode

#api #automation #javascript #data

2 min read

Joshua Smith

Sep 29

Get every URL of a website from its sitemaps, without crawling it

#seo #webdev #api #data

2 min read

Joshua Smith

Sep 28

Long-tail keyword research from Google Autocomplete, hundreds of seeds at once

#seo #marketing #api #data

2 min read

Joshua Smith

Sep 27

Full-page website screenshots and PDFs from a URL list, with cookie banners hidden

#webdev #playwright #automation #api

3 min read

Joshua Smith

Sep 26

A remote jobs API from five public job boards, normalised into one schema

#api #jobs #automation #data

2 min read

Joshua Smith

Sep 25

PDF URLs to clean text and RAG chunks with one API call

#ai #rag #api #python

3 min read

Joshua Smith

Sep 24

Get App Store and Google Play reviews as JSON, both stores in one run

#mobile #api #productmanagement #data

3 min read

Joshua Smith

Sep 23

Run PageSpeed Insights on hundreds of URLs and get one spreadsheet back

#seo #webperf #api #webdev

3 min read

Joshua Smith

Sep 22

Find out what any website is built with, in bulk, without a Wappalyzer subscription

#webdev #api #opensource #seo

3 min read

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Weekly PageSpeed monitoring in Google Sheets, with an alert that ignores one-off dips

Want to connect with Joshua Smith?

Compare PageSpeed Insights before and after a deploy, and fail CI on regressions

Turn a list of prospect websites into honest page-speed reports for outreach

Track competitor YouTube uploads every week and send them to Slack or Google Sheets

Find bug reports and feature requests in YouTube review-video comments

Build a YouTube influencer shortlist from subscriber counts and recent views

Sentiment analysis on YouTube comments with Python: handling sarcasm, emoji and spam

Export every video from a YouTube channel, with views and subscribers, to a spreadsheet

RSS, Atom and JSON Feed to clean JSON, with feed discovery and only-new-items mode

Get every URL of a website from its sitemaps, without crawling it

Long-tail keyword research from Google Autocomplete, hundreds of seeds at once

Full-page website screenshots and PDFs from a URL list, with cookie banners hidden

A remote jobs API from five public job boards, normalised into one schema

PDF URLs to clean text and RAG chunks with one API call

Get App Store and Google Play reviews as JSON, both stores in one run

Run PageSpeed Insights on hundreds of URLs and get one spreadsheet back

Find out what any website is built with, in bulk, without a Wappalyzer subscription