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How I Wrapped Korean Scrapers in Cloudflare Workers to Reach RapidAPI's 4M+ Developers

How I Wrapped Korean Scrapers in Cloudflare Workers to Reach RapidAPI's 4M+ Developers

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My Korean data scrapers on Apify hit 6,600+ runs and 75 users in 10 days. But there's a problem: if you're not on RapidAPI, most API consumers will never find you. Apify is excellent for building and running scrapers. But its marketplace caters to a specific audience — data engineers and automation folks who already know Apify exists. RapidAPI, on the other hand, is where 4 million+ developers search when they need "an API for X." I searched RapidAPI for Korean data APIs. The result? Almost nothing. One Naver Shopping API. Zero for Naver News, Naver Place, or Melon Charts. Complete blue ocean. So I built a bridge. The Architecture: Apify → Cloudflare Worker → RapidAPI The idea is simple: a Cloudflare Worker sits between RapidAPI and Apify, translating REST requests into Actor runs. Developer → RapidAPI → Cloudflare Worker → Apify Actor → Korean Data Each Worker: Validates the X-RapidAPI-Proxy-Secret header (security) Maps URL parameters to Apify Actor input Calls run-sync-get-dataset-i

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