Showcase: ATS Zero-Browser Gateway — Fast protocol-level scraper on Apify

[ginugokz]

Hi Crawlee Python community! 👋

I built ATS Zero-Browser Gateway, an Actor in Python deployed on the Apify Store designed specifically for scraping modern enterprise job boards (Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters) without headless browser overhead.

Key Highlights:

• Bypasses Chromium: Instead of browser hydration, connects directly to backend JSON/CXS endpoints.

• Speed & Memory: Scrapes 40+ jobs with descriptions, HTML, and compensation in 8.9 seconds at ~43MB of RAM (vs 45–60s on Playwright/Puppeteer).

• Dual-Hash Delta Tracking: Automatically calculates deterministic hashes to emit clean ADDED, REMOVED, or UPDATED lifecycle diffs.

• MCP Native: Run as an MCP server for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf).

• 📦 Apify Actor: https://apify.com/ginugokz/ats-zero-browser-gateway

• 💻 GitHub Repo: https://github.com/ginugokz/ats-zero-browser-gateway

Would love any feedback from fellow Python scraping creators!