Linkedin Profile Post Scraper
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Scrape recent posts from LinkedIn profiles using Apify. An agent skill from gooseworks-ai/goose-skills.
Optimize Apify platform costs through memory tuning, compute unit management, and proxy budgeting.
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill apify-cost-tuning -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace apify-cost-tuning --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/apify-cost-tuning .claude/skills/apify-cost-tuning && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "apify-cost-tuning" agent skill from https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/apify-cost-tuning into .claude/skills/apify-cost-tuning/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "apify-cost-tuning", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/apify-cost-tuningType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill apify-cost-tuning -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace apify-cost-tuning --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/apify-cost-tuning .agents/skills/apify-cost-tuning && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "apify-cost-tuning" agent skill from https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/apify-cost-tuning into .agents/skills/apify-cost-tuning/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "apify-cost-tuning", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill apify-cost-tuning -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace apify-cost-tuning --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/apify-cost-tuning .cursor/skills/apify-cost-tuning && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "apify-cost-tuning" agent skill from https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/apify-cost-tuning into .cursor/skills/apify-cost-tuning/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "apify-cost-tuning", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git --path skills/.curated/apify-cost-tuning--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill apify-cost-tuning -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace apify-cost-tuning --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/apify-cost-tuning .gemini/skills/apify-cost-tuning && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "apify-cost-tuning" agent skill from https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/apify-cost-tuning into .gemini/skills/apify-cost-tuning/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "apify-cost-tuning", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace apify-cost-tuningInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill apify-cost-tuning -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/apify-cost-tuning .github/skills/apify-cost-tuning && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "apify-cost-tuning" agent skill from https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/apify-cost-tuning into .github/skills/apify-cost-tuning/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "apify-cost-tuning", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill apify-cost-tuning -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace apify-cost-tuning --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/apify-cost-tuning .opencode/skills/apify-cost-tuning && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "apify-cost-tuning" agent skill from https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/tree/main/skills/.curated/apify-cost-tuning into .opencode/skills/apify-cost-tuning/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "apify-cost-tuning", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
apify-cost-tuningOptimize Apify platform costs through memory tuning, compute unit management, and proxy budgeting.
Apify Cost Tuning is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Optimize Apify platform costs through memory tuning, compute unit management, and proxy budgeting. Use when analyzing Apify billing, reducing Actor run costs, or implementing usage monitoring and budget alerts. Trigger with "apify cost", "apify billing", "reduce apify costs", "apify pricing", "apify expensive", "apify budget", "compute units".
Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including reference files (for example `references/examples.md`, `references/implementation.md` and `references/pricing-model.md`). Compatibility notes: Designed for Claude Code
It sits in Data & Analytics, covering Web scraping and Budgeting and forecasting. It works with Apify. The repository describes itself as: Model-agnostic agent-skills platform with a harness-free canonical layer, verified adapters, and the ccpi package manager. Explore at tonsofskills.com. The licence is MIT.
6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cfae287. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:
ReadGrepFrom allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
npmFrom the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):
apify.comdocs.apify.comhelp.apify.comFrom URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:
APIFY_TOKENFrom names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Designed for Claude Code
From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Apify Cost Tuning loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs, and up to ~4.1k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 91 tokens; SKILL.md has 571 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
The full file from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit cfae287, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 571 words, ~1,414 tokens.
.claude/skills/apify-cost-tuning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 3 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.Apify charges on three axes: compute units (CU), proxy traffic (GB), and storage. One CU = 1 GB of memory running for 1 hour, so cost scales with both memory allocation and run duration. This skill walks the investigate → tune → guard loop that finds where spend is going, cuts it at the biggest lever (memory), and installs guardrails so it stays down.
Full pricing tables (plan CU prices, proxy rates, storage rules) live in pricing-model.md.
APIFY_TOKEN set in the environment.apify-client package installed (npm install apify-client).The workflow is six steps. Each is summarized here with its core lever; the full, runnable code for every step is in implementation.md.
Analyze current costs — roll up the last N days of runs into total CU, USD, and duration, and surface the single most expensive run:
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const { items: runs } = await client.actor(actorId).runs().list({ limit: 1000, desc: true });
const totalUsd = runs.reduce((s, r) => s + (r.usageTotalUsd ?? 0), 0);Reduce memory allocation (biggest lever) — sweep memory from 4096 MB down to 256 MB and stop at the first failure to find the sweet spot. Most CheerioCrawler Actors are over-provisioned. Sweet spots: simple Cheerio 256-512 MB, complex 512-1024 MB, Playwright 2048-4096 MB.
Optimize crawl duration — higher maxConcurrency, tighter
requestHandlerTimeoutSecs, a maxRequestsPerCrawl cap, fewer retries, and
selective enqueueLinks. Faster crawls consume fewer CUs.
Minimize proxy costs — prefer datacenter (free with plan), only reach for
residential when a site blocks it, block images/fonts/CSS to save residential GB,
and reuse proxy sessions with useSessionPool.
Cost guard for runaway Actors — start the run, poll usageTotalUsd every 30s,
and .abort() once spend crosses a hard cap.
Monitor monthly usage — iterate every Actor's runs since the 1st of the month and print a cost-descending report so the top spenders are obvious.
See full walkthrough for the complete code of each step, including the memory sweep, proxy hooks, budget guard, and monthly report.
Running this skill produces:
maxRequestsPerCrawl set to prevent runaway crawlsmaxConcurrency tuned (higher = faster = fewer CUs)| Issue | Cause | Solution |
|---|---|---|
| Unexpected cost spike | No maxRequestsPerCrawl | Always set an upper bound |
| High residential proxy cost | Scraping images/fonts | Block non-essential resources |
| Over-provisioned memory | Default 1024MB | Profile and reduce to minimum |
| Too many scheduled runs | Aggressive cron | Reduce frequency if data freshness allows |
Three worked scenarios chain the steps against concrete symptoms — a CheerioCrawler bill that tripled, runaway residential-proxy GB, and guarding a brand-new Actor. Each shows the full investigate → tune → verify loop. See examples.md.
Quick guard example — abort any run that exceeds $0.50:
// runWithBudget polls usageTotalUsd every 30s and aborts past the cap
const run = await runWithBudget('user/scraper', input, 0.50);For architecture patterns, see apify-reference-architecture.
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SKILL.md and 3 other files (references) in skills/.curated/apify-cost-tuning of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287
Apify Cost Tuning next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apify Cost Tuning this skilljeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace | 2.8k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Linkedin Profile Post Scrapergooseworks-ai/goose-skills | 1.2k | 1 repos | ~495 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Linkedin Message Writergooseworks-ai/goose-skills | 1.2k | 1 repos | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Reddit Post Findergooseworks-ai/goose-skills | 1.2k | 1 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Apify CLIapify/apify-cli | 256 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Apify Collectextrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager | 111 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT |
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Optimize Apify platform costs through memory tuning, compute unit management, and proxy budgeting. Apify Cost Tuning is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Optimize Apify platform costs through memory tuning, compute unit management, and proxy budgeting.
Apify Cost Tuning fits situations like: analyzing Apify billing; reducing Actor run costs; implementing usage monitoring and budget alerts; with apify cost.
Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill apify-cost-tuning -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/apify-cost-tuning in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .claude/skills/apify-cost-tuning in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill apify-cost-tuning -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/apify-cost-tuning in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .agents/skills/apify-cost-tuning in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill apify-cost-tuning -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/apify-cost-tuning, .gemini/skills/apify-cost-tuning, .github/skills/apify-cost-tuning and .opencode/skills/apify-cost-tuning in your project.
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Apify Cost Tuning needs the command-line tools its instructions call (npm) and credentials named APIFY_TOKEN. Our summary lists: Node.js; A credential in APIFY_TOKEN. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Grep. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code.
SKILL.md names 3 domains. As links in the text: apify.com, docs.apify.com and help.apify.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
Apify Cost Tuning is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 2.7k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
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jeremylongshore (a GitHub user) maintains it in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace, which has 2,827 GitHub stars. The repository holds 3,342 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.
Source: jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.