The 250 one-liners that built
data engineering in 2026.

Hand-curated shell pipelines combining apify · jq · claude · gemini · duckdb · groq · miller. Every entry runs as-is on a fresh laptop. Copy. Run. Learn.

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Apify hello-world → jq field extract

apify call apify/hello-world -s -o | jq -r '.[0].url'

Compare sentiment across Twitter, Reddit, and HN

TOPIC="nuclear energy" && \ (apify call -i "{\"search\":\"$TOPIC\",\"maxItems\":20}" quack…

Scrape Google News and cluster articles by narrative angle

apify call nstojiljkovic/google-news-scraper -i '{"query":"AI regulation","maxItems":30}' …

Scrape Google Maps and query top-rated places with DuckDB

curl -s -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/apify~google-maps-scraper/run-sync-get-data…

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