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Backlink API: 74% of the Links Are Already Gone
One domain reported 284 million backlinks all time and 74 million live. The anchor list opened with black-hat spam. Which of the three calls to make.
Glassdoor API: Asking for 10 Reviews Bills You for 50
Same endpoint, two calls. limit 10 returned 10 reviews and billed 50 units. limit 100 returned 100 and billed 100. And eight ratings use two scales.
Address Validation API: One Said Invalid, One Said High
Same address, same minute, two endpoints. One returned valid false and confidence 0 while handing back a perfect parse. The other returned high.
TripAdvisor API: 2,000 Results, 30 a Page, One Id
A search for Kyoto hotels returned 30 typed rows out of 2,000, every one carrying a rating and a place id. What the typed fields are actually for.
Indeed API: Passing false to One Filter Returned a 502, Twice
Omit the flag and you get 245 jobs with 38 duplicates. Switch it on and you get 234 with 19. Send it as false and the call fails without charging.
Yelp API: The Four Ads Above the Results Had 5, 75, 80 and 199 Reviews
The top organic result had 2,156. The ads sitting above it had a fraction of that. Both arrive in the same response, in two separate arrays.
Answer Engine Optimization: We Asked Four Surfaces the Same Six Questions
Four AI answer surfaces, six questions, one day, 24 answers. Only two questions had a vendor all four agreed on, and we were named in zero of them.
Download a YouTube Thumbnail: Which of the Six URLs Actually Exists
Six predictable thumbnail URLs, four videos, checked one at a time. Three names answered every time and three returned 404 on the oldest upload.
Perplexity API: Sonar and the App Answered the Same Question Differently
Same six questions, same day. Sonar replied in about three seconds with 84 cited domains. The consumer app took up to 92 and named different vendors.
LLM as a Judge, or a Model That Only Judges: Jev Measured
Four typed judgments on one review in 1.9 seconds, billed on 631 input tokens with output free. The severity score came back 1.1, and it is zero-indexed.
Meta Muse Builds Its Own Tools: Here It Does Not Have To
Muse writes a connector for anything with an API. One spec of 38 paths and 42 operations means it writes one connector instead of two thousand.
Sales Automation Without a Seat: Four Calls and One Receipt
The automation most teams buy is four lookups in a row. Here is each one measured, including the one that charged us for a record with a null title.
Zapier Alternatives: The Directory's Own List Had Trello On It
We pulled a directory list of Zapier alternatives. The array named alternatives held Trello, Jira and Notion. The competitors were in another field.
AI Lead Score Calculation: The Inputs Disagree Before the Model Runs
Two providers gave one company 580 and 1,011 employees. A third resolved a famous domain to a different company with a plausible record.
Keyword Cannibalization: We Found Six of Our Own Pages Fighting
A site-restricted search returned six of our guides for one concept. The unrestricted search returned none of them. That gap is the problem.
Target Company URL Analysis: What One Domain Tells You in Four Calls
Start with nothing but a URL. Four calls returned the company, its size, its stack with checkable evidence, and 445 known contacts split by department.
Apollo Extension or Apollo API: Which One Does the Job You Have
One company call returned 66 fields including 271 technologies in 2.5 seconds. A person call returned a null title and a null email, and still billed.
UPC Lookup by API: Two Databases, and One Barcode Neither Had
A soda barcode returned ingredients and a nutrition grade. A book came from another database. A phone cable came back not found, and still billed.
Social Searcher by API: One Username, Six Platforms, Six Schemas
One handle through one endpoint on six platforms. The identity field changed name three times and one platform returned a profile that was not the brand.
Ahrefs vs KWFinder: Both Halves Are Available by the Call
We said the keyword half was not buyable per call. That was wrong. Here is the corrected answer, and the 740x volume disagreement we found while checking.
Facebook Profile Viewer: What an API Returns, and What It Will Not
The scraper whose docs say it refuses personal profiles returned one anyway. Its two follower counts for that person differed by one.
H-1B Data by API: 549,133 Records, and the Domain Field Is Invented
One call returned half a million sponsorship records. The top wage was a React developer on 1.9 million. The company domain on every row does not resolve.
arXiv API for Paper Search: Three of Twenty Results Were Off Topic
Restricting a paper search to arXiv returned three papers about cognitive augmentation instead of retrieval augmentation. The blended source returned none.
Buzzfile and the Company Lookup API: One Name, Ten Companies
What Buzzfile is, and what a name search returns by API. One free call on Patagonia gave ten companies. A rival fuzzy search gave two, both wrong.