[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":3009},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-guide-\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fahrefs-vs-kwfinder-link-half":3,"blog-guide-related-\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fahrefs-vs-kwfinder-link-half":1436},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":1415,"cover":1416,"description":1417,"draft":1418,"extension":1419,"image":1420,"launchCta":1420,"listingCover":1421,"meta":1422,"navigation":1423,"ogImage":1420,"path":1424,"publishedAt":1425,"readTime":1426,"seo":1427,"stem":1428,"tags":1429,"toolCategory":1357,"updatedAt":1434,"__hash__":1435},"blogGuides\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fahrefs-vs-kwfinder-link-half.md","Ahrefs vs KWFinder: Both Halves Are Available by the Call","Jasper Li",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":1372},"minimark",[10,15,58,70,75,78,83,90,94,97,105,108,112,119,122,126,129,133,233,236,240,350,353,357,360,366,369,373,379,386,390,393,397,400,404,407,411,414,418,421,435,439,442,448,451,455,458,464,467,479,483,489,495,501,507,511,514,603,614,618,621,697,700,704,723,727,730,734,743,749,758,762,819,823,863,871,875,906,909,913,946,952,956,966,970,973,977,983,986,990,993,1004,1008,1026,1032,1039,1043,1258,1265,1268,1272,1275,1281,1287,1293,1299,1302,1306,1309,1312,1323,1327,1334,1340,1348,1354,1362,1368],[11,12,14],"p",{"style":13},"font-size:18px !important;line-height:1.65 !important;margin:0 0 24px;color:inherit;","Copy this line to your agent to read a domain's link profile.",[16,17,22],"pre",{"className":18,"code":19,"language":20,"meta":21,"style":21},"language-sh shiki shiki-themes material-theme-lighter material-theme material-theme-palenight","set up https:\u002F\u002Fmonid.ai\u002FSKILL.md and use ahrefs \u002Fsite-explorer\u002Fbacklinks-stats and \u002Fsite-explorer\u002Fanchors\n","sh","",[23,24,25],"code",{"__ignoreMap":21},[26,27,30,34,38,41,44,47,50,53,55],"span",{"class":28,"line":29},"line",1,[26,31,33],{"class":32},"s2Zo4","set",[26,35,37],{"class":36},"sfazB"," up",[26,39,40],{"class":36}," https:\u002F\u002Fmonid.ai\u002FSKILL.md",[26,42,43],{"class":36}," and",[26,45,46],{"class":36}," use",[26,48,49],{"class":36}," ahrefs",[26,51,52],{"class":36}," \u002Fsite-explorer\u002Fbacklinks-stats",[26,54,43],{"class":36},[26,56,57],{"class":36}," \u002Fsite-explorer\u002Fanchors\n",[11,59,60,61,69],{},"This page said something wrong on 2026-09-18 and this is the corrected version. We claimed that keyword research was not available by the call and that you had to buy a seat for it. It is available, we checked on 2026-09-24, and one call returns volume, difficulty, traffic potential and intents for up to a hundred keywords at once. Then we used that endpoint to audit our own keyword source and found it inflating some rows by a factor of 740. Both halves of that are below, and the guide runs through ",[62,63,68],"a",{"href":64,"rel":65},"https:\u002F\u002Fmonid.ai",[66,67],"noopener","noreferrer","Monid",", the OpenRouter for agent tools.",[71,72,74],"h2",{"id":73},"what-did-this-page-get-wrong","What did this page get wrong?",[11,76,77],{},"It claimed a whole product family did not exist on our shelf.",[79,80,82],"h3",{"id":81},"the-original-claim","The original claim",[11,84,85,86,89],{},"On 2026-09-18 we ran a discovery query, saw only ",[23,87,88],{},"site-explorer"," endpoints come back, and concluded that Ahrefs data was available per call for links and not for keywords. The article told readers that if their question was keyword research they should buy a seat, and we titled it after that asymmetry.",[79,91,93],{"id":92},"what-is-actually-there","What is actually there",[11,95,96],{},"A discovery run on 2026-09-24 returned a full keywords family, and we verified the main one live the same day:",[16,98,103],{"className":99,"code":101,"language":102,"meta":21},[100],"language-text","\u002Fkeywords-explorer\u002Foverview             volume, difficulty, traffic_potential,\n                                        intents, cpc.  Up to 100 keywords per\n                                        call, each returned keyword one billed\n                                        row.  2.3 to 2.5 seconds.\n\u002Fkeywords-explorer\u002Fmatching-terms       keyword ideas containing a seed term\n\u002Fkeywords-explorer\u002Fsearch-suggestions   autocomplete-style suggestions\n\u002Fkeywords-explorer\u002Fvolume-history       monthly volume over time\n\u002Fkeywords-explorer\u002Fvolume-by-country    volume split across countries\n","text",[23,104,101],{"__ignoreMap":21},[11,106,107],{},"Either those arrived after our first look or our query was too narrow to surface them. Either way the error is ours, and the fix is a rewritten thesis rather than a patched sentence.",[79,109,111],{"id":110},"what-the-corrected-answer-is","What the corrected answer is",[11,113,114,118],{},[115,116,117],"strong",{},"Both halves are buyable by the call."," Links and keywords. So the honest version of the Ahrefs-versus-KWFinder question changes shape: it is no longer \"you need a seat for the keyword half\", it is \"you need a seat for the interface, the saved searches and the exploration, and not for the data\".",[11,120,121],{},"That is a smaller claim and a more useful one. The sections below keep the link measurement, which was correct, and add what the keyword endpoint returned when we pointed it at our own work.",[71,123,125],{"id":124},"what-happened-when-we-audited-our-own-keywords","What happened when we audited our own keywords?",[11,127,128],{},"We put 38 keywords this blog has targeted through the endpoint we had just said did not exist. Two sources, one call, and the disagreement has a clear shape.",[79,130,132],{"id":131},"where-the-two-sources-agree","Where the two sources agree",[134,135,136,152],"table",{},[137,138,139],"thead",{},[140,141,142,146,149],"tr",{},[143,144,145],"th",{},"Keyword",[143,147,148],{},"Semrush",[143,150,151],{},"Ahrefs",[153,154,155,169,182,195,208,221],"tbody",{},[140,156,157,163,166],{},[158,159,160],"td",{},[23,161,162],{},"buzzfile search by name",[158,164,165],{},"40,500",[158,167,168],{},"43,000",[140,170,171,176,179],{},[158,172,173],{},[23,174,175],{},"tiktok profile viewer",[158,177,178],{},"18,100",[158,180,181],{},"18,000",[140,183,184,189,192],{},[158,185,186],{},[23,187,188],{},"email extractor",[158,190,191],{},"6,600",[158,193,194],{},"7,800",[140,196,197,202,205],{},[158,198,199],{},[23,200,201],{},"brave api key",[158,203,204],{},"2,400",[158,206,207],{},"2,700",[140,209,210,215,218],{},[158,211,212],{},[23,213,214],{},"tavily api key",[158,216,217],{},"1,600",[158,219,220],{},"1,700",[140,222,223,228,231],{},[158,224,225],{},[23,226,227],{},"b2b prospecting tool",[158,229,230],{},"1,900",[158,232,220],{},[11,234,235],{},"Six rows within roughly twenty percent of each other. Every one of them is a phrase a person would type.",[79,237,239],{"id":238},"where-they-do-not","Where they do not",[134,241,242,255],{},[137,243,244],{},[140,245,246,248,250,252],{},[143,247,145],{},[143,249,148],{},[143,251,151],{},[143,253,254],{},"Ratio",[153,256,257,273,288,303,319,334],{},[140,258,259,264,267,270],{},[158,260,261],{},[23,262,263],{},"doctors npi number search",[158,265,266],{},"14,800",[158,268,269],{},"20",[158,271,272],{},"740x",[140,274,275,280,282,285],{},[158,276,277],{},[23,278,279],{},"profile facebook viewer",[158,281,191],{},[158,283,284],{},"10",[158,286,287],{},"660x",[140,289,290,295,297,300],{},[158,291,292],{},[23,293,294],{},"ai lead score calculation method",[158,296,266],{},[158,298,299],{},"40",[158,301,302],{},"370x",[140,304,305,310,313,316],{},[158,306,307],{},[23,308,309],{},"prom.ua api",[158,311,312],{},"33,100",[158,314,315],{},"90",[158,317,318],{},"368x",[140,320,321,326,329,331],{},[158,322,323],{},[23,324,325],{},"search for upc",[158,327,328],{},"9,900",[158,330,299],{},[158,332,333],{},"248x",[140,335,336,341,344,347],{},[158,337,338],{},[23,339,340],{},"target company url analysis",[158,342,343],{},"8,100",[158,345,346],{},"500",[158,348,349],{},"16x",[11,351,352],{},"Every one of those reads like a machine assembled it. \"Profile facebook viewer\" has the words in the wrong order. \"Ai lead score calculation method\" is a description of a task rather than a query. \"Target company url analysis\" is a phrase nobody says out loud.",[79,354,356],{"id":355},"what-we-published-on-the-strength-of-the-inflated-numbers","What we published on the strength of the inflated numbers",[11,358,359],{},"Four pages, named rather than buried:",[16,361,364],{"className":362,"code":363,"language":102,"meta":21},[100],"facebook-profile-viewer-api          \"profile facebook viewer\"          10\u002Fmo\nsearch-for-upc-barcode-lookup-api    \"search for upc\"                   40\u002Fmo\nai-lead-score-calculation-method     \"ai lead score calculation method\" 40\u002Fmo\ntarget-company-url-analysis          \"target company url analysis\"     500\u002Fmo\n",[23,365,363],{"__ignoreMap":21},[11,367,368],{},"The articles themselves are fine: every measurement in them was run and every finding holds. What was wrong was the reason for choosing the topic. Three of those four were written for demand that does not appear to exist.",[79,370,372],{"id":371},"the-rule-we-should-have-had","The rule we should have had",[11,374,375,378],{},[115,376,377],{},"Cross-check the volume on a second source before writing, and distrust any phrase that does not sound like speech."," The tell was in the wording all along and we read it as quirky rather than as synthetic. One call per batch of a hundred keywords is a trivial cost against a day of writing.",[11,380,381,382,385],{},"The one saving grace is that this page's own target, ",[23,383,384],{},"ahrefs vs kwfinder",", is itself an 11x casualty: Semrush said 5,400 and Ahrefs says 500. Five hundred a month at a difficulty of zero is still worth having, which is why the page stays.",[71,387,389],{"id":388},"what-is-the-real-difference-between-ahrefs-and-kwfinder","What is the real difference between Ahrefs and KWFinder?",[11,391,392],{},"One is a crawler with a keyword tool attached. The other is a keyword tool. We resell neither as a seat and nothing about KWFinder is measured here, so take the following as a description of categories rather than a scorecard.",[79,394,396],{"id":395},"what-kwfinder-is-for","What KWFinder is for",[11,398,399],{},"Finding keywords and judging how hard they are, in a small focused interface, at a price that suits one person or a small team. It is bought by people who want a list of terms and a difficulty score without paying for an enterprise suite.",[79,401,403],{"id":402},"what-ahrefs-adds","What Ahrefs adds",[11,405,406],{},"A web crawl of its own. Everything distinctive about it, backlinks, referring domains, anchor text, Domain Rating, link history, comes from operating that crawler. Its keyword tool sits on top of the same infrastructure.",[79,408,410],{"id":409},"why-the-usual-comparison-misses","Why the usual comparison misses",[11,412,413],{},"Comparing them on keyword difficulty scores is comparing the part they both do. The part only one of them does is the link index, and a team that needs link data is not choosing between these two products at all; it is choosing whether to pay for a link index.",[79,415,417],{"id":416},"and-the-part-this-article-can-settle","And the part this article can settle",[11,419,420],{},"Whether you need a seat to get at either kind of data. You do not, for the read-only version of both, and the next section is what each one returns.",[422,423,424],"blockquote",{},[11,425,426,427,430,431],{},"📖 ",[115,428,429],{},"See also"," ",[62,432,434],{"href":433},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fahrefs-api-domain-rating-backlinks","Ahrefs API for Domain Rating and Backlinks: What It Returns",[71,436,438],{"id":437},"which-half-can-you-actually-buy-by-the-call","Which half can you actually buy by the call?",[11,440,441],{},"Both. Two families under one provider, and they are priced and shaped differently.",[16,443,446],{"className":444,"code":445,"language":102,"meta":21},[100],"LINKS\n\u002Fsite-explorer\u002Fdomain-rating        a target's DR and Ahrefs rank\n\u002Fsite-explorer\u002Fbacklinks-stats      live and all-time link and domain counts\n\u002Fsite-explorer\u002Frefdomains           domains linking to a target, with their DR\n\u002Fsite-explorer\u002Fanchors              anchor text breakdown\n\u002Fsite-explorer\u002Frefdomains-history   referring-domain count over time\n\nKEYWORDS\n\u002Fkeywords-explorer\u002Foverview            volume, difficulty, traffic potential,\n                                       intents, cpc, up to 100 keywords a call\n\u002Fkeywords-explorer\u002Fmatching-terms      ideas containing a seed term\n\u002Fkeywords-explorer\u002Fsearch-suggestions  autocomplete-style suggestions\n\u002Fkeywords-explorer\u002Fvolume-history      monthly volume over time\n\u002Fkeywords-explorer\u002Fvolume-by-country   volume split across countries\n",[23,447,445],{"__ignoreMap":21},[11,449,450],{},"Nothing from KWFinder is on the shelf, which has not changed.",[79,452,454],{"id":453},"the-link-half-is-not-one-number-and-we-measured-why","The link half is not one number, and we measured why",[11,456,457],{},"Listing five link endpoints makes them look interchangeable. They are not, and the differences are large enough to change a report. One domain, three of those calls, 2026-10-03:",[16,459,462],{"className":460,"code":461,"language":102,"meta":21},[100],"backlinks-stats   live 74,255,926  vs  all time 284,379,762\n                  live refdomains 138,392  vs  all time 396,506\nrefdomains        two domains both rated DR 97: one sends 9,450 links,\n                  the other sends 24\nanchors           the first two rows of the default ordering were\n                  recruitment spam and an advert for black-hat links\n",[23,463,461],{"__ignoreMap":21},[11,465,466],{},"Live links were 26% of the all-time count on this domain, so a tool quoting the cumulative number is describing a profile that no longer exists. Link volume turned out to be unrelated to the sending domain's rating. And the anchor list, unsorted, opened with spam.",[11,468,469,470,473,474,478],{},"The full walk through those three calls, including the ",[23,471,472],{},"order_by"," that fixes the last one, is in ",[62,475,477],{"href":476},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fbacklink-api-what-it-returns","what a backlink API actually returns",". This page keeps the suite comparison; that one keeps the link endpoints.",[79,480,482],{"id":481},"what-that-means-for-the-decision","What that means for the decision",[11,484,485,488],{},[115,486,487],{},"If your question is a fixed list of keywords, you do not need a seat."," One call returns volume, difficulty, traffic potential and intents for up to a hundred terms, and each returned keyword is one billed row, so the cost scales with what you asked for.",[11,490,491,494],{},[115,492,493],{},"If your question is exploration, you probably do."," A seat is where you browse, follow a term sideways into a cluster, save the search and come back to it next month. An API answers questions you already know how to ask.",[11,496,497,500],{},[115,498,499],{},"If your question is link data, the per-call route is excellent."," Domain Rating, backlink counts, referring domains and anchors in your own store, on a schedule, with no interface.",[11,502,503,506],{},[115,504,505],{},"And the split is cheaper than it was."," A small keyword seat for exploration plus per-call data for everything programmatic is a common shape, and now the programmatic half covers both kinds of data rather than one.",[79,508,510],{"id":509},"what-the-keyword-call-returned","What the keyword call returned",[11,512,513],{},"Five keywords, one call, 2,484 milliseconds, on 2026-09-24:",[134,515,516,531],{},[137,517,518],{},[140,519,520,522,525,528],{},[143,521,145],{},[143,523,524],{},"Volume",[143,526,527],{},"Difficulty",[143,529,530],{},"Traffic potential",[153,532,533,547,562,578,591],{},[140,534,535,539,541,544],{},[158,536,537],{},[23,538,175],{},[158,540,181],{},[158,542,543],{},"50",[158,545,546],{},"159,000",[140,548,549,554,557,560],{},[158,550,551],{},[23,552,553],{},"claude mcp",[158,555,556],{},"2,000",[158,558,559],{},"30",[158,561,346],{},[140,563,564,569,572,575],{},[158,565,566],{},[23,567,568],{},"mcp gateway",[158,570,571],{},"1,400",[158,573,574],{},"0",[158,576,577],{},"150",[140,579,580,584,586,589],{},[158,581,582],{},[23,583,162],{},[158,585,168],{},[158,587,588],{},"null",[158,590,588],{},[140,592,593,597,599,601],{},[158,594,595],{},[23,596,294],{},[158,598,299],{},[158,600,588],{},[158,602,588],{},[11,604,605,606,609,610,613],{},"Two things to note before the next section. ",[23,607,608],{},"difficulty"," came back null on two of five rows, so the field is not always populated. And ",[23,611,612],{},"traffic_potential"," is a separate quantity from volume: the first row has nine times more traffic potential than search volume, because the pages that rank for it rank for much else besides.",[79,615,617],{"id":616},"what-the-calls-returned-on-the-link-side","What the calls returned on the link side",[11,619,620],{},"Pointed at our own domain, so these numbers are ours to publish:",[134,622,623,636],{},[137,624,625],{},[140,626,627,630,633],{},[143,628,629],{},"Endpoint",[143,631,632],{},"Wall clock",[143,634,635],{},"Returned",[153,637,638,658,671],{},[140,639,640,645,648],{},[158,641,642],{},[23,643,644],{},"domain-rating",[158,646,647],{},"2,022 ms",[158,649,650,653,654,657],{},[23,651,652],{},"domain_rating"," 52, ",[23,655,656],{},"ahrefs_rank"," 569,811",[140,659,660,665,668],{},[158,661,662],{},[23,663,664],{},"backlinks-stats",[158,666,667],{},"2,153 ms",[158,669,670],{},"live 1,896, all-time 3,826, live refdomains 409, all-time refdomains 547",[140,672,673,678,681],{},[158,674,675],{},[23,676,677],{},"anchors",[158,679,680],{},"2,452 ms",[158,682,683,684,687,688,687,691,687,694],{},"anchor rows with ",[23,685,686],{},"refdomains",", ",[23,689,690],{},"links_to_target",[23,692,693],{},"first_seen",[23,695,696],{},"last_seen",[11,698,699],{},"Three calls, under seven seconds together, no seat.",[79,701,703],{"id":702},"one-parameter-quirk-to-plan-for","One parameter quirk to plan for",[11,705,706,708,709,711,712,715,716,718,719,722],{},[23,707,644],{}," and ",[23,710,664],{}," both require a ",[23,713,714],{},"date"," and fail with a 400 without one. ",[23,717,677],{}," rejects it outright: ",[23,720,721],{},"Unrecognized key: \"date\"",". Three sibling endpoints under one prefix, two opposite rules, and the same inconsistency we hit on 2026-09-15. Write the date logic per endpoint, not per provider.",[71,724,726],{"id":725},"how-do-you-pull-link-data-through-one-key","How do you pull link data through one key?",[11,728,729],{},"Three calls in a fixed order.",[79,731,733],{"id":732},"for-agents","For agents",[11,735,736,737,742],{},"Grab an API key at ",[62,738,741],{"href":739,"rel":740},"https:\u002F\u002Fapp.monid.ai\u002F",[66,67],"app.monid.ai",", then paste this to your agent and hand it the key:",[16,744,747],{"className":745,"code":746,"language":102,"meta":21},[100],"set up https:\u002F\u002Fmonid.ai\u002FSKILL.md\n",[23,748,746],{"__ignoreMap":21},[11,750,751,752,757],{},"It learns the whole discover, inspect, run workflow itself. More in the ",[62,753,756],{"href":754,"rel":755},"https:\u002F\u002Fmonid.ai\u002Fdocs\u002Fguide\u002Fquickstart-skill",[66,67],"agent quickstart",".",[79,759,761],{"id":760},"for-humans","For humans",[16,763,767],{"className":764,"code":765,"language":766,"meta":21,"style":21},"language-bash shiki shiki-themes material-theme-lighter material-theme material-theme-palenight","npm install -g @monid-ai\u002Fcli\nmonid keys add -k \u003Cyour-api-key> -l main\n","bash",[23,768,769,784],{"__ignoreMap":21},[26,770,771,775,778,781],{"class":28,"line":29},[26,772,774],{"class":773},"sBMFI","npm",[26,776,777],{"class":36}," install",[26,779,780],{"class":36}," -g",[26,782,783],{"class":36}," @monid-ai\u002Fcli\n",[26,785,787,790,793,796,799,803,806,810,813,816],{"class":28,"line":786},2,[26,788,789],{"class":773},"monid",[26,791,792],{"class":36}," keys",[26,794,795],{"class":36}," add",[26,797,798],{"class":36}," -k",[26,800,802],{"class":801},"sMK4o"," \u003C",[26,804,805],{"class":36},"your-api-ke",[26,807,809],{"class":808},"sTEyZ","y",[26,811,812],{"class":801},">",[26,814,815],{"class":36}," -l",[26,817,818],{"class":36}," main\n",[79,820,822],{"id":821},"step-1-the-one-number-people-quote","Step 1. The one number people quote",[16,824,826],{"className":764,"code":825,"language":766,"meta":21,"style":21},"monid run -p ahrefs -e \u002Fsite-explorer\u002Fdomain-rating \\\n  --query '{\"target\": \"monid.ai\", \"date\": \"2026-09-15\"}'\n",[23,827,828,849],{"__ignoreMap":21},[26,829,830,832,835,838,840,843,846],{"class":28,"line":29},[26,831,789],{"class":773},[26,833,834],{"class":36}," run",[26,836,837],{"class":36}," -p",[26,839,49],{"class":36},[26,841,842],{"class":36}," -e",[26,844,845],{"class":36}," \u002Fsite-explorer\u002Fdomain-rating",[26,847,848],{"class":808}," \\\n",[26,850,851,854,857,860],{"class":28,"line":786},[26,852,853],{"class":36},"  --query",[26,855,856],{"class":801}," '",[26,858,859],{"class":36},"{\"target\": \"monid.ai\", \"date\": \"2026-09-15\"}",[26,861,862],{"class":801},"'\n",[11,864,865,866,708,868,870],{},"Returns ",[23,867,652],{},[23,869,656],{},". Ours came back 52 with a rank of 569,811. Three days earlier the same call returned 53, so this is a metric that moves by whole points on a quiet week and should never be tracked as a fixed property of a site.",[79,872,874],{"id":873},"step-2-the-counts-that-matter-more","Step 2. The counts that matter more",[16,876,878],{"className":764,"code":877,"language":766,"meta":21,"style":21},"monid run -p ahrefs -e \u002Fsite-explorer\u002Fbacklinks-stats \\\n  --query '{\"target\": \"monid.ai\", \"date\": \"2026-09-15\"}'\n",[23,879,880,896],{"__ignoreMap":21},[26,881,882,884,886,888,890,892,894],{"class":28,"line":29},[26,883,789],{"class":773},[26,885,834],{"class":36},[26,887,837],{"class":36},[26,889,49],{"class":36},[26,891,842],{"class":36},[26,893,52],{"class":36},[26,895,848],{"class":808},[26,897,898,900,902,904],{"class":28,"line":786},[26,899,853],{"class":36},[26,901,856],{"class":801},[26,903,859],{"class":36},[26,905,862],{"class":801},[11,907,908],{},"Four integers: live backlinks, all-time backlinks, live referring domains, all-time referring domains. The gap between live and all-time is the next section and it is the most useful thing on this page.",[79,910,912],{"id":911},"step-3-what-the-links-say","Step 3. What the links say",[16,914,916],{"className":764,"code":915,"language":766,"meta":21,"style":21},"monid run -p ahrefs -e \u002Fsite-explorer\u002Fanchors \\\n  --query '{\"target\": \"monid.ai\", \"limit\": 20}'\n",[23,917,918,935],{"__ignoreMap":21},[26,919,920,922,924,926,928,930,933],{"class":28,"line":29},[26,921,789],{"class":773},[26,923,834],{"class":36},[26,925,837],{"class":36},[26,927,49],{"class":36},[26,929,842],{"class":36},[26,931,932],{"class":36}," \u002Fsite-explorer\u002Fanchors",[26,934,848],{"class":808},[26,936,937,939,941,944],{"class":28,"line":786},[26,938,853],{"class":36},[26,940,856],{"class":801},[26,942,943],{"class":36},"{\"target\": \"monid.ai\", \"limit\": 20}",[26,945,862],{"class":801},[11,947,948,949,951],{},"No ",[23,950,714],{}," here. Returns anchor rows with the number of referring domains using each, the number of links, and a first-seen timestamp.",[953,954],"skill-prompt",{"prompt":955},"pull domain rating, backlink stats and anchors for our domain and three competitors, then tell me each site's live-to-all-time ratio for both links and referring domains",[422,957,958],{},[11,959,426,960,430,962],{},[115,961,429],{},[62,963,965],{"href":964},"\u002Fblog\u002Flive-web-search-your-agent-can-call","Live Web Search Your Agent Can Call",[71,967,969],{"id":968},"what-do-all-time-backlink-counts-hide","What do all-time backlink counts hide?",[11,971,972],{},"Half your links, in our case.",[79,974,976],{"id":975},"the-numbers","The numbers",[16,978,981],{"className":979,"code":980,"language":102,"meta":21},[100],"backlinks         live 1,896     all-time 3,826    →  50.4% gone\nreferring domains live   409     all-time   547    →  25.2% gone\n",[23,982,980],{"__ignoreMap":21},[11,984,985],{},"Over the life of the domain, Ahrefs has seen 3,826 backlinks to us and 1,896 of them are still there. It has seen 547 referring domains and 409 remain.",[79,987,989],{"id":988},"why-the-two-rates-differ-and-why-that-is-the-interesting-part","Why the two rates differ, and why that is the interesting part",[11,991,992],{},"Links decayed twice as fast as domains did. That is the signature of losing many links from a few sources rather than losing sources: a handful of sites that linked to us repeatedly, a directory or an aggregator, dropped a lot of pages while the domain itself stayed. A site losing whole relationships would show the two rates converge.",[11,994,995,998,999,1003],{},[115,996,997],{},"So track the ratio, not the count."," A rising all-time number with a flat live number is a site whose link building is being undone as fast as it is done, and only the pair of figures shows it. This is the same argument as the two rank fields in ",[62,1000,1002],{"href":1001},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fserp-api-for-ai-agents","the SERP guide",": one number looks stable while the thing it describes is moving.",[79,1005,1007],{"id":1006},"what-the-anchors-said-about-us","What the anchors said about us",[11,1009,1010,1011,1014,1015,1018,1019,1022,1023,757],{},"The rows that came back are a fair picture of a young domain's profile rather than a flattering one. Among them: ",[23,1012,1013],{},"وثائق Monid"," in Arabic, ",[23,1016,1017],{},"Перейти на сайт ↗"," in Russian, ",[23,1020,1021],{},"Connect your agent to every tool it needsMonid"," which is our own page title scraped without the space, and ",[23,1024,1025],{},"Check official pricing",[11,1027,1028,1029,1031],{},"Almost none of that is editorial anchor text. It is aggregators, directories and translated listings quoting a title or a navigation label. ",[23,1030,696],{}," came back null on every row returned, so the recency signal you might want from this endpoint is not populated.",[11,1033,1034,1035,1038],{},"That picture is consistent with what ",[62,1036,1037],{"href":433},"our own link measurement"," found: the profile is platform listings rather than earned editorial links, which is exactly what a Domain Rating in the low fifties is made of.",[71,1040,1042],{"id":1041},"which-endpoint-should-i-use-for-which-job","Which endpoint should I use for which job?",[134,1044,1045,1066],{},[137,1046,1047],{},[140,1048,1049,1051,1054,1057,1060,1063],{},[143,1050,629],{},[143,1052,1053],{},"What it does",[143,1055,1056],{},"Input",[143,1058,1059],{},"Output",[143,1061,1062],{},"Best for",[143,1064,1065],{},"Billing",[153,1067,1068,1100,1126,1150,1180,1204,1233],{},[140,1069,1070,1078,1081,1088,1094,1097],{},[158,1071,1072],{},[62,1073,1075],{"href":1074},"\u002Ftools\u002Fseo",[23,1076,1077],{},"ahrefs\u002Fsite-explorer\u002Fdomain-rating",[158,1079,1080],{},"Link authority score",[158,1082,1083,687,1086],{},[23,1084,1085],{},"target",[23,1087,714],{},[158,1089,1090,687,1092],{},[23,1091,652],{},[23,1093,656],{},[158,1095,1096],{},"The headline number",[158,1098,1099],{},"Per result",[140,1101,1102,1109,1112,1118,1121,1124],{},[158,1103,1104],{},[62,1105,1106],{"href":1074},[23,1107,1108],{},"ahrefs\u002Fsite-explorer\u002Fbacklinks-stats",[158,1110,1111],{},"Live and all-time counts",[158,1113,1114,687,1116],{},[23,1115,1085],{},[23,1117,714],{},[158,1119,1120],{},"Four integers",[158,1122,1123],{},"Decay, which is the real signal",[158,1125,1099],{},[140,1127,1128,1135,1138,1142,1145,1148],{},[158,1129,1130],{},[62,1131,1132],{"href":1074},[23,1133,1134],{},"ahrefs\u002Fsite-explorer\u002Frefdomains",[158,1136,1137],{},"Linking domains with their DR",[158,1139,1140],{},[23,1141,1085],{},[158,1143,1144],{},"Domain rows",[158,1146,1147],{},"Judging link quality",[158,1149,1099],{},[140,1151,1152,1159,1162,1172,1175,1178],{},[158,1153,1154],{},[62,1155,1156],{"href":1074},[23,1157,1158],{},"ahrefs\u002Fsite-explorer\u002Fanchors",[158,1160,1161],{},"Anchor text breakdown",[158,1163,1164,687,1166,1169,1170],{},[23,1165,1085],{},[23,1167,1168],{},"limit",", no ",[23,1171,714],{},[158,1173,1174],{},"Anchor rows with domain counts",[158,1176,1177],{},"What the web calls you",[158,1179,1099],{},[140,1181,1182,1189,1192,1196,1199,1202],{},[158,1183,1184],{},[62,1185,1186],{"href":1074},[23,1187,1188],{},"ahrefs\u002Fsite-explorer\u002Frefdomains-history",[158,1190,1191],{},"Referring domains over time",[158,1193,1194],{},[23,1195,1085],{},[158,1197,1198],{},"Time series",[158,1200,1201],{},"Trend without storing it yourself",[158,1203,1099],{},[140,1205,1206,1213,1216,1225,1228,1231],{},[158,1207,1208],{},[62,1209,1210],{"href":1074},[23,1211,1212],{},"ahrefs\u002Fkeywords-explorer\u002Foverview",[158,1214,1215],{},"Volume, difficulty, intents",[158,1217,1218,1221,1222],{},[23,1219,1220],{},"keywords"," up to 100, ",[23,1223,1224],{},"country",[158,1226,1227],{},"One row per keyword",[158,1229,1230],{},"Checking a list you already have",[158,1232,1099],{},[140,1234,1235,1242,1245,1250,1253,1256],{},[158,1236,1237],{},[62,1238,1239],{"href":1074},[23,1240,1241],{},"ahrefs\u002Fkeywords-explorer\u002Fmatching-terms",[158,1243,1244],{},"Ideas containing a seed",[158,1246,1247,1248],{},"Seed term, ",[23,1249,1224],{},[158,1251,1252],{},"Keyword rows",[158,1254,1255],{},"Expanding a seed programmatically",[158,1257,1099],{},[11,1259,1260,1261,757],{},"Rows one to five were verified on 2026-09-18 and the keyword rows on 2026-09-24. The table gives billing shape rather than figures, because shape drives design and current numbers live on ",[62,1262,1264],{"href":1263},"\u002Ftools","monid.ai\u002Ftools",[11,1266,1267],{},"The last two rows are the ones the first version of this article said did not exist.",[71,1269,1271],{"id":1270},"when-should-you-just-buy-the-seat","When should you just buy the seat?",[11,1273,1274],{},"Four cases, and the first is the common one.",[11,1276,1277,1280],{},[115,1278,1279],{},"Exploration is the job."," If what you need is to wander a topic, follow one term into a cluster, save the search and return to it, buy the tool. A call answers a question you can already phrase; a seat is where you work out what to ask. For one person doing content planning that is often the whole answer, and nothing measured here replaces it.",[11,1282,1283,1286],{},[115,1284,1285],{},"A person needs to explore."," Link building is investigative work. Clicking from a referring domain into its outbound links into a competitor's profile is a thing an interface does well and a pipeline does badly. Per-call data serves monitoring, not exploration.",[11,1288,1289,1292],{},[115,1290,1291],{},"You need the crawl fresh and deep."," Per-call routes give you the metrics the index already computed. If you want to interrogate the raw link graph at depth, the seat's exports are built for it.",[11,1294,1295,1298],{},[115,1296,1297],{},"Your volume is small."," Three calls on one domain is trivial. Three calls on ten thousand domains is a budget, and a suite with a generous export allowance may cost less than the same data by the call. Compute the crossover from your own domain count rather than from a headline rate.",[11,1300,1301],{},"And the disclosure: this is Monid's blog and we resell the Ahrefs link endpoints. We also just told you that if your question is keyword research, an API is not the answer and you should buy a seat from a company that is not us.",[71,1303,1305],{"id":1304},"conclusion","Conclusion",[11,1307,1308],{},"The Ahrefs and KWFinder comparison is usually run on keyword research, which is the ground where the two products overlap and where neither is replaceable by a call. The ground where they differ is a link index that one of them built and the other did not, and that half is available per call: Domain Rating, live and all-time counts, referring domains and anchor text, three calls in under seven seconds with no seat involved.",[11,1310,1311],{},"What matters more than the comparison is which pair of numbers you read. Our domain shows 1,896 live backlinks against 3,826 all-time, and 409 live referring domains against 547. Half the links are gone and a quarter of the domains are, and only the live-to-all-time ratio shows it. A single all-time figure on a slide is a number that can only go up, which is why it is the one usually on the slide.",[11,1313,1314,1315,1318,1319,757],{},"Free next step: run ",[23,1316,1317],{},"monid inspect -p ahrefs -e \u002Fsite-explorer\u002Fbacklinks-stats",", then pull the four integers for your own domain and divide. If your links are decaying faster than your domains, you are losing pages at a few partners rather than losing partners. Start at ",[62,1320,1322],{"href":64,"rel":1321},[66,67],"monid.ai",[71,1324,1326],{"id":1325},"faq","FAQ",[1328,1329,1331],"faq-item",{"q":1330},"Is a cheaper keyword tool enough on its own?",[11,1332,1333],{},"For keyword research and content planning, often yes, and we have no measurement that says otherwise because we do not resell one. The question to ask is whether link data is part of your job. If you are publishing into a competitive space and need to know who links to the pages beating you, a keyword tool cannot tell you, and no pricing tier of it ever will, because it does not operate a crawler. Buy the cheap seat for terms, and add link data separately per call if and when the link question actually arrives, rather than paying for a suite in advance against a need you may not have.",[1328,1335,1337],{"q":1336},"Why did Domain Rating change by a point in three days?",[11,1338,1339],{},"Because it is a computed score over a link graph that is re-crawled continuously, and it is relative: your score moves when other sites gain or lose links even if nothing about yours changes. Ours read 53 on 2026-09-15 and 52 on 2026-09-18 with no link event of our own in between. The practical consequence is to treat it as a slow indicator with noise of about a point, never as an identifier, and never to alert on a single-point move. If you are tracking authority, store the referring-domain count alongside it, because that number moves for reasons you can actually explain.",[1328,1341,1343],{"q":1342},"Can you do keyword research without a seat at all?",[11,1344,1345,1346,757],{},"Yes, and an earlier version of this page said otherwise, which was our mistake. One call to the keywords overview endpoint returns volume, difficulty, traffic potential, intents and cost per click for up to a hundred terms at once, billed per returned keyword. What a seat still buys you is exploration: wandering a topic, following a term into a cluster, saving the search. So the split is between checking a list you have, which is a call, and working out what should be on the list, which is an interface. The SERP surface itself is a third thing and it is in ",[62,1347,1002],{"href":1001},[1328,1349,1351],{"q":1350},"How should you read anchor text on a young domain?",[11,1352,1353],{},"As a description of who has noticed you, not as a description of what you are about. Ours came back as page titles scraped with a missing space, navigation labels like \"Check official pricing\", and listings in Arabic and Russian. That is the profile of a site indexed by aggregators and directories rather than cited by writers, which is normal early and is not fixed by acquiring more of the same. Look at the count of distinct referring domains per anchor: a large number of domains sharing one templated anchor is one syndication network, not thirty endorsements.",[1355,1356,1359],"tool-cta",{"category":1357,"title":1358},"seo","The link half, by the call",[11,1360,1361],{},"Pull Domain Rating, live and all-time counts, referring domains and anchors for any site on one key, with no seat and no interface.",[11,1363,1364],{},[1365,1366,1367],"em",{},"Last updated September 2026.",[1369,1370,1371],"style",{},"html pre.shiki code .s2Zo4, html code.shiki .s2Zo4{--shiki-light:#6182B8;--shiki-default:#82AAFF;--shiki-dark:#82AAFF}html pre.shiki code .sfazB, html code.shiki .sfazB{--shiki-light:#91B859;--shiki-default:#C3E88D;--shiki-dark:#C3E88D}html .light .shiki span {color: var(--shiki-light);background: var(--shiki-light-bg);font-style: var(--shiki-light-font-style);font-weight: var(--shiki-light-font-weight);text-decoration: var(--shiki-light-text-decoration);}html.light .shiki span {color: var(--shiki-light);background: var(--shiki-light-bg);font-style: var(--shiki-light-font-style);font-weight: var(--shiki-light-font-weight);text-decoration: var(--shiki-light-text-decoration);}html .default .shiki span {color: var(--shiki-default);background: var(--shiki-default-bg);font-style: var(--shiki-default-font-style);font-weight: var(--shiki-default-font-weight);text-decoration: var(--shiki-default-text-decoration);}html .shiki span {color: var(--shiki-default);background: var(--shiki-default-bg);font-style: var(--shiki-default-font-style);font-weight: var(--shiki-default-font-weight);text-decoration: var(--shiki-default-text-decoration);}html .dark .shiki span {color: var(--shiki-dark);background: var(--shiki-dark-bg);font-style: var(--shiki-dark-font-style);font-weight: var(--shiki-dark-font-weight);text-decoration: var(--shiki-dark-text-decoration);}html.dark .shiki span {color: var(--shiki-dark);background: var(--shiki-dark-bg);font-style: var(--shiki-dark-font-style);font-weight: var(--shiki-dark-font-weight);text-decoration: var(--shiki-dark-text-decoration);}html pre.shiki code .sBMFI, html code.shiki .sBMFI{--shiki-light:#E2931D;--shiki-default:#FFCB6B;--shiki-dark:#FFCB6B}html pre.shiki code .sMK4o, html code.shiki .sMK4o{--shiki-light:#39ADB5;--shiki-default:#89DDFF;--shiki-dark:#89DDFF}html pre.shiki code .sTEyZ, html code.shiki .sTEyZ{--shiki-light:#90A4AE;--shiki-default:#EEFFFF;--shiki-dark:#BABED8}",{"title":21,"searchDepth":786,"depth":786,"links":1373},[1374,1380,1386,1392,1399,1406,1411,1412,1413,1414],{"id":73,"depth":786,"text":74,"children":1375},[1376,1378,1379],{"id":81,"depth":1377,"text":82},3,{"id":92,"depth":1377,"text":93},{"id":110,"depth":1377,"text":111},{"id":124,"depth":786,"text":125,"children":1381},[1382,1383,1384,1385],{"id":131,"depth":1377,"text":132},{"id":238,"depth":1377,"text":239},{"id":355,"depth":1377,"text":356},{"id":371,"depth":1377,"text":372},{"id":388,"depth":786,"text":389,"children":1387},[1388,1389,1390,1391],{"id":395,"depth":1377,"text":396},{"id":402,"depth":1377,"text":403},{"id":409,"depth":1377,"text":410},{"id":416,"depth":1377,"text":417},{"id":437,"depth":786,"text":438,"children":1393},[1394,1395,1396,1397,1398],{"id":453,"depth":1377,"text":454},{"id":481,"depth":1377,"text":482},{"id":509,"depth":1377,"text":510},{"id":616,"depth":1377,"text":617},{"id":702,"depth":1377,"text":703},{"id":725,"depth":786,"text":726,"children":1400},[1401,1402,1403,1404,1405],{"id":732,"depth":1377,"text":733},{"id":760,"depth":1377,"text":761},{"id":821,"depth":1377,"text":822},{"id":873,"depth":1377,"text":874},{"id":911,"depth":1377,"text":912},{"id":968,"depth":786,"text":969,"children":1407},[1408,1409,1410],{"id":975,"depth":1377,"text":976},{"id":988,"depth":1377,"text":989},{"id":1006,"depth":1377,"text":1007},{"id":1041,"depth":786,"text":1042},{"id":1270,"depth":786,"text":1271},{"id":1304,"depth":786,"text":1305},{"id":1325,"depth":786,"text":1326},"Product","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fahrefs-vs-kwfinder-link-half.png","We said the keyword half was not buyable per call. 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Here is the corrected answer, and the 740x volume disagreement we found while checking.",false,"md",null,"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fahrefs-vs-kwfinder-link-half-card.png",{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fahrefs-vs-kwfinder-link-half","2026-09-18","11 min",{"title":5,"description":1417},"blog\u002Fguides\u002Fahrefs-vs-kwfinder-link-half",[384,1430,1431,1432,1433],"kwfinder vs ahrefs","keyword research api","ahrefs alternative","seo api by the call","2026-10-03","Q5M4QuY6HqBrsRpNjcvDDFM4byMm0pwvGqZrp_AOg4o",[1437,1449,1462,1476,1488,1501,1513,1528,1541,1553,1566,1578,1590,1602,1614,1626,1637,1650,1662,1674,1676,1688,1700,1713,1724,1736,1747,1759,1770,1782,1793,1805,1817,1830,1841,1853,1866,1876,1888,1900,1911,1924,1936,1947,1959,1969,1982,1994,2004,2016,2028,2040,2051,2063,2075,2087,2100,2113,2125,2136,2148,2160,2172,2184,2197,2209,2220,2231,2244,2254,2265,2275,2287,2297,2308,2319,2331,2341,2352,2360,2370,2381,2392,2404,2416,2426,2439,2450,2462,2472,2481,2491,2501,2511,2520,2529,2541,2552,2562,2573,2585,2592,2602,2610,2620,2629,2639,2650,2657,2664,2673,2684,2695,2706,2715,2725,2736,2745,2754,2764,2774,2782,2795,2805,2815,2826,2836,2846,2856,2865,2875,2882,2892,2904,2913,2926,2935,2944,2956,2965,2974,2982,2991,3000],{"path":476,"title":1438,"description":1439,"publishedAt":1434,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":1440,"readTime":1446,"cover":1447,"listingCover":1448,"image":1420},"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.",[1441,1442,1443,1444,1445],"backlink api","referring domains api","anchor text api","link data","backlink checker","10 min","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbacklink-api-what-it-returns.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbacklink-api-what-it-returns-card.png",{"path":1450,"title":1451,"description":1452,"publishedAt":1434,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":1454,"readTime":1446,"cover":1460,"listingCover":1461,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fglassdoor-api-employee-reviews","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.","Sales & enrichment",[1455,1456,1457,1458,1459],"glassdoor api","employee reviews api","employer brand data","company reviews","per unit billing","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fglassdoor-api-employee-reviews.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fglassdoor-api-employee-reviews-card.png",{"path":1463,"title":1464,"description":1465,"publishedAt":1466,"author":6,"category":1467,"tags":1468,"readTime":1446,"cover":1474,"listingCover":1475,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Faddress-validation-api","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.","2026-10-02","Local data",[1469,1470,1471,1472,1473],"address validation api","address parser api","address standardization","geocoding api","postal address","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Faddress-validation-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Faddress-validation-api-card.png",{"path":1477,"title":1478,"description":1479,"publishedAt":1466,"author":6,"category":1467,"tags":1480,"readTime":1446,"cover":1486,"listingCover":1487,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ftripadvisor-api-search","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.",[1481,1482,1483,1484,1485],"tripadvisor api","tripadvisor scraper","hotel data api","travel data","attraction data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftripadvisor-api-search.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftripadvisor-api-search-card.png",{"path":1489,"title":1490,"description":1491,"publishedAt":1492,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":1493,"readTime":1446,"cover":1499,"listingCover":1500,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Findeed-api-job-search","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.","2026-10-01",[1494,1495,1496,1497,1498],"indeed api","indeed job search api","job search api","hiring data","duplicate job postings","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Findeed-api-job-search.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Findeed-api-job-search-card.png",{"path":1502,"title":1503,"description":1504,"publishedAt":1492,"author":6,"category":1467,"tags":1505,"readTime":1446,"cover":1511,"listingCover":1512,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fyelp-api-business-search","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.",[1506,1507,1508,1509,1510],"yelp api","yelp scraper","local business data","yelp reviews api","local lead list","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fyelp-api-business-search.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fyelp-api-business-search-card.png",{"path":1514,"title":1515,"description":1516,"publishedAt":1517,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":1519,"readTime":1525,"cover":1526,"listingCover":1527,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fanswer-engine-optimization-four-surfaces","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.","2026-09-28","Search & RAG",[1520,1521,1522,1523,1524],"answer engine optimization","geo seo","llm seo","generative engine optimization","ai answers","12 min","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fanswer-engine-optimization-four-surfaces.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fanswer-engine-optimization-four-surfaces-card.png",{"path":1529,"title":1530,"description":1531,"publishedAt":1517,"author":6,"category":1532,"tags":1533,"readTime":1446,"cover":1539,"listingCover":1540,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fdownload-youtube-thumbnail","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.","Social data",[1534,1535,1536,1537,1538],"download youtube thumbnail","youtube thumbnail url","maxresdefault","youtube thumbnail api","video metadata","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fdownload-youtube-thumbnail.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fdownload-youtube-thumbnail-card.png",{"path":1542,"title":1543,"description":1544,"publishedAt":1517,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":1545,"readTime":1426,"cover":1551,"listingCover":1552,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fperplexity-api-two-surfaces","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.",[1546,1547,1548,1549,1550],"perplexity api","perplexity sonar api","sonar model","ai answer api","perplexity citations","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fperplexity-api-two-surfaces.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fperplexity-api-two-surfaces-card.png",{"path":1554,"title":1555,"description":1556,"publishedAt":1557,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":1558,"readTime":1426,"cover":1564,"listingCover":1565,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fllm-as-a-judge-typesafe-jev","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.","2026-09-24",[1559,1560,1561,1562,1563],"llm as a judge","typesafe jev","classification api","structured judgment","system one","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fllm-as-a-judge-typesafe-jev.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fllm-as-a-judge-typesafe-jev-card.png",{"path":1567,"title":1568,"description":1569,"publishedAt":1557,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":1570,"readTime":1446,"cover":1576,"listingCover":1577,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fmeta-muse-agent-tools","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.",[1571,1572,1573,1574,1575],"meta muse","muse agent tools","agent connectors","openapi for agents","rest api for ai agents","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmeta-muse-agent-tools.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmeta-muse-agent-tools-card.png",{"path":1579,"title":1580,"description":1581,"publishedAt":1557,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":1582,"readTime":1426,"cover":1588,"listingCover":1589,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fsales-automation-by-the-call","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.",[1583,1584,1585,1586,1587],"sales automation","what is sales automation","sales workflow","outbound automation","lead generation","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fsales-automation-by-the-call.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fsales-automation-by-the-call-card.png",{"path":1591,"title":1592,"description":1593,"publishedAt":1557,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":1594,"readTime":1426,"cover":1600,"listingCover":1601,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fzapier-alternatives-tool-layer","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.",[1595,1596,1597,1598,1599],"zapier alternatives","n8n alternatives","n8n api","workflow automation","software alternatives api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fzapier-alternatives-tool-layer.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fzapier-alternatives-tool-layer-card.png",{"path":1603,"title":1604,"description":1605,"publishedAt":1606,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":1607,"readTime":1525,"cover":1612,"listingCover":1613,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fai-lead-score-calculation-method","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.","2026-09-23",[294,1608,1609,1610,1611],"lead scoring","icp scoring","lead qualification","firmographics","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fai-lead-score-calculation-method.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fai-lead-score-calculation-method-card.png",{"path":1615,"title":1616,"description":1617,"publishedAt":1606,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":1618,"readTime":1426,"cover":1624,"listingCover":1625,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fkeyword-cannibalization-check","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.",[1619,1620,1621,1622,1623],"keyword cannibalization","ahrefs keyword cannibalization","content audit","serp api","internal competition","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fkeyword-cannibalization-check.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fkeyword-cannibalization-check-card.png",{"path":1627,"title":1628,"description":1629,"publishedAt":1606,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":1630,"readTime":1426,"cover":1635,"listingCover":1636,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ftarget-company-url-analysis","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.",[340,1631,1632,1633,1634],"company url lookup","domain to company","website analysis api","account research","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftarget-company-url-analysis.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftarget-company-url-analysis-card.png",{"path":1638,"title":1639,"description":1640,"publishedAt":1641,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":1642,"readTime":1426,"cover":1648,"listingCover":1649,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fapollo-extension-or-api","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.","2026-09-21",[1643,1644,1645,1646,1647],"apollo.io extension","apollo extension","apollo chrome extension","apollo api","apollo lead generation","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapollo-extension-or-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapollo-extension-or-api-card.png",{"path":1651,"title":1652,"description":1653,"publishedAt":1641,"author":6,"category":1654,"tags":1655,"readTime":1525,"cover":1660,"listingCover":1661,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fsearch-for-upc-barcode-lookup-api","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.","Ecommerce",[1656,1657,1658,325,1659],"upc lookup","upc code lookup","barcode lookup api","gtin lookup","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fsearch-for-upc-barcode-lookup-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fsearch-for-upc-barcode-lookup-api-card.png",{"path":1663,"title":1664,"description":1665,"publishedAt":1641,"author":6,"category":1532,"tags":1666,"readTime":1426,"cover":1672,"listingCover":1673,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fsocial-searcher-username-across-platforms","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.",[1667,1668,1669,1670,1671],"social searcher","username search","instant username search","social profile","cross platform social search","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fsocial-searcher-username-across-platforms.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fsocial-searcher-username-across-platforms-card.png",{"path":1424,"title":5,"description":1417,"publishedAt":1425,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":1675,"readTime":1426,"cover":1416,"listingCover":1421,"image":1420},[384,1430,1431,1432,1433],{"path":1677,"title":1678,"description":1679,"publishedAt":1425,"author":6,"category":1532,"tags":1680,"readTime":1426,"cover":1686,"listingCover":1687,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ffacebook-profile-viewer-api","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.",[1681,1682,1683,1684,1685],"facebook profile viewer","facebook profile api","facebook page scraper","public facebook data","facebook api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ffacebook-profile-viewer-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ffacebook-profile-viewer-api-card.png",{"path":1689,"title":1690,"description":1691,"publishedAt":1425,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":1692,"readTime":1426,"cover":1698,"listingCover":1699,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fh1b-data-api-sponsorship-records","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.",[1693,1694,1695,1696,1697],"h1b data","h1b api","h1b salary data","visa sponsorship data","labor condition application","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fh1b-data-api-sponsorship-records.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fh1b-data-api-sponsorship-records-card.png",{"path":1701,"title":1702,"description":1703,"publishedAt":1704,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":1705,"readTime":1426,"cover":1711,"listingCover":1712,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Farxiv-api-paper-search","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.","2026-09-17",[1706,1707,1708,1709,1710],"arxiv api","paper search api","academic search api","literature review api","semantic scholar","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Farxiv-api-paper-search.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Farxiv-api-paper-search-card.png",{"path":1714,"title":1715,"description":1716,"publishedAt":1704,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":1717,"readTime":1426,"cover":1722,"listingCover":1723,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fbuzzfile-search-by-name-company-lookup","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.",[1718,162,1719,1720,1721],"buzzfile","company lookup api","name to domain","company search by name","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbuzzfile-search-by-name-company-lookup.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbuzzfile-search-by-name-company-lookup-card.png",{"path":1725,"title":1726,"description":1727,"publishedAt":1704,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":1728,"readTime":1426,"cover":1734,"listingCover":1735,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Frocketreach-pricing-per-contact-lookups","RocketReach Pricing or Per-Contact Lookups: Where the Charge Lands","We paid the base charge for one executive and got an id, a country and a null title. A second provider returned the right job title and zero contacts.",[1729,1730,1731,1732,1733],"rocketreach pricing","rocketreach","contact lookup api","people enrichment pricing","credits","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Frocketreach-pricing-per-contact-lookups.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Frocketreach-pricing-per-contact-lookups-card.png",{"path":1737,"title":1738,"description":1739,"publishedAt":1740,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":1741,"readTime":1426,"cover":1745,"listingCover":1746,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fb2b-prospecting-tool-api","B2B Prospecting Tool by API: The List Is Free, the Name Is the Bill","One free call returned 100 sales leaders at 47 companies with names redacted. Revealing who they are is the paid step. How three prospecting routes bill.","2026-09-16",[227,1742,1743,1744,1587],"b2b leads","b2b sms outreach","prospecting api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fb2b-prospecting-tool-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fb2b-prospecting-tool-api-card.png",{"path":1748,"title":1749,"description":1750,"publishedAt":1740,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":1751,"readTime":1426,"cover":1757,"listingCover":1758,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fcrunchbase-pro-vs-api-by-the-call","Crunchbase Pro or Crunchbase by the Call: What Each Actually Returns","Sixty-nine organisations match Stripe. The profile carried seven fields and no funding total. Twenty-five rounds came back with types and no amounts.",[1752,1753,1754,1755,1756],"crunchbase pro","crunchbase api","crunchbase pricing","funding rounds api","company data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fcrunchbase-pro-vs-api-by-the-call.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fcrunchbase-pro-vs-api-by-the-call-card.png",{"path":1760,"title":1761,"description":1762,"publishedAt":1740,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":1763,"readTime":1426,"cover":1768,"listingCover":1769,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ftavily-api-key-or-one-key","Tavily API, or One Key: Four Search Engines, One Query, Zero URLs in Common","What the Tavily API is, and what four search engines did with one query in the same minute. Two shared no URLs at all. One found our own page.",[1764,1765,214,1766,1767],"tavily api","tavily","web search api for agents","search api comparison","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftavily-api-key-or-one-key.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftavily-api-key-or-one-key-card.png",{"path":433,"title":1771,"description":1772,"publishedAt":1773,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":1774,"readTime":1426,"cover":1780,"listingCover":1781,"image":1420},"Ahrefs API by the Call: Domain Rating, Backlinks, Paid Pages","We pulled our own backlink profile through the Ahrefs API: ten referring domains, all DR 91 or higher, six dofollow links out of thirty-three.","2026-09-15",[1775,1776,1777,1778,1779],"ahrefs api","ahrefs api documentation","domain rating api","backlinks api","seo data api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fahrefs-api-domain-rating-backlinks.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fahrefs-api-domain-rating-backlinks-card.png",{"path":1783,"title":1784,"description":1785,"publishedAt":1773,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":1786,"readTime":1426,"cover":1791,"listingCover":1792,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fapollo-email-finder-api","Apollo Email Finder API: Two Providers, One Mailbox, Two Owners","Apollo says patrick@stripe.com is the CEO, verified. Hunter.io says it is an IT administrator, observed. Same address, one day apart, both confident.",[1787,1646,1788,1789,1790],"apollo email finder","apollo.io api","people match","email to person","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapollo-email-finder-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapollo-email-finder-api-card.png",{"path":1794,"title":1795,"description":1796,"publishedAt":1773,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":1797,"readTime":1446,"cover":1803,"listingCover":1804,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fdomain-name-availability-api","Domain Age Checker: One TLD Returns Nothing and Still Bills","Eleven domains through a domain age endpoint. Three TLDs came back empty with HTTP 200 and were billed. Two were refused for free.",[1798,1799,1800,1801,1802],"domain age checker","domain availability api","whois api","domain lookup","domain fraud signal","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fdomain-name-availability-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fdomain-name-availability-api-card.png",{"path":1806,"title":1807,"description":1808,"publishedAt":1773,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":1809,"readTime":1525,"cover":1815,"listingCover":1816,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ffirecrawl-with-claude-mcp-or-one-key","Claude MCP for Web Data: One Server Per Tool, or One Key?","One call mapped 3,779 documentation pages in eight seconds. The question is whether each tool that does this needs its own MCP server in your config.",[553,1810,1811,1812,1813,1814],"claude mcp server","firecrawl mcp","firecrawl claude","mcp server","web scraping for agents","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ffirecrawl-with-claude-mcp-or-one-key.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ffirecrawl-with-claude-mcp-or-one-key-card.png",{"path":1818,"title":1819,"description":1820,"publishedAt":1773,"author":6,"category":1821,"tags":1822,"readTime":1426,"cover":1828,"listingCover":1829,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fhow-to-use-seedance-2-0-api","How to Use Seedance 2.0 by API: One Prompt, Two Models, Measured","Seedance 2.0 and 2.0 Mini rendered one 5-second prompt in the same two minutes for the same 108,900 tokens. One billed exactly twice the other.","Generative media",[1823,1824,1825,1826,1827],"how to use seedance 2.0","seedance 2.0","seedance api","text to video api","ai video generation","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-use-seedance-2-0-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-use-seedance-2-0-api-card.png",{"path":1831,"title":1832,"description":1833,"publishedAt":1773,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":1834,"readTime":1426,"cover":1839,"listingCover":1840,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Focten-ai-search-api","Octen AI Search API: 78 ms Inside, One Second End to End","Octen reports its own latency in every response. On our calls it said 78 ms; the round trip was a second. What search, extract and embedding return.",[1835,1836,1837,1838,1766],"octen ai","octen","octen search","octen api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Focten-ai-search-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Focten-ai-search-api-card.png",{"path":1842,"title":1843,"description":1844,"publishedAt":1773,"author":6,"category":1532,"tags":1845,"readTime":1426,"cover":1851,"listingCover":1852,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Freddit-user-information-extraction-api","Reddit User Information Extraction: Profile, Posts and Comments by API","One Reddit account, three endpoints: a profile with karma split two ways, a complete post history in one call, and comments that carry their thread.",[1846,1847,1848,1849,1850],"reddit user information extraction","reddit user api","reddit profile scraper","reddit comments api","social data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freddit-user-information-extraction-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freddit-user-information-extraction-api-card.png",{"path":1854,"title":1855,"description":1856,"publishedAt":1857,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":1858,"readTime":1426,"cover":1864,"listingCover":1865,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fhunter-io-api-domain-search-vs-email-finder","Hunter.io API: Domain Search Finds, Email Finder Guesses","Hunter.io domain search returned ten verified addresses at confidence 85. Email finder returned one address at confidence 16 with no source. Same provider.","2026-09-14",[1859,1860,1861,1862,1863],"hunter.io","hunter io api","email finder","domain search","email verification","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fhunter-io-api-domain-search-vs-email-finder.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fhunter-io-api-domain-search-vs-email-finder-card.png",{"path":1867,"title":1868,"description":1869,"publishedAt":1857,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":1870,"readTime":1446,"cover":1874,"listingCover":1875,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Freverse-email-lookup-api","Reverse Email Lookup API: What One Address Actually Returned","A reverse email lookup on a Stripe address returned an IT administrator, not the CEO. That is the endpoint working, and the fuzzy flag says why.",[1871,1872,1790,1873,1859],"reverse email lookup","reverse email lookup free","people enrichment","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freverse-email-lookup-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freverse-email-lookup-api-card.png",{"path":1877,"title":1878,"description":1879,"publishedAt":1857,"author":6,"category":1532,"tags":1880,"readTime":1525,"cover":1886,"listingCover":1887,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ftiktok-user-finder-api","TikTok Profile Viewer and Account Finder: What an API Returns","One profile call returned two different follower counts in one response. One keyword returned twenty accounts, ten of them regional handles of one brand.",[175,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885],"tiktok account viewer","tiktok account finder","tiktok user search","tiktok api","tikhub","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-user-finder-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-user-finder-api-card.png",{"path":1889,"title":1890,"description":1891,"publishedAt":1892,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":1893,"readTime":1426,"cover":1898,"listingCover":1899,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ffree-web-search-api-for-agents","TinyFish Made a Free Web Search API. One Query Is a Third.","We asked TinyFish Search one question five ways. It returned 27 pages, and the best single phrasing found 9 of them. Every call was free.","2026-09-13",[1894,1895,1896,1897],"web search","ai agents","rag","retrieval","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ffree-web-search-api-for-agents.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ffree-web-search-api-for-agents-card.png",{"path":1901,"title":1902,"description":1903,"publishedAt":1904,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":1905,"readTime":1426,"cover":1909,"listingCover":1910,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fai-agent-development-company-or-in-house","AI Agent Development Company or In House? The Hard Part","Two vendors, one domain, two different companies. One reported 2,930 employees and the other 63. Neither returned an error. That is the build.","2026-09-08",[1895,1906,1907,1908],"build vs buy","data quality","integration","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fai-agent-development-company-or-in-house.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fai-agent-development-company-or-in-house-card.png",{"path":1912,"title":1913,"description":1914,"publishedAt":1904,"author":6,"category":1915,"tags":1916,"readTime":1426,"cover":1922,"listingCover":1923,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ffind-companies-running-google-ads","How Do You Find Prospects Running Google Ads?","One landing page carried 1,537 distinct ad creatives. That count, not traffic, separates a company testing paid search from one committed to it.","Ads intelligence",[1917,1918,1919,1920,1921],"google ads","ads intelligence","prospecting","paid search","agency lead generation","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ffind-companies-running-google-ads.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ffind-companies-running-google-ads-card.png",{"path":1925,"title":1926,"description":1927,"publishedAt":1904,"author":6,"category":1654,"tags":1928,"readTime":1426,"cover":1934,"listingCover":1935,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fgoogle-shopping-api-lowest-price","Google Shopping API: The Lowest Price Is a Different Product","One search returned the same headphones from 22.99 to 399.99. The cheapest was a weekly rental. Sorting by price picks the row that is not the product.",[1929,1930,1931,1932,1933],"google shopping api","price comparison","ecommerce data","product matching","repricing","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fgoogle-shopping-api-lowest-price.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fgoogle-shopping-api-lowest-price-card.png",{"path":1937,"title":1938,"description":1939,"publishedAt":1904,"author":6,"category":1532,"tags":1940,"readTime":1426,"cover":1945,"listingCover":1946,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Freddit-scraper-returns-different-posts","Two Reddit Scrapers, One Query, Four Posts in Common","The complaint is that a Reddit scraper returns irrelevant posts. We measured it. Results were relevant, and two providers disagreed on six of ten.",[1941,1942,1943,1944,1885],"reddit scraper","reddit api","social listening","apify","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freddit-scraper-returns-different-posts.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freddit-scraper-returns-different-posts-card.png",{"path":1948,"title":1949,"description":1950,"publishedAt":1904,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":1951,"readTime":1426,"cover":1957,"listingCover":1958,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fsalary-data-api-three-sources","Salary Data API: Three Sources, Three Different Numbers","Indeed says the median software engineer earns 136k. Levels.fyi says 298k. Both are right, and the field that explains it is the sample count.",[1952,1953,1954,1955,1956],"salary data api","compensation data","levels.fyi","h1b salaries","market data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fsalary-data-api-three-sources.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fsalary-data-api-three-sources-card.png",{"path":1960,"title":1961,"description":1962,"publishedAt":1904,"author":6,"category":1532,"tags":1963,"readTime":1446,"cover":1967,"listingCover":1968,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ftelegram-channel-data-without-a-bot-token","Telegram Channel Data Without a Bot Token","Telegram publishes view counts no other platform gives you. They arrive as 926K and 24.2M, already rounded, and they are lifetime totals not velocity.",[1964,1965,1943,1966,1885],"telegram api","telegram scraping","channel data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftelegram-channel-data-without-a-bot-token.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftelegram-channel-data-without-a-bot-token-card.png",{"path":1970,"title":1971,"description":1972,"publishedAt":1973,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":1974,"readTime":1426,"cover":1980,"listingCover":1981,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Finsider-trading-api-form-4-data","Insider Trading API: What Form 4 Data Actually Tells You","A director sold 1,848,501 shares for $410,843,671. The filing arrived two days later, and that lag is the most important field in the response.","2026-09-07",[1975,1976,1977,1978,1979],"insider trading api","sec form 4","insider transactions","financial data","market signals","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Finsider-trading-api-form-4-data.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Finsider-trading-api-form-4-data-card.png",{"path":1983,"title":1984,"description":1985,"publishedAt":1973,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":1986,"readTime":1525,"cover":1992,"listingCover":1993,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fis-there-an-api-for-pitchbook-data","PitchBook Pricing and Cost: Is There an API Instead?","PitchBook publishes no price and no public API. Free alternatives return which rounds a company raised and what type, not how much, when or the valuation.",[1987,1988,1989,1755,1990,1991],"pitchbook pricing","pitchbook cost","pitchbook api","private company data","venture data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fis-there-an-api-for-pitchbook-data.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fis-there-an-api-for-pitchbook-data-card.png",{"path":1995,"title":1996,"description":1997,"publishedAt":1973,"author":6,"category":1654,"tags":1998,"readTime":1426,"cover":2002,"listingCover":2003,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fmonitor-competitor-prices-automatically","How to Monitor Competitor Prices Automatically","Two sources agreed the price was 54.99. One also said the list price was 79.99. Store only the first and you cannot tell a price cut from a discount.",[1999,2000,1933,1931,2001],"competitor price monitoring","price tracking","list price","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmonitor-competitor-prices-automatically.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmonitor-competitor-prices-automatically-card.png",{"path":2005,"title":2006,"description":2007,"publishedAt":1973,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":2008,"readTime":1525,"cover":2014,"listingCover":2015,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fprediction-market-data-api-kalshi-polymarket","Kalshi API and Polymarket: Matching Prediction Markets by the Call","Two Kalshi routes returned 15 and 25 fields for one venue, with no tickers in common. The cross-venue match endpoint returned 20 pairs at 100 percent.",[2009,2010,2011,2012,1956,2013],"kalshi api","polymarket api","prediction markets","prediction market data","cross-venue","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fprediction-market-data-api-kalshi-polymarket.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fprediction-market-data-api-kalshi-polymarket-card.png",{"path":2017,"title":2018,"description":2019,"publishedAt":1973,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":2020,"readTime":1426,"cover":2026,"listingCover":2027,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fsoftware-review-data-api-g2-capterra","Software Review Data: What a G2 or Capterra API Returns","Capterra returned 25 reviews split into pros and cons. A niche product returned zero. G2 was blocked on both days we tried, five days apart.",[2021,2022,2023,2024,2025],"software review data","g2 api","capterra api","review mining","competitive research","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fsoftware-review-data-api-g2-capterra.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fsoftware-review-data-api-g2-capterra-card.png",{"path":2029,"title":2030,"description":2031,"publishedAt":2032,"author":6,"category":1532,"tags":2033,"readTime":1426,"cover":2038,"listingCover":2039,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fare-instagram-engagement-trackers-accurate","Are Instagram Follower and Engagement Trackers Accurate?","Two providers disagreed by 2 followers out of 104 million. The same 12 posts gave 0.096% or 0.334% engagement depending on one undocumented choice.","2026-09-03",[2034,2035,2036,1850,2037],"instagram engagement rate","follower count accuracy","influencer vetting","instagram api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fare-instagram-engagement-trackers-accurate.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fare-instagram-engagement-trackers-accurate-card.png",{"path":2041,"title":2042,"description":2043,"publishedAt":2032,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":2044,"readTime":1426,"cover":2049,"listingCover":2050,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fbounce-rates-and-spam-traps-when-validating-email","Bounce Rates and Spam Traps When Validating an Email List","A verifier returned twelve fields for three addresses. None of them was spam_trap, and none could be. Here is what verification fixes and what it cannot.",[2045,2046,1863,2047,2048],"spam traps","email bounce rate","deliverability","list hygiene","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbounce-rates-and-spam-traps-when-validating-email.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbounce-rates-and-spam-traps-when-validating-email-card.png",{"path":2052,"title":2053,"description":2054,"publishedAt":2032,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":2055,"readTime":1525,"cover":2061,"listingCover":2062,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Frate-limit-calls-to-a-third-party-api","How to Rate Limit Calls to a Third Party API","Six real failure responses collected over three days. Only one of them meant slow down, and telling them apart matters more than any backoff algorithm.",[2056,2057,2058,2059,2060],"rate limiting","retry backoff","429 too many requests","api reliability","concurrency","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Frate-limit-calls-to-a-third-party-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Frate-limit-calls-to-a-third-party-api-card.png",{"path":2064,"title":2065,"description":2066,"publishedAt":2032,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":2067,"readTime":1426,"cover":2073,"listingCover":2074,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fscrape-linkedin-without-getting-banned","How to Scrape LinkedIn Without Getting Your Account Banned","The ban risk comes from tools that drive your logged-in session. Three endpoints returned profile data from a URL alone, with no cookie involved.",[2068,2069,2070,2071,2072],"linkedin scraping","account ban","li_at cookie","sales navigator","linkedin api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fscrape-linkedin-without-getting-banned.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fscrape-linkedin-without-getting-banned-card.png",{"path":2076,"title":2077,"description":2078,"publishedAt":2032,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":2079,"readTime":1525,"cover":2085,"listingCover":2086,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fstop-depending-on-one-scraping-vendor","How to Stop Depending on One Scraping Vendor","Ten provider failures in three days, all while doing other work. None was a bad vendor. The defence is a second route you can reach without a rewrite.",[2080,2081,2082,2083,2084],"vendor lock-in","scraping reliability","actor removed","failover","data pipeline","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fstop-depending-on-one-scraping-vendor.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fstop-depending-on-one-scraping-vendor-card.png",{"path":2088,"title":2089,"description":2090,"publishedAt":2091,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":2092,"readTime":1525,"cover":2098,"listingCover":2099,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fextract-pricing-and-free-trial-information","Extract Pricing and Free Trial Information From Websites","One endpoint returned four plans, numeric amounts and a free_trial_available flag. It also disclosed that a model read the page, which changes everything.","2026-09-02",[2093,2094,2095,2096,2097],"pricing page extraction","competitor pricing","free trial data","saas pricing","llm extraction","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fextract-pricing-and-free-trial-information.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fextract-pricing-and-free-trial-information-card.png",{"path":2101,"title":2102,"description":2103,"publishedAt":2091,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2104,"readTime":1525,"cover":2111,"listingCover":2112,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ffind-all-urls-on-a-domain","Find All Pages on a Domain: Sitemap, Map or Crawl","One map call returned 1,139 pages for a site whose sitemap declared 1,113. Three of four sitemaps returned an index and no count at all.",[2105,2106,2107,2108,2109,2110],"find all pages on a domain","find all urls on a domain","sitemap parser","site map api","url discovery","seo audit","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ffind-all-urls-on-a-domain.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ffind-all-urls-on-a-domain-card.png",{"path":2114,"title":2115,"description":2116,"publishedAt":2091,"author":6,"category":1467,"tags":2117,"readTime":1525,"cover":2123,"listingCover":2124,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fmls-real-estate-api-without-mls-access","MLS Real Estate API: What You Get When You Cannot Get MLS","MLS access needs a licence and a broker. Two public sources returned 40 listings and 48 agents with phones. What they carry, and what they do not.",[2118,2119,2120,2121,2122],"mls real estate api","idx feed","property data","real estate agents","listing data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmls-real-estate-api-without-mls-access.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmls-real-estate-api-without-mls-access-card.png",{"path":2126,"title":2127,"description":2128,"publishedAt":2091,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":2129,"readTime":1426,"cover":2134,"listingCover":2135,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fsimply-wall-st-graphql-api-fundamentals","Simply Wall St GraphQL API: What Returns Fundamentals Instead","There is no public Simply Wall St GraphQL API. An endpoint that does return fundamentals gave 26 line items across six periods, and named its own source.",[2130,2131,2132,1978,2133],"simply wall st api","stock fundamentals api","income statement api","graphql","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fsimply-wall-st-graphql-api-fundamentals.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fsimply-wall-st-graphql-api-fundamentals-card.png",{"path":2137,"title":2138,"description":2139,"publishedAt":2140,"author":6,"category":1654,"tags":2141,"readTime":1426,"cover":2146,"listingCover":2147,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Famazon-asin-scraper-when-it-returns-nothing","Amazon ASIN Scraper: What to Do When It Returns Nothing","A purpose-built ASIN endpoint returned 26 fields and zero values for two valid ASINs. A generic extractor read the same page fine. Assert on values.","2026-09-01",[2142,2143,1931,2144,2145],"amazon asin scraper","asin lookup","product data","silent failure","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Famazon-asin-scraper-when-it-returns-nothing.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Famazon-asin-scraper-when-it-returns-nothing-card.png",{"path":2149,"title":2150,"description":2151,"publishedAt":2140,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":2152,"readTime":1525,"cover":2158,"listingCover":2159,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fdatacenter-proxies-vs-residential","Datacenter Proxies vs Residential: What Each One Actually Fixes","A real residential IP with a real Chrome user agent still got 403 from two sites. The IP type was not the constraint. What each type does fix.",[2153,2154,2155,2156,2157],"datacenter proxies vs residential","proxy types","rotating proxies","web scraping","geolocation","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fdatacenter-proxies-vs-residential.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fdatacenter-proxies-vs-residential-card.png",{"path":2161,"title":2162,"description":2163,"publishedAt":2140,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":2164,"readTime":1525,"cover":2170,"listingCover":2171,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fextracting-leadership-contact-information","Email Extractor for a Domain: 1,333 Addresses, and What a Score Hides","One domain returned 1,333 known addresses. Two rows both scored 99, one corroborated eight times and one just once. The score hides that.",[188,2165,2166,2167,2168,2169],"email extractor extension","linkedin email finder","leadership contact information","decision maker search","hunter io","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fextracting-leadership-contact-information.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fextracting-leadership-contact-information-card.png",{"path":2173,"title":2174,"description":2175,"publishedAt":2140,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":2176,"readTime":1525,"cover":2182,"listingCover":2183,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fpuppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth-release-date","Puppeteer Extra Plugin Stealth: Check the Release Date First","The stealth plugin last shipped in March 2023. Puppeteer shipped last week. What that gap means, and what scrapy-playwright does differently.",[2177,2178,2179,2180,2181],"puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth","scrapy-playwright","headless browser","bot detection","browser automation","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fpuppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth-release-date.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fpuppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth-release-date-card.png",{"path":2185,"title":2186,"description":2187,"publishedAt":2188,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2189,"readTime":1446,"cover":2195,"listingCover":2196,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fc-sharp-web-scraping-without-the-stack","C# Web Scraping: Keep HtmlAgilityPack, Drop the Fetch","The .NET parsing stack was never the problem. What breaks a C# scraper is the request leaving your server, and that half is not a language question.","2026-08-31",[2190,2191,2192,2193,2194],"c# web scraping","htmlagilitypack","dotnet","web extraction","playwright","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fc-sharp-web-scraping-without-the-stack.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fc-sharp-web-scraping-without-the-stack-card.png",{"path":2198,"title":2199,"description":2200,"publishedAt":2188,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":2201,"readTime":1426,"cover":2207,"listingCover":2208,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Flinkedin-post-scraper-what-comes-back","LinkedIn Post Scraper: What Actually Comes Back","Posts, reactions and comments are three billing decisions in one call. A live run shows the fields, and the two flags that quietly multiply the bill.",[2202,2203,2204,2205,2206],"linkedin post scraper","linkedin company scraper","social selling","harvestapi","linkedin data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Flinkedin-post-scraper-what-comes-back.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Flinkedin-post-scraper-what-comes-back-card.png",{"path":2210,"title":2211,"description":2212,"publishedAt":2188,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2213,"readTime":1426,"cover":2218,"listingCover":2219,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fweb-scraping-vs-api-wrong-question","Web Scraping vs API: You Are Choosing a Maintainer","Both end in an HTTP request returning the same facts. What differs is who owns the parser when the page changes, and whether anyone promised you anything.",[2214,2215,2216,2217,1895],"web scraping vs api","data acquisition","buy vs build","scraping api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-vs-api-wrong-question.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-vs-api-wrong-question-card.png",{"path":2221,"title":2222,"description":2223,"publishedAt":2188,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2224,"readTime":1426,"cover":2229,"listingCover":2230,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fxpath-cheat-sheet-for-scraping","XPath Cheat Sheet: The Dozen Expressions That Survive","Most XPath references list what the spec allows. This lists what still matches after a redesign, ranked by how long each anchor survives.",[2225,2226,2227,2193,2228],"xpath cheat sheet","xpath","css selectors","scraping","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fxpath-cheat-sheet-for-scraping.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fxpath-cheat-sheet-for-scraping-card.png",{"path":2232,"title":2233,"description":2234,"publishedAt":2188,"author":6,"category":1467,"tags":2235,"readTime":2241,"cover":2242,"listingCover":2243,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fzillow-scraper-what-the-listing-carries","Zillow API: One Search Returned 41, 502 and 874 at the Same Time","Three count fields in one response, all different. Then one filter took the same search from 874 results to 4. Which number to read, and which to ignore.",[2236,2237,2238,2239,2240],"zillow api","zillow scraper","property data api","zestimate","real estate api","13 min","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fzillow-scraper-what-the-listing-carries.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fzillow-scraper-what-the-listing-carries-card.png",{"path":2245,"title":2246,"description":2247,"publishedAt":2248,"author":6,"category":1915,"tags":2249,"readTime":1426,"cover":2252,"listingCover":2253,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fad-agent-auction-outside-the-account","Soku Runs the Campaign. The Auction Sits Outside It.","One small advertiser shares a single keyword with a bidder running 198,105 of them. An ad agent optimising inside its own account cannot see that.","2026-08-30",[1920,2250,2251,1895],"ad agents","competitor intelligence","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fad-agent-auction-outside-the-account.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fad-agent-auction-outside-the-account-card.png",{"path":2255,"title":2256,"description":2257,"publishedAt":2248,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2258,"readTime":1426,"cover":2263,"listingCover":2264,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fbing-serp-tracker-after-the-api","Bing SERP Tracker: What to Use After the API Retired","Microsoft retired the Search API, so a Bing position now comes from three places. One is free and first-party, and most articles do not mention it.",[2259,2260,1622,2261,2262],"bing serp tracker","bing rank tracking","bing webmaster tools","rank tracking","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbing-serp-tracker-after-the-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbing-serp-tracker-after-the-api-card.png",{"path":2266,"title":2267,"description":2268,"publishedAt":2248,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":2269,"readTime":1426,"cover":2273,"listingCover":2274,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fbrowser-automation-without-an-api","Browser Automation When the Site Has No API","Check the premise first. The site owner has no API, but somebody may already have an endpoint for it, and a browser is the most expensive answer available.",[2181,2270,2271,2272,1895],"antidetect browser","nodriver","no api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbrowser-automation-without-an-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbrowser-automation-without-an-api-card.png",{"path":2276,"title":2277,"description":2278,"publishedAt":2248,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":2279,"readTime":1426,"cover":2285,"listingCover":2286,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fjob-scraping-software-per-board","Job Scraping Software: There Is No Single Job Feed","Postings are fragmented across boards by design, and no endpoint covers all of them. Pick per board, and the schema differences are the real work.",[2280,2281,2282,2283,2284],"job scraping software","indeed job scraper","jobspy","job postings api","hiring signals","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fjob-scraping-software-per-board.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fjob-scraping-software-per-board-card.png",{"path":2288,"title":2289,"description":2290,"publishedAt":2248,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":2291,"readTime":1426,"cover":2295,"listingCover":2296,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fmid-form-enrichment-fewer-questions","TinyCommand Asks One Question. The API Fills Twenty-Six.","One domain went in. Twenty-six fields came back, including a 43-item tech stack. Every one of them is a question the form no longer has to ask.",[2292,2293,2294,1598],"lead enrichment","forms","progressive profiling","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmid-form-enrichment-fewer-questions.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmid-form-enrichment-fewer-questions-card.png",{"path":2298,"title":2299,"description":2300,"publishedAt":2248,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2301,"readTime":1446,"cover":2306,"listingCover":2307,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fnode-unblocker-what-it-does-not-do","Node Unblocker: What It Does, and What It Does Not","A proxy you host still leaves from your address. It changes the code path, not what refused you. Its own README lists the sites it cannot handle.",[2302,2303,2304,2305,2193],"node unblocker","web proxy","blocked scraper","nodejs","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fnode-unblocker-what-it-does-not-do.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fnode-unblocker-what-it-does-not-do-card.png",{"path":2309,"title":2310,"description":2311,"publishedAt":2248,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2312,"readTime":1525,"cover":2317,"listingCover":2318,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fserp-history-track-the-shape","AI Visibility Tracking: Record the Page's Shape, Not Just Your Rank","A flat position line hides the month an AI block appeared and took the clicks. We have 45 keywords on page one and one click. Here is what to record.",[2313,2314,2315,2316,2262],"ai visibility tracking","serp history","ai overview","paa seo","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fserp-history-track-the-shape.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fserp-history-track-the-shape-card.png",{"path":2320,"title":2321,"description":2322,"publishedAt":2323,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2324,"readTime":1525,"cover":2329,"listingCover":2330,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fbrave-search-api-what-you-can-keep","Brave Search API Key: How to Get One, and What You May Keep","Getting the key is the easy half. One clause decides whether it fits: result storage is granted per plan, and most builds need to store. Plus a free route.","2026-08-27",[2325,201,2326,2327,2328,1896],"brave search api key","how to get brave api key","brave search api","independent index","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbrave-search-api-what-you-can-keep.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbrave-search-api-what-you-can-keep-card.png",{"path":2332,"title":2333,"description":2334,"publishedAt":2323,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2335,"readTime":1426,"cover":2339,"listingCover":2340,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fgoogle-search-url-parameters","Google Search URL Parameters: What Still Works in 2026","Google silently killed num in September 2025. Here is the current list, which ones are official, and which are community guesses you should not depend on.",[2336,1622,2262,2337,2338],"google search url parameters","udm","search operators","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fgoogle-search-url-parameters.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fgoogle-search-url-parameters-card.png",{"path":2342,"title":2343,"description":2344,"publishedAt":2323,"author":6,"category":1532,"tags":2345,"readTime":1525,"cover":2350,"listingCover":2351,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Finstagram-api-which-one-in-2026","Instagram Profile Download and Search: Which API in 2026?","One profile call returned 69 fields and 5.5 million followers nested inside a wrapper. Four products answer to the name Instagram API.",[2346,2347,2348,2037,2349,1885],"instagram profile download","download instagram profile","instagram profile search","instagram graph api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Finstagram-api-which-one-in-2026.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Finstagram-api-which-one-in-2026-card.png",{"path":2353,"title":2354,"description":2355,"publishedAt":2323,"author":6,"category":1532,"tags":2356,"readTime":1426,"cover":2358,"listingCover":2359,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ftiktok-scraper-which-endpoint","TikTok Scraper: Which Endpoint for Which Question?","Profiles, videos, comments and search are four jobs with four cost curves. And the creator arrives nested inside every post, which changes the design.",[2357,1884,1850,1885,1944],"tiktok scraper","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-scraper-which-endpoint.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-scraper-which-endpoint-card.png",{"path":2361,"title":2362,"description":2363,"publishedAt":2323,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2364,"readTime":1426,"cover":2368,"listingCover":2369,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fweb-scraping-services-should-you-hire-it-out","Web Scraping Services: Should You Hire This Out?","A managed service is priced against the value of your data, not the cost of the requests. Three questions decide whether that is a bargain or a markup.",[2365,2366,2216,2367,2217],"web scraping services","managed scraping","data as a service","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-services-should-you-hire-it-out.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-services-should-you-hire-it-out-card.png",{"path":2371,"title":2372,"description":2373,"publishedAt":2374,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":2375,"readTime":1426,"cover":2379,"listingCover":2380,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fbright-data-mcp-what-you-are-installing","Bright Data MCP: What Are You Actually Installing?","Sixty-nine tools arrive in one install, and every definition sits in the model's context before the agent does anything. When that trade is worth it.","2026-08-26",[2376,1813,1895,2377,2378],"bright data mcp","web data","tool calling","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbright-data-mcp-what-you-are-installing.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbright-data-mcp-what-you-are-installing-card.png",{"path":2382,"title":2383,"description":2384,"publishedAt":2374,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":2385,"readTime":1426,"cover":2390,"listingCover":2391,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fclay-alternatives-waterfall-enrichment","Clay Alternatives: You Are Buying the Waterfall","Clay's product is not the data, it is the fall-through logic between providers. Once they share a balance, that logic is about twenty lines of code.",[2386,2387,2388,2389],"clay alternatives","waterfall enrichment","lead enrichment api","fall-through logic","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fclay-alternatives-waterfall-enrichment.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fclay-alternatives-waterfall-enrichment-card.png",{"path":2393,"title":2394,"description":2395,"publishedAt":2374,"author":6,"category":1821,"tags":2396,"readTime":1446,"cover":2402,"listingCover":2403,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Felevenlabs-alternatives-three-complaints","ElevenLabs Alternatives: Price, Voice, or Plumbing?","Three different complaints hide under one search. Only one of them needs a different provider, and the other two have cheaper fixes on the same one.",[2397,2398,2399,2400,2401],"elevenlabs alternatives","text to speech","tts api","voice ai","generative media","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Felevenlabs-alternatives-three-complaints.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Felevenlabs-alternatives-three-complaints-card.png",{"path":2405,"title":2406,"description":2407,"publishedAt":2374,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2408,"readTime":1426,"cover":2414,"listingCover":2415,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Frank-tracking-api-store-the-position","Rank Tracking API: The Hard Part Is Not the Fetch","Getting today's position is one cheap call. The product is yesterday's position, identical parameters, and knowing what moved. Here is the whole shape.",[2409,2410,2411,2412,2413],"rank tracking api","bing rank tracker","serp tracking","seo api","search api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Frank-tracking-api-store-the-position.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Frank-tracking-api-store-the-position-card.png",{"path":2417,"title":2418,"description":2419,"publishedAt":2374,"author":6,"category":1821,"tags":2420,"readTime":1426,"cover":2424,"listingCover":2425,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fstreaming-voice-agent-vs-batch-tts","Gradium Holds the Call. A Batch TTS API Renders the Rest.","Ten measured calls to a batch text to speech endpoint. The fastest never beat 3.05 seconds, and the model mattered more than four times the text.",[2421,2422,2423,1895],"text to speech api","voice agents","tts latency","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fstreaming-voice-agent-vs-batch-tts.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fstreaming-voice-agent-vs-batch-tts-card.png",{"path":2427,"title":2428,"description":2429,"publishedAt":2430,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":2431,"readTime":1426,"cover":2437,"listingCover":2438,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fb2b-data-provider-dataset-vs-api","B2B Data Providers: Buy the Dataset or Call the API?","A dataset and an enrichment API are the same rows with a different contract. What changes is who carries the staleness and who pays for unread records.","2026-08-25",[2432,2433,2434,2435,2436],"b2b data","data provider","company enrichment","zoominfo","people data labs","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fb2b-data-provider-dataset-vs-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fb2b-data-provider-dataset-vs-api-card.png",{"path":2440,"title":2441,"description":2442,"publishedAt":2430,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2443,"readTime":1426,"cover":2448,"listingCover":2449,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fcrawl4ai-when-to-run-your-own-crawler","Crawl4AI: When Should You Run Your Own Crawler?","Crawl4AI does the parsing for free. The bill is the fleet you run around it. A decision rule for when to self-host a crawler and when to call one.",[2444,2445,1896,2446,2447],"crawl4ai","web crawler","markdown","open source","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fcrawl4ai-when-to-run-your-own-crawler.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fcrawl4ai-when-to-run-your-own-crawler-card.png",{"path":2451,"title":2452,"description":2453,"publishedAt":2430,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2454,"readTime":1525,"cover":2460,"listingCover":2461,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fis-web-scraping-legal-2026","Is Web Scraping Legal? What the Rulings Actually Say","Four US cases decided the modern law of scraping and none of them turned on scraping. They turned on login, publicness, copying and circumvention.",[2455,2456,2457,2458,2459],"web scraping legal","hiq linkedin","bright data","cfaa","dmca","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fis-web-scraping-legal-2026.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fis-web-scraping-legal-2026-card.png",{"path":2463,"title":2464,"description":2465,"publishedAt":2430,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2466,"readTime":1426,"cover":2470,"listingCover":2471,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fweb-scraping-news-articles","Web Scraping News Articles: Three Jobs, Three Endpoints","Scraping news is three jobs under one name. Find articles, read one article, watch one company. Each needs a different call and a different budget.",[2467,2468,1896,2469,1894],"news scraping","news api","media monitoring","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-news-articles.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-news-articles-card.png",{"path":2473,"title":2474,"description":2475,"publishedAt":2430,"author":6,"category":1532,"tags":2476,"readTime":1426,"cover":2479,"listingCover":2480,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fyoutube-scraper-past-the-quota","YouTube Scraper: What the Data API Will Not Give You","The official API allows 100 searches a day and no money raises it. That ceiling, not price, is why YouTube scrapers exist. Here is what each one returns.",[2477,2478,1850,1944,1885],"youtube scraper","youtube data api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fyoutube-scraper-past-the-quota.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fyoutube-scraper-past-the-quota-card.png",{"path":2482,"title":2483,"description":2484,"publishedAt":2485,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":2486,"readTime":1525,"cover":2489,"listingCover":2490,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fagentic-browser-when-your-agent-needs-one","Agentic Browser: When Your Agent Actually Needs One","Agentic browser names two products: one you sit in front of and one your agent drives. Most jobs need neither. The test is whether the task carries state.","2026-08-21",[2487,2181,1895,2194,2488],"agentic browser","browserbase","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fagentic-browser-when-your-agent-needs-one.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fagentic-browser-when-your-agent-needs-one-card.png",{"path":2492,"title":2493,"description":2494,"publishedAt":2485,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2495,"readTime":1525,"cover":2499,"listingCover":2500,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fdo-ai-agents-need-a-rotating-proxy","Do You Still Need a Rotating Proxy in 2026?","A rotating proxy is an input you buy by the gigabyte and hope works. Most teams wanted the outcome instead. Here is how to tell which one you need.",[2496,2497,2156,1895,2498],"rotating proxy","residential proxy","infrastructure","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fdo-ai-agents-need-a-rotating-proxy.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fdo-ai-agents-need-a-rotating-proxy-card.png",{"path":2502,"title":2503,"description":2504,"publishedAt":2485,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2505,"readTime":1525,"cover":2509,"listingCover":2510,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fpython-web-scraping-without-a-scraper","Web Scraping in Python Without Maintaining a Scraper","Python web scraping is two jobs wearing one name. Python is the best tool for one of them and the wrong place to solve the other. Here is the split.",[2506,2156,2507,2508,1895],"python","beautifulsoup","selenium","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fpython-web-scraping-without-a-scraper.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fpython-web-scraping-without-a-scraper-card.png",{"path":1001,"title":2512,"description":2513,"publishedAt":2485,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2514,"readTime":2241,"cover":2518,"listingCover":2519,"image":1420},"Google SERP Tracker and Analysis: Which SERP API Do You Need?","A SERP API is three products under one name. Tracking needs two rank fields; analysis needs the blocks around them, and one was missing.",[2515,2516,2517,1622,1894,1896],"google serp tracker","google serp analysis","cheapest serp api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fserp-api-for-ai-agents.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fserp-api-for-ai-agents-card.png",{"path":2521,"title":2522,"description":2523,"publishedAt":2485,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2524,"readTime":1525,"cover":2527,"listingCover":2528,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fweb-scraping-tools-which-kind","Web Scraping Tools: Which Kind Do You Actually Need?","Web scraping tools come in four kinds and they differ on who operates them, not on features. Pick the operator first and the shortlist writes itself.",[2525,2526,2217,1895,1944],"web scraping tools","no code scraper","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-tools-which-kind.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-tools-which-kind-card.png",{"path":2530,"title":2531,"description":2532,"publishedAt":2533,"author":6,"category":1654,"tags":2534,"readTime":2241,"cover":2539,"listingCover":2540,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fautonomous-store-agent-outside-data","Agentic Commerce: The Store Builds Itself, Not the Market","The hard part moved. Building a store is one sentence now. One call returned 48 competitors and an incumbent with 136,609 reviews.","2026-08-20",[2535,2536,2537,2538],"agentic commerce","autonomous store agent","store agent data","market entry research","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fautonomous-store-agent-outside-data.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fautonomous-store-agent-outside-data-card.png",{"path":2542,"title":2543,"description":2544,"publishedAt":2533,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2545,"readTime":1525,"cover":2550,"listingCover":2551,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fbing-search-api-retired-alternatives","Bing Search API Retired: What Actually Replaces It","Microsoft turned the Bing Search APIs off in August 2025 and the endpoints now return 410. What a replacement has to do, and which route fits which job.",[2546,2547,2548,1896,2549],"search","web","api","agents","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbing-search-api-retired-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbing-search-api-retired-alternatives-card.png",{"path":2553,"title":2554,"description":2555,"publishedAt":2533,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2556,"readTime":1426,"cover":2560,"listingCover":2561,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fingest-mixed-documents-llm-embedding","Ingesting Mixed Documents for LLM Embedding: PDF to Markdown","PDFs, Office files and HTML all become one clean format before chunking. Where the pipeline actually breaks, and which endpoint handles which format.",[1896,2557,2558,2559,2446],"embeddings","pdf","ocr","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fingest-mixed-documents-llm-embedding.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fingest-mixed-documents-llm-embedding-card.png",{"path":2563,"title":2564,"description":2565,"publishedAt":2533,"author":6,"category":1532,"tags":2566,"readTime":1525,"cover":2571,"listingCover":2572,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Finstagram-follower-engagement-api","Instagram Follower and Engagement Data: Which API in 2026?","Follower counts are accurate. What trackers build on top is inference. Which endpoints return which fields, and how to tell a real signal from a guess.",[2567,2568,2548,2569,2570],"instagram","social","creators","engagement","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Finstagram-follower-engagement-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Finstagram-follower-engagement-api-card.png",{"path":2574,"title":2575,"description":2576,"publishedAt":2533,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":2577,"readTime":1525,"cover":2583,"listingCover":2584,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fllm-gateway-vs-mcp-gateway","LLM Gateway vs MCP Gateway: Four Families, One Word","An LLM gateway routes prompts to models. An MCP gateway routes tool calls to vendors. Four gateway families, and which problem each one solves.",[2578,2579,2580,2581,2582],"llm gateway","ai gateway","mcp","agent tools","routing","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fllm-gateway-vs-mcp-gateway.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fllm-gateway-vs-mcp-gateway-card.png",{"path":2586,"title":2587,"description":2588,"publishedAt":2533,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":2589,"readTime":1525,"cover":2590,"listingCover":2591,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fmcp-vs-api-for-ai-agents","MCP vs API for AI Agents: Who Does the Wrapping?","MCP is not an alternative to APIs, it wraps them. The real question is who does the wrapping, and the answer decides how much code you write.",[2580,2548,2581,1895,2378],"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmcp-vs-api-for-ai-agents.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmcp-vs-api-for-ai-agents-card.png",{"path":2593,"title":2594,"description":2595,"publishedAt":2533,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":2596,"readTime":1426,"cover":2600,"listingCover":2601,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fn8n-data-layer-scraping-enrichment","The Data Layer for n8n: One Key Instead of a Node Per Vendor","n8n workflows rarely break at the logic. They break at the data source. Build the scraping and enrichment layer so a dead provider is a config change.",[2597,2598,2599,2228,2549],"n8n","automation","enrichment","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fn8n-data-layer-scraping-enrichment.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fn8n-data-layer-scraping-enrichment-card.png",{"path":2603,"title":2604,"description":2605,"publishedAt":2533,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":2606,"readTime":1525,"cover":2608,"listingCover":2609,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fopenrouter-alternatives-after-stripe","OpenRouter Alternatives in 2026: Models, and Then Tools","Stripe agreed to buy OpenRouter for over $7 billion. The real alternatives on the model side, and the routing layer nobody is selling yet.",[2607,2578,2581,2580,2582],"openrouter","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fopenrouter-alternatives-after-stripe.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fopenrouter-alternatives-after-stripe-card.png",{"path":2611,"title":2612,"description":2613,"publishedAt":2533,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":2614,"readTime":1525,"cover":2618,"listingCover":2619,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fopenrouter-mcp-server-tool-layer","OpenRouter API Key: What It Reaches, and What It Does Not","An OpenRouter key buys models. It does not buy tools. Here is exactly where that line falls, and how to give the same agent both without a second account.",[2615,2607,2616,2378,2617],"openrouter api key","model routing","claude code","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fopenrouter-mcp-server-tool-layer.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fopenrouter-mcp-server-tool-layer-card.png",{"path":2621,"title":2622,"description":2623,"publishedAt":2533,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":2624,"readTime":1525,"cover":2627,"listingCover":2628,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fprompt-instead-of-filters-people-search","A Wrong Enum Returns Zero: Ploid and Prompt-Shaped APIs","A wrong enum returned 0 rows. A wrong range format returned 160,884. Neither raised an error. Why prompt-shaped APIs like Ploid exist, and what they cost.",[2625,2626,1919,1895],"people search api","agentic api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fprompt-instead-of-filters-people-search.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fprompt-instead-of-filters-people-search-card.png",{"path":2630,"title":2631,"description":2632,"publishedAt":2533,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":2633,"readTime":1525,"cover":2637,"listingCover":2638,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fproxycurl-shutdown-linkedin-data-alternatives","Proxycurl Shut Down: Where LinkedIn Data Goes Now","Proxycurl closed in July 2025 to settle with LinkedIn. What a replacement has to return, which endpoints cover which half, and the risk to read first.",[2634,2599,2548,2635,2636],"linkedin","sales","leads","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fproxycurl-shutdown-linkedin-data-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fproxycurl-shutdown-linkedin-data-alternatives-card.png",{"path":2640,"title":2641,"description":2642,"publishedAt":2533,"author":6,"category":1532,"tags":2643,"readTime":1525,"cover":2648,"listingCover":2649,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ftiktok-data-behind-an-ai-video-ad","Oumomo Generates the Ad. TikTok Data Decides Which One.","An AI video tool makes whatever you ask. One TikTok search call returned twenty videos with a fifteenfold spread in likes, and that spread is the brief.",[2644,2645,2646,2647],"tiktok data api","ai video ads","tiktok shop","creative research","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-data-behind-an-ai-video-ad.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-data-behind-an-ai-video-ad-card.png",{"path":2651,"title":2652,"description":2653,"publishedAt":2533,"author":6,"category":1532,"tags":2654,"readTime":1525,"cover":2655,"listingCover":2656,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ftiktok-scraper-catalogue-audit","Oumomo Remakes the Winner. A TikTok Scraper Tells You Which.","Fourteen videos, twenty one days, and one was 65 percent of the account. You cannot see that in the clips. One call puts the catalogue in a table.",[2357,1621,2646,2645],"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-scraper-catalogue-audit.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-scraper-catalogue-audit-card.png",{"path":2658,"title":2659,"description":2660,"publishedAt":2533,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":2661,"readTime":2241,"cover":2662,"listingCover":2663,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fwhat-is-an-mcp-gateway","What Is an MCP Gateway? Two Products, One Name","An MCP gateway is one endpoint that fronts many tools. Two very different products share the name, and the difference decides which one you need.",[2580,568,2581,1895,2582],"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-is-an-mcp-gateway.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-is-an-mcp-gateway-card.png",{"path":2665,"title":2666,"description":2667,"publishedAt":2533,"author":6,"category":1532,"tags":2668,"readTime":1525,"cover":2671,"listingCover":2672,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fx-intent-search-social-selling","Monid Finds the Tweet. Volumn Tells You Who Sent It.","A tightened X search returned 19 of 20 keyword-relevant tweets. Only 2 were someone actually asking. Keyword match is not intent, and that gap is the work.",[2669,2670,2204,1587],"twitter scraper","x api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fx-intent-search-social-selling.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fx-intent-search-social-selling-card.png",{"path":2674,"title":2675,"description":2676,"publishedAt":2677,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2678,"readTime":1426,"cover":2682,"listingCover":2683,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fapify-alternatives","Apify Alternatives: You Probably Want a Different Way to Buy It","Every AI answer to this question names Apify. We ran an Apify actor without an Apify account to show what the real alternative is.","2026-08-19",[2679,2156,2680,2681],"apify alternatives","actors","pay per call","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapify-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapify-alternatives-card.png",{"path":2685,"title":2686,"description":2687,"publishedAt":2677,"author":6,"category":1654,"tags":2688,"readTime":1426,"cover":2693,"listingCover":2694,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fconnect-claude-to-amazon-search-data","Amazon Search API: What One Keyword Query Returns","Amazon has no keyword API for sellers. What a search endpoint actually returns, how to hand it to an agent, and which route fits which job.",[2689,2690,2691,2692],"amazon search api","amazon keyword data","amazon product api","seller research","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fconnect-claude-to-amazon-search-data.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fconnect-claude-to-amazon-search-data-card.png",{"path":2696,"title":2697,"description":2698,"publishedAt":2677,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":2699,"readTime":1426,"cover":2704,"listingCover":2705,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fenrich-a-list-from-email-addresses","Email Enrichment: Four Addresses In, One Person Out","We enriched four real email addresses and one returned a person. The misses billed nothing. What that changes about how you plan a batch.",[2700,2701,2702,2703],"email enrichment","email enrichment api","email to profile","batch enrichment","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fenrich-a-list-from-email-addresses.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fenrich-a-list-from-email-addresses-card.png",{"path":2707,"title":2708,"description":2709,"publishedAt":2677,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2710,"readTime":1426,"cover":2713,"listingCover":2714,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ffree-api-extract-page-content-rag","A Free API to Extract Page Content for RAG: Read This First","We scraped a Wikipedia page and got 74,552 characters starting with the nav menu. The official API gave 689 clean ones. When each is right.",[1896,2193,2711,2712],"chunking","llm context","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ffree-api-extract-page-content-rag.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ffree-api-extract-page-content-rag-card.png",{"path":2716,"title":2717,"description":2718,"publishedAt":2677,"author":6,"category":1467,"tags":2719,"readTime":1426,"cover":2723,"listingCover":2724,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fgoogle-maps-scraper-alternatives","Google Maps Scraper Alternatives: Building a Local Lead List","Two Google Maps actors, same catalogue, different jobs. One returned nothing on a plausible query. What the fields tell you about a business, measured.",[2720,2721,1944,2722],"google maps scraper","local leads","lead list","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fgoogle-maps-scraper-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fgoogle-maps-scraper-alternatives-card.png",{"path":2726,"title":2727,"description":2728,"publishedAt":2677,"author":6,"category":1915,"tags":2729,"readTime":1426,"cover":2734,"listingCover":2735,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fmeta-ad-library-longest-running-ads","Mining the Meta Ad Library with Wireflow: Ninety Days Means It Works","Run duration is the profitability signal competitors publish by accident. How to read it, when it lies, and how to turn a long runner into creative.",[2730,2731,2732,2733],"meta ad library","competitor ads","ad creative","facebook ads","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmeta-ad-library-longest-running-ads.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmeta-ad-library-longest-running-ads-card.png",{"path":2737,"title":2738,"description":2739,"publishedAt":2740,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":2741,"readTime":1426,"cover":2743,"listingCover":2744,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fai-agent-needs-two-integrations","A Model Is Half an Agent: AIHubMix for Models, Monid for Tools","A model gateway gets your agent talking. It still cannot look anything up. How to wire both halves, with AIHubMix on models and Monid on tools.","2026-08-18",[1895,2742,2581,2580],"model gateway","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fai-agent-needs-two-integrations.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fai-agent-needs-two-integrations-card.png",{"path":2746,"title":2747,"description":2748,"publishedAt":2740,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":2749,"readTime":1426,"cover":2752,"listingCover":2753,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fapi-marketplace-for-ai-agents","The Best API Marketplace for AI Agents in 2026","Marketplaces were built for developers who integrate once. An agent chooses at run time. One ordinary task touched five providers across four steps.",[2750,1895,2580,2751],"api marketplace","tool use","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapi-marketplace-for-ai-agents.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapi-marketplace-for-ai-agents-card.png",{"path":2755,"title":2756,"description":2757,"publishedAt":2740,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":2758,"readTime":1426,"cover":2762,"listingCover":2763,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fbusiness-entity-search-api","Business Entity Search by API: What Exists and What Does Not","State registries are the most searched company lookup and the least available by API. We ran the US endpoint on a private company and it returned nothing.",[2759,2760,2761,1756],"business entity search","company registry","sec edgar","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbusiness-entity-search-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbusiness-entity-search-api-card.png",{"path":2765,"title":2766,"description":2767,"publishedAt":2740,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2768,"readTime":1426,"cover":2772,"listingCover":2773,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fscraper-blocked-what-gets-through","Your Scraper Is Blocked: What Actually Gets Through in 2026","A raw request to a Cloudflare-protected page returns 403. We ran the same URL through a managed endpoint and read what came back, field by field.",[2156,2769,2770,2771],"cloudflare","proxies","blocked","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fscraper-blocked-what-gets-through.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fscraper-blocked-what-gets-through-card.png",{"path":2775,"title":2776,"description":2777,"publishedAt":2740,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2778,"readTime":1426,"cover":2780,"listingCover":2781,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fweb-scraping-api-for-ai-agents","The Best Web Scraping API for AI Agents in 2026","An agent cannot pick a scraper from a list it has never seen. What changes when the catalogue is discoverable at run time, measured across three phrasings.",[2779,1895,2580,2598],"web scraping api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-api-for-ai-agents.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-api-for-ai-agents-card.png",{"path":2783,"title":2784,"description":2785,"publishedAt":2786,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":2787,"readTime":1525,"cover":2793,"listingCover":2794,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fapi-to-find-a-company-website","Best API to Search a Company's Homepage From Its Name","Searching a company's homepage by API is resolution, not search. Which endpoint does it, why fuzzy matches are a feature, and how to pick the right row.","2026-08-17",[2788,2789,2790,2791,2792],"best api search company's homepage","company homepage search api","company website api","company lookup","domain resolution","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapi-to-find-a-company-website.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapi-to-find-a-company-website-card.png",{"path":2796,"title":2797,"description":2798,"publishedAt":2786,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2799,"readTime":1426,"cover":2803,"listingCover":2804,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fcompany-news-api-press-releases","PR Newswire API: How to Read Releases, Not Send Them","The newswires sell distribution, not access. Reading a company's releases and its coverage is a different endpoint, and one field separates the two.",[2800,2801,2469,2802],"company news api","press release api","signals","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fcompany-news-api-press-releases.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fcompany-news-api-press-releases-card.png",{"path":2806,"title":2807,"description":2808,"publishedAt":2786,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":2809,"readTime":1525,"cover":2813,"listingCover":2814,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fcrunchbase-api-alternatives-funding-data","Startup Funding Data by API: Crunchbase Alternatives That Bill Per Call","Startup funding data without a Crunchbase seat: one enrichment call carried 33 rounds and 14 stage types on one company, and one field that misleads.",[2810,2811,1753,1989,2812,2434],"startup funding","startup funding data","funding data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fcrunchbase-api-alternatives-funding-data.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fcrunchbase-api-alternatives-funding-data-card.png",{"path":2816,"title":2817,"description":2818,"publishedAt":2786,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":2819,"readTime":1525,"cover":2824,"listingCover":2825,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fjob-postings-api-hiring-signals","Jooble API and Job Postings Data: Hiring as a Buying Signal","Jooble's API is for partners, not developers. What a job postings call returns instead, and two fields that turned out to be platform defaults, not data.",[2820,2821,2283,2284,2822,2823],"jooble api","jooble","jobs data","gtm","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fjob-postings-api-hiring-signals.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fjob-postings-api-hiring-signals-card.png",{"path":2827,"title":2828,"description":2829,"publishedAt":2786,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":2830,"readTime":1426,"cover":2834,"listingCover":2835,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ftechnographic-data-platforms-vs-per-call","Technographic Data Platforms vs One API Call: What You Give Up","We ran a stack detection on a major site and half the fields came back empty. What per-call detection sees, and when a platform earns its price.",[2831,2832,2833,2823],"technographic data","tech stack detection","b2b targeting","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftechnographic-data-platforms-vs-per-call.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftechnographic-data-platforms-vs-per-call-card.png",{"path":2837,"title":2838,"description":2839,"publishedAt":2840,"author":6,"category":1532,"tags":2841,"readTime":1426,"cover":2844,"listingCover":2845,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fbest-social-media-scraping-api-2026","What Is the Best API for Social Media Scraping in 2026?","No single best one, because the platforms are not one problem. Which endpoint covers which network, and where a per-call bill differs from per-result.","2026-08-14",[2842,1850,2843,2567],"social media scraping api","tiktok","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-social-media-scraping-api-2026.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-social-media-scraping-api-2026-card.png",{"path":2847,"title":2848,"description":2849,"publishedAt":2840,"author":6,"category":1518,"tags":2850,"readTime":1525,"cover":2854,"listingCover":2855,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fmcp-server-live-web-data-agents","Best MCP Servers: Two Engines, Two Lists That Barely Overlap","Of the eleven servers one engine called best, none fetches live web data. Change the wording and the list changes completely. Both answers, measured.",[2851,2852,1813,1895,2853],"best mcp servers","mcp server list","model context protocol","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmcp-server-live-web-data-agents.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmcp-server-live-web-data-agents-card.png",{"path":2857,"title":2858,"description":2859,"publishedAt":2840,"author":6,"category":1415,"tags":2860,"readTime":1446,"cover":2863,"listingCover":2864,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fpay-per-call-data-api-vs-subscription","Which Data API Lets You Pay Per Call Instead of a Subscription?","Metered beats a subscription when your usage is bursty and loses when it is steady. The shapes, the crossover, and the measurement that decides it.",[2681,2861,2750,2862],"data api pricing","metered billing","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fpay-per-call-data-api-vs-subscription.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fpay-per-call-data-api-vs-subscription-card.png",{"path":2866,"title":2867,"description":2868,"publishedAt":2840,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":2869,"readTime":1525,"cover":2873,"listingCover":2874,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fpeople-data-labs-apollo-zoominfo-alternatives","ZoomInfo Competitors: People Data Labs, Apollo, and What to Buy","ZoomInfo competitors split into three jobs: search, enrich, contract. What each is genuinely best at, and why the price gap is not what it looks like.",[2870,2871,2436,2872,2432],"zoominfo competitors","zoominfo alternatives","apollo alternatives","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fpeople-data-labs-apollo-zoominfo-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fpeople-data-labs-apollo-zoominfo-alternatives-card.png",{"path":2876,"title":2877,"description":2878,"publishedAt":2840,"author":6,"category":1532,"tags":2879,"readTime":1446,"cover":2880,"listingCover":2881,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Freddit-scraping-api-alternatives","Is There an Alternative to Apify for Scraping Reddit?","Yes, several. The more useful question is why a Reddit scraper returns posts that miss your keywords, because that is a search problem, not a scraper one.",[1942,1941,1943,2679],"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freddit-scraping-api-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freddit-scraping-api-alternatives-card.png",{"path":2883,"title":2884,"description":2885,"publishedAt":2886,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":2887,"readTime":1426,"cover":2890,"listingCover":2891,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fbest-linkedin-scraper-api-2026","What Is the Best LinkedIn Scraper API in 2026?","There is no single best LinkedIn scraper API. There are three jobs, and the honest answer is which endpoint fits which job, and what each one gets wrong.","2026-08-12",[2888,2634,2635,2889],"linkedin scraper api","data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-linkedin-scraper-api-2026.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-linkedin-scraper-api-2026-card.png",{"path":2893,"title":2894,"description":2895,"publishedAt":2896,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":2897,"readTime":1426,"cover":2902,"listingCover":2903,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fapollo-scraper","Apollo Scraper: Export Apollo.io Leads Safely by API in 2026","An Apollo scraper extension can get your account flagged. How to pull the same Apollo.io people and company data by metered API, with search free.","2026-08-10",[2898,2899,2900,2901],"apollo scraper","apollo.io","lead-generation","b2b-data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapollo-scraper.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapollo-scraper-card.png",{"path":2905,"title":2906,"description":2907,"publishedAt":2896,"author":6,"category":1532,"tags":2908,"readTime":1525,"cover":2911,"listingCover":2912,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Freddit-scraper","Reddit API in 2026: Licensed Access or a Public-Page Scraper","Reddit closed self-service API access in 2025. The honest split between the licensed Data API and a public-page scraper you run metered per call.",[1942,1941,2909,2910,2568],"reddit data api","web-scraping","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freddit-scraper.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freddit-scraper-card.png",{"path":2914,"title":2915,"description":2916,"publishedAt":2896,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":2917,"readTime":1525,"cover":2924,"listingCover":2925,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ftechnographic-data-api","Technographics by API: Three Sources Said 271, 18 and 0","One domain, one afternoon, three technographic routes. A live detector found nothing, a curated database found eighteen, a sales database found 271.",[2918,2919,2920,2921,2922,2923],"technographics","technographics tool","technographic data api","sales tech stack","tech stack","company-enrichment","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftechnographic-data-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftechnographic-data-api-card.png",{"path":2927,"title":2928,"description":2929,"publishedAt":2930,"author":6,"category":1532,"tags":2931,"readTime":1426,"cover":2933,"listingCover":2934,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fapify-instagram-scraper","The Apify Instagram Scraper: Which Actor to Use in 2026","Apify has five Instagram scrapers, not one. Which actor fits which job, how to run them without getting blocked, and what two measured runs actually cost.","2026-08-04",[2932,2567,2910,2549],"apify instagram scraper","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapify-instagram-scraper.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapify-instagram-scraper-card.png",{"path":2936,"title":2937,"description":2938,"publishedAt":2939,"author":6,"category":1453,"tags":2940,"readTime":1525,"cover":2942,"listingCover":2943,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fbest-linkedin-outreach-tools-2026","The Best LinkedIn Outreach Tools in 2026","LinkedIn outreach tools split into two layers in 2026: the data layer that finds and verifies people, and the sending layer that sequences the messages.","2026-07-29",[2941,2634,2635,2889],"linkedin outreach","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-linkedin-outreach-tools-2026.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-linkedin-outreach-tools-2026-card.png",{"path":2945,"title":2946,"description":2947,"publishedAt":2948,"author":6,"category":1654,"tags":2949,"readTime":2953,"cover":2954,"listingCover":2955,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Famazon-pa-api-alternatives","Amazon's PA-API Retires in 2026: How to Move to Monid","PA-API retired in May 2026. Which endpoints actually replace GetItems and SearchItems, tested on the day of writing, including one returning empty prices.","2026-07-21",[2950,2951,2889,2952],"amazon product advertising api","pa-api alternative","ecommerce","9 min","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Famazon-pa-api-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Famazon-pa-api-alternatives-card.png",{"path":2957,"title":2958,"description":2959,"publishedAt":2960,"author":6,"category":1654,"tags":2961,"readTime":2241,"cover":2963,"listingCover":2964,"image":1420},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fbest-amazon-reviews-api-2026","The Best Amazon Reviews API in 2026 (We Tested Them)","There is no official Amazon reviews API. 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