[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":2374},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-guide-\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fapify-alternatives":3,"blog-guide-related-\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fapify-alternatives":793},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":772,"cover":773,"description":774,"draft":775,"extension":776,"image":777,"launchCta":777,"listingCover":778,"meta":779,"navigation":780,"ogImage":777,"path":781,"publishedAt":782,"readTime":783,"seo":784,"stem":785,"tags":786,"toolCategory":327,"updatedAt":791,"__hash__":792},"blogGuides\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fapify-alternatives.md","Apify Alternatives: You Probably Want a Different Way to Buy It","Jasper Li",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":751},"minimark",[10,14,23,28,31,34,41,47,53,59,66,72,76,79,82,140,146,154,169,175,180,183,189,199,206,210,213,219,225,231,237,240,244,255,261,270,274,324,328,332,335,341,347,354,361,376,380,383,387,394,407,411,417,423,429,433,436,443,447,450,453,456,466,472,482,489,493,497,630,640,643,647,653,659,665,671,680,684,687,698,706,710,720,726,732,741,747],[11,12,13],"p",{},"Search for Apify alternatives and read what comes back carefully, because the answers give the game away. Ask an AI for the best alternatives to Apify and the list it returns names Apify. Ask for a free alternative and Apify is in that answer too.",[11,15,16,17,22],{},"That is not a broken model. It is the honest answer to a question people are asking slightly wrong, and unpicking it is what this guide does. Monid is ",[18,19,21],"a",{"href":20},"\u002Fopenrouter-for-agent-tools","the OpenRouter for agent tools",", and Apify is one of the providers in our catalogue, which we are going to be plain about because it shapes everything below: we resell their actors, so the section naming when to go straight to Apify is not a courtesy.",[24,25,27],"h2",{"id":26},"what-are-the-best-alternatives-to-apify","What are the best alternatives to Apify?",[11,29,30],{},"Bright Data, Firecrawl, ScrapingBee and Octoparse, and for most people none of them is the answer, because the complaint is rarely about the actors.",[11,32,33],{},"Read what people actually write when they ask this. The threads behind these questions are about the account, the plan and the platform rather than the scrapers:",[11,35,36,40],{},[37,38,39],"strong",{},"\"I need one scrape a month and I am paying monthly.\""," A plan sized for continuous use, bought for bursty use. The actor is fine.",[11,42,43,46],{},[37,44,45],{},"\"I do not want another vendor account.\""," A team already holding six credentials, asked to add a seventh for one job. The actor is fine.",[11,48,49,52],{},[37,50,51],{},"\"The actor I depended on disappeared.\""," A real event with a real cost, and switching platforms does not prevent it happening on the next one.",[11,54,55,58],{},[37,56,57],{},"\"I want my agent to pick the tool, not me.\""," Nothing to do with any vendor's quality.",[11,60,61,62,65],{},"Only the last of those is a capability question and none of them is answered by swapping Apify for a competitor with the same shape. ",[37,63,64],{},"The thing people want an alternative to is usually the purchasing model, not the technology",", and that distinction is why the AI keeps recommending Apify inside its own alternatives list. It knows the actors are good.",[67,68,69],"pull-quote",{},[11,70,71],{},"When the answer to \"what should I use instead of X\" keeps naming X, the question is about how you buy it, not about what it does.",[24,73,75],{"id":74},"can-i-run-an-apify-actor-without-an-apify-account","Can I run an Apify actor without an Apify account?",[11,77,78],{},"Yes, and it is worth showing rather than asserting, because it is the whole point of the post.",[11,80,81],{},"We ran one on 2026-08-19 with no Apify account, no Apify plan and no Apify key, from a Monid balance:",[83,84,89],"pre",{"className":85,"code":86,"language":87,"meta":88,"style":88},"language-bash shiki shiki-themes material-theme-lighter material-theme material-theme-palenight","monid run -p apify -e \u002Fcompass\u002Fgoogle-maps-reviews-scraper \\\n  -i '{\"startUrls\":[{\"url\":\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.google.com\u002Fmaps\u002Fplace\u002F?q=place_id:ChIJN1t_tDeuEmsRUsoyG83frY4\"}],\"maxReviews\":3}' -w\n","bash","",[90,91,92,121],"code",{"__ignoreMap":88},[93,94,97,101,105,108,111,114,117],"span",{"class":95,"line":96},"line",1,[93,98,100],{"class":99},"sBMFI","monid",[93,102,104],{"class":103},"sfazB"," run",[93,106,107],{"class":103}," -p",[93,109,110],{"class":103}," apify",[93,112,113],{"class":103}," -e",[93,115,116],{"class":103}," \u002Fcompass\u002Fgoogle-maps-reviews-scraper",[93,118,120],{"class":119},"sTEyZ"," \\\n",[93,122,124,127,131,134,137],{"class":95,"line":123},2,[93,125,126],{"class":103},"  -i",[93,128,130],{"class":129},"sMK4o"," '",[93,132,133],{"class":103},"{\"startUrls\":[{\"url\":\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.google.com\u002Fmaps\u002Fplace\u002F?q=place_id:ChIJN1t_tDeuEmsRUsoyG83frY4\"}],\"maxReviews\":3}",[93,135,136],{"class":129},"'",[93,138,139],{"class":103}," -w\n",[11,141,142,145],{},[37,143,144],{},"Provider response: 200."," Real reviews came back, from the actor its own authors publish, with roughly fifty fields per record:",[83,147,152],{"className":148,"code":150,"language":151,"meta":88},[149],"language-text","identity      placeId, cid, fid, kgmid, businessProfileId\nplace         title, address, street, city, state, postalCode, countryCode,\n              neighborhood, lat, lng, categories, price, hotelStars\nstatus        permanentlyClosed, temporarilyClosed, reviewsCount, totalScore\nreview        reviewId, text, textTranslated, stars, publishedAtDate,\n              likesCount, reviewImageUrls, reviewDetailedRating, visitedIn\nreviewer      reviewerId, reviewerUrl, reviewerNumberOfReviews, isLocalGuide\nowner         responseFromOwnerText, responseFromOwnerDate\n","text",[90,153,150],{"__ignoreMap":88},[11,155,156,157,160,161,164,165,168],{},"Two fields in there are worth more than they look. ",[90,158,159],{},"permanentlyClosed"," and ",[90,162,163],{},"temporarilyClosed"," turn a review pull into a liveness check on the business, and ",[90,166,167],{},"responseFromOwnerText"," tells you whether anyone is minding the listing, which for a lead list is a stronger qualifier than the star rating.",[11,170,171,174],{},[37,172,173],{},"Nothing about the actor changed."," Same author, same code, same output. What changed is that there was no signup, no plan and no second invoice.",[176,177,179],"h3",{"id":178},"what-a-failed-call-costs","What a failed call costs",[11,181,182],{},"Worth knowing before a batch, because it changes how freely you can experiment. Our first attempt used the wrong payload:",[83,184,187],{"className":185,"code":186,"language":151,"meta":88},[149],"Provider Response: 400\nCost:     nothing\nOutput:   Input is not valid: Field input.query is required\n",[90,188,186],{"__ignoreMap":88},[11,190,191,194,195,198],{},[37,192,193],{},"A rejected call billed nothing",", and the error named the missing field rather than failing vaguely. A second run against a different Google Maps actor returned ",[90,196,197],{},"200"," with an empty array and also billed nothing, because that actor bills per result and there were no results.",[11,200,201,202,205],{},"That combination, free failures and free empty results on per-result endpoints, is what makes ",[90,203,204],{},"inspect"," then a small run the correct first move on anything unfamiliar. The expensive mistake is a large batch with an unverified payload, not a handful of probing calls.",[176,207,209],{"id":208},"how-to-test-an-unfamiliar-actor-in-four-calls","How to test an unfamiliar actor in four calls",[11,211,212],{},"The sequence that costs almost nothing and answers the questions that decide a batch:",[11,214,215,218],{},[37,216,217],{},"Discover, to see what else exists."," Search the job rather than the actor name. If two or three endpoints come back from different providers, you have a fallback for the day one of them disappears, and you know it before you need it.",[11,220,221,224],{},[37,222,223],{},"Inspect, to get the schema this catalogue exposes."," Not the actor's own documentation page. Our first call in this post failed precisely because those two disagreed, and pasting from the more authoritative-looking source is the natural mistake.",[11,226,227,230],{},[37,228,229],{},"Run once with the smallest possible input."," One place, one profile, one page. Read the whole response body rather than checking the status, because a 200 with an empty array and a 200 with real data are the same status code and very different outcomes.",[11,232,233,236],{},[37,234,235],{},"Read the charge on that run."," It reports what it actually billed, which is the only figure that predicts a batch. A per-result endpoint that returned three records tells you the real unit cost of your query shape; a per-call endpoint tells you the flat cost and that the limit parameter will not change it.",[11,238,239],{},"Four calls, and the two that fail or come back empty are free. What you learn is whether the fields you need exist, what the payload has to look like, and what a thousand of them will cost, which is everything you needed before committing.",[176,241,243],{"id":242},"for-agents","For agents",[11,245,246,247,254],{},"Grab an API key at ",[18,248,253],{"href":249,"rel":250},"https:\u002F\u002Fapp.monid.ai\u002F",[251,252],"noopener","noreferrer","app.monid.ai",", then paste this to your agent and hand it the key:",[83,256,259],{"className":257,"code":258,"language":151,"meta":88},[149],"set up https:\u002F\u002Fmonid.ai\u002FSKILL.md\n",[90,260,258],{"__ignoreMap":88},[11,262,263,264,269],{},"It learns the whole discover, inspect, run workflow itself. More in the ",[18,265,268],{"href":266,"rel":267},"https:\u002F\u002Fmonid.ai\u002Fdocs\u002Fguide\u002Fquickstart-skill",[251,252],"agent quickstart",".",[176,271,273],{"id":272},"for-humans","For humans",[83,275,277],{"className":85,"code":276,"language":87,"meta":88,"style":88},"npm install -g @monid-ai\u002Fcli\nmonid keys add -k \u003Cyour-key> -l main\n",[90,278,279,293],{"__ignoreMap":88},[93,280,281,284,287,290],{"class":95,"line":96},[93,282,283],{"class":99},"npm",[93,285,286],{"class":103}," install",[93,288,289],{"class":103}," -g",[93,291,292],{"class":103}," @monid-ai\u002Fcli\n",[93,294,295,297,300,303,306,309,312,315,318,321],{"class":95,"line":123},[93,296,100],{"class":99},[93,298,299],{"class":103}," keys",[93,301,302],{"class":103}," add",[93,304,305],{"class":103}," -k",[93,307,308],{"class":129}," \u003C",[93,310,311],{"class":103},"your-ke",[93,313,314],{"class":119},"y",[93,316,317],{"class":129},">",[93,319,320],{"class":103}," -l",[93,322,323],{"class":103}," main\n",[325,326],"skill-prompt",{"category":327},"apify",[24,329,331],{"id":330},"is-there-a-free-alternative-to-apify","Is there a free alternative to Apify?",[11,333,334],{},"Free tiers exist across the category and they solve a different problem from the one most people have.",[11,336,337,340],{},[37,338,339],{},"What a free tier is good for."," Evaluating whether an actor returns the fields you need. Every vendor offers some version of this and you should use it, because the only real test of a scraper is your own target and your own field list.",[11,342,343,346],{},[37,344,345],{},"What it is not good for."," Anything ongoing. Free tiers reset monthly, cap concurrency, and are the first thing to change when a vendor's economics do. Building a dependency on one is building on a promise nobody made.",[11,348,349,350,353],{},"The question underneath \"is there a free alternative\" is usually ",[37,351,352],{},"\"how do I stop paying for scraping I am not doing\"",", and that has a cleaner answer than a free tier: pay per call, so idle costs nothing. Discovery and schema inspection are free on our side, the run is the only billed step, and a month with no runs bills nothing. That is not a free tier, it is the absence of a floor, and it is the shape that fits bursty work.",[11,355,356,357,269],{},"If your usage is genuinely continuous and heavy, none of this applies and a plan priced for that volume will beat per-call pricing. We laid the arithmetic out in ",[18,358,360],{"href":359},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fpay-per-call-data-api-vs-subscription","pay per call versus subscription",[362,363,364],"blockquote",{},[11,365,366,367,370,371,375],{},"📖 ",[37,368,369],{},"See also"," ",[18,372,374],{"href":373},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhy-one-google-maps-scraper-is-not-enough","why one Google Maps scraper is not enough",", which compares actors on the same target rather than comparing platforms.",[24,377,379],{"id":378},"which-apify-scraper-do-you-actually-need","Which Apify scraper do you actually need?",[11,381,382],{},"\"Apify scraper\" is not one product, and this is the question underneath a surprising share of the alternatives searching: people go looking for a different platform when what they needed was a different actor on the one they already have.",[176,384,386],{"id":385},"the-store-is-thousands-of-actors-not-one-scraper","The store is thousands of actors, not one scraper",[11,388,389,390,393],{},"Apify's catalogue is built by many authors, so two actors for the same site can differ in coverage, output shape, maintenance and price by a wide margin. The ",[90,391,392],{},"apify\u002F"," prefix means Apify's own team wrote it; anything else is a community or partner author. Neither is automatically better, and the practical signal is recent maintenance rather than the namespace.",[11,395,396,397,401,402,406],{},"That means \"the Apify Instagram scraper\" does not identify anything. There are several, they cover different surfaces, and picking wrong produces a run that succeeds and returns the wrong shape. We went through that specific case actor by actor in ",[18,398,400],{"href":399},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fapify-instagram-scraper","The Apify Instagram Scraper: Which Actor to Use in 2026",", and the same split exists for ",[18,403,405],{"href":404},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ftiktok-scraper-which-endpoint","TikTok"," and for most popular targets.",[176,408,410],{"id":409},"the-three-questions-that-pick-one","The three questions that pick one",[11,412,413,416],{},[37,414,415],{},"Which surface?"," Profiles, posts, comments, search and hashtags are separate actors on most platforms because they are separate jobs with separate cost curves. Decide the surface before comparing anything.",[11,418,419,422],{},[37,420,421],{},"Per call or per result?"," Bounded requests belong on per-call billing and open-ended ones on per-result. This decides your bill more than the per-row price does, because on an open-ended pull the controlling number is the cap you set.",[11,424,425,428],{},[37,426,427],{},"Maintained or abandoned?"," An actor that has not been touched in a year against a site that redesigns quarterly is a liability regardless of price. This is the field to check first and the one the store makes hardest to see at a glance.",[176,430,432],{"id":431},"why-this-shows-up-as-an-alternatives-search","Why this shows up as an alternatives search",[11,434,435],{},"Because a bad actor and a bad platform produce identical symptoms: a run that returns nothing useful. The instinct is to blame the platform and go looking for a competitor, and roughly half the time the fix was a different actor on the same store.",[11,437,438,439,442],{},"Running ",[90,440,441],{},"monid discover"," across the catalogue rather than browsing one vendor's store sidesteps the diagnosis entirely, because the ranked list spans providers and shows the billing shape next to each one. That is a different answer from \"switch platforms\", and it is usually the cheaper one.",[24,444,446],{"id":445},"what-happens-when-an-actor-gets-removed","What happens when an actor gets removed?",[11,448,449],{},"You lose the pipeline, and this is the one complaint in the set that a different purchasing model genuinely helps with.",[11,451,452],{},"It is a real event rather than a hypothetical. One of the open questions in our registry exists because an Apollo actor was removed from Apify and the people depending on it needed something the same week. Actors are published by independent authors, and a target changing its terms can take one out with no notice to you.",[11,454,455],{},"Three things reduce the damage, and only the third is about who you buy from:",[11,457,458,461,462,269],{},[37,459,460],{},"Depend on the job, not the actor."," Record what you need as a capability, get the current best endpoint for it at run time, and the removal becomes a search rather than a rebuild. This is the pattern we walked through in ",[18,463,465],{"href":464},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fweb-scraping-api-for-ai-agents","the web scraping API for AI agents",[11,467,468,471],{},[37,469,470],{},"Check that a replacement exists before you need one."," For any endpoint you depend on, run discovery for its job once and see whether a second option comes back. If nothing does, you have a single point of failure and now you know.",[11,473,474,477,478,269],{},[37,475,476],{},"Prefer official channels for the targets that matter."," Where a platform has a licensed API, that route survives policy changes that kill scrapers. We made the same argument about ",[18,479,481],{"href":480},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Freddit-scraper","Reddit after the API lockdown",[11,483,484,485,488],{},"The honest limit: ",[37,486,487],{},"no purchasing model prevents removal."," If a target forces an actor off a platform, it is gone wherever you bought it. What changes is whether replacing it is a search or a procurement cycle.",[490,491],"tool-cta",{"category":327,"title":492},"Browse the Apify actors, with live pricing",[24,494,496],{"id":495},"which-endpoint-should-i-use-for-which-job","Which endpoint should I use for which job?",[498,499,500,519],"table",{},[501,502,503],"thead",{},[504,505,506,510,513,516],"tr",{},[507,508,509],"th",{},"Job",[507,511,512],{},"Endpoint",[507,514,515],{},"Takes",[507,517,518],{},"Billing shape",[520,521,522,542,559,576,593,612],"tbody",{},[504,523,524,528,536,539],{},[525,526,527],"td",{},"Google Maps reviews and place data",[525,529,530],{},[18,531,533],{"href":532},"\u002Ftools\u002Fapify",[90,534,535],{},"apify \u002Fcompass\u002Fgoogle-maps-reviews-scraper",[525,537,538],{},"Place URL or ID",[525,540,541],{},"Per result",[504,543,544,547,554,557],{},[525,545,546],{},"Local business listings",[525,548,549],{},[18,550,551],{"href":532},[90,552,553],{},"apify \u002Fdamilo\u002Fgoogle-maps-scraper",[525,555,556],{},"Query plus location",[525,558,541],{},[504,560,561,564,571,574],{},[525,562,563],{},"Reddit, official OAuth",[525,565,566],{},[18,567,568],{"href":532},[90,569,570],{},"apify \u002Fpracticaltools\u002Fapify-reddit-api",[525,572,573],{},"Subreddit or query",[525,575,541],{},[504,577,578,581,588,591],{},[525,579,580],{},"LinkedIn profiles with contact data",[525,582,583],{},[18,584,585],{"href":532},[90,586,587],{},"apify \u002Fdev_fusion\u002Flinkedin-profile-scraper",[525,589,590],{},"Profile URL",[525,592,541],{},[504,594,595,598,606,609],{},[525,596,597],{},"Any page to clean markdown, no actor",[525,599,600],{},[18,601,603],{"href":602},"\u002Ftools\u002Fweb-extraction",[90,604,605],{},"context.dev \u002Fweb\u002Fscrape\u002Fmarkdown",[525,607,608],{},"URL",[525,610,611],{},"Per call",[504,613,614,617,625,628],{},[525,615,616],{},"Trustpilot company reviews",[525,618,619],{},[18,620,622],{"href":621},"\u002Ftools\u002Fcompany-reviews",[90,623,624],{},"trustpilot \u002Fget_company_reviews",[525,626,627],{},"Company domain",[525,629,611],{},[11,631,632,633,635,636,639],{},"Verified present on 2026-08-19 with ",[90,634,441],{},". The billing column gives the shape rather than a figure; ",[90,637,638],{},"monid inspect"," prints the current figure for free.",[11,641,642],{},"The last two rows are the part that a platform-versus-platform comparison misses. Some jobs have a non-Apify endpoint that fits better, and the only way to notice is to be able to see both at once.",[24,644,646],{"id":645},"when-should-you-not-use-monid","When should you not use Monid?",[11,648,649,652],{},[37,650,651],{},"You use Apify heavily and deeply."," Buy Apify. At continuous volume a plan beats per-call pricing, and you get the parts of the product a catalogue entry does not carry.",[11,654,655,658],{},[37,656,657],{},"You need the Apify console."," Scheduling, monitoring, run history, storage, the actor editor, webhooks. That is their product and it is good. We expose the endpoint, not the platform around it.",[11,660,661,664],{},[37,662,663],{},"You are building or publishing actors."," That is Apify's developer surface and there is no version of it here.",[11,666,667,670],{},[37,668,669],{},"You need actor-specific configuration we do not surface."," Proxy group selection, memory allocation, custom build tags. If your run depends on those, go direct.",[11,672,673,676,677,679],{},[37,674,675],{},"And the caution about us."," Our first call in this post returned a 400 because the payload we copied did not match the schema this catalogue exposes, which is not always identical to the actor's own documented input. Run ",[90,678,638],{}," rather than pasting from the actor page, including when the actor page is the more authoritative-looking source.",[24,681,683],{"id":682},"conclusion","Conclusion",[11,685,686],{},"The best alternative to Apify is usually Apify, bought differently. The complaints behind the question are about the account, the monthly floor and the vendor sprawl, and none of those is fixed by moving to a platform with the same shape.",[11,688,689,690,693,694,697],{},"Two things matter more than which vendor you land on. ",[37,691,692],{},"The actors are not the problem",", which is why the AI answers keep naming Apify inside their own alternatives lists, and why the useful question is how you get at them rather than what to replace them with. And ",[37,695,696],{},"actor removal is a real failure mode that no purchasing model prevents",": depend on the job rather than the actor, and check today whether a second endpoint exists for anything you would miss.",[11,699,700,701,269],{},"Start with the free part: discovery and inspection cost nothing, and our measurements showed a rejected call and an empty result both billing nothing, so probing an unfamiliar actor is close to free. Run the one you depend on and read its schema. Begin at ",[18,702,705],{"href":703,"rel":704},"https:\u002F\u002Fmonid.ai",[251,252],"monid.ai",[24,707,709],{"id":708},"faq","FAQ",[711,712,714],"faq-item",{"q":713},"Is this just a reseller with a markup?",[11,715,716,717,719],{},"We resell provider endpoints and the price you see before a run is the price you pay, shown by ",[90,718,204],{}," for free. What you are buying is the absence of a per-vendor account and plan, plus the ability to reach endpoints from several providers on one balance. If you use one provider heavily, going direct is cheaper and we say so in the caveat section rather than burying it.",[711,721,723],{"q":722},"Do I get the same actor version?",[11,724,725],{},"You get the actor its author publishes, and our measured run returned the same field set the actor documents. What differs is the input schema this catalogue exposes, which is not always identical to the actor's own. That is why the first call in this post returned a 400: we pasted the actor's documented payload rather than inspecting first.",[711,727,729],{"q":728},"What if I already have an Apify account?",[11,730,731],{},"Keep it. If your work is mostly Apify and mostly steady, that account is the right way to buy it and adding a layer helps nothing. The case for a catalogue is a job that reaches past one vendor, or usage bursty enough that a plan idles most of the month.",[711,733,735],{"q":734},"Does an empty result still cost money?",[11,736,737,738,740],{},"On a per-result endpoint, no. We measured a run that returned 200 with an empty array and billed nothing, because there were no records to bill for. On a per-call endpoint the request is the billable unit, so an empty result costs the same as a full one. 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We ran an Apify actor without an Apify account to show what the real alternative is.",false,"md",null,"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapify-alternatives-card.png",{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fapify-alternatives","2026-08-19","11 min",{"title":5,"description":774},"blog\u002Fguides\u002Fapify-alternatives",[787,788,789,790],"apify alternatives","web scraping","actors","pay per call","2026-08-27","Jt20GOjBAO9Kh2PHq5EZ9zw51l9YvFatVt8Kx2ImNaM",[794,809,822,836,848,861,873,887,900,912,925,937,949,961,974,986,998,1011,1024,1036,1049,1061,1073,1086,1098,1110,1122,1134,1146,1159,1170,1182,1195,1208,1219,1231,1244,1254,1267,1279,1290,1303,1315,1325,1337,1347,1360,1372,1382,1394,1406,1418,1429,1441,1453,1465,1478,1491,1503,1514,1526,1537,1550,1562,1575,1587,1598,1609,1622,1632,1643,1653,1665,1675,1686,1697,1709,1719,1730,1737,1747,1758,1769,1781,1793,1803,1816,1827,1839,1849,1858,1868,1878,1888,1898,1907,1919,1930,1940,1951,1963,1970,1980,1988,1998,2007,2017,2028,2035,2043,2052,2054,2065,2076,2085,2095,2106,2115,2124,2134,2144,2151,2164,2174,2184,2195,2205,2215,2225,2233,2243,2250,2260,2272,2280,2293,2300,2309,2321,2330,2339,2347,2356,2365],{"path":795,"title":796,"description":797,"publishedAt":798,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":800,"readTime":806,"cover":807,"listingCover":808,"image":777},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fbacklink-api-what-it-returns","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.","2026-10-03","Product",[801,802,803,804,805],"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":810,"title":811,"description":812,"publishedAt":798,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":814,"readTime":806,"cover":820,"listingCover":821,"image":777},"\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",[815,816,817,818,819],"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":823,"title":824,"description":825,"publishedAt":826,"author":6,"category":827,"tags":828,"readTime":806,"cover":834,"listingCover":835,"image":777},"\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",[829,830,831,832,833],"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":837,"title":838,"description":839,"publishedAt":826,"author":6,"category":827,"tags":840,"readTime":806,"cover":846,"listingCover":847,"image":777},"\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.",[841,842,843,844,845],"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":849,"title":850,"description":851,"publishedAt":852,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":853,"readTime":806,"cover":859,"listingCover":860,"image":777},"\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",[854,855,856,857,858],"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":862,"title":863,"description":864,"publishedAt":852,"author":6,"category":827,"tags":865,"readTime":806,"cover":871,"listingCover":872,"image":777},"\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.",[866,867,868,869,870],"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":874,"title":875,"description":876,"publishedAt":877,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":878,"readTime":884,"cover":885,"listingCover":886,"image":777},"\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",[879,880,881,882,883],"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":888,"title":889,"description":890,"publishedAt":877,"author":6,"category":891,"tags":892,"readTime":806,"cover":898,"listingCover":899,"image":777},"\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",[893,894,895,896,897],"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":901,"title":902,"description":903,"publishedAt":877,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":904,"readTime":783,"cover":910,"listingCover":911,"image":777},"\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.",[905,906,907,908,909],"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":913,"title":914,"description":915,"publishedAt":916,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":917,"readTime":783,"cover":923,"listingCover":924,"image":777},"\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",[918,919,920,921,922],"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":926,"title":927,"description":928,"publishedAt":916,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":929,"readTime":806,"cover":935,"listingCover":936,"image":777},"\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.",[930,931,932,933,934],"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":938,"title":939,"description":940,"publishedAt":916,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":941,"readTime":783,"cover":947,"listingCover":948,"image":777},"\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.",[942,943,944,945,946],"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":950,"title":951,"description":952,"publishedAt":916,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":953,"readTime":783,"cover":959,"listingCover":960,"image":777},"\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.",[954,955,956,957,958],"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":962,"title":963,"description":964,"publishedAt":965,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":966,"readTime":884,"cover":972,"listingCover":973,"image":777},"\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",[967,968,969,970,971],"ai lead score calculation method","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":975,"title":976,"description":977,"publishedAt":965,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":978,"readTime":783,"cover":984,"listingCover":985,"image":777},"\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.",[979,980,981,982,983],"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":987,"title":988,"description":989,"publishedAt":965,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":990,"readTime":783,"cover":996,"listingCover":997,"image":777},"\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.",[991,992,993,994,995],"target company url analysis","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":999,"title":1000,"description":1001,"publishedAt":1002,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":1003,"readTime":783,"cover":1009,"listingCover":1010,"image":777},"\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",[1004,1005,1006,1007,1008],"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":1012,"title":1013,"description":1014,"publishedAt":1002,"author":6,"category":1015,"tags":1016,"readTime":884,"cover":1022,"listingCover":1023,"image":777},"\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",[1017,1018,1019,1020,1021],"upc lookup","upc code lookup","barcode lookup api","search for upc","gtin lookup","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fsearch-for-upc-barcode-lookup-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fsearch-for-upc-barcode-lookup-api-card.png",{"path":1025,"title":1026,"description":1027,"publishedAt":1002,"author":6,"category":891,"tags":1028,"readTime":783,"cover":1034,"listingCover":1035,"image":777},"\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.",[1029,1030,1031,1032,1033],"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":1037,"title":1038,"description":1039,"publishedAt":1040,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":1041,"readTime":783,"cover":1047,"listingCover":1048,"image":777},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fahrefs-vs-kwfinder-link-half","Ahrefs vs KWFinder: Both Halves Are Available by the Call","We said the keyword half was not buyable per call. That was wrong. Here is the corrected answer, and the 740x volume disagreement we found while checking.","2026-09-18",[1042,1043,1044,1045,1046],"ahrefs vs kwfinder","kwfinder vs ahrefs","keyword research api","ahrefs alternative","seo api by the call","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fahrefs-vs-kwfinder-link-half.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fahrefs-vs-kwfinder-link-half-card.png",{"path":1050,"title":1051,"description":1052,"publishedAt":1040,"author":6,"category":891,"tags":1053,"readTime":783,"cover":1059,"listingCover":1060,"image":777},"\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.",[1054,1055,1056,1057,1058],"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":1062,"title":1063,"description":1064,"publishedAt":1040,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":1065,"readTime":783,"cover":1071,"listingCover":1072,"image":777},"\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.",[1066,1067,1068,1069,1070],"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":1074,"title":1075,"description":1076,"publishedAt":1077,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1078,"readTime":783,"cover":1084,"listingCover":1085,"image":777},"\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",[1079,1080,1081,1082,1083],"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":1087,"title":1088,"description":1089,"publishedAt":1077,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":1090,"readTime":783,"cover":1096,"listingCover":1097,"image":777},"\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.",[1091,1092,1093,1094,1095],"buzzfile","buzzfile search by name","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":1099,"title":1100,"description":1101,"publishedAt":1077,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":1102,"readTime":783,"cover":1108,"listingCover":1109,"image":777},"\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.",[1103,1104,1105,1106,1107],"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":1111,"title":1112,"description":1113,"publishedAt":1114,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":1115,"readTime":783,"cover":1120,"listingCover":1121,"image":777},"\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",[1116,1117,1118,1119,946],"b2b prospecting tool","b2b leads","b2b sms outreach","prospecting api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fb2b-prospecting-tool-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fb2b-prospecting-tool-api-card.png",{"path":1123,"title":1124,"description":1125,"publishedAt":1114,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":1126,"readTime":783,"cover":1132,"listingCover":1133,"image":777},"\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.",[1127,1128,1129,1130,1131],"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":1135,"title":1136,"description":1137,"publishedAt":1114,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1138,"readTime":783,"cover":1144,"listingCover":1145,"image":777},"\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.",[1139,1140,1141,1142,1143],"tavily api","tavily","tavily api key","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":1147,"title":1148,"description":1149,"publishedAt":1150,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1151,"readTime":783,"cover":1157,"listingCover":1158,"image":777},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fahrefs-api-domain-rating-backlinks","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",[1152,1153,1154,1155,1156],"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":1160,"title":1161,"description":1162,"publishedAt":1150,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":1163,"readTime":783,"cover":1168,"listingCover":1169,"image":777},"\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.",[1164,1007,1165,1166,1167],"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":1171,"title":1172,"description":1173,"publishedAt":1150,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":1174,"readTime":806,"cover":1180,"listingCover":1181,"image":777},"\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.",[1175,1176,1177,1178,1179],"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":1183,"title":1184,"description":1185,"publishedAt":1150,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1186,"readTime":884,"cover":1193,"listingCover":1194,"image":777},"\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.",[1187,1188,1189,1190,1191,1192],"claude mcp","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":1196,"title":1197,"description":1198,"publishedAt":1150,"author":6,"category":1199,"tags":1200,"readTime":783,"cover":1206,"listingCover":1207,"image":777},"\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",[1201,1202,1203,1204,1205],"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":1209,"title":1210,"description":1211,"publishedAt":1150,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1212,"readTime":783,"cover":1217,"listingCover":1218,"image":777},"\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.",[1213,1214,1215,1216,1142],"octen ai","octen","octen search","octen api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Focten-ai-search-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Focten-ai-search-api-card.png",{"path":1220,"title":1221,"description":1222,"publishedAt":1150,"author":6,"category":891,"tags":1223,"readTime":783,"cover":1229,"listingCover":1230,"image":777},"\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.",[1224,1225,1226,1227,1228],"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":1232,"title":1233,"description":1234,"publishedAt":1235,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":1236,"readTime":783,"cover":1242,"listingCover":1243,"image":777},"\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",[1237,1238,1239,1240,1241],"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":1245,"title":1246,"description":1247,"publishedAt":1235,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":1248,"readTime":806,"cover":1252,"listingCover":1253,"image":777},"\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.",[1249,1250,1167,1251,1237],"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":1255,"title":1256,"description":1257,"publishedAt":1235,"author":6,"category":891,"tags":1258,"readTime":884,"cover":1265,"listingCover":1266,"image":777},"\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.",[1259,1260,1261,1262,1263,1264],"tiktok profile viewer","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":1268,"title":1269,"description":1270,"publishedAt":1271,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1272,"readTime":783,"cover":1277,"listingCover":1278,"image":777},"\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",[1273,1274,1275,1276],"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":1280,"title":1281,"description":1282,"publishedAt":1283,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":1284,"readTime":783,"cover":1288,"listingCover":1289,"image":777},"\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",[1274,1285,1286,1287],"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":1291,"title":1292,"description":1293,"publishedAt":1283,"author":6,"category":1294,"tags":1295,"readTime":783,"cover":1301,"listingCover":1302,"image":777},"\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",[1296,1297,1298,1299,1300],"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":1304,"title":1305,"description":1306,"publishedAt":1283,"author":6,"category":1015,"tags":1307,"readTime":783,"cover":1313,"listingCover":1314,"image":777},"\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.",[1308,1309,1310,1311,1312],"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":1316,"title":1317,"description":1318,"publishedAt":1283,"author":6,"category":891,"tags":1319,"readTime":783,"cover":1323,"listingCover":1324,"image":777},"\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.",[1320,1321,1322,327,1264],"reddit scraper","reddit api","social listening","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freddit-scraper-returns-different-posts.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freddit-scraper-returns-different-posts-card.png",{"path":1326,"title":1327,"description":1328,"publishedAt":1283,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":1329,"readTime":783,"cover":1335,"listingCover":1336,"image":777},"\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.",[1330,1331,1332,1333,1334],"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":1338,"title":1339,"description":1340,"publishedAt":1283,"author":6,"category":891,"tags":1341,"readTime":806,"cover":1345,"listingCover":1346,"image":777},"\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.",[1342,1343,1322,1344,1264],"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":1348,"title":1349,"description":1350,"publishedAt":1351,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":1352,"readTime":783,"cover":1358,"listingCover":1359,"image":777},"\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",[1353,1354,1355,1356,1357],"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":1361,"title":1362,"description":1363,"publishedAt":1351,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":1364,"readTime":884,"cover":1370,"listingCover":1371,"image":777},"\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.",[1365,1366,1367,1130,1368,1369],"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":1373,"title":1374,"description":1375,"publishedAt":1351,"author":6,"category":1015,"tags":1376,"readTime":783,"cover":1380,"listingCover":1381,"image":777},"\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.",[1377,1378,1312,1310,1379],"competitor price monitoring","price tracking","list price","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmonitor-competitor-prices-automatically.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmonitor-competitor-prices-automatically-card.png",{"path":1383,"title":1384,"description":1385,"publishedAt":1351,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":1386,"readTime":884,"cover":1392,"listingCover":1393,"image":777},"\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.",[1387,1388,1389,1390,1334,1391],"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":1395,"title":1396,"description":1397,"publishedAt":1351,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":1398,"readTime":783,"cover":1404,"listingCover":1405,"image":777},"\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.",[1399,1400,1401,1402,1403],"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":1407,"title":1408,"description":1409,"publishedAt":1410,"author":6,"category":891,"tags":1411,"readTime":783,"cover":1416,"listingCover":1417,"image":777},"\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",[1412,1413,1414,1228,1415],"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":1419,"title":1420,"description":1421,"publishedAt":1410,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":1422,"readTime":783,"cover":1427,"listingCover":1428,"image":777},"\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.",[1423,1424,1241,1425,1426],"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":1430,"title":1431,"description":1432,"publishedAt":1410,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":1433,"readTime":884,"cover":1439,"listingCover":1440,"image":777},"\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.",[1434,1435,1436,1437,1438],"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":1442,"title":1443,"description":1444,"publishedAt":1410,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":1445,"readTime":783,"cover":1451,"listingCover":1452,"image":777},"\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.",[1446,1447,1448,1449,1450],"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":1454,"title":1455,"description":1456,"publishedAt":1410,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":1457,"readTime":884,"cover":1463,"listingCover":1464,"image":777},"\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.",[1458,1459,1460,1461,1462],"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":1466,"title":1467,"description":1468,"publishedAt":1469,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":1470,"readTime":884,"cover":1476,"listingCover":1477,"image":777},"\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",[1471,1472,1473,1474,1475],"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":1479,"title":1480,"description":1481,"publishedAt":1469,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1482,"readTime":884,"cover":1489,"listingCover":1490,"image":777},"\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.",[1483,1484,1485,1486,1487,1488],"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":1492,"title":1493,"description":1494,"publishedAt":1469,"author":6,"category":827,"tags":1495,"readTime":884,"cover":1501,"listingCover":1502,"image":777},"\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.",[1496,1497,1498,1499,1500],"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":1504,"title":1505,"description":1506,"publishedAt":1469,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":1507,"readTime":783,"cover":1512,"listingCover":1513,"image":777},"\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.",[1508,1509,1510,1356,1511],"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":1515,"title":1516,"description":1517,"publishedAt":1518,"author":6,"category":1015,"tags":1519,"readTime":783,"cover":1524,"listingCover":1525,"image":777},"\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",[1520,1521,1310,1522,1523],"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":1527,"title":1528,"description":1529,"publishedAt":1518,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":1530,"readTime":884,"cover":1535,"listingCover":1536,"image":777},"\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.",[1531,1532,1533,788,1534],"datacenter proxies vs residential","proxy types","rotating proxies","geolocation","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fdatacenter-proxies-vs-residential.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fdatacenter-proxies-vs-residential-card.png",{"path":1538,"title":1539,"description":1540,"publishedAt":1518,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":1541,"readTime":884,"cover":1548,"listingCover":1549,"image":777},"\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.",[1542,1543,1544,1545,1546,1547],"email extractor","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":1551,"title":1552,"description":1553,"publishedAt":1518,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":1554,"readTime":884,"cover":1560,"listingCover":1561,"image":777},"\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.",[1555,1556,1557,1558,1559],"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":1563,"title":1564,"description":1565,"publishedAt":1566,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1567,"readTime":806,"cover":1573,"listingCover":1574,"image":777},"\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",[1568,1569,1570,1571,1572],"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":1576,"title":1577,"description":1578,"publishedAt":1566,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":1579,"readTime":783,"cover":1585,"listingCover":1586,"image":777},"\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.",[1580,1581,1582,1583,1584],"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":1588,"title":1589,"description":1590,"publishedAt":1566,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1591,"readTime":783,"cover":1596,"listingCover":1597,"image":777},"\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.",[1592,1593,1594,1595,1274],"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":1599,"title":1600,"description":1601,"publishedAt":1566,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1602,"readTime":783,"cover":1607,"listingCover":1608,"image":777},"\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.",[1603,1604,1605,1571,1606],"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":1610,"title":1611,"description":1612,"publishedAt":1566,"author":6,"category":827,"tags":1613,"readTime":1619,"cover":1620,"listingCover":1621,"image":777},"\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.",[1614,1615,1616,1617,1618],"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":1623,"title":1624,"description":1625,"publishedAt":1626,"author":6,"category":1294,"tags":1627,"readTime":783,"cover":1630,"listingCover":1631,"image":777},"\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",[1299,1628,1629,1274],"ad agents","competitor intelligence","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fad-agent-auction-outside-the-account.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fad-agent-auction-outside-the-account-card.png",{"path":1633,"title":1634,"description":1635,"publishedAt":1626,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1636,"readTime":783,"cover":1641,"listingCover":1642,"image":777},"\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.",[1637,1638,982,1639,1640],"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":1644,"title":1645,"description":1646,"publishedAt":1626,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":1647,"readTime":783,"cover":1651,"listingCover":1652,"image":777},"\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.",[1559,1648,1649,1650,1274],"antidetect browser","nodriver","no api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbrowser-automation-without-an-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbrowser-automation-without-an-api-card.png",{"path":1654,"title":1655,"description":1656,"publishedAt":1626,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":1657,"readTime":783,"cover":1663,"listingCover":1664,"image":777},"\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.",[1658,1659,1660,1661,1662],"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":1666,"title":1667,"description":1668,"publishedAt":1626,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":1669,"readTime":783,"cover":1673,"listingCover":1674,"image":777},"\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.",[1670,1671,1672,957],"lead enrichment","forms","progressive profiling","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmid-form-enrichment-fewer-questions.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmid-form-enrichment-fewer-questions-card.png",{"path":1676,"title":1677,"description":1678,"publishedAt":1626,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1679,"readTime":806,"cover":1684,"listingCover":1685,"image":777},"\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.",[1680,1681,1682,1683,1571],"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":1687,"title":1688,"description":1689,"publishedAt":1626,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1690,"readTime":884,"cover":1695,"listingCover":1696,"image":777},"\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.",[1691,1692,1693,1694,1640],"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":1698,"title":1699,"description":1700,"publishedAt":791,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1701,"readTime":884,"cover":1707,"listingCover":1708,"image":777},"\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.",[1702,1703,1704,1705,1706,1275],"brave search api key","brave 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":1710,"title":1711,"description":1712,"publishedAt":791,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1713,"readTime":783,"cover":1717,"listingCover":1718,"image":777},"\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.",[1714,982,1640,1715,1716],"google search url parameters","udm","search operators","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fgoogle-search-url-parameters.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fgoogle-search-url-parameters-card.png",{"path":1720,"title":1721,"description":1722,"publishedAt":791,"author":6,"category":891,"tags":1723,"readTime":884,"cover":1728,"listingCover":1729,"image":777},"\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.",[1724,1725,1726,1415,1727,1264],"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":404,"title":1731,"description":1732,"publishedAt":791,"author":6,"category":891,"tags":1733,"readTime":783,"cover":1735,"listingCover":1736,"image":777},"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.",[1734,1263,1228,1264,327],"tiktok scraper","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-scraper-which-endpoint.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-scraper-which-endpoint-card.png",{"path":1738,"title":1739,"description":1740,"publishedAt":791,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1741,"readTime":783,"cover":1745,"listingCover":1746,"image":777},"\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.",[1742,1743,1594,1744,1595],"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":1748,"title":1749,"description":1750,"publishedAt":1751,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":1752,"readTime":783,"cover":1756,"listingCover":1757,"image":777},"\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",[1753,1191,1274,1754,1755],"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":1759,"title":1760,"description":1761,"publishedAt":1751,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":1762,"readTime":783,"cover":1767,"listingCover":1768,"image":777},"\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.",[1763,1764,1765,1766],"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":1770,"title":1771,"description":1772,"publishedAt":1751,"author":6,"category":1199,"tags":1773,"readTime":806,"cover":1779,"listingCover":1780,"image":777},"\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.",[1774,1775,1776,1777,1778],"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":1782,"title":1783,"description":1784,"publishedAt":1751,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1785,"readTime":783,"cover":1791,"listingCover":1792,"image":777},"\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.",[1786,1787,1788,1789,1790],"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":1794,"title":1795,"description":1796,"publishedAt":1751,"author":6,"category":1199,"tags":1797,"readTime":783,"cover":1801,"listingCover":1802,"image":777},"\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.",[1798,1799,1800,1274],"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":1804,"title":1805,"description":1806,"publishedAt":1807,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":1808,"readTime":783,"cover":1814,"listingCover":1815,"image":777},"\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",[1809,1810,1811,1812,1813],"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":1817,"title":1818,"description":1819,"publishedAt":1807,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1820,"readTime":783,"cover":1825,"listingCover":1826,"image":777},"\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.",[1821,1822,1275,1823,1824],"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":1828,"title":1829,"description":1830,"publishedAt":1807,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1831,"readTime":884,"cover":1837,"listingCover":1838,"image":777},"\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.",[1832,1833,1834,1835,1836],"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":1840,"title":1841,"description":1842,"publishedAt":1807,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1843,"readTime":783,"cover":1847,"listingCover":1848,"image":777},"\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.",[1844,1845,1275,1846,1273],"news scraping","news api","media monitoring","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-news-articles.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-news-articles-card.png",{"path":1850,"title":1851,"description":1852,"publishedAt":1807,"author":6,"category":891,"tags":1853,"readTime":783,"cover":1856,"listingCover":1857,"image":777},"\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.",[1854,1855,1228,327,1264],"youtube scraper","youtube data api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fyoutube-scraper-past-the-quota.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fyoutube-scraper-past-the-quota-card.png",{"path":1859,"title":1860,"description":1861,"publishedAt":1862,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":1863,"readTime":884,"cover":1866,"listingCover":1867,"image":777},"\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",[1864,1559,1274,1572,1865],"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":1869,"title":1870,"description":1871,"publishedAt":1862,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1872,"readTime":884,"cover":1876,"listingCover":1877,"image":777},"\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.",[1873,1874,788,1274,1875],"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":1879,"title":1880,"description":1881,"publishedAt":1862,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1882,"readTime":884,"cover":1886,"listingCover":1887,"image":777},"\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.",[1883,788,1884,1885,1274],"python","beautifulsoup","selenium","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fpython-web-scraping-without-a-scraper.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fpython-web-scraping-without-a-scraper-card.png",{"path":1889,"title":1890,"description":1891,"publishedAt":1862,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1892,"readTime":1619,"cover":1896,"listingCover":1897,"image":777},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fserp-api-for-ai-agents","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.",[1893,1894,1895,982,1273,1275],"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":1899,"title":1900,"description":1901,"publishedAt":1862,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1902,"readTime":884,"cover":1905,"listingCover":1906,"image":777},"\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.",[1903,1904,1595,1274,327],"web scraping tools","no code scraper","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-tools-which-kind.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-tools-which-kind-card.png",{"path":1908,"title":1909,"description":1910,"publishedAt":1911,"author":6,"category":1015,"tags":1912,"readTime":1619,"cover":1917,"listingCover":1918,"image":777},"\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",[1913,1914,1915,1916],"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":1920,"title":1921,"description":1922,"publishedAt":1911,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1923,"readTime":884,"cover":1928,"listingCover":1929,"image":777},"\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.",[1924,1925,1926,1275,1927],"search","web","api","agents","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbing-search-api-retired-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbing-search-api-retired-alternatives-card.png",{"path":1931,"title":1932,"description":1933,"publishedAt":1911,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":1934,"readTime":783,"cover":1938,"listingCover":1939,"image":777},"\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.",[1275,1935,1936,1937,1823],"embeddings","pdf","ocr","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fingest-mixed-documents-llm-embedding.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fingest-mixed-documents-llm-embedding-card.png",{"path":1941,"title":1942,"description":1943,"publishedAt":1911,"author":6,"category":891,"tags":1944,"readTime":884,"cover":1949,"listingCover":1950,"image":777},"\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.",[1945,1946,1926,1947,1948],"instagram","social","creators","engagement","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Finstagram-follower-engagement-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Finstagram-follower-engagement-api-card.png",{"path":1952,"title":1953,"description":1954,"publishedAt":1911,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":1955,"readTime":884,"cover":1961,"listingCover":1962,"image":777},"\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.",[1956,1957,1958,1959,1960],"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":1964,"title":1965,"description":1966,"publishedAt":1911,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":1967,"readTime":884,"cover":1968,"listingCover":1969,"image":777},"\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.",[1958,1926,1959,1274,1755],"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmcp-vs-api-for-ai-agents.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmcp-vs-api-for-ai-agents-card.png",{"path":1971,"title":1972,"description":1973,"publishedAt":1911,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":1974,"readTime":783,"cover":1978,"listingCover":1979,"image":777},"\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.",[1975,1976,1977,1606,1927],"n8n","automation","enrichment","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fn8n-data-layer-scraping-enrichment.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fn8n-data-layer-scraping-enrichment-card.png",{"path":1981,"title":1982,"description":1983,"publishedAt":1911,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":1984,"readTime":884,"cover":1986,"listingCover":1987,"image":777},"\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.",[1985,1956,1959,1958,1960],"openrouter","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fopenrouter-alternatives-after-stripe.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fopenrouter-alternatives-after-stripe-card.png",{"path":1989,"title":1990,"description":1991,"publishedAt":1911,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":1992,"readTime":884,"cover":1996,"listingCover":1997,"image":777},"\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.",[1993,1985,1994,1755,1995],"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":1999,"title":2000,"description":2001,"publishedAt":1911,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":2002,"readTime":884,"cover":2005,"listingCover":2006,"image":777},"\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.",[2003,2004,1298,1274],"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":2008,"title":2009,"description":2010,"publishedAt":1911,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":2011,"readTime":884,"cover":2015,"listingCover":2016,"image":777},"\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.",[2012,1977,1926,2013,2014],"linkedin","sales","leads","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fproxycurl-shutdown-linkedin-data-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fproxycurl-shutdown-linkedin-data-alternatives-card.png",{"path":2018,"title":2019,"description":2020,"publishedAt":1911,"author":6,"category":891,"tags":2021,"readTime":884,"cover":2026,"listingCover":2027,"image":777},"\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.",[2022,2023,2024,2025],"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":2029,"title":2030,"description":2031,"publishedAt":1911,"author":6,"category":891,"tags":2032,"readTime":884,"cover":2033,"listingCover":2034,"image":777},"\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.",[1734,981,2024,2023],"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-scraper-catalogue-audit.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-scraper-catalogue-audit-card.png",{"path":2036,"title":2037,"description":2038,"publishedAt":1911,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":2039,"readTime":1619,"cover":2041,"listingCover":2042,"image":777},"\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.",[1958,2040,1959,1274,1960],"mcp gateway","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-is-an-mcp-gateway.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-is-an-mcp-gateway-card.png",{"path":2044,"title":2045,"description":2046,"publishedAt":1911,"author":6,"category":891,"tags":2047,"readTime":884,"cover":2050,"listingCover":2051,"image":777},"\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.",[2048,2049,1582,946],"twitter scraper","x api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fx-intent-search-social-selling.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fx-intent-search-social-selling-card.png",{"path":781,"title":5,"description":774,"publishedAt":782,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":2053,"readTime":783,"cover":773,"listingCover":778,"image":777},[787,788,789,790],{"path":2055,"title":2056,"description":2057,"publishedAt":782,"author":6,"category":1015,"tags":2058,"readTime":783,"cover":2063,"listingCover":2064,"image":777},"\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.",[2059,2060,2061,2062],"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":2066,"title":2067,"description":2068,"publishedAt":782,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":2069,"readTime":783,"cover":2074,"listingCover":2075,"image":777},"\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.",[2070,2071,2072,2073],"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":2077,"title":2078,"description":2079,"publishedAt":782,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":2080,"readTime":783,"cover":2083,"listingCover":2084,"image":777},"\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.",[1275,1571,2081,2082],"chunking","llm context","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ffree-api-extract-page-content-rag.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ffree-api-extract-page-content-rag-card.png",{"path":2086,"title":2087,"description":2088,"publishedAt":782,"author":6,"category":827,"tags":2089,"readTime":783,"cover":2093,"listingCover":2094,"image":777},"\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.",[2090,2091,327,2092],"google maps scraper","local leads","lead list","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fgoogle-maps-scraper-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fgoogle-maps-scraper-alternatives-card.png",{"path":2096,"title":2097,"description":2098,"publishedAt":782,"author":6,"category":1294,"tags":2099,"readTime":783,"cover":2104,"listingCover":2105,"image":777},"\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.",[2100,2101,2102,2103],"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":2107,"title":2108,"description":2109,"publishedAt":2110,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":2111,"readTime":783,"cover":2113,"listingCover":2114,"image":777},"\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",[1274,2112,1959,1958],"model gateway","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fai-agent-needs-two-integrations.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fai-agent-needs-two-integrations-card.png",{"path":2116,"title":2117,"description":2118,"publishedAt":2110,"author":6,"category":799,"tags":2119,"readTime":783,"cover":2122,"listingCover":2123,"image":777},"\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.",[2120,1274,1958,2121],"api marketplace","tool use","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapi-marketplace-for-ai-agents.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapi-marketplace-for-ai-agents-card.png",{"path":2125,"title":2126,"description":2127,"publishedAt":2110,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":2128,"readTime":783,"cover":2132,"listingCover":2133,"image":777},"\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.",[2129,2130,2131,1131],"business entity search","company registry","sec edgar","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbusiness-entity-search-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbusiness-entity-search-api-card.png",{"path":2135,"title":2136,"description":2137,"publishedAt":2110,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":2138,"readTime":783,"cover":2142,"listingCover":2143,"image":777},"\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.",[788,2139,2140,2141],"cloudflare","proxies","blocked","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fscraper-blocked-what-gets-through.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fscraper-blocked-what-gets-through-card.png",{"path":464,"title":2145,"description":2146,"publishedAt":2110,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":2147,"readTime":783,"cover":2149,"listingCover":2150,"image":777},"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.",[2148,1274,1958,1976],"web scraping api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-api-for-ai-agents.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-api-for-ai-agents-card.png",{"path":2152,"title":2153,"description":2154,"publishedAt":2155,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":2156,"readTime":884,"cover":2162,"listingCover":2163,"image":777},"\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",[2157,2158,2159,2160,2161],"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":2165,"title":2166,"description":2167,"publishedAt":2155,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":2168,"readTime":783,"cover":2172,"listingCover":2173,"image":777},"\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.",[2169,2170,1846,2171],"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":2175,"title":2176,"description":2177,"publishedAt":2155,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":2178,"readTime":884,"cover":2182,"listingCover":2183,"image":777},"\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.",[2179,2180,1128,1367,2181,1811],"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":2185,"title":2186,"description":2187,"publishedAt":2155,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":2188,"readTime":884,"cover":2193,"listingCover":2194,"image":777},"\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.",[2189,2190,1661,1662,2191,2192],"jooble api","jooble","jobs data","gtm","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fjob-postings-api-hiring-signals.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fjob-postings-api-hiring-signals-card.png",{"path":2196,"title":2197,"description":2198,"publishedAt":2155,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":2199,"readTime":783,"cover":2203,"listingCover":2204,"image":777},"\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.",[2200,2201,2202,2192],"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":2206,"title":2207,"description":2208,"publishedAt":2209,"author":6,"category":891,"tags":2210,"readTime":783,"cover":2213,"listingCover":2214,"image":777},"\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",[2211,1228,2212,1945],"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":2216,"title":2217,"description":2218,"publishedAt":2209,"author":6,"category":772,"tags":2219,"readTime":884,"cover":2223,"listingCover":2224,"image":777},"\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. 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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.",[1321,1320,1322,787],"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freddit-scraping-api-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freddit-scraping-api-alternatives-card.png",{"path":2251,"title":2252,"description":2253,"publishedAt":2254,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":2255,"readTime":783,"cover":2258,"listingCover":2259,"image":777},"\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",[2256,2012,2013,2257],"linkedin scraper api","data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-linkedin-scraper-api-2026.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-linkedin-scraper-api-2026-card.png",{"path":2261,"title":2262,"description":2263,"publishedAt":2264,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":2265,"readTime":783,"cover":2270,"listingCover":2271,"image":777},"\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",[2266,2267,2268,2269],"apollo scraper","apollo.io","lead-generation","b2b-data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapollo-scraper.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapollo-scraper-card.png",{"path":480,"title":2273,"description":2274,"publishedAt":2264,"author":6,"category":891,"tags":2275,"readTime":884,"cover":2278,"listingCover":2279,"image":777},"Reddit API in 2026: Licensed Access or a Public-Page Scraper","Reddit closed self-service API access in 2025. 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Which actor fits which job, how to run them without getting blocked, and what two measured runs actually cost.","2026-08-04",[2297,1945,2277,1927],"apify instagram scraper","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapify-instagram-scraper.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapify-instagram-scraper-card.png",{"path":2301,"title":2302,"description":2303,"publishedAt":2304,"author":6,"category":813,"tags":2305,"readTime":884,"cover":2307,"listingCover":2308,"image":777},"\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",[2306,2012,2013,2257],"linkedin outreach","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-linkedin-outreach-tools-2026.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-linkedin-outreach-tools-2026-card.png",{"path":2310,"title":2311,"description":2312,"publishedAt":2313,"author":6,"category":1015,"tags":2314,"readTime":2318,"cover":2319,"listingCover":2320,"image":777},"\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",[2315,2316,2257,2317],"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":2322,"title":2323,"description":2324,"publishedAt":2325,"author":6,"category":1015,"tags":2326,"readTime":1619,"cover":2328,"listingCover":2329,"image":777},"\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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Your agent can now make phone calls for you.","2026-07-05",[1927,2344,2353,2354],"voice","phone","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fyour-claude-code-can-now-make-phone-calls.png",{"path":2357,"title":2358,"description":2359,"publishedAt":2360,"author":777,"category":799,"tags":2361,"readTime":777,"cover":2364,"listingCover":777,"image":777},"\u002Fblog\u002Fintroducing-suzanne-chatgpt-for-3d-models","Introducing\nClaude for 3D models","Suzanne is now available on Monid. Turn any idea into a production-ready 3D model in one prompt.","2026-06-25",[2362,1927,2363],"3d","creative-tools","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fintroducing-suzanne-chatgpt-for-3d-models.png",{"path":2366,"title":2367,"description":2368,"publishedAt":2369,"author":777,"category":799,"tags":2370,"readTime":777,"cover":2373,"listingCover":777,"image":777},"\u002Fblog\u002Fminimax-is-now-available-on-monid","MiniMax is now available on Monid","Create images and music with MiniMax models through Monid.","2026-06-24",[1927,2363,2371,2372],"image-generation","music-generation","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fminimax-is-now-available-on-monid.png",1791431409658]