[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":1834},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-guide-\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fnode-unblocker-what-it-does-not-do":3,"blog-guide-related-\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fnode-unblocker-what-it-does-not-do":867},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":846,"cover":847,"description":848,"draft":849,"extension":850,"image":851,"launchCta":851,"listingCover":852,"meta":853,"navigation":854,"ogImage":851,"path":855,"publishedAt":856,"readTime":857,"seo":858,"stem":859,"tags":860,"toolCategory":806,"updatedAt":856,"__hash__":866},"blogGuides\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fnode-unblocker-what-it-does-not-do.md","Node Unblocker: What It Does, and What It Does Not","Jasper Li",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":821},"minimark",[10,15,77,89,94,97,102,105,108,112,115,119,122,125,140,144,147,151,154,162,166,169,173,176,179,183,271,274,278,281,284,287,294,297,300,304,307,311,320,328,336,340,397,401,407,413,416,422,428,432,437,449,453,495,500,509,513,518,522,545,552,557,565,569,573,695,706,709,713,716,722,728,738,744,747,750,754,757,760,771,775,782,788,797,803,811,817],[11,12,14],"p",{"style":13},"font-size:18px !important;line-height:1.65 !important;margin:0 0 24px;color:inherit;","Copy this line to your agent to fetch a page that is refusing an ordinary request.",[16,17,22],"pre",{"className":18,"code":19,"language":20,"meta":21,"style":21},"language-sh shiki shiki-themes material-theme-lighter material-theme material-theme-palenight","set up https:\u002F\u002Fmonid.ai\u002FSKILL.md and use context.dev \u002Fweb\u002Fscrape\u002Fmarkdown to read a page that blocks plain requests\n","sh","",[23,24,25],"code",{"__ignoreMap":21},[26,27,30,34,38,41,44,47,50,53,56,59,62,65,68,71,74],"span",{"class":28,"line":29},"line",1,[26,31,33],{"class":32},"s2Zo4","set",[26,35,37],{"class":36},"sfazB"," up",[26,39,40],{"class":36}," https:\u002F\u002Fmonid.ai\u002FSKILL.md",[26,42,43],{"class":36}," and",[26,45,46],{"class":36}," use",[26,48,49],{"class":36}," context.dev",[26,51,52],{"class":36}," \u002Fweb\u002Fscrape\u002Fmarkdown",[26,54,55],{"class":36}," to",[26,57,58],{"class":36}," read",[26,60,61],{"class":36}," a",[26,63,64],{"class":36}," page",[26,66,67],{"class":36}," that",[26,69,70],{"class":36}," blocks",[26,72,73],{"class":36}," plain",[26,75,76],{"class":36}," requests\n",[11,78,79,80,88],{},"A lot of the traffic searching for node-unblocker arrives from a scraping problem, and node-unblocker does not solve scraping problems. It is a proxy you run on your own server, which means requests still leave from your own address. It changes the route the traffic takes through your code; it does not change the thing that got you refused. The project is honest about this in its own README, and this guide is about the gap between what it is and what people hope it is, running through ",[81,82,87],"a",{"href":83,"rel":84},"https:\u002F\u002Fmonid.ai",[85,86],"noopener","noreferrer","Monid",", the OpenRouter for agent tools.",[90,91,93],"h2",{"id":92},"what-is-an-unblocker","What is an unblocker?",[11,95,96],{},"Two very different products go by the name, and the search results mix them freely.",[98,99,101],"h3",{"id":100},"a-hosted-web-proxy-which-is-what-node-unblocker-is","A hosted web proxy, which is what node-unblocker is",[11,103,104],{},"An open source Node.js library that fetches a remote page on your behalf and rewrites it so the links, cookies and relative paths keep working when served from your domain. You install it in an Express app or run it standalone. Its original purpose was getting around network-level censorship: a school or office blocks a domain, you run this somewhere they do not block, and you browse through it.",[11,106,107],{},"It is a genuine and well-built tool for that job. The rewriting is the hard part and it does it well: pretty URLs so relative links resolve, referrer checks and redirects for root-relative links, cookie paths adjusted to sit under the proxy, and cookies maintained across protocol and subdomain switches.",[98,109,111],{"id":110},"a-commercial-unblocking-service-which-is-a-different-thing","A commercial unblocking service, which is a different thing",[11,113,114],{},"Sold under names like web unlocker, this is infrastructure: a large pool of exit addresses, browser rendering, and automated handling of the challenges a defended site presents. You send a URL, it returns the page. The proxy pool and the anti-bot handling are the product.",[98,116,118],{"id":117},"why-the-confusion-costs-people-a-weekend","Why the confusion costs people a weekend",[11,120,121],{},"The names are almost identical and the products solve opposite halves. One changes where the request appears to come from. The other changes nothing about where it comes from and instead makes a fetched page usable inside your own site.",[11,123,124],{},"If your problem is \"my office blocks this domain\", the first is right. If your problem is \"the site returns 403 to my scraper\", the first will return the same 403 through one more hop.",[126,127,128],"blockquote",{},[11,129,130,131,135,136],{},"📖 ",[132,133,134],"strong",{},"See also"," ",[81,137,139],{"href":138},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fscraper-blocked-what-gets-through","Your Scraper Is Blocked: What Actually Gets Through in 2026",[90,141,143],{"id":142},"why-does-hosting-your-own-proxy-not-unblock-anything","Why does hosting your own proxy not unblock anything?",[11,145,146],{},"Because the thing being refused is your address, and running software on that address does not change it.",[98,148,150],{"id":149},"the-request-still-leaves-from-your-server","The request still leaves from your server",[11,152,153],{},"Walk the path. Your code calls your proxy. Your proxy, running on your machine, calls the target. The target sees a request from your machine's IP, with whatever reputation that IP has. Adding a hop inside your own infrastructure changes the source address by exactly nothing.",[11,155,156,157,161],{},"If that machine is a cloud instance, and it almost always is, the address is a datacentre address. That is the single easiest category of traffic for a target to classify and refuse, and it is refused before anything looks at your headers. The economics of buying a better address are worked through in ",[81,158,160],{"href":159},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fdo-ai-agents-need-a-rotating-proxy","Do You Still Need a Rotating Proxy in 2026?",".",[98,163,165],{"id":164},"it-can-make-things-marginally-worse","It can make things marginally worse",[11,167,168],{},"Two ways, both small but real. A proxy adds latency, and unusual timing is one of the signals defended sites look at. And a self-hosted proxy usually presents a default client fingerprint, which is more distinctive than a browser's, not less.",[98,170,172],{"id":171},"what-the-search-volume-is-actually-asking","What the search volume is actually asking",[11,174,175],{},"Thirteen hundred searches a month at difficulty 7 for a package name is not thirteen hundred people evaluating Express middleware. A good share are arriving from \"how do I get past this block\", finding a package with \"unblocker\" in the name, and reasonably assuming it does what the name says.",[11,177,178],{},"That is the honest finding here, and it is not a criticism of the project. It is a name doing work the code does not.",[98,180,182],{"id":181},"hosted-proxy-vs-managed-fetch-what-actually-differs","Hosted proxy vs managed fetch: what actually differs",[184,185,186,202],"table",{},[187,188,189],"thead",{},[190,191,192,196,199],"tr",{},[193,194,195],"th",{},"Aspect",[193,197,198],{},"node-unblocker",[193,200,201],{},"A managed fetch endpoint",[203,204,205,217,228,238,249,260],"tbody",{},[190,206,207,211,214],{},[208,209,210],"td",{},"Where requests appear from",[208,212,213],{},"Your server",[208,215,216],{},"The provider's pool",[190,218,219,222,225],{},[208,220,221],{},"Handles anti-bot challenges",[208,223,224],{},"No",[208,226,227],{},"Yes, on the better ones",[190,229,230,233,235],{},[208,231,232],{},"Renders JavaScript",[208,234,224],{},[208,236,237],{},"Yes",[190,239,240,243,246],{},[208,241,242],{},"Cost when a request is refused",[208,244,245],{},"Your compute, wasted",[208,247,248],{},"Not billed, on the better ones",[190,250,251,254,257],{},[208,252,253],{},"What you operate",[208,255,256],{},"A server and the library",[208,258,259],{},"Nothing",[190,261,262,265,268],{},[208,263,264],{},"Good for",[208,266,267],{},"Serving a page inside your own app",[208,269,270],{},"Reading a page that refuses you",[11,272,273],{},"The first row is the whole comparison. Everything else follows from it.",[90,275,277],{"id":276},"which-sites-does-node-unblocker-actually-fail-on","Which sites does node-unblocker actually fail on?",[11,279,280],{},"Its own README answers this, which is the fairest source there is, and the answer is unusually specific.",[11,282,283],{},"Reading the project documentation on 2026-08-30, it states that more advanced websites including Roblox, Discord, YouTube and Instagram do not currently work, and that there is no timeframe for when they might. It separately notes that OAuth login forms and anything using postMessage, naming Google and Facebook, are not likely to work out of the box.",[11,285,286],{},"That list is worth reading twice if you arrived here from a scraping problem, because it is most of the sites people want to scrape.",[11,288,289,290,161],{},"The same wall shows up whenever a page assembles itself in the browser rather than arriving as a document, which is the failure mode taken apart in ",[81,291,293],{"href":292},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ffree-api-extract-page-content-rag","A Free API to Extract Page Content for RAG",[11,295,296],{},"The reason is not that the maintainers gave up. It is that rewriting a modern single-page application is a much harder problem than rewriting a document: the page assembles itself in the browser from many requests, some of them to origins the proxy never sees, and postMessage-based flows depend on origin checks that a proxy necessarily breaks.",[11,298,299],{},"So the limitation is structural rather than a missing feature, which also means it is not going to be fixed by waiting.",[90,301,303],{"id":302},"how-do-you-get-a-page-that-is-refusing-you","How do you get a page that is refusing you?",[11,305,306],{},"Three steps, two of them free, and the first one is a diagnosis rather than a fix.",[98,308,310],{"id":309},"for-agents","For agents",[11,312,313,314,319],{},"Grab an API key at ",[81,315,318],{"href":316,"rel":317},"https:\u002F\u002Fapp.monid.ai\u002F",[85,86],"app.monid.ai",", then paste this to your agent and hand it the key:",[16,321,326],{"className":322,"code":324,"language":325,"meta":21},[323],"language-text","set up https:\u002F\u002Fmonid.ai\u002FSKILL.md\n","text",[23,327,324],{"__ignoreMap":21},[11,329,330,331,161],{},"It learns the whole discover, inspect, run workflow itself. More in the ",[81,332,335],{"href":333,"rel":334},"https:\u002F\u002Fmonid.ai\u002Fdocs\u002Fguide\u002Fquickstart-skill",[85,86],"agent quickstart",[98,337,339],{"id":338},"for-humans","For humans",[16,341,345],{"className":342,"code":343,"language":344,"meta":21,"style":21},"language-bash shiki shiki-themes material-theme-lighter material-theme material-theme-palenight","npm install -g @monid-ai\u002Fcli\nmonid keys add -k \u003Cyour-api-key> -l main\n","bash",[23,346,347,362],{"__ignoreMap":21},[26,348,349,353,356,359],{"class":28,"line":29},[26,350,352],{"class":351},"sBMFI","npm",[26,354,355],{"class":36}," install",[26,357,358],{"class":36}," -g",[26,360,361],{"class":36}," @monid-ai\u002Fcli\n",[26,363,365,368,371,374,377,381,384,388,391,394],{"class":28,"line":364},2,[26,366,367],{"class":351},"monid",[26,369,370],{"class":36}," keys",[26,372,373],{"class":36}," add",[26,375,376],{"class":36}," -k",[26,378,380],{"class":379},"sMK4o"," \u003C",[26,382,383],{"class":36},"your-api-ke",[26,385,387],{"class":386},"sTEyZ","y",[26,389,390],{"class":379},">",[26,392,393],{"class":36}," -l",[26,395,396],{"class":36}," main\n",[98,398,400],{"id":399},"step-1-work-out-what-is-actually-refusing-you","Step 1. Work out what is actually refusing you",[11,402,403,406],{},[132,404,405],{},"What it does."," Separates three problems that produce similar symptoms and have different fixes.",[11,408,409,412],{},[132,410,411],{},"The call."," No endpoint. Read the response you are getting.",[11,414,415],{},"A 403 or a challenge page means you were classified, and the fix is the exit address. A 200 with an empty body means the content is assembled by JavaScript, and the fix is rendering. A 429 means you are being rate limited, and the fix is pacing rather than disguise.",[11,417,418,421],{},[132,419,420],{},"What comes back."," The right next step. Reaching for a proxy when the problem was rendering is the most common wasted afternoon in this category.",[11,423,424,427],{},[132,425,426],{},"What it costs."," Nothing, and skipping it is how people end up here.",[98,429,431],{"id":430},"step-2-fetch-through-infrastructure-that-includes-the-address","Step 2. Fetch through infrastructure that includes the address",[11,433,434,436],{},[132,435,405],{}," Sends the request from somewhere the target accepts, renders it, and hands back text.",[11,438,439,135,442,448],{},[132,440,441],{},"The endpoints.",[81,443,445],{"href":444},"\u002Ftools\u002Fweb-extraction",[23,446,447],{},"context.dev\u002Fweb\u002Fscrape\u002Fmarkdown",", billed per call.",[11,450,451],{},[132,452,411],{},[16,454,456],{"className":342,"code":455,"language":344,"meta":21,"style":21},"monid run -p context.dev -e \u002Fweb\u002Fscrape\u002Fmarkdown -w \\\n  --query '{\"url\": \"https:\u002F\u002Fexample.com\u002Fpage\", \"useMainContentOnly\": true}'\n",[23,457,458,481],{"__ignoreMap":21},[26,459,460,462,465,468,470,473,475,478],{"class":28,"line":29},[26,461,367],{"class":351},[26,463,464],{"class":36}," run",[26,466,467],{"class":36}," -p",[26,469,49],{"class":36},[26,471,472],{"class":36}," -e",[26,474,52],{"class":36},[26,476,477],{"class":36}," -w",[26,479,480],{"class":386}," \\\n",[26,482,483,486,489,492],{"class":28,"line":364},[26,484,485],{"class":36},"  --query",[26,487,488],{"class":379}," '",[26,490,491],{"class":36},"{\"url\": \"https:\u002F\u002Fexample.com\u002Fpage\", \"useMainContentOnly\": true}",[26,493,494],{"class":379},"'\n",[11,496,497,499],{},[132,498,420],{}," Clean Markdown plus a metadata object with the title, canonical URL, language, a parsed heading tree, Open Graph and the page's JSON-LD when it publishes any.",[11,501,502,504,505,508],{},[132,503,426],{}," A fraction of a cent per successful call. The pricing note on ",[23,506,507],{},"inspect",", read 2026-08-30, states that JavaScript rendering, anti-bot handling and premium proxies are included, and that failed or blocked requests are not billed. That last clause is the one that matters here: on a self-hosted proxy a refusal still costs you the compute and the time.",[98,510,512],{"id":511},"step-3-assert-on-content-not-on-status","Step 3. Assert on content, not on status",[11,514,515,517],{},[132,516,405],{}," Catches the failure mode that has no error attached to it.",[11,519,520],{},[132,521,411],{},[16,523,527],{"className":524,"code":525,"language":526,"meta":21,"style":21},"language-python shiki shiki-themes material-theme-lighter material-theme material-theme-palenight","md = result.get(\"markdown\") or \"\"\nif len(md) \u003C 200:\n    log_and_retry(url)\n","python",[23,528,529,534,539],{"__ignoreMap":21},[26,530,531],{"class":28,"line":29},[26,532,533],{},"md = result.get(\"markdown\") or \"\"\n",[26,535,536],{"class":28,"line":364},[26,537,538],{},"if len(md) \u003C 200:\n",[26,540,542],{"class":28,"line":541},3,[26,543,544],{},"    log_and_retry(url)\n",[11,546,547,548,161],{},"A worked version of turning any URL into usable text, including what to keep and what to throw away, is in ",[81,549,551],{"href":550},"\u002Fblog\u002Fany-url-to-llm-ready-markdown","Any URL to LLM-Ready Markdown",[11,553,554,556],{},[132,555,420],{}," A count of refusals you can alert on. A blocked fetch frequently arrives as a well-formed 200 containing a challenge page, and a pipeline checking status codes records it as a success.",[126,558,559],{},[11,560,130,561,135,563],{},[132,562,134],{},[81,564,160],{"href":159},[566,567],"skill-prompt",{"prompt":568},"fetch this URL as markdown, and if fewer than 200 characters come back tell me whether it was a challenge page, an empty render, or a rate limit",[90,570,572],{"id":571},"which-endpoint-should-i-use-for-which-job","Which endpoint should I use for which job?",[184,574,575,597],{},[187,576,577],{},[190,578,579,582,585,588,591,594],{},[193,580,581],{},"Endpoint",[193,583,584],{},"What it does",[193,586,587],{},"Input",[193,589,590],{},"Output",[193,592,593],{},"Best for",[193,595,596],{},"Billing",[203,598,599,622,646,670],{},[190,600,601,607,610,613,616,619],{},[208,602,603],{},[81,604,605],{"href":444},[23,606,447],{},[208,608,609],{},"One page, rendered and unblocked",[208,611,612],{},"A URL",[208,614,615],{},"Markdown, metadata, JSON-LD",[208,617,618],{},"A page refusing plain requests",[208,620,621],{},"Per call, misses free",[190,623,624,631,634,637,640,643],{},[208,625,626],{},[81,627,628],{"href":444},[23,629,630],{},"context.dev\u002Fweb\u002Fcrawl",[208,632,633],{},"A whole site the same way",[208,635,636],{},"Start URL, depth, cap",[208,638,639],{},"Markdown per page",[208,641,642],{},"A section rather than a page",[208,644,645],{},"Per page returned",[190,647,648,655,658,661,664,667],{},[208,649,650],{},[81,651,652],{"href":444},[23,653,654],{},"context.dev\u002Fweb\u002Fextract",[208,656,657],{},"Rendered page to typed JSON",[208,659,660],{},"URL plus a JSON Schema",[208,662,663],{},"Typed fields",[208,665,666],{},"You want fields, not prose",[208,668,669],{},"Per result",[190,671,672,680,683,686,689,692],{},[208,673,674],{},[81,675,677],{"href":676},"\u002Ftools\u002Fagents",[23,678,679],{},"x402.browserbase.com\u002Fbrowser\u002Fsession\u002Fcreate",[208,681,682],{},"A remote browser you drive",[208,684,685],{},"None",[208,687,688],{},"Session id, connect URL",[208,690,691],{},"The page needs interaction",[208,693,694],{},"Per call, then time",[11,696,697,698,701,702,161],{},"Every row was verified with ",[23,699,700],{},"monid inspect"," on 2026-08-30. The table gives billing shape rather than figures; shape drives design and current numbers live on ",[81,703,705],{"href":704},"\u002Ftools","monid.ai\u002Ftools",[11,707,708],{},"The clause worth carrying into a comparison with any self-hosted setup is that failures are not billed. A proxy you run charges you for refusals in compute and in wall-clock time whether or not you notice, and on a defended target refusals are most of the traffic.",[90,710,712],{"id":711},"when-should-you-use-node-unblocker","When should you use node-unblocker?",[11,714,715],{},"Three cases where it is the right tool and nothing here applies.",[11,717,718,721],{},[132,719,720],{},"You are getting around a network-level block."," Its original purpose, and it works. A domain blocked by a school, an office or a country, and a server you control somewhere that is not blocked. This is the job it was built for.",[11,723,724,727],{},[132,725,726],{},"You need to serve a third-party page inside your own application."," The rewriting is genuinely the hard part of that and this library does it properly: relative links, cookie scoping, subdomain switches. Writing that yourself is a bad week.",[11,729,730,733,734,161],{},[132,731,732],{},"You are building the fetch layer deliberately."," If owning the whole stack is the point rather than an accident, the four kinds of tool and who operates each are sorted in ",[81,735,737],{"href":736},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fweb-scraping-tools-which-kind","Web Scraping Tools: Which Kind Do You Actually Need?",[11,739,740,743],{},[132,741,742],{},"You have a CORS problem."," A browser refusing a cross-origin request is not a scraping problem and a small self-hosted proxy is a completely reasonable answer to it. Reaching for a commercial fetch service here would be over-buying.",[11,745,746],{},"Where it fits badly is the case that brings most of its search traffic: a defended target refusing your automated requests. It cannot help with that, its README says which sites it cannot help with, and no amount of configuration changes the address the request leaves from.",[11,748,749],{},"And the disclosure: you are reading Monid's blog and we sell per-call access to fetch endpoints, so we have an interest in you concluding that a hosted answer is better. On the three cases above it is not, and we would rather say so than have you find out after deploying.",[90,751,753],{"id":752},"conclusion","Conclusion",[11,755,756],{},"node-unblocker does what it says and the name says something slightly different from what a lot of its searchers want. It is a proxy you host, so requests leave from your address, and a target refusing that address will refuse it through one more hop just as readily. Its own documentation lists the major sites it cannot handle, and the reason is structural rather than a missing feature.",[11,758,759],{},"The general form is worth keeping past this one package. When a request is refused, ask which of three things happened before choosing a tool: you were classified, the page was never rendered, or you were paced. Only the first is an address problem, and it is the only one a proxy of any kind addresses. Guessing costs an afternoon and usually the wrong dependency.",[11,761,762,763,766,767,161],{},"Free next step: run ",[23,764,765],{},"monid inspect -p context.dev -e \u002Fweb\u002Fscrape\u002Fmarkdown"," and read the pricing note. It is free, and the line about blocked requests not being billed is the one to compare against anything you would host yourself. Start at ",[81,768,770],{"href":83,"rel":769},[85,86],"monid.ai",[90,772,774],{"id":773},"faq","FAQ",[776,777,779],"faq-item",{"q":778},"Is node-unblocker good for fixing CORS errors?",[11,780,781],{},"Yes, and this is probably its best modern use. A browser refusing a cross-origin request is a policy in the browser rather than a block by the target, so a small proxy on your own origin genuinely resolves it and nothing about the target's opinion of you is involved. Buying a commercial fetch service for a CORS problem is over-buying by a wide margin.",[776,783,785],{"q":784},"What licence is node-unblocker under?",[11,786,787],{},"AGPL-3.0, with commercial licensing available from the author. That is worth checking before it goes into a product, because AGPL's network clause reaches software you offer as a service rather than only software you distribute, which surprises people at deploy time rather than at install time. If that is a problem for your company, the commercial option exists and the conversation is with the maintainer.",[776,789,791],{"q":790},"Can you put rotating proxies underneath node-unblocker?",[11,792,793,794,161],{},"You can, and at that point the proxies are doing the work and the library is doing the rewriting, which is a reasonable division if you also need the rewriting. If you do not, you have built a more complicated version of a fetch endpoint and you own both halves. The economics of buying the exit address rather than renting the pipe are worked through in ",[81,795,796],{"href":159},"the rotating proxy guide",[776,798,800],{"q":799},"What is the difference between an unblocker and a web unlocker?",[11,801,802],{},"Almost everything, despite the names. An unblocker in the node-unblocker sense is a proxy you host that rewrites pages so they work when served from your domain. A web unlocker is a commercial service that supplies the exit addresses, the browser rendering and the challenge handling. The first changes how a page behaves inside your app; the second changes whether you get the page at all.",[804,805,808],"tool-cta",{"category":806,"title":807},"web-extraction","Read the page that is refusing you",[11,809,810],{},"Discover the endpoint, read its schema and current price for free, then run it. 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It changes the code path, not what refused you. Its own README lists the sites it cannot handle.",false,"md",null,"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fnode-unblocker-what-it-does-not-do-card.png",{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fnode-unblocker-what-it-does-not-do","2026-08-30","10 min",{"title":5,"description":848},"blog\u002Fguides\u002Fnode-unblocker-what-it-does-not-do",[861,862,863,864,865],"node unblocker","web proxy","blocked scraper","nodejs","web extraction","BbDdGZH7-Aha55uThaIW1ktCDLQp9Kc2xJCXZBFt_i0",[868,883,896,910,922,934,947,959,972,984,998,1010,1022,1034,1046,1058,1070,1081,1092,1103,1115,1125,1137,1148,1150,1161,1173,1183,1193,1202,1212,1224,1236,1249,1260,1270,1283,1294,1306,1317,1326,1336,1344,1353,1360,1367,1377,1388,1398,1409,1421,1428,1438,1446,1454,1464,1474,1485,1493,1502,1512,1523,1533,1543,1551,1561,1572,1581,1590,1601,1609,1617,1628,1638,1648,1656,1666,1676,1684,1693,1701,1711,1721,1733,1742,1752,1761,1770,1781,1790,1799,1807,1816,1825],{"path":869,"title":870,"description":871,"publishedAt":872,"author":6,"category":873,"tags":874,"readTime":880,"cover":881,"listingCover":882,"image":851},"\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","Social data",[875,876,877,878,879],"instagram engagement rate","follower count accuracy","influencer vetting","social data","instagram api","11 min","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fare-instagram-engagement-trackers-accurate.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fare-instagram-engagement-trackers-accurate-card.png",{"path":884,"title":885,"description":886,"publishedAt":872,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":888,"readTime":880,"cover":894,"listingCover":895,"image":851},"\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.","Sales & enrichment",[889,890,891,892,893],"spam traps","email bounce rate","email verification","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":897,"title":898,"description":899,"publishedAt":872,"author":6,"category":900,"tags":901,"readTime":907,"cover":908,"listingCover":909,"image":851},"\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.","Product",[902,903,904,905,906],"rate limiting","retry backoff","429 too many requests","api reliability","concurrency","12 min","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Frate-limit-calls-to-a-third-party-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Frate-limit-calls-to-a-third-party-api-card.png",{"path":911,"title":912,"description":913,"publishedAt":872,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":914,"readTime":880,"cover":920,"listingCover":921,"image":851},"\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.",[915,916,917,918,919],"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":923,"title":924,"description":925,"publishedAt":872,"author":6,"category":900,"tags":926,"readTime":907,"cover":932,"listingCover":933,"image":851},"\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.",[927,928,929,930,931],"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":935,"title":936,"description":937,"publishedAt":938,"author":6,"category":900,"tags":939,"readTime":907,"cover":945,"listingCover":946,"image":851},"\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",[940,941,942,943,944],"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":948,"title":949,"description":950,"publishedAt":938,"author":6,"category":846,"tags":951,"readTime":880,"cover":957,"listingCover":958,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ffind-all-urls-on-a-domain","Find All URLs on a Domain: Why the Sitemap Route Usually Stops","Four domains, one sitemap endpoint. Three returned an index and no URL count at all. A sitemap gives you a map of a site, not a list of its pages.",[952,953,954,955,956],"find all urls on a domain","sitemap parser","site crawl","url discovery","seo audit","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ffind-all-urls-on-a-domain.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ffind-all-urls-on-a-domain-card.png",{"path":960,"title":961,"description":962,"publishedAt":938,"author":6,"category":963,"tags":964,"readTime":907,"cover":970,"listingCover":971,"image":851},"\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.","Local data",[965,966,967,968,969],"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":973,"title":974,"description":975,"publishedAt":938,"author":6,"category":900,"tags":976,"readTime":880,"cover":982,"listingCover":983,"image":851},"\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.",[977,978,979,980,981],"simply wall st api","stock fundamentals api","income statement api","financial data","graphql","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fsimply-wall-st-graphql-api-fundamentals.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fsimply-wall-st-graphql-api-fundamentals-card.png",{"path":985,"title":986,"description":987,"publishedAt":988,"author":6,"category":989,"tags":990,"readTime":880,"cover":996,"listingCover":997,"image":851},"\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","Ecommerce",[991,992,993,994,995],"amazon asin scraper","asin lookup","ecommerce data","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":999,"title":1000,"description":1001,"publishedAt":988,"author":6,"category":900,"tags":1002,"readTime":907,"cover":1008,"listingCover":1009,"image":851},"\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.",[1003,1004,1005,1006,1007],"datacenter proxies vs residential","proxy types","rotating proxies","web scraping","geolocation","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fdatacenter-proxies-vs-residential.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fdatacenter-proxies-vs-residential-card.png",{"path":1011,"title":1012,"description":1013,"publishedAt":988,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":1014,"readTime":880,"cover":1020,"listingCover":1021,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fextracting-leadership-contact-information","Extracting Leadership Contact Information Without Paying to Look","Hunter's multi-domain search returned 404,695 matching executives for free, names masked and titles visible. You pay only for the addresses you choose.",[1015,1016,1017,1018,1019],"leadership contact information","executive contact data","decision maker search","hunter io","b2b prospecting","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fextracting-leadership-contact-information.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fextracting-leadership-contact-information-card.png",{"path":1023,"title":1024,"description":1025,"publishedAt":988,"author":6,"category":900,"tags":1026,"readTime":907,"cover":1032,"listingCover":1033,"image":851},"\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.",[1027,1028,1029,1030,1031],"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":1035,"title":1036,"description":1037,"publishedAt":1038,"author":6,"category":846,"tags":1039,"readTime":857,"cover":1044,"listingCover":1045,"image":851},"\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",[1040,1041,1042,865,1043],"c# web scraping","htmlagilitypack","dotnet","playwright","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fc-sharp-web-scraping-without-the-stack.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fc-sharp-web-scraping-without-the-stack-card.png",{"path":1047,"title":1048,"description":1049,"publishedAt":1038,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":1050,"readTime":880,"cover":1056,"listingCover":1057,"image":851},"\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. 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What differs is who owns the parser when the page changes, and whether anyone promised you anything.",[1063,1064,1065,1066,1067],"web scraping vs api","data acquisition","buy vs build","scraping api","ai agents","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-vs-api-wrong-question.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-vs-api-wrong-question-card.png",{"path":1071,"title":1072,"description":1073,"publishedAt":1038,"author":6,"category":846,"tags":1074,"readTime":880,"cover":1079,"listingCover":1080,"image":851},"\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.",[1075,1076,1077,865,1078],"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":1082,"title":1083,"description":1084,"publishedAt":1038,"author":6,"category":963,"tags":1085,"readTime":880,"cover":1090,"listingCover":1091,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fzillow-scraper-what-the-listing-carries","Zillow Scraper: What One Listing Record Carries","A live search returns zpid, unformatted price, beds and the detail URL. Five endpoints split by intent, and the sold one is the underrated half.",[1086,1087,967,1088,1089],"zillow scraper","real estate api","local data","listings","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fzillow-scraper-what-the-listing-carries.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fzillow-scraper-what-the-listing-carries-card.png",{"path":1093,"title":1094,"description":1095,"publishedAt":856,"author":6,"category":1096,"tags":1097,"readTime":880,"cover":1101,"listingCover":1102,"image":851},"\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.","Ads intelligence",[1098,1099,1100,1067],"paid search","ad agents","competitor intelligence","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fad-agent-auction-outside-the-account.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fad-agent-auction-outside-the-account-card.png",{"path":1104,"title":1105,"description":1106,"publishedAt":856,"author":6,"category":846,"tags":1107,"readTime":880,"cover":1113,"listingCover":1114,"image":851},"\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.",[1108,1109,1110,1111,1112],"bing serp tracker","bing rank tracking","serp api","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":1116,"title":1117,"description":1118,"publishedAt":856,"author":6,"category":900,"tags":1119,"readTime":880,"cover":1123,"listingCover":1124,"image":851},"\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.",[1031,1120,1121,1122,1067],"antidetect browser","nodriver","no api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbrowser-automation-without-an-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbrowser-automation-without-an-api-card.png",{"path":1126,"title":1127,"description":1128,"publishedAt":856,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":1129,"readTime":880,"cover":1135,"listingCover":1136,"image":851},"\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.",[1130,1131,1132,1133,1134],"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":1138,"title":1139,"description":1140,"publishedAt":856,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":1141,"readTime":880,"cover":1146,"listingCover":1147,"image":851},"\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.",[1142,1143,1144,1145],"lead enrichment","forms","progressive profiling","workflow automation","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmid-form-enrichment-fewer-questions.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmid-form-enrichment-fewer-questions-card.png",{"path":855,"title":5,"description":848,"publishedAt":856,"author":6,"category":846,"tags":1149,"readTime":857,"cover":847,"listingCover":852,"image":851},[861,862,863,864,865],{"path":1151,"title":1152,"description":1153,"publishedAt":856,"author":6,"category":846,"tags":1154,"readTime":880,"cover":1159,"listingCover":1160,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fserp-history-track-the-shape","SERP History: Track the Page's Shape, Not Just Your Rank","A flat position line hides the month an AI Overview appeared and took the clicks. We have 45 keywords on page one and zero clicks. Here is what to record.",[1155,1156,1157,1112,1158],"serp history","paa seo","ai overview","serp features","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fserp-history-track-the-shape.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fserp-history-track-the-shape-card.png",{"path":1162,"title":1163,"description":1164,"publishedAt":1165,"author":6,"category":846,"tags":1166,"readTime":880,"cover":1171,"listingCover":1172,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fbrave-search-api-what-you-can-keep","Brave Search API: Check What You Are Allowed to Keep","An independent index at a fair price, with one clause that decides whether it fits: result storage is granted per plan, and most builds need to store.","2026-08-27",[1167,1168,1169,1170,1112],"brave search api","search api","independent index","rag","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbrave-search-api-what-you-can-keep.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbrave-search-api-what-you-can-keep-card.png",{"path":1174,"title":1175,"description":1176,"publishedAt":1165,"author":6,"category":846,"tags":1177,"readTime":880,"cover":1181,"listingCover":1182,"image":851},"\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.",[1178,1110,1112,1179,1180],"google search url parameters","udm","search operators","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fgoogle-search-url-parameters.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fgoogle-search-url-parameters-card.png",{"path":1184,"title":1185,"description":1186,"publishedAt":1165,"author":6,"category":873,"tags":1187,"readTime":880,"cover":1191,"listingCover":1192,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Finstagram-api-which-one-in-2026","What Is the Best Instagram API in 2026?","Four products answer to the name: Meta's Graph API, the private mobile API, hosted actors, metered endpoints. One question decides which.",[879,1188,878,1189,1190],"instagram graph api","tikhub","apify","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Finstagram-api-which-one-in-2026.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Finstagram-api-which-one-in-2026-card.png",{"path":1194,"title":1195,"description":1196,"publishedAt":1165,"author":6,"category":873,"tags":1197,"readTime":880,"cover":1200,"listingCover":1201,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ftiktok-scraper-which-endpoint","TikTok Scraper: Which Endpoint for Which Question?","Profiles, videos, comments and search are four jobs with four cost curves. And the creator arrives nested inside every post, which changes the design.",[1198,1199,878,1189,1190],"tiktok scraper","tiktok api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-scraper-which-endpoint.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-scraper-which-endpoint-card.png",{"path":1203,"title":1204,"description":1205,"publishedAt":1165,"author":6,"category":846,"tags":1206,"readTime":880,"cover":1210,"listingCover":1211,"image":851},"\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.",[1207,1208,1065,1209,1066],"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":1213,"title":1214,"description":1215,"publishedAt":1216,"author":6,"category":900,"tags":1217,"readTime":880,"cover":1222,"listingCover":1223,"image":851},"\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",[1218,1219,1067,1220,1221],"bright data mcp","mcp server","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":1225,"title":1226,"description":1227,"publishedAt":1216,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":1228,"readTime":880,"cover":1234,"listingCover":1235,"image":851},"\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.",[1229,1230,1231,1232,1233],"clay alternatives","waterfall enrichment","lead enrichment api","data enrichment","gtm","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fclay-alternatives-waterfall-enrichment.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fclay-alternatives-waterfall-enrichment-card.png",{"path":1237,"title":1238,"description":1239,"publishedAt":1216,"author":6,"category":1240,"tags":1241,"readTime":857,"cover":1247,"listingCover":1248,"image":851},"\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.","Generative media",[1242,1243,1244,1245,1246],"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":1250,"title":1251,"description":1252,"publishedAt":1216,"author":6,"category":846,"tags":1253,"readTime":880,"cover":1258,"listingCover":1259,"image":851},"\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.",[1254,1255,1256,1257,1168],"rank tracking api","bing rank tracker","serp tracking","seo api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Frank-tracking-api-store-the-position.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Frank-tracking-api-store-the-position-card.png",{"path":1261,"title":1262,"description":1263,"publishedAt":1216,"author":6,"category":1240,"tags":1264,"readTime":880,"cover":1268,"listingCover":1269,"image":851},"\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.",[1265,1266,1267,1067],"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":1271,"title":1272,"description":1273,"publishedAt":1274,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":1275,"readTime":880,"cover":1281,"listingCover":1282,"image":851},"\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",[1276,1277,1278,1279,1280],"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":1284,"title":1285,"description":1286,"publishedAt":1274,"author":6,"category":846,"tags":1287,"readTime":880,"cover":1292,"listingCover":1293,"image":851},"\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.",[1288,1289,1170,1290,1291],"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":1295,"title":1296,"description":1297,"publishedAt":1274,"author":6,"category":846,"tags":1298,"readTime":907,"cover":1304,"listingCover":1305,"image":851},"\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.",[1299,1300,1301,1302,1303],"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":1307,"title":1308,"description":1309,"publishedAt":1274,"author":6,"category":846,"tags":1310,"readTime":880,"cover":1315,"listingCover":1316,"image":851},"\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.",[1311,1312,1170,1313,1314],"news scraping","news api","media monitoring","web search","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-news-articles.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-news-articles-card.png",{"path":1318,"title":1319,"description":1320,"publishedAt":1274,"author":6,"category":873,"tags":1321,"readTime":880,"cover":1324,"listingCover":1325,"image":851},"\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.",[1322,1323,878,1190,1189],"youtube scraper","youtube data api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fyoutube-scraper-past-the-quota.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fyoutube-scraper-past-the-quota-card.png",{"path":1327,"title":1328,"description":1329,"publishedAt":1330,"author":6,"category":900,"tags":1331,"readTime":907,"cover":1334,"listingCover":1335,"image":851},"\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",[1332,1031,1067,1043,1333],"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":159,"title":160,"description":1337,"publishedAt":1330,"author":6,"category":846,"tags":1338,"readTime":907,"cover":1342,"listingCover":1343,"image":851},"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.",[1339,1340,1006,1067,1341],"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":1345,"title":1346,"description":1347,"publishedAt":1330,"author":6,"category":846,"tags":1348,"readTime":907,"cover":1351,"listingCover":1352,"image":851},"\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.",[526,1006,1349,1350,1067],"beautifulsoup","selenium","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fpython-web-scraping-without-a-scraper.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fpython-web-scraping-without-a-scraper-card.png",{"path":1354,"title":1355,"description":1356,"publishedAt":1330,"author":6,"category":846,"tags":1357,"readTime":907,"cover":1358,"listingCover":1359,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fserp-api-for-ai-agents","What Is a SERP API, and Which Kind Do You Need?","A SERP API is three products under one name: a Google mirror, an independent index, and a read-through fetcher. The difference decides which one is yours.",[1110,1168,1314,1067,1170],"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fserp-api-for-ai-agents.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fserp-api-for-ai-agents-card.png",{"path":736,"title":737,"description":1361,"publishedAt":1330,"author":6,"category":846,"tags":1362,"readTime":907,"cover":1365,"listingCover":1366,"image":851},"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.",[1363,1364,1066,1067,1190],"web scraping tools","no code scraper","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-tools-which-kind.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-tools-which-kind-card.png",{"path":1368,"title":1369,"description":1370,"publishedAt":1371,"author":6,"category":989,"tags":1372,"readTime":907,"cover":1375,"listingCover":1376,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fautonomous-store-agent-outside-data","Runner AI Runs the Store. Monid Feeds It the Market.","One call returned 48 competitors: prices from $3.99 to $59.97 and an incumbent with 136,609 reviews. No store dashboard contains that, and agents need it.","2026-08-20",[1373,1067,993,1374],"agentic commerce","autonomous business","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fautonomous-store-agent-outside-data.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fautonomous-store-agent-outside-data-card.png",{"path":1378,"title":1379,"description":1380,"publishedAt":1371,"author":6,"category":846,"tags":1381,"readTime":907,"cover":1386,"listingCover":1387,"image":851},"\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.",[1382,1383,1384,1170,1385],"search","web","api","agents","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbing-search-api-retired-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbing-search-api-retired-alternatives-card.png",{"path":1389,"title":1390,"description":1391,"publishedAt":1371,"author":6,"category":846,"tags":1392,"readTime":880,"cover":1396,"listingCover":1397,"image":851},"\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.",[1170,1393,1394,1395,1290],"embeddings","pdf","ocr","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fingest-mixed-documents-llm-embedding.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fingest-mixed-documents-llm-embedding-card.png",{"path":1399,"title":1400,"description":1401,"publishedAt":1371,"author":6,"category":873,"tags":1402,"readTime":907,"cover":1407,"listingCover":1408,"image":851},"\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.",[1403,1404,1384,1405,1406],"instagram","social","creators","engagement","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Finstagram-follower-engagement-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Finstagram-follower-engagement-api-card.png",{"path":1410,"title":1411,"description":1412,"publishedAt":1371,"author":6,"category":900,"tags":1413,"readTime":907,"cover":1419,"listingCover":1420,"image":851},"\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.",[1414,1415,1416,1417,1418],"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":1422,"title":1423,"description":1424,"publishedAt":1371,"author":6,"category":900,"tags":1425,"readTime":907,"cover":1426,"listingCover":1427,"image":851},"\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.",[1416,1384,1417,1067,1221],"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmcp-vs-api-for-ai-agents.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmcp-vs-api-for-ai-agents-card.png",{"path":1429,"title":1430,"description":1431,"publishedAt":1371,"author":6,"category":900,"tags":1432,"readTime":880,"cover":1436,"listingCover":1437,"image":851},"\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.",[1433,1434,1435,1078,1385],"n8n","automation","enrichment","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fn8n-data-layer-scraping-enrichment.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fn8n-data-layer-scraping-enrichment-card.png",{"path":1439,"title":1440,"description":1441,"publishedAt":1371,"author":6,"category":900,"tags":1442,"readTime":907,"cover":1444,"listingCover":1445,"image":851},"\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.",[1443,1414,1417,1416,1418],"openrouter","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fopenrouter-alternatives-after-stripe.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fopenrouter-alternatives-after-stripe-card.png",{"path":1447,"title":1448,"description":1449,"publishedAt":1371,"author":6,"category":900,"tags":1450,"readTime":907,"cover":1452,"listingCover":1453,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fopenrouter-mcp-server-tool-layer","Is OpenRouter an MCP Server? What It Actually Exposes","Yes, OpenRouter has an MCP server, and it exposes OpenRouter. Here is what it does, what it does not, and how to give the same agent real tools.",[1443,1416,1417,1451,1221],"claude code","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fopenrouter-mcp-server-tool-layer.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fopenrouter-mcp-server-tool-layer-card.png",{"path":1455,"title":1456,"description":1457,"publishedAt":1371,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":1458,"readTime":907,"cover":1462,"listingCover":1463,"image":851},"\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.",[1459,1460,1461,1067],"people search api","agentic api","prospecting","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fprompt-instead-of-filters-people-search.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fprompt-instead-of-filters-people-search-card.png",{"path":1465,"title":1466,"description":1467,"publishedAt":1371,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":1468,"readTime":907,"cover":1472,"listingCover":1473,"image":851},"\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.",[1469,1435,1384,1470,1471],"linkedin","sales","leads","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fproxycurl-shutdown-linkedin-data-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fproxycurl-shutdown-linkedin-data-alternatives-card.png",{"path":1475,"title":1476,"description":1477,"publishedAt":1371,"author":6,"category":873,"tags":1478,"readTime":907,"cover":1483,"listingCover":1484,"image":851},"\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.",[1479,1480,1481,1482],"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":1486,"title":1487,"description":1488,"publishedAt":1371,"author":6,"category":873,"tags":1489,"readTime":907,"cover":1491,"listingCover":1492,"image":851},"\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.",[1198,1490,1481,1480],"content audit","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-scraper-catalogue-audit.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-scraper-catalogue-audit-card.png",{"path":1494,"title":1495,"description":1496,"publishedAt":1371,"author":6,"category":900,"tags":1497,"readTime":1499,"cover":1500,"listingCover":1501,"image":851},"\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.",[1416,1498,1417,1067,1418],"mcp gateway","13 min","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-is-an-mcp-gateway.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-is-an-mcp-gateway-card.png",{"path":1503,"title":1504,"description":1505,"publishedAt":1371,"author":6,"category":873,"tags":1506,"readTime":907,"cover":1510,"listingCover":1511,"image":851},"\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.",[1507,1508,1053,1509],"twitter scraper","x api","lead generation","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fx-intent-search-social-selling.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fx-intent-search-social-selling-card.png",{"path":1513,"title":1514,"description":1515,"publishedAt":1516,"author":6,"category":846,"tags":1517,"readTime":880,"cover":1521,"listingCover":1522,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fapify-alternatives","Apify Alternatives: You Probably Want a Different Way to Buy It","Every AI answer to this question names Apify. We ran an Apify actor without an Apify account to show what the real alternative is.","2026-08-19",[1518,1006,1519,1520],"apify alternatives","actors","pay per call","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapify-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapify-alternatives-card.png",{"path":1524,"title":1525,"description":1526,"publishedAt":1516,"author":6,"category":989,"tags":1527,"readTime":880,"cover":1531,"listingCover":1532,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fconnect-claude-to-amazon-search-data","Connect Claude to Amazon Search Data: OpenWeb Ninja and Monid","Amazon has no keyword API for sellers. Here is what a search endpoint actually returns, how to hand it to an agent, and which route fits which job.",[1528,1529,1530,1067],"amazon search api","amazon keyword data","ecommerce","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fconnect-claude-to-amazon-search-data.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fconnect-claude-to-amazon-search-data-card.png",{"path":1534,"title":1535,"description":1536,"publishedAt":1516,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":1537,"readTime":880,"cover":1541,"listingCover":1542,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fenrich-a-list-from-email-addresses","Enriching a List When All You Have Is Email Addresses","We enriched four real email addresses and one returned a person. The misses billed nothing. What that changes about how you plan a batch.",[1538,1280,1539,1540],"email enrichment","zoominfo alternatives","lead data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fenrich-a-list-from-email-addresses.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fenrich-a-list-from-email-addresses-card.png",{"path":292,"title":1544,"description":1545,"publishedAt":1516,"author":6,"category":846,"tags":1546,"readTime":880,"cover":1549,"listingCover":1550,"image":851},"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.",[1170,865,1547,1548],"chunking","llm context","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ffree-api-extract-page-content-rag.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ffree-api-extract-page-content-rag-card.png",{"path":1552,"title":1553,"description":1554,"publishedAt":1516,"author":6,"category":963,"tags":1555,"readTime":880,"cover":1559,"listingCover":1560,"image":851},"\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.",[1556,1557,1190,1558],"google maps scraper","local leads","lead list","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fgoogle-maps-scraper-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fgoogle-maps-scraper-alternatives-card.png",{"path":1562,"title":1563,"description":1564,"publishedAt":1516,"author":6,"category":1096,"tags":1565,"readTime":880,"cover":1570,"listingCover":1571,"image":851},"\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.",[1566,1567,1568,1569],"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":1573,"title":1574,"description":1575,"publishedAt":1576,"author":6,"category":900,"tags":1577,"readTime":880,"cover":1579,"listingCover":1580,"image":851},"\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",[1067,1578,1417,1416],"model gateway","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fai-agent-needs-two-integrations.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fai-agent-needs-two-integrations-card.png",{"path":1582,"title":1583,"description":1584,"publishedAt":1576,"author":6,"category":900,"tags":1585,"readTime":880,"cover":1588,"listingCover":1589,"image":851},"\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.",[1586,1067,1416,1587],"api marketplace","tool use","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapi-marketplace-for-ai-agents.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapi-marketplace-for-ai-agents-card.png",{"path":1591,"title":1592,"description":1593,"publishedAt":1576,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":1594,"readTime":880,"cover":1599,"listingCover":1600,"image":851},"\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.",[1595,1596,1597,1598],"business entity search","company registry","sec edgar","company data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbusiness-entity-search-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbusiness-entity-search-api-card.png",{"path":138,"title":139,"description":1602,"publishedAt":1576,"author":6,"category":846,"tags":1603,"readTime":880,"cover":1607,"listingCover":1608,"image":851},"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.",[1006,1604,1605,1606],"cloudflare","proxies","blocked","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fscraper-blocked-what-gets-through.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fscraper-blocked-what-gets-through-card.png",{"path":1610,"title":1611,"description":1612,"publishedAt":1576,"author":6,"category":846,"tags":1613,"readTime":880,"cover":1615,"listingCover":1616,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fweb-scraping-api-for-ai-agents","The Best Web Scraping API for AI Agents in 2026","An agent cannot pick a scraper from a list it has never seen. What changes when the catalogue is discoverable at run time, measured across three phrasings.",[1614,1067,1416,1434],"web scraping api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-api-for-ai-agents.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-api-for-ai-agents-card.png",{"path":1618,"title":1619,"description":1620,"publishedAt":1621,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":1622,"readTime":880,"cover":1626,"listingCover":1627,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fapi-to-find-a-company-website","The Best API to Find a Company's Website From Its Name","Name to homepage is a resolution problem, not a search one. Which endpoint does it, why fuzzy matches are a feature, and how to pick the right row.","2026-08-17",[1623,1624,1625,1435],"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":1629,"title":1630,"description":1631,"publishedAt":1621,"author":6,"category":846,"tags":1632,"readTime":880,"cover":1636,"listingCover":1637,"image":851},"\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.",[1633,1634,1313,1635],"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":1639,"title":1640,"description":1641,"publishedAt":1621,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":1642,"readTime":880,"cover":1646,"listingCover":1647,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fcrunchbase-api-alternatives-funding-data","Crunchbase API Alternatives: Getting Funding Data by the Call","Crunchbase and PitchBook sell seats. If you only need funding fields on a domain, an enrichment call carries them. What it returns, and what it gets wrong.",[1643,1644,1645,1278],"crunchbase api","pitchbook api","funding data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fcrunchbase-api-alternatives-funding-data.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fcrunchbase-api-alternatives-funding-data-card.png",{"path":1649,"title":1650,"description":1651,"publishedAt":1621,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":1652,"readTime":880,"cover":1654,"listingCover":1655,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fjob-postings-api-hiring-signals","Job Postings API: Turning Hiring Into a Buying Signal","A job ad says what a company is building before its website does. Which endpoint returns postings, what the record contains, and the fields nobody reads.",[1133,1134,1653,1233],"jobs data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fjob-postings-api-hiring-signals.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fjob-postings-api-hiring-signals-card.png",{"path":1657,"title":1658,"description":1659,"publishedAt":1621,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":1660,"readTime":880,"cover":1664,"listingCover":1665,"image":851},"\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.",[1661,1662,1663,1233],"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":1667,"title":1668,"description":1669,"publishedAt":1670,"author":6,"category":873,"tags":1671,"readTime":880,"cover":1674,"listingCover":1675,"image":851},"\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",[1672,878,1673,1403],"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":1677,"title":1678,"description":1679,"publishedAt":1670,"author":6,"category":846,"tags":1680,"readTime":880,"cover":1682,"listingCover":1683,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fmcp-server-live-web-data-agents","Which MCP Server Gives an AI Agent Live Web Data?","Most MCP servers wrap one vendor. The question is whether your agent needs a scraper or a catalogue it can search at runtime, and how to tell which.",[1219,1067,1220,1681],"model context protocol","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmcp-server-live-web-data-agents.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmcp-server-live-web-data-agents-card.png",{"path":1685,"title":1686,"description":1687,"publishedAt":1670,"author":6,"category":900,"tags":1688,"readTime":857,"cover":1691,"listingCover":1692,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fpay-per-call-data-api-vs-subscription","Which Data API Lets You Pay Per Call Instead of a Subscription?","Metered beats a subscription when your usage is bursty and loses when it is steady. The shapes, the crossover, and the measurement that decides it.",[1520,1689,1586,1690],"data api pricing","metered billing","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fpay-per-call-data-api-vs-subscription.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fpay-per-call-data-api-vs-subscription-card.png",{"path":1694,"title":1695,"description":1696,"publishedAt":1670,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":1697,"readTime":880,"cover":1699,"listingCover":1700,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fpeople-data-labs-apollo-zoominfo-alternatives","People Data Labs, Apollo, ZoomInfo: Which Should You Actually Buy?","Four providers, one honest split: search versus enrich versus contract. What each is genuinely best at, and why the price gap is not what it looks like.",[1280,1698,1279,1276],"apollo alternatives","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fpeople-data-labs-apollo-zoominfo-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fpeople-data-labs-apollo-zoominfo-alternatives-card.png",{"path":1702,"title":1703,"description":1704,"publishedAt":1670,"author":6,"category":873,"tags":1705,"readTime":857,"cover":1709,"listingCover":1710,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Freddit-scraping-api-alternatives","Is There an Alternative to Apify for Scraping Reddit?","Yes, several. The more useful question is why a Reddit scraper returns posts that miss your keywords, because that is a search problem, not a scraper one.",[1706,1707,1708,1518],"reddit api","reddit scraper","social listening","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freddit-scraping-api-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freddit-scraping-api-alternatives-card.png",{"path":1712,"title":1713,"description":1714,"publishedAt":1715,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":1716,"readTime":880,"cover":1719,"listingCover":1720,"image":851},"\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",[1717,1469,1470,1718],"linkedin scraper api","data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-linkedin-scraper-api-2026.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-linkedin-scraper-api-2026-card.png",{"path":1722,"title":1723,"description":1724,"publishedAt":1725,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":1726,"readTime":880,"cover":1731,"listingCover":1732,"image":851},"\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",[1727,1728,1729,1730],"apollo scraper","apollo.io","lead-generation","b2b-data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapollo-scraper.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapollo-scraper-card.png",{"path":1734,"title":1735,"description":1736,"publishedAt":1725,"author":6,"category":873,"tags":1737,"readTime":880,"cover":1740,"listingCover":1741,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Freddit-scraper","Reddit Scraper: How to Get Reddit Data After the API Lockdown","Reddit closed self-service API access in 2025. The honest split between the licensed Data API and a public-page scraper you run metered per call.",[1707,1738,1739,1404],"reddit data api","web-scraping","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freddit-scraper.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freddit-scraper-card.png",{"path":1743,"title":1744,"description":1745,"publishedAt":1725,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":1746,"readTime":857,"cover":1750,"listingCover":1751,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ftechnographic-data-api","Technographic Data API: Detect Any Website's Tech Stack in One Call","Skip the enterprise technographic platform for one domain. Detect a site's CMS, framework, analytics, CDN and payments by metered API call.",[1747,1748,1749,1730],"technographic data api","tech stack","company-enrichment","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftechnographic-data-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftechnographic-data-api-card.png",{"path":1753,"title":1754,"description":1755,"publishedAt":1756,"author":6,"category":873,"tags":1757,"readTime":880,"cover":1759,"listingCover":1760,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fapify-instagram-scraper","The Apify Instagram Scraper: Which Actor to Use in 2026","Apify has five Instagram scrapers, not one. Which actor fits which job, how to run them without getting blocked, and what two measured runs actually cost.","2026-08-04",[1758,1403,1739,1385],"apify instagram scraper","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapify-instagram-scraper.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapify-instagram-scraper-card.png",{"path":1762,"title":1763,"description":1764,"publishedAt":1765,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":1766,"readTime":907,"cover":1768,"listingCover":1769,"image":851},"\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",[1767,1469,1470,1718],"linkedin outreach","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-linkedin-outreach-tools-2026.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-linkedin-outreach-tools-2026-card.png",{"path":1771,"title":1772,"description":1773,"publishedAt":1774,"author":6,"category":989,"tags":1775,"readTime":1778,"cover":1779,"listingCover":1780,"image":851},"\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",[1776,1777,1718,1530],"amazon product advertising api","pa-api alternative","9 min","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Famazon-pa-api-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Famazon-pa-api-alternatives-card.png",{"path":1782,"title":1783,"description":1784,"publishedAt":1785,"author":6,"category":989,"tags":1786,"readTime":1499,"cover":1788,"listingCover":1789,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fbest-amazon-reviews-api-2026","The Best Amazon Reviews API in 2026 (We Tested Them)","There is no official Amazon reviews API. Here are the real ways to get review text, what all of them costs, and the pagination limit nobody mentions.","2026-07-09",[1787,1718,1385,1530],"amazon reviews api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-amazon-reviews-api-2026.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-amazon-reviews-api-2026-card.png",{"path":1791,"title":1792,"description":1793,"publishedAt":1785,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":1794,"readTime":907,"cover":1797,"listingCover":1798,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fbest-email-verification-api-2026","Best Email Verification API in 2026: ZeroBounce, NeverBounce, Kickbox, or One Call on Monid?","ZeroBounce, NeverBounce, Kickbox, Bouncer, a DIY SMTP check and Strale compared: credit packs versus one metered per-call endpoint.",[1795,1718,1385,1796],"email verification api","email","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-email-verification-api-2026.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-email-verification-api-2026-card.png",{"path":1800,"title":1801,"description":21,"publishedAt":1802,"author":851,"category":900,"tags":1803,"readTime":851,"cover":1806,"listingCover":851,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fakta-pro-is-now-available-on-monid","Akta Pro Is Now Available On Monid","2026-07-07",[1385,1804,1805,1718],"partner-tools","private-markets","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fakta-pro-is-now-available-on-monid-v2.png",{"path":1808,"title":1809,"description":1810,"publishedAt":1811,"author":851,"category":900,"tags":1812,"readTime":851,"cover":1815,"listingCover":851,"image":851},"\u002Fblog\u002Fyour-claude-code-can-now-make-phone-calls","Your Claude Code can now make phone calls","Saperly is now available on Monid. Your agent can now make phone calls for you.","2026-07-05",[1385,1804,1813,1814],"voice","phone","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fyour-claude-code-can-now-make-phone-calls.png",{"path":1817,"title":1818,"description":1819,"publishedAt":1820,"author":851,"category":900,"tags":1821,"readTime":851,"cover":1824,"listingCover":851,"image":851},"\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",[1822,1385,1823],"3d","creative-tools","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fintroducing-suzanne-chatgpt-for-3d-models.png",{"path":1826,"title":1827,"description":1828,"publishedAt":1829,"author":851,"category":900,"tags":1830,"readTime":851,"cover":1833,"listingCover":851,"image":851},"\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",[1385,1823,1831,1832],"image-generation","music-generation","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fminimax-is-now-available-on-monid.png",1788552966661]