[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":1736},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-guide-\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ftiktok-data-behind-an-ai-video-ad":3,"blog-guide-related-\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ftiktok-data-behind-an-ai-video-ad":766},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":746,"cover":747,"description":748,"draft":749,"extension":750,"image":751,"launchCta":751,"listingCover":752,"meta":753,"navigation":754,"ogImage":751,"path":755,"publishedAt":756,"readTime":757,"seo":758,"stem":759,"tags":760,"toolCategory":466,"updatedAt":756,"__hash__":765},"blogGuides\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ftiktok-data-behind-an-ai-video-ad.md","Oumomo Generates the Ad. TikTok Data Decides Which One.","Jasper Li",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":729},"minimark",[10,23,26,29,34,37,40,43,46,53,57,60,74,79,102,105,109,118,143,151,155,210,218,222,225,287,297,301,312,364,367,371,374,451,463,471,475,478,484,491,497,503,518,521,548,552,556,563,569,575,581,584,593,605,609,612,615,628,631,635,638,644,650,661,664,668,671,674,678,685,695,706,719,725],[11,12,13,14,22],"p",{},"An AI video tool will make whatever you ask it for. That is the useful part and it is also the trap. ",[15,16,21],"a",{"href":17,"rel":18},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.oumomo.ai",[19,20],"noopener","noreferrer","Oumomo"," turns a product link, a reference format or a short brief into a finished TikTok video, and it will do that just as cheerfully for a bad idea as for a good one. The generator is not the constraint any more. The brief is.",[11,24,25],{},"Somebody on r\u002FClaudeAI posted their first day on TikTok: four hundred likes and ninety saves on video one, built with Claude, the TikHub API and n8n. Read the stack rather than the result. Half of it is a video tool. The other half is a data call that told them what the video should be.",[11,27,28],{},"Fair disclosure before anything else. You are on the Monid blog, Monid is the data half described below, and Oumomo is a content partner of ours. Oumomo is not in the Monid catalogue and this article is not selling you a bundle. The two products sit on opposite sides of the same job, which is why the split is worth writing down.",[30,31,33],"h2",{"id":32},"why-does-a-good-ai-video-generator-still-produce-ads-nobody-watches","Why does a good AI video generator still produce ads nobody watches?",[11,35,36],{},"Because generation and research fail in opposite directions, and only one of them is visibly broken.",[11,38,39],{},"A weak generator produces something you can see is wrong: a warped label, six fingers, a product that changes shape between shots. You catch it in review and regenerate. A weak brief produces something that looks completely fine. Correct product, clean lighting, readable text, sensible pacing. It just answers a question nobody was asking, and you find that out four days after publishing, from a flat view count that tells you nothing about which part to change.",[11,41,42],{},"The usual advice for this is right as far as it goes: no tool can promise a video will go viral, so make a small batch of controlled versions and change one variable at a time. Follow it and you immediately hit the gap. Controlled versions need a control. Something has to say which hook, which length, which use case is worth the first test, or version A and version B are both guesses and the comparison between them measures nothing.",[11,44,45],{},"That something is public and it is already on the platform. Every product category on TikTok has a few hundred videos that have already run the experiment.",[11,47,48],{},[49,50],"img",{"alt":51,"src":52},"One keyword goes out, one search call comes back, and four decisions fall out of the same response before any video is generated.","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-data-behind-an-ai-video-ad-fig-loop.png",[30,54,56],{"id":55},"what-is-the-best-api-for-tiktok-data","What is the best API for TikTok data?",[11,58,59],{},"There is no official one for this job, which is the first thing to know. The TikTok Research API is gated to accredited academic use, and the Display API only reaches accounts that have authorised your app. Neither reads a keyword's public search results, which is the exact thing a creative brief needs.",[11,61,62,63,68,69,73],{},"So every answer here is a third party reading public pages, and the honest question is which one, at what billing shape, returning which fields. ",[15,64,67],{"href":65,"rel":66},"https:\u002F\u002Ftikhub.io",[19,20],"TikHub"," is the one used below, reachable through ",[15,70,72],{"href":71},"\u002Ftools\u002Ftikhub","TikHub on Monid"," without a separate account or key.",[75,76,78],"h3",{"id":77},"which-endpoint-does-the-job","Which endpoint does the job",[11,80,81,85,86,89,90,93,94,97,98,101],{},[82,83,84],"code",{},"tikhub \u002Fapi\u002Fv1\u002Ftiktok\u002Fapp\u002Fv3\u002Ffetch_video_search_result"," takes a keyword and returns ranked video results with full statistics attached. The parameters that matter for creative research are ",[82,87,88],{},"sort_type"," (relevance or most likes), ",[82,91,92],{},"publish_time"," (a rolling window in days), ",[82,95,96],{},"region",", and ",[82,99,100],{},"count",".",[11,103,104],{},"The v3 app endpoint is the one to use. There is an older web search endpoint in the same catalogue at the same price; it is thinner, and the app version is what returns the statistics block this whole exercise depends on.",[75,106,108],{"id":107},"for-agents","For agents",[11,110,111,112,117],{},"Grab an API key at ",[15,113,116],{"href":114,"rel":115},"https:\u002F\u002Fapp.monid.ai\u002F",[19,20],"app.monid.ai",", then paste this to your agent and hand it the key:",[119,120,125],"pre",{"className":121,"code":122,"language":123,"meta":124,"style":124},"language-sh shiki shiki-themes material-theme-lighter material-theme material-theme-palenight","set up https:\u002F\u002Fmonid.ai\u002FSKILL.md\n","sh","",[82,126,127],{"__ignoreMap":124},[128,129,132,136,140],"span",{"class":130,"line":131},"line",1,[128,133,135],{"class":134},"s2Zo4","set",[128,137,139],{"class":138},"sfazB"," up",[128,141,142],{"class":138}," https:\u002F\u002Fmonid.ai\u002FSKILL.md\n",[11,144,145,146,101],{},"It learns the discover, inspect and run workflow itself. More detail in the ",[15,147,150],{"href":148,"rel":149},"https:\u002F\u002Fmonid.ai\u002Fdocs\u002Fguide\u002Fquickstart-skill",[19,20],"agent quickstart",[75,152,154],{"id":153},"for-humans","For humans",[119,156,158],{"className":121,"code":157,"language":123,"meta":124,"style":124},"npm install -g @monid-ai\u002Fcli\nmonid keys add --label main --key \u003Cyour-api-key>\n",[82,159,160,175],{"__ignoreMap":124},[128,161,162,166,169,172],{"class":130,"line":131},[128,163,165],{"class":164},"sBMFI","npm",[128,167,168],{"class":138}," install",[128,170,171],{"class":138}," -g",[128,173,174],{"class":138}," @monid-ai\u002Fcli\n",[128,176,178,181,184,187,190,193,196,200,203,207],{"class":130,"line":177},2,[128,179,180],{"class":164},"monid",[128,182,183],{"class":138}," keys",[128,185,186],{"class":138}," add",[128,188,189],{"class":138}," --label",[128,191,192],{"class":138}," main",[128,194,195],{"class":138}," --key",[128,197,199],{"class":198},"sMK4o"," \u003C",[128,201,202],{"class":138},"your-api-ke",[128,204,206],{"class":205},"sTEyZ","y",[128,208,209],{"class":198},">\n",[11,211,212,213,101],{},"More detail in the ",[15,214,217],{"href":215,"rel":216},"https:\u002F\u002Fmonid.ai\u002Fdocs\u002Fguide\u002Fquickstart-cli",[19,20],"CLI quickstart",[75,219,221],{"id":220},"the-call","The call",[11,223,224],{},"One keyword, one call, top twenty by likes, last thirty days:",[119,226,230],{"className":227,"code":228,"language":229,"meta":124,"style":124},"language-bash shiki shiki-themes material-theme-lighter material-theme material-theme-palenight","monid run -p tikhub \\\n  -e \u002Fapi\u002Fv1\u002Ftiktok\u002Fapp\u002Fv3\u002Ffetch_video_search_result \\\n  --query '{\"keyword\":\"portable blender\",\"count\":20,\"sort_type\":1,\"publish_time\":30,\"region\":\"US\"}' \\\n  -w -o tt.json\n","bash",[82,231,232,248,258,275],{"__ignoreMap":124},[128,233,234,236,239,242,245],{"class":130,"line":131},[128,235,180],{"class":164},[128,237,238],{"class":138}," run",[128,240,241],{"class":138}," -p",[128,243,244],{"class":138}," tikhub",[128,246,247],{"class":205}," \\\n",[128,249,250,253,256],{"class":130,"line":177},[128,251,252],{"class":138},"  -e",[128,254,255],{"class":138}," \u002Fapi\u002Fv1\u002Ftiktok\u002Fapp\u002Fv3\u002Ffetch_video_search_result",[128,257,247],{"class":205},[128,259,261,264,267,270,273],{"class":130,"line":260},3,[128,262,263],{"class":138},"  --query",[128,265,266],{"class":198}," '",[128,268,269],{"class":138},"{\"keyword\":\"portable blender\",\"count\":20,\"sort_type\":1,\"publish_time\":30,\"region\":\"US\"}",[128,271,272],{"class":198},"'",[128,274,247],{"class":205},[128,276,278,281,284],{"class":130,"line":277},4,[128,279,280],{"class":138},"  -w",[128,282,283],{"class":138}," -o",[128,285,286],{"class":138}," tt.json\n",[11,288,289,292,293,296],{},[82,290,291],{},"--query"," rather than ",[82,294,295],{},"-i",", because this endpoint takes query parameters and not a body. Getting that backwards returns a schema error rather than a bill, which is the good failure mode.",[75,298,300],{"id":299},"what-comes-back","What comes back",[11,302,303,304,307,308,311],{},"The videos arrive under ",[82,305,306],{},"search_item_list",", each wrapped as ",[82,309,310],{},"aweme_info",", with roughly a hundred and fifty fields per video. Four of them carry the brief:",[313,314,315,340,346,356],"ul",{},[316,317,318,321,322,325,326,325,329,325,332,335,336,339],"li",{},[82,319,320],{},"statistics"," holds ",[82,323,324],{},"digg_count",", ",[82,327,328],{},"play_count",[82,330,331],{},"comment_count",[82,333,334],{},"collect_count"," and ",[82,337,338],{},"share_count"," separately, so saves and shares can be read against likes rather than folded into one engagement number.",[316,341,342,345],{},[82,343,344],{},"video.duration"," is in milliseconds, and it is the field most people forget to look at.",[316,347,348,351,352,355],{},[82,349,350],{},"text_extra"," carries the hashtags as structured entries, and ",[82,353,354],{},"desc"," carries the caption the creator actually wrote.",[316,357,358,335,360,363],{},[82,359,96],{},[82,361,362],{},"desc_language"," sit on each video, which turns out to matter more than expected.",[11,365,366],{},"Nine of the twenty results carried commerce metadata, marking them as shoppable rather than organic. That flag is worth reading before you copy a format: an organic video and a shop video are optimised against different things.",[75,368,370],{"id":369},"tiktok-tools-compared-which-one-should-you-use","TikTok tools compared: which one should you use?",[11,372,373],{},"The comparison that decides your bill is not feature lists, it is billing shape.",[375,376,377,392],"table",{},[378,379,380],"thead",{},[381,382,383,387,389],"tr",{},[384,385,386],"th",{},"Axis",[384,388,67],{},[384,390,391],{},"Apify TikTok actors",[393,394,395,407,418,429,440],"tbody",{},[381,396,397,401,404],{},[398,399,400],"td",{},"Billing shape",[398,402,403],{},"Per call, flat, whatever the result count",[398,405,406],{},"Per result",[381,408,409,412,415],{},[398,410,411],{},"One keyword sweep",[398,413,414],{},"One charge for twenty videos",[398,416,417],{},"Twenty charges for twenty videos",[381,419,420,423,426],{},[398,421,422],{},"Deep history on one account",[398,424,425],{},"Weaker",[398,427,428],{},"Stronger",[381,430,431,434,437],{},[398,432,433],{},"Field depth per video",[398,435,436],{},"High, statistics fully broken out",[398,438,439],{},"High, shaped differently",[381,441,442,445,448],{},[398,443,444],{},"Best fit here",[398,446,447],{},"Wide, repeated, shallow reads",[398,449,450],{},"Deep pulls on a known account",[11,452,453,454,458,459,101],{},"Creative research is wide and shallow and repeated, which is the per call quadrant. Auditing one competitor account's entire back catalogue is deep and one off, which is the per result quadrant. We ",[15,455,457],{"href":456},"\u002Fblog\u002Fapify-vs-tikhub-tiktok-scraping","priced the two against each other"," in more detail, and the cross-platform version of the same question lives in ",[15,460,462],{"href":461},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fbest-social-media-scraping-api-2026","the social scraping guide",[464,465,468],"tool-cta",{"category":466,"title":467},"tiktok","Read one keyword before you generate twenty videos",[11,469,470],{},"Inspect the endpoint free, see the billing shape, run a single search before you commit a batch.",[30,472,474],{"id":473},"what-does-the-data-actually-tell-you-to-put-in-the-brief","What does the data actually tell you to put in the brief?",[11,476,477],{},"Four things fell out of that one response, and three of them contradict what a default brief would have said.",[11,479,480],{},[49,481],{"alt":482,"src":483},"One search call, four independent signals, each of which changes a different line of the brief.","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-data-behind-an-ai-video-ad-fig-signals.png",[11,485,486,490],{},[487,488,489],"strong",{},"The spread tells you whether the category is winnable."," Median likes across the twenty were 362. The top video had 5,550. That is a fifteenfold gap inside a single keyword's top results over thirty days, which means format is doing the work, not luck and not budget. A category where the top and the median sit close together is one where creative barely moves the outcome, and that is worth knowing before you commission a batch.",[11,492,493,496],{},[487,494,495],{},"The duration contradicts the house style."," Durations ran from fourteen seconds to a hundred and sixty eight. The default brief for a product video is fifteen seconds, and the two best performers in this sample were a hundred and sixty eight seconds and eighty nine seconds. The winner was an ASMR piece, \"Foods Vs Portable Blender\", not an ad. If you brief a fifteen second demo here because fifteen seconds is what short form means, you have ruled out the format that won, before writing a word.",[11,498,499,502],{},[487,500,501],{},"Follower count is not the gate, and the data says so bluntly."," One video in the sample pulled 196,496 plays from an account with seventy two followers. Another account with 217,396 followers managed 23,612 plays on its video. Whatever is being ranked, it is not audience size. That is the single most useful thing to tell a team that has been told to build a following first.",[11,504,505,508,509,512,513,335,515,517],{},[487,506,507],{},"The region parameter is not the market filter you think it is."," The call asked for ",[82,510,511],{},"region: US",". The twenty results came back tagged PK, GB, US, ID, BR and NG, and the top performer was uploaded from Pakistan. Two of the twenty captions were in Spanish. The parameter shapes which feed the search runs against; it does not hand you a list of local creators. If you are localising for one market, as you should be, read ",[82,514,96],{},[82,516,362],{}," on each result rather than trusting the request.",[11,519,520],{},"That is one keyword and twenty videos, and it is a sample, not a law. Run it on your own category before believing any of the specific numbers. The method survives; the figures are yours to re-measure.",[11,522,523,524,528,529,533,534,538,539,335,543,547],{},"From here the same catalogue answers the adjacent questions with the same key. Take the account behind the outlier and ",[15,525,527],{"href":526},"\u002Fblog\u002Fscrape-tiktok-profiles-and-videos-one-endpoint","pull its full profile and video history",", or ",[15,530,532],{"href":531},"\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-handle-to-dataset-in-one-script","go one step further into a full dataset",". ",[15,535,537],{"href":536},"\u002Fblog\u002Fautomate-tiktok-comment-collection","Read the comments on the winning video"," to find the objection the video did not answer, which is usually the next video. Then, if the product sells on a marketplace too, ",[15,540,542],{"href":541},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fbest-amazon-reviews-api-2026","what buyers complain about in reviews",[15,544,546],{"href":545},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fconnect-claude-to-amazon-search-data","which keyword the listing actually competes on"," fill in the parts TikTok cannot see.",[549,550],"skill-prompt",{"prompt":551},"search TikTok for my product keyword, sorted by likes over the last 30 days, and tell me the duration, hashtags and region of the top five results",[30,553,555],{"id":554},"how-do-you-hand-that-brief-to-oumomo","How do you hand that brief to Oumomo?",[11,557,558,559,562],{},"This is where the split gets clean, because ",[15,560,21],{"href":17,"rel":561},[19,20]," is built around exactly the three inputs the research produces.",[11,564,565,568],{},[487,566,567],{},"Viral Remake takes the reference."," Oumomo's own framing is the right one: the reference should guide pacing and story order, not supply another creator's footage or wording. The research half tells you which reference to hand it. Without the search call, picking the reference is scrolling, and scrolling selects for what you happened to see rather than what actually outperformed.",[11,570,571,574],{},[487,572,573],{},"Link to Video takes the product."," Point it at a listing and the accurate product information comes across without rebuilding scenes by hand. What research adds here is the choice the tool cannot make for you: whether this video opens on the problem, the result, or the surprising use case.",[11,576,577,580],{},[487,578,579],{},"The Viral Script Generator takes the angle."," The measured findings above are script constraints. Length between eighty and a hundred and seventy seconds rather than fifteen. Test the ASMR format alongside the demo. Do not assume a US framing just because the search said US.",[11,582,583],{},"Oumomo also handles scheduling and publishing through TikTok's official API, which closes the loop back to where this started: publish, wait, then re-run the same search and see whether the format that won last month still wins. That loop is the actual product, and neither half of it works alone.",[11,585,586,587,592],{},"Localisation is the part this article has only touched, and it is where the generation side has more to say than the data side. A translated caption is not a localised video, because the setting, the casting, the units and the offer usually have to move with it. Their ",[15,588,591],{"href":589,"rel":590},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.oumomo.ai\u002Fblog\u002F",[19,20],"blog"," covers that half.",[11,594,595,596,335,600,604],{},"For the record on where the generation itself happens: Oumomo runs Seedance, Kling, Veo and Sora under the hood. Monid carries some of the same video models for teams that want to call them directly, and we have written up ",[15,597,599],{"href":598},"\u002Fblog\u002Fminimax-vs-seedance-for-ai-video","the difference between the video models",[15,601,603],{"href":602},"\u002Fblog\u002Fautomate-short-form-ai-video-generation","generating a clip straight from a prompt",". If you want a workflow around the generation rather than an API call, that is Oumomo's job and not ours.",[30,606,608],{"id":607},"what-does-the-research-half-cost-to-run","What does the research half cost to run?",[11,610,611],{},"Cheap enough that the cost is not the decision, which is the honest answer and the one the comparison threads never give.",[11,613,614],{},"The search endpoint bills per call, flat, at a small fraction of a cent, regardless of how many videos come back. Twenty results or two hundred, the charge is the same. Sweeping thirty keywords across a catalogue lands in small change, and running the same sweep weekly for a year still does not reach the price of one month of a creative research subscription.",[11,616,617,618,622,623,627],{},"That is the shape that matters, not the figure. Per call billing means the cost scales with how often you ask, not with how much comes back, so a wide sweep is cheap and a deep crawl of one account is where you should switch tools. Current numbers live on ",[15,619,621],{"href":620},"\u002Ftools","monid.ai\u002Ftools",", because a number in an article goes stale silently. The broader argument for ",[15,624,626],{"href":625},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fpay-per-call-data-api-vs-subscription","per call against a subscription"," is written up separately.",[11,629,630],{},"The real cost is the generation, not the research, which is the point. Research is the cheap half that decides how the expensive half gets spent.",[30,632,634],{"id":633},"when-is-this-the-wrong-approach","When is this the wrong approach?",[11,636,637],{},"Three cases, and none of them is a token paragraph.",[11,639,640,643],{},[487,641,642],{},"When you already know the format works."," If you have run fifty videos in this category and the winning structure is settled, more search data is confirmation, not information. Spend the time on production quality instead.",[11,645,646,649],{},[487,647,648],{},"When the product is genuinely new."," Search results tell you what worked for products that already exist. For a category with no comparable, there is nothing to read and the first videos are honest exploration. Data helps on round two.",[11,651,652,655,656,660],{},[487,653,654],{},"When you need one deep account audit rather than a wide read."," Per call billing stops being the advantage the moment you want every video a single competitor has posted for two years. That is a per result job, and an Apify actor does it better. The companion piece walks through ",[15,657,659],{"href":658},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ftiktok-scraper-catalogue-audit","auditing a whole catalogue that way",", on a real seller account. We resell both routes, so this is not a concession that costs us anything, which is exactly why you should weigh it lightly.",[11,662,663],{},"There is also a limit on the whole method. Search results are a ranked view, not a census. You are reading what the platform chose to surface for that query at that moment, which is closer to what a buyer would encounter than to a complete picture. Treat it as a strong sample and re-run it rather than as ground truth.",[30,665,667],{"id":666},"conclusion","Conclusion",[11,669,670],{},"The best AI video workflow is the one where the generator is never the thing making the creative decision. Oumomo is good at turning a decided brief into a finished, publishable video. A single search call is good at deciding the brief, and it is good at it because the experiment has already been run in public by a few hundred people who did not know they were running it.",[11,672,673],{},"The rule worth keeping: before you generate a batch, read one keyword. If the spread between the top and the median is wide, format is winnable and the research pays for itself many times over. If it is narrow, save the money and go work on the product page instead.",[30,675,677],{"id":676},"faq","FAQ",[679,680,682],"faq-item",{"q":681},"Is there an official TikTok API for this?",[11,683,684],{},"Not for keyword search results. The Research API is restricted to accredited academic and non profit researchers with an approved application, and the Display API only reaches accounts that have authorised your app. Neither reads what a public keyword search returns, so every product doing this reads public pages, whatever it calls itself.",[679,686,688],{"q":687},"Can I connect this to Claude or another assistant directly?",[11,689,690,691,694],{},"Yes, and that is the intended shape. Monid ships as an MCP server, so an agent discovers the endpoint, reads its schema and calls it inside a conversation. The prompt block above is a working example. The same setup covers the marketplace side if you also want ",[15,692,693],{"href":545},"Amazon keyword and competitor data"," in the same session.",[679,696,698],{"q":697},"Does the region parameter give me results from one country?",[11,699,700,701,335,703,705],{},"Not in the way the name suggests. It shapes which regional feed the search runs against, and the sample above returned videos tagged to six different countries under a single US request. Read the per video ",[82,702,96],{},[82,704,362],{}," fields and filter on those if the market matters, which for a localised campaign it does.",[679,707,709],{"q":708},"How often should I re run the search?",[11,710,711,712,714,715,101],{},"Monthly for a stable category, weekly while a format is actively shifting. The endpoint takes a ",[82,713,92],{}," window, so a repeat run with a thirty day window naturally shows you what changed rather than the same back catalogue. Wiring it as a scheduled job is written up in ",[15,716,718],{"href":717},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwire-up-tiktok-trend-tracking","tracking TikTok trends on a schedule",[11,720,721],{},[722,723,724],"em",{},"Last updated August 2026.",[726,727,728],"style",{},"html pre.shiki code .s2Zo4, html code.shiki .s2Zo4{--shiki-light:#6182B8;--shiki-default:#82AAFF;--shiki-dark:#82AAFF}html pre.shiki code .sfazB, html code.shiki .sfazB{--shiki-light:#91B859;--shiki-default:#C3E88D;--shiki-dark:#C3E88D}html .light .shiki span {color: var(--shiki-light);background: var(--shiki-light-bg);font-style: var(--shiki-light-font-style);font-weight: var(--shiki-light-font-weight);text-decoration: var(--shiki-light-text-decoration);}html.light .shiki span {color: var(--shiki-light);background: var(--shiki-light-bg);font-style: var(--shiki-light-font-style);font-weight: var(--shiki-light-font-weight);text-decoration: var(--shiki-light-text-decoration);}html .default .shiki span {color: var(--shiki-default);background: var(--shiki-default-bg);font-style: var(--shiki-default-font-style);font-weight: var(--shiki-default-font-weight);text-decoration: var(--shiki-default-text-decoration);}html .shiki span {color: var(--shiki-default);background: var(--shiki-default-bg);font-style: var(--shiki-default-font-style);font-weight: var(--shiki-default-font-weight);text-decoration: var(--shiki-default-text-decoration);}html .dark .shiki span {color: var(--shiki-dark);background: var(--shiki-dark-bg);font-style: var(--shiki-dark-font-style);font-weight: var(--shiki-dark-font-weight);text-decoration: var(--shiki-dark-text-decoration);}html.dark .shiki span {color: var(--shiki-dark);background: var(--shiki-dark-bg);font-style: var(--shiki-dark-font-style);font-weight: var(--shiki-dark-font-weight);text-decoration: var(--shiki-dark-text-decoration);}html pre.shiki code .sBMFI, html code.shiki .sBMFI{--shiki-light:#E2931D;--shiki-default:#FFCB6B;--shiki-dark:#FFCB6B}html pre.shiki code .sMK4o, html code.shiki .sMK4o{--shiki-light:#39ADB5;--shiki-default:#89DDFF;--shiki-dark:#89DDFF}html pre.shiki code .sTEyZ, html code.shiki .sTEyZ{--shiki-light:#90A4AE;--shiki-default:#EEFFFF;--shiki-dark:#BABED8}",{"title":124,"searchDepth":177,"depth":177,"links":730},[731,732,740,741,742,743,744,745],{"id":32,"depth":177,"text":33},{"id":55,"depth":177,"text":56,"children":733},[734,735,736,737,738,739],{"id":77,"depth":260,"text":78},{"id":107,"depth":260,"text":108},{"id":153,"depth":260,"text":154},{"id":220,"depth":260,"text":221},{"id":299,"depth":260,"text":300},{"id":369,"depth":260,"text":370},{"id":473,"depth":177,"text":474},{"id":554,"depth":177,"text":555},{"id":607,"depth":177,"text":608},{"id":633,"depth":177,"text":634},{"id":666,"depth":177,"text":667},{"id":676,"depth":177,"text":677},"Social data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-data-behind-an-ai-video-ad.png","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.",false,"md",null,"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-data-behind-an-ai-video-ad-card.png",{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ftiktok-data-behind-an-ai-video-ad","2026-08-20","12 min",{"title":5,"description":748},"blog\u002Fguides\u002Ftiktok-data-behind-an-ai-video-ad",[761,762,763,764],"tiktok data api","ai video ads","tiktok shop","creative research","2_X24zZPh-s4bKvtJSL2KLPJHu0vlf6QDUOrXYopyQM",[767,781,794,807,819,831,844,857,870,882,896,908,920,932,946,958,970,981,992,1004,1016,1026,1038,1049,1060,1071,1083,1093,1103,1112,1122,1134,1146,1159,1170,1180,1193,1204,1216,1227,1236,1246,1256,1266,1273,1282,1291,1302,1312,1323,1335,1342,1352,1360,1368,1378,1388,1390,1397,1406,1416,1427,1436,1446,1455,1465,1476,1485,1494,1505,1515,1523,1534,1544,1554,1562,1572,1580,1588,1596,1604,1614,1624,1636,1645,1655,1664,1673,1684,1692,1701,1709,1718,1727],{"path":768,"title":769,"description":770,"publishedAt":771,"author":6,"category":746,"tags":772,"readTime":778,"cover":779,"listingCover":780,"image":751},"\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",[773,774,775,776,777],"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":782,"title":783,"description":784,"publishedAt":771,"author":6,"category":785,"tags":786,"readTime":778,"cover":792,"listingCover":793,"image":751},"\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",[787,788,789,790,791],"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":795,"title":796,"description":797,"publishedAt":771,"author":6,"category":798,"tags":799,"readTime":757,"cover":805,"listingCover":806,"image":751},"\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",[800,801,802,803,804],"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":808,"title":809,"description":810,"publishedAt":771,"author":6,"category":785,"tags":811,"readTime":778,"cover":817,"listingCover":818,"image":751},"\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.",[812,813,814,815,816],"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":820,"title":821,"description":822,"publishedAt":771,"author":6,"category":798,"tags":823,"readTime":757,"cover":829,"listingCover":830,"image":751},"\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.",[824,825,826,827,828],"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":832,"title":833,"description":834,"publishedAt":835,"author":6,"category":798,"tags":836,"readTime":757,"cover":842,"listingCover":843,"image":751},"\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",[837,838,839,840,841],"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":845,"title":846,"description":847,"publishedAt":835,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":849,"readTime":778,"cover":855,"listingCover":856,"image":751},"\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.","Search & RAG",[850,851,852,853,854],"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":858,"title":859,"description":860,"publishedAt":835,"author":6,"category":861,"tags":862,"readTime":757,"cover":868,"listingCover":869,"image":751},"\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",[863,864,865,866,867],"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":871,"title":872,"description":873,"publishedAt":835,"author":6,"category":798,"tags":874,"readTime":778,"cover":880,"listingCover":881,"image":751},"\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.",[875,876,877,878,879],"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":883,"title":884,"description":885,"publishedAt":886,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":888,"readTime":778,"cover":894,"listingCover":895,"image":751},"\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",[889,890,891,892,893],"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":897,"title":898,"description":899,"publishedAt":886,"author":6,"category":798,"tags":900,"readTime":757,"cover":906,"listingCover":907,"image":751},"\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.",[901,902,903,904,905],"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":909,"title":910,"description":911,"publishedAt":886,"author":6,"category":785,"tags":912,"readTime":778,"cover":918,"listingCover":919,"image":751},"\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.",[913,914,915,916,917],"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":921,"title":922,"description":923,"publishedAt":886,"author":6,"category":798,"tags":924,"readTime":757,"cover":930,"listingCover":931,"image":751},"\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.",[925,926,927,928,929],"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":933,"title":934,"description":935,"publishedAt":936,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":937,"readTime":943,"cover":944,"listingCover":945,"image":751},"\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",[938,939,940,941,942],"c# web scraping","htmlagilitypack","dotnet","web extraction","playwright","10 min","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fc-sharp-web-scraping-without-the-stack.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fc-sharp-web-scraping-without-the-stack-card.png",{"path":947,"title":948,"description":949,"publishedAt":936,"author":6,"category":785,"tags":950,"readTime":778,"cover":956,"listingCover":957,"image":751},"\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.",[951,952,953,954,955],"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":959,"title":960,"description":961,"publishedAt":936,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":962,"readTime":778,"cover":968,"listingCover":969,"image":751},"\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.",[963,964,965,966,967],"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":971,"title":972,"description":973,"publishedAt":936,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":974,"readTime":778,"cover":979,"listingCover":980,"image":751},"\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.",[975,976,977,941,978],"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":982,"title":983,"description":984,"publishedAt":936,"author":6,"category":861,"tags":985,"readTime":778,"cover":990,"listingCover":991,"image":751},"\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.",[986,987,865,988,989],"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":993,"title":994,"description":995,"publishedAt":996,"author":6,"category":997,"tags":998,"readTime":778,"cover":1002,"listingCover":1003,"image":751},"\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","Ads intelligence",[999,1000,1001,967],"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":1005,"title":1006,"description":1007,"publishedAt":996,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":1008,"readTime":778,"cover":1014,"listingCover":1015,"image":751},"\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.",[1009,1010,1011,1012,1013],"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":1017,"title":1018,"description":1019,"publishedAt":996,"author":6,"category":798,"tags":1020,"readTime":778,"cover":1024,"listingCover":1025,"image":751},"\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.",[929,1021,1022,1023,967],"antidetect browser","nodriver","no api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbrowser-automation-without-an-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbrowser-automation-without-an-api-card.png",{"path":1027,"title":1028,"description":1029,"publishedAt":996,"author":6,"category":785,"tags":1030,"readTime":778,"cover":1036,"listingCover":1037,"image":751},"\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.",[1031,1032,1033,1034,1035],"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":1039,"title":1040,"description":1041,"publishedAt":996,"author":6,"category":785,"tags":1042,"readTime":778,"cover":1047,"listingCover":1048,"image":751},"\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.",[1043,1044,1045,1046],"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":1050,"title":1051,"description":1052,"publishedAt":996,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":1053,"readTime":943,"cover":1058,"listingCover":1059,"image":751},"\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.",[1054,1055,1056,1057,941],"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":1061,"title":1062,"description":1063,"publishedAt":996,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":1064,"readTime":778,"cover":1069,"listingCover":1070,"image":751},"\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.",[1065,1066,1067,1013,1068],"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":1072,"title":1073,"description":1074,"publishedAt":1075,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":1076,"readTime":778,"cover":1081,"listingCover":1082,"image":751},"\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",[1077,1078,1079,1080,1013],"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":1084,"title":1085,"description":1086,"publishedAt":1075,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":1087,"readTime":778,"cover":1091,"listingCover":1092,"image":751},"\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.",[1088,1011,1013,1089,1090],"google search url parameters","udm","search operators","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fgoogle-search-url-parameters.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fgoogle-search-url-parameters-card.png",{"path":1094,"title":1095,"description":1096,"publishedAt":1075,"author":6,"category":746,"tags":1097,"readTime":778,"cover":1101,"listingCover":1102,"image":751},"\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.",[777,1098,776,1099,1100],"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":1104,"title":1105,"description":1106,"publishedAt":1075,"author":6,"category":746,"tags":1107,"readTime":778,"cover":1110,"listingCover":1111,"image":751},"\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.",[1108,1109,776,1099,1100],"tiktok scraper","tiktok api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-scraper-which-endpoint.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-scraper-which-endpoint-card.png",{"path":1113,"title":1114,"description":1115,"publishedAt":1075,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":1116,"readTime":778,"cover":1120,"listingCover":1121,"image":751},"\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.",[1117,1118,965,1119,966],"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":1123,"title":1124,"description":1125,"publishedAt":1126,"author":6,"category":798,"tags":1127,"readTime":778,"cover":1132,"listingCover":1133,"image":751},"\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",[1128,1129,967,1130,1131],"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":1135,"title":1136,"description":1137,"publishedAt":1126,"author":6,"category":785,"tags":1138,"readTime":778,"cover":1144,"listingCover":1145,"image":751},"\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.",[1139,1140,1141,1142,1143],"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":1147,"title":1148,"description":1149,"publishedAt":1126,"author":6,"category":1150,"tags":1151,"readTime":943,"cover":1157,"listingCover":1158,"image":751},"\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",[1152,1153,1154,1155,1156],"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":1160,"title":1161,"description":1162,"publishedAt":1126,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":1163,"readTime":778,"cover":1168,"listingCover":1169,"image":751},"\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.",[1164,1165,1166,1167,1078],"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":1171,"title":1172,"description":1173,"publishedAt":1126,"author":6,"category":1150,"tags":1174,"readTime":778,"cover":1178,"listingCover":1179,"image":751},"\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.",[1175,1176,1177,967],"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":1181,"title":1182,"description":1183,"publishedAt":1184,"author":6,"category":785,"tags":1185,"readTime":778,"cover":1191,"listingCover":1192,"image":751},"\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",[1186,1187,1188,1189,1190],"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":1194,"title":1195,"description":1196,"publishedAt":1184,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":1197,"readTime":778,"cover":1202,"listingCover":1203,"image":751},"\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.",[1198,1199,1080,1200,1201],"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":1205,"title":1206,"description":1207,"publishedAt":1184,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":1208,"readTime":757,"cover":1214,"listingCover":1215,"image":751},"\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.",[1209,1210,1211,1212,1213],"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":1217,"title":1218,"description":1219,"publishedAt":1184,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":1220,"readTime":778,"cover":1225,"listingCover":1226,"image":751},"\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.",[1221,1222,1080,1223,1224],"news scraping","news api","media monitoring","web search","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-news-articles.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-news-articles-card.png",{"path":1228,"title":1229,"description":1230,"publishedAt":1184,"author":6,"category":746,"tags":1231,"readTime":778,"cover":1234,"listingCover":1235,"image":751},"\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.",[1232,1233,776,1100,1099],"youtube scraper","youtube data api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fyoutube-scraper-past-the-quota.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fyoutube-scraper-past-the-quota-card.png",{"path":1237,"title":1238,"description":1239,"publishedAt":1240,"author":6,"category":798,"tags":1241,"readTime":757,"cover":1244,"listingCover":1245,"image":751},"\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",[1242,929,967,942,1243],"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":1247,"title":1248,"description":1249,"publishedAt":1240,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":1250,"readTime":757,"cover":1254,"listingCover":1255,"image":751},"\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.",[1251,1252,904,967,1253],"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":1257,"title":1258,"description":1259,"publishedAt":1240,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":1260,"readTime":757,"cover":1264,"listingCover":1265,"image":751},"\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.",[1261,904,1262,1263,967],"python","beautifulsoup","selenium","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fpython-web-scraping-without-a-scraper.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fpython-web-scraping-without-a-scraper-card.png",{"path":1267,"title":1268,"description":1269,"publishedAt":1240,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":1270,"readTime":757,"cover":1271,"listingCover":1272,"image":751},"\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.",[1011,1078,1224,967,1080],"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fserp-api-for-ai-agents.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fserp-api-for-ai-agents-card.png",{"path":1274,"title":1275,"description":1276,"publishedAt":1240,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":1277,"readTime":757,"cover":1280,"listingCover":1281,"image":751},"\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.",[1278,1279,966,967,1100],"web scraping tools","no code scraper","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-tools-which-kind.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-tools-which-kind-card.png",{"path":1283,"title":1284,"description":1285,"publishedAt":756,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":1286,"readTime":757,"cover":1289,"listingCover":1290,"image":751},"\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.",[1287,967,891,1288],"agentic commerce","autonomous business","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fautonomous-store-agent-outside-data.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fautonomous-store-agent-outside-data-card.png",{"path":1292,"title":1293,"description":1294,"publishedAt":756,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":1295,"readTime":757,"cover":1300,"listingCover":1301,"image":751},"\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.",[1296,1297,1298,1080,1299],"search","web","api","agents","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbing-search-api-retired-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbing-search-api-retired-alternatives-card.png",{"path":1303,"title":1304,"description":1305,"publishedAt":756,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":1306,"readTime":778,"cover":1310,"listingCover":1311,"image":751},"\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.",[1080,1307,1308,1309,1200],"embeddings","pdf","ocr","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fingest-mixed-documents-llm-embedding.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fingest-mixed-documents-llm-embedding-card.png",{"path":1313,"title":1314,"description":1315,"publishedAt":756,"author":6,"category":746,"tags":1316,"readTime":757,"cover":1321,"listingCover":1322,"image":751},"\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.",[1317,1318,1298,1319,1320],"instagram","social","creators","engagement","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Finstagram-follower-engagement-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Finstagram-follower-engagement-api-card.png",{"path":1324,"title":1325,"description":1326,"publishedAt":756,"author":6,"category":798,"tags":1327,"readTime":757,"cover":1333,"listingCover":1334,"image":751},"\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.",[1328,1329,1330,1331,1332],"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":1336,"title":1337,"description":1338,"publishedAt":756,"author":6,"category":798,"tags":1339,"readTime":757,"cover":1340,"listingCover":1341,"image":751},"\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.",[1330,1298,1331,967,1131],"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmcp-vs-api-for-ai-agents.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmcp-vs-api-for-ai-agents-card.png",{"path":1343,"title":1344,"description":1345,"publishedAt":756,"author":6,"category":798,"tags":1346,"readTime":778,"cover":1350,"listingCover":1351,"image":751},"\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.",[1347,1348,1349,978,1299],"n8n","automation","enrichment","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fn8n-data-layer-scraping-enrichment.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fn8n-data-layer-scraping-enrichment-card.png",{"path":1353,"title":1354,"description":1355,"publishedAt":756,"author":6,"category":798,"tags":1356,"readTime":757,"cover":1358,"listingCover":1359,"image":751},"\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.",[1357,1328,1331,1330,1332],"openrouter","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fopenrouter-alternatives-after-stripe.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fopenrouter-alternatives-after-stripe-card.png",{"path":1361,"title":1362,"description":1363,"publishedAt":756,"author":6,"category":798,"tags":1364,"readTime":757,"cover":1366,"listingCover":1367,"image":751},"\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.",[1357,1330,1331,1365,1131],"claude code","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fopenrouter-mcp-server-tool-layer.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fopenrouter-mcp-server-tool-layer-card.png",{"path":1369,"title":1370,"description":1371,"publishedAt":756,"author":6,"category":785,"tags":1372,"readTime":757,"cover":1376,"listingCover":1377,"image":751},"\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.",[1373,1374,1375,967],"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":1379,"title":1380,"description":1381,"publishedAt":756,"author":6,"category":785,"tags":1382,"readTime":757,"cover":1386,"listingCover":1387,"image":751},"\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.",[1383,1349,1298,1384,1385],"linkedin","sales","leads","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fproxycurl-shutdown-linkedin-data-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fproxycurl-shutdown-linkedin-data-alternatives-card.png",{"path":755,"title":5,"description":748,"publishedAt":756,"author":6,"category":746,"tags":1389,"readTime":757,"cover":747,"listingCover":752,"image":751},[761,762,763,764],{"path":658,"title":1391,"description":1392,"publishedAt":756,"author":6,"category":746,"tags":1393,"readTime":757,"cover":1395,"listingCover":1396,"image":751},"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.",[1108,1394,763,762],"content audit","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-scraper-catalogue-audit.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-scraper-catalogue-audit-card.png",{"path":1398,"title":1399,"description":1400,"publishedAt":756,"author":6,"category":798,"tags":1401,"readTime":1403,"cover":1404,"listingCover":1405,"image":751},"\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.",[1330,1402,1331,967,1332],"mcp gateway","13 min","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-is-an-mcp-gateway.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-is-an-mcp-gateway-card.png",{"path":1407,"title":1408,"description":1409,"publishedAt":756,"author":6,"category":746,"tags":1410,"readTime":757,"cover":1414,"listingCover":1415,"image":751},"\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.",[1411,1412,953,1413],"twitter scraper","x api","lead generation","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fx-intent-search-social-selling.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fx-intent-search-social-selling-card.png",{"path":1417,"title":1418,"description":1419,"publishedAt":1420,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":1421,"readTime":778,"cover":1425,"listingCover":1426,"image":751},"\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",[1422,904,1423,1424],"apify alternatives","actors","pay per call","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapify-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapify-alternatives-card.png",{"path":545,"title":1428,"description":1429,"publishedAt":1420,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":1430,"readTime":778,"cover":1434,"listingCover":1435,"image":751},"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.",[1431,1432,1433,967],"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":1437,"title":1438,"description":1439,"publishedAt":1420,"author":6,"category":785,"tags":1440,"readTime":778,"cover":1444,"listingCover":1445,"image":751},"\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.",[1441,1190,1442,1443],"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":1447,"title":1448,"description":1449,"publishedAt":1420,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":1450,"readTime":778,"cover":1453,"listingCover":1454,"image":751},"\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.",[1080,941,1451,1452],"chunking","llm context","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ffree-api-extract-page-content-rag.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ffree-api-extract-page-content-rag-card.png",{"path":1456,"title":1457,"description":1458,"publishedAt":1420,"author":6,"category":861,"tags":1459,"readTime":778,"cover":1463,"listingCover":1464,"image":751},"\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.",[1460,1461,1100,1462],"google maps scraper","local leads","lead list","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fgoogle-maps-scraper-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fgoogle-maps-scraper-alternatives-card.png",{"path":1466,"title":1467,"description":1468,"publishedAt":1420,"author":6,"category":997,"tags":1469,"readTime":778,"cover":1474,"listingCover":1475,"image":751},"\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.",[1470,1471,1472,1473],"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":1477,"title":1478,"description":1479,"publishedAt":1480,"author":6,"category":798,"tags":1481,"readTime":778,"cover":1483,"listingCover":1484,"image":751},"\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",[967,1482,1331,1330],"model gateway","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fai-agent-needs-two-integrations.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fai-agent-needs-two-integrations-card.png",{"path":1486,"title":1487,"description":1488,"publishedAt":1480,"author":6,"category":798,"tags":1489,"readTime":778,"cover":1492,"listingCover":1493,"image":751},"\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.",[1490,967,1330,1491],"api marketplace","tool use","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapi-marketplace-for-ai-agents.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapi-marketplace-for-ai-agents-card.png",{"path":1495,"title":1496,"description":1497,"publishedAt":1480,"author":6,"category":785,"tags":1498,"readTime":778,"cover":1503,"listingCover":1504,"image":751},"\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.",[1499,1500,1501,1502],"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":1506,"title":1507,"description":1508,"publishedAt":1480,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":1509,"readTime":778,"cover":1513,"listingCover":1514,"image":751},"\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.",[904,1510,1511,1512],"cloudflare","proxies","blocked","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fscraper-blocked-what-gets-through.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fscraper-blocked-what-gets-through-card.png",{"path":1516,"title":1517,"description":1518,"publishedAt":1480,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":1519,"readTime":778,"cover":1521,"listingCover":1522,"image":751},"\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.",[1520,967,1330,1348],"web scraping api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-api-for-ai-agents.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-api-for-ai-agents-card.png",{"path":1524,"title":1525,"description":1526,"publishedAt":1527,"author":6,"category":785,"tags":1528,"readTime":778,"cover":1532,"listingCover":1533,"image":751},"\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",[1529,1530,1531,1349],"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":1535,"title":1536,"description":1537,"publishedAt":1527,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":1538,"readTime":778,"cover":1542,"listingCover":1543,"image":751},"\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.",[1539,1540,1223,1541],"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":1545,"title":1546,"description":1547,"publishedAt":1527,"author":6,"category":785,"tags":1548,"readTime":778,"cover":1552,"listingCover":1553,"image":751},"\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.",[1549,1550,1551,1188],"crunchbase api","pitchbook api","funding data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fcrunchbase-api-alternatives-funding-data.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fcrunchbase-api-alternatives-funding-data-card.png",{"path":1555,"title":1556,"description":1557,"publishedAt":1527,"author":6,"category":785,"tags":1558,"readTime":778,"cover":1560,"listingCover":1561,"image":751},"\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.",[1034,1035,1559,1143],"jobs data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fjob-postings-api-hiring-signals.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fjob-postings-api-hiring-signals-card.png",{"path":1563,"title":1564,"description":1565,"publishedAt":1527,"author":6,"category":785,"tags":1566,"readTime":778,"cover":1570,"listingCover":1571,"image":751},"\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.",[1567,1568,1569,1143],"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":461,"title":1573,"description":1574,"publishedAt":1575,"author":6,"category":746,"tags":1576,"readTime":778,"cover":1578,"listingCover":1579,"image":751},"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",[1577,776,466,1317],"social media scraping api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-social-media-scraping-api-2026.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-social-media-scraping-api-2026-card.png",{"path":1581,"title":1582,"description":1583,"publishedAt":1575,"author":6,"category":848,"tags":1584,"readTime":778,"cover":1586,"listingCover":1587,"image":751},"\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.",[1129,967,1130,1585],"model context protocol","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmcp-server-live-web-data-agents.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmcp-server-live-web-data-agents-card.png",{"path":625,"title":1589,"description":1590,"publishedAt":1575,"author":6,"category":798,"tags":1591,"readTime":943,"cover":1594,"listingCover":1595,"image":751},"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.",[1424,1592,1490,1593],"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":1597,"title":1598,"description":1599,"publishedAt":1575,"author":6,"category":785,"tags":1600,"readTime":778,"cover":1602,"listingCover":1603,"image":751},"\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.",[1190,1601,1189,1186],"apollo alternatives","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fpeople-data-labs-apollo-zoominfo-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fpeople-data-labs-apollo-zoominfo-alternatives-card.png",{"path":1605,"title":1606,"description":1607,"publishedAt":1575,"author":6,"category":746,"tags":1608,"readTime":943,"cover":1612,"listingCover":1613,"image":751},"\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.",[1609,1610,1611,1422],"reddit api","reddit scraper","social listening","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freddit-scraping-api-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freddit-scraping-api-alternatives-card.png",{"path":1615,"title":1616,"description":1617,"publishedAt":1618,"author":6,"category":785,"tags":1619,"readTime":778,"cover":1622,"listingCover":1623,"image":751},"\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",[1620,1383,1384,1621],"linkedin scraper api","data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-linkedin-scraper-api-2026.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-linkedin-scraper-api-2026-card.png",{"path":1625,"title":1626,"description":1627,"publishedAt":1628,"author":6,"category":785,"tags":1629,"readTime":778,"cover":1634,"listingCover":1635,"image":751},"\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",[1630,1631,1632,1633],"apollo scraper","apollo.io","lead-generation","b2b-data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapollo-scraper.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapollo-scraper-card.png",{"path":1637,"title":1638,"description":1639,"publishedAt":1628,"author":6,"category":746,"tags":1640,"readTime":778,"cover":1643,"listingCover":1644,"image":751},"\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.",[1610,1641,1642,1318],"reddit data api","web-scraping","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freddit-scraper.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freddit-scraper-card.png",{"path":1646,"title":1647,"description":1648,"publishedAt":1628,"author":6,"category":785,"tags":1649,"readTime":943,"cover":1653,"listingCover":1654,"image":751},"\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.",[1650,1651,1652,1633],"technographic data api","tech stack","company-enrichment","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftechnographic-data-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftechnographic-data-api-card.png",{"path":1656,"title":1657,"description":1658,"publishedAt":1659,"author":6,"category":746,"tags":1660,"readTime":778,"cover":1662,"listingCover":1663,"image":751},"\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",[1661,1317,1642,1299],"apify instagram scraper","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapify-instagram-scraper.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapify-instagram-scraper-card.png",{"path":1665,"title":1666,"description":1667,"publishedAt":1668,"author":6,"category":785,"tags":1669,"readTime":757,"cover":1671,"listingCover":1672,"image":751},"\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",[1670,1383,1384,1621],"linkedin outreach","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-linkedin-outreach-tools-2026.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-linkedin-outreach-tools-2026-card.png",{"path":1674,"title":1675,"description":1676,"publishedAt":1677,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":1678,"readTime":1681,"cover":1682,"listingCover":1683,"image":751},"\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",[1679,1680,1621,1433],"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":541,"title":1685,"description":1686,"publishedAt":1687,"author":6,"category":887,"tags":1688,"readTime":1403,"cover":1690,"listingCover":1691,"image":751},"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",[1689,1621,1299,1433],"amazon reviews api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-amazon-reviews-api-2026.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-amazon-reviews-api-2026-card.png",{"path":1693,"title":1694,"description":1695,"publishedAt":1687,"author":6,"category":785,"tags":1696,"readTime":757,"cover":1699,"listingCover":1700,"image":751},"\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.",[1697,1621,1299,1698],"email verification api","email","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-email-verification-api-2026.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-email-verification-api-2026-card.png",{"path":1702,"title":1703,"description":124,"publishedAt":1704,"author":751,"category":798,"tags":1705,"readTime":751,"cover":1708,"listingCover":751,"image":751},"\u002Fblog\u002Fakta-pro-is-now-available-on-monid","Akta Pro Is Now Available On Monid","2026-07-07",[1299,1706,1707,1621],"partner-tools","private-markets","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fakta-pro-is-now-available-on-monid-v2.png",{"path":1710,"title":1711,"description":1712,"publishedAt":1713,"author":751,"category":798,"tags":1714,"readTime":751,"cover":1717,"listingCover":751,"image":751},"\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",[1299,1706,1715,1716],"voice","phone","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fyour-claude-code-can-now-make-phone-calls.png",{"path":1719,"title":1720,"description":1721,"publishedAt":1722,"author":751,"category":798,"tags":1723,"readTime":751,"cover":1726,"listingCover":751,"image":751},"\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",[1724,1299,1725],"3d","creative-tools","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fintroducing-suzanne-chatgpt-for-3d-models.png",{"path":1728,"title":1729,"description":1730,"publishedAt":1731,"author":751,"category":798,"tags":1732,"readTime":751,"cover":1735,"listingCover":751,"image":751},"\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",[1299,1725,1733,1734],"image-generation","music-generation","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fminimax-is-now-available-on-monid.png",1788552967802]