[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":1930},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-guide-\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fxpath-cheat-sheet-for-scraping":3,"blog-guide-related-\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fxpath-cheat-sheet-for-scraping":964},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":943,"cover":944,"description":945,"draft":946,"extension":947,"image":948,"launchCta":948,"listingCover":949,"meta":950,"navigation":951,"ogImage":948,"path":952,"publishedAt":953,"readTime":954,"seo":955,"stem":956,"tags":957,"toolCategory":898,"updatedAt":953,"__hash__":963},"blogGuides\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fxpath-cheat-sheet-for-scraping.md","XPath Cheat Sheet: The Dozen Expressions That Survive","Jasper Li",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":913},"minimark",[10,15,82,94,99,102,107,114,120,126,132,140,144,147,161,165,168,172,175,183,186,197,201,223,229,232,236,358,361,365,368,372,378,392,398,402,408,427,431,437,440,444,450,453,457,460,464,470,474,477,513,528,532,542,546,552,555,559,565,569,572,585,589,592,610,613,623,627,631,755,766,769,773,776,782,793,799,802,805,809,820,823,834,838,845,854,879,895,903,909],[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 get typed fields out of a page without writing selectors at all.",[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\u002Fextract with a JSON Schema to pull fields from a page\n","sh","",[23,24,25],"code",{"__ignoreMap":21},[26,27,30,34,38,41,44,47,50,53,56,59,62,65,68,71,74,77,79],"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\u002Fextract",[26,54,55],{"class":36}," with",[26,57,58],{"class":36}," a",[26,60,61],{"class":36}," JSON",[26,63,64],{"class":36}," Schema",[26,66,67],{"class":36}," to",[26,69,70],{"class":36}," pull",[26,72,73],{"class":36}," fields",[26,75,76],{"class":36}," from",[26,78,58],{"class":36},[26,80,81],{"class":36}," page\n",[11,83,84,85,93],{},"Most XPath references list what the specification allows, sorted by syntax category, which is useful when you are learning and useless when a selector broke overnight. The expressions that matter are the ones still matching after somebody redesigned the page, and they are a much shorter list than the specification. This is that list, organised by how long an expression survives rather than by what it is called, running through ",[86,87,92],"a",{"href":88,"rel":89},"https:\u002F\u002Fmonid.ai",[90,91],"noopener","noreferrer","Monid",", the OpenRouter for agent tools.",[95,96,98],"h2",{"id":97},"what-is-xpath-and-when-do-you-still-need-it","What is XPath and when do you still need it?",[11,100,101],{},"XPath is a query language for navigating an XML or HTML document tree. CSS selectors do most of what people use it for, more readably, so the honest question is what is left.",[103,104,106],"h3",{"id":105},"four-things-css-cannot-do","Four things CSS cannot do",[11,108,109,113],{},[110,111,112],"strong",{},"Select by text content."," CSS has no way to say \"the element containing this word\". XPath does, and this is the single most common reason to reach for it.",[11,115,116,119],{},[110,117,118],{},"Walk upwards."," CSS selects descendants. It cannot say \"the row containing this cell\" or \"the parent of the element with this id\". XPath's axes go in every direction.",[11,121,122,125],{},[110,123,124],{},"Select by an arbitrary attribute predicate."," CSS handles attribute matching well, but combining several conditions with boolean logic gets awkward fast, and XPath's predicates handle it plainly.",[11,127,128,131],{},[110,129,130],{},"Position relative to a sibling."," \"The element after this heading\" is natural in XPath and painful in CSS.",[11,133,134,135,139],{},"Everything else, class matching, descendant selection, nth-child, is better expressed as a CSS selector, and if that covers your case you should use it. This is not a loyalty question. There is a copy-paste version of the whole extraction path, selectors included, in ",[86,136,138],{"href":137},"\u002Fblog\u002Fany-url-to-llm-ready-markdown","Any URL to LLM-Ready Markdown",".",[103,141,143],{"id":142},"why-it-still-matters-when-a-tool-writes-selectors-for-you","Why it still matters when a tool writes selectors for you",[11,145,146],{},"Because a generated selector is a guess about what will stay stable, and knowing which guess is a good one is the whole skill. The next section is about the guess your browser makes, which is reliably the worst one available.",[148,149,150],"blockquote",{},[11,151,152,153,156,157],{},"📖 ",[110,154,155],{},"See also"," ",[86,158,160],{"href":159},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Ffree-api-extract-page-content-rag","A Free API to Extract Page Content for RAG: Read This First",[95,162,164],{"id":163},"why-does-the-xpath-your-browser-gave-you-break","Why does the XPath your browser gave you break?",[11,166,167],{},"Because \"Copy XPath\" in developer tools produces an absolute path, and an absolute path encodes every structural decision between the root and your element.",[103,169,171],{"id":170},"what-it-actually-gives-you","What it actually gives you",[11,173,174],{},"Something like this:",[16,176,181],{"className":177,"code":179,"language":180,"meta":21},[178],"language-text","\u002Fhtml\u002Fbody\u002Fdiv[3]\u002Fdiv\u002Fmain\u002Fdiv[2]\u002Fsection[4]\u002Fdiv[1]\u002Ful\u002Fli[2]\u002Fspan\n","text",[23,182,179],{"__ignoreMap":21},[11,184,185],{},"Read what that promises. The third div in the body. The second div inside main. The fourth section. Every one of those indices is a fact about the current layout that nobody guaranteed.",[11,187,188,189,192,193,196],{},"Add a banner above the content and ",[23,190,191],{},"div[3]"," becomes ",[23,194,195],{},"div[4]",". The expression now matches something else, or nothing, and it does so silently, because a selector that matches nothing returns an empty result rather than an error.",[103,198,200],{"id":199},"the-rule-that-replaces-it","The rule that replaces it",[11,202,203,204,207,208,211,212,215,216,215,219,222],{},"Anchor on something semantic and search downwards from there. A ",[23,205,206],{},"data-"," attribute, an ",[23,209,210],{},"id",", a ",[23,213,214],{},"role",", an ",[23,217,218],{},"itemprop",[23,220,221],{},"aria-label",". Those exist because somebody put them there deliberately, which means changing them is a decision rather than a side effect of moving a div.",[16,224,227],{"className":225,"code":226,"language":180,"meta":21},[178],"\u002F\u002F*[@data-testid='price']\n\u002F\u002F*[@itemprop='price']\n\u002F\u002Fsection[@id='reviews']\u002F\u002Fli\n",[23,228,226],{"__ignoreMap":21},[11,230,231],{},"None of those cares where the element sits in the tree.",[103,233,235],{"id":234},"the-durability-ranking","The durability ranking",[237,238,239,255],"table",{},[240,241,242],"thead",{},[243,244,245,249,252],"tr",{},[246,247,248],"th",{},"Anchor",[246,250,251],{},"Survives a redesign",[246,253,254],{},"Why",[256,257,258,276,288,300,315,326,336,347],"tbody",{},[243,259,260,270,273],{},[261,262,263,266,267],"td",{},[23,264,265],{},"data-testid"," or ",[23,268,269],{},"data-*",[261,271,272],{},"Usually",[261,274,275],{},"Put there on purpose, often by the site's own tests",[243,277,278,283,285],{},[261,279,280,282],{},[23,281,218],{}," and schema markup",[261,284,272],{},[261,286,287],{},"Structured data the site publishes deliberately",[243,289,290,294,297],{},[261,291,292],{},[23,293,210],{},[261,295,296],{},"Often",[261,298,299],{},"Stable when meaningful, generated ids are not",[243,301,302,310,312],{},[261,303,304,306,307],{},[23,305,214],{}," and ",[23,308,309],{},"aria-*",[261,311,296],{},[261,313,314],{},"Accessibility attributes change slowly",[243,316,317,320,323],{},[261,318,319],{},"Class names",[261,321,322],{},"Sometimes",[261,324,325],{},"Fine when semantic, worthless when generated",[243,327,328,331,333],{},[261,329,330],{},"Text content",[261,332,322],{},[261,334,335],{},"Survives layout changes, breaks on copy edits",[243,337,338,341,344],{},[261,339,340],{},"Positional index",[261,342,343],{},"Rarely",[261,345,346],{},"Encodes the whole layout",[243,348,349,352,355],{},[261,350,351],{},"Absolute path",[261,353,354],{},"Almost never",[261,356,357],{},"Encodes every layout decision at once",[11,359,360],{},"Work down that table and stop at the first row the page supports. That is the entire method.",[95,362,364],{"id":363},"which-expressions-actually-survive-a-redesign","Which expressions actually survive a redesign?",[11,366,367],{},"The working set, roughly a dozen, organised by what they anchor on.",[103,369,371],{"id":370},"attribute-anchors-the-durable-ones","Attribute anchors, the durable ones",[16,373,376],{"className":374,"code":375,"language":180,"meta":21},[178],"\u002F\u002F*[@data-testid='product-price']          any element with a test id\n\u002F\u002F*[@itemprop='name']                       schema.org microdata\n\u002F\u002Fa[@rel='next']                            pagination, semantically marked\n\u002F\u002F*[@role='navigation']\u002F\u002Fa                  links inside a nav landmark\n\u002F\u002F*[contains(@class,'price')]               class fragment, when classes are semantic\n",[23,377,375],{"__ignoreMap":21},[11,379,380,381,384,385,306,388,391],{},"That last one deserves a warning. ",[23,382,383],{},"contains(@class,'price')"," also matches ",[23,386,387],{},"price-was-struck-through",[23,389,390],{},"pricing-footer",". When you need an exact class in a multi-class attribute, the idiomatic form is uglier and correct:",[16,393,396],{"className":394,"code":395,"language":180,"meta":21},[178],"\u002F\u002F*[contains(concat(' ',normalize-space(@class),' '),' price ')]\n",[23,397,395],{"__ignoreMap":21},[103,399,401],{"id":400},"text-anchors","Text anchors",[16,403,406],{"className":404,"code":405,"language":180,"meta":21},[178],"\u002F\u002Fbutton[normalize-space()='Add to cart']   exact text, whitespace-tolerant\n\u002F\u002F*[contains(text(),'Out of stock')]        substring within one text node\n\u002F\u002F*[contains(.,'Out of stock')]             substring anywhere in the subtree\n",[23,407,405],{"__ignoreMap":21},[11,409,410,411,414,415,417,418,420,421,423,424,426],{},"The difference between the last two matters and catches everybody. ",[23,412,413],{},"text()"," is the element's own direct text node; ",[23,416,139],{}," is the whole subtree as a string. If the words you want are wrapped in a nested ",[23,419,26],{},", ",[23,422,413],{}," will not see them and ",[23,425,139],{}," will.",[103,428,430],{"id":429},"axes-the-thing-css-cannot-do","Axes, the thing CSS cannot do",[16,432,435],{"className":433,"code":434,"language":180,"meta":21},[178],"\u002F\u002Ftd[normalize-space()='Total']\u002Ffollowing-sibling::td[1]     the cell after a label\n\u002F\u002F*[@id='sku-42']\u002Fancestor::tr                              the row containing an element\n\u002F\u002Fh2[normalize-space()='Specifications']\u002Ffollowing::table[1] the first table after a heading\n\u002F\u002F*[@data-id='x']\u002Fparent::*                                 straight up one level\n",[23,436,434],{"__ignoreMap":21},[11,438,439],{},"The label-then-value pattern in the first line is the most useful expression on this page. Specification tables, product attributes and invoice fields are all label-value pairs, and anchoring on the label rather than the position means the expression survives rows being added or reordered.",[103,441,443],{"id":442},"predicates-worth-remembering","Predicates worth remembering",[16,445,448],{"className":446,"code":447,"language":180,"meta":21},[178],"(\u002F\u002Fdiv[@class='item'])[1]        the first match document-wide, note the brackets\n\u002F\u002Fdiv[@class='item'][1]          the first item within EACH parent, which is different\n\u002F\u002Fa[@href and not(@rel)]         boolean logic in a predicate\n\u002F\u002Fli[position() \u003C= 3]            the first three of each set\n",[23,449,447],{"__ignoreMap":21},[11,451,452],{},"The first two lines are the classic XPath mistake and they produce different results. Parenthesise the whole expression when you mean \"the first one on the page\".",[95,454,456],{"id":455},"how-do-you-select-an-element-by-its-text","How do you select an element by its text?",[11,458,459],{},"This is the row people search for by name, and there are three forms that behave differently.",[103,461,463],{"id":462},"the-three-forms","The three forms",[16,465,468],{"className":466,"code":467,"language":180,"meta":21},[178],"\u002F\u002Fspan[text()='In stock']              exact match on a direct text node\n\u002F\u002Fspan[normalize-space()='In stock']   exact match, whitespace collapsed\n\u002F\u002Fspan[contains(.,'In stock')]         substring anywhere in the subtree\n",[23,469,467],{"__ignoreMap":21},[103,471,473],{"id":472},"why-the-first-one-fails-constantly","Why the first one fails constantly",[11,475,476],{},"Because HTML is full of whitespace you cannot see. A template that renders",[16,478,482],{"className":479,"code":480,"language":481,"meta":21,"style":21},"language-html shiki shiki-themes material-theme-lighter material-theme material-theme-palenight","\u003Cspan>\n  In stock\n\u003C\u002Fspan>\n","html",[23,483,484,496,503],{"__ignoreMap":21},[26,485,486,490,493],{"class":28,"line":29},[26,487,489],{"class":488},"sMK4o","\u003C",[26,491,26],{"class":492},"swJcz",[26,494,495],{"class":488},">\n",[26,497,499],{"class":28,"line":498},2,[26,500,502],{"class":501},"sTEyZ","  In stock\n",[26,504,506,509,511],{"class":28,"line":505},3,[26,507,508],{"class":488},"\u003C\u002F",[26,510,26],{"class":492},[26,512,495],{"class":488},[11,514,515,516,519,520,523,524,527],{},"produces a text node of ",[23,517,518],{},"\"\\n  In stock\\n\"",", and ",[23,521,522],{},"text()='In stock'"," does not match it. ",[23,525,526],{},"normalize-space()"," collapses runs of whitespace and trims the ends, which is why it should be your default rather than your fallback.",[103,529,531],{"id":530},"why-the-third-one-over-matches","Why the third one over-matches",[11,533,534,537,538,541],{},[23,535,536],{},"contains(.,'In stock')"," searches the entire subtree as a flattened string, so an ancestor ",[23,539,540],{},"div"," containing the whole product card also matches. You get the deepest match and every wrapper above it. Combine it with an element constraint or take the last match rather than the first.",[103,543,545],{"id":544},"the-pattern-that-works","The pattern that works",[16,547,550],{"className":548,"code":549,"language":180,"meta":21},[178],"\u002F\u002F*[normalize-space(text())='In stock']\n",[23,551,549],{"__ignoreMap":21},[11,553,554],{},"Element-agnostic, whitespace-tolerant, and matching on the element's own text rather than its descendants'. That expression handles the large majority of text selection and is worth memorising as one unit.",[103,556,558],{"id":557},"the-honest-limit","The honest limit",[11,560,561,562,564],{},"Text anchors survive layout changes and break on copy edits. \"In stock\" becoming \"Available now\" is a content decision somebody makes without thinking about your scraper. If the page offers a ",[23,563,206],{}," attribute or structured data for the same fact, prefer it, and use text only when nothing else marks the thing you want.",[103,566,568],{"id":567},"the-whitespace-you-cannot-see-is-most-of-the-problem","The whitespace you cannot see is most of the problem",[11,570,571],{},"One more reason the durability table above puts text near the bottom. HTML whitespace is invented by templating engines and reformatters, not authored, so it changes when nobody touched the content. A build that switches from one formatter to another can reflow every text node on the site without a single copy edit, and every exact-match text expression on your side stops matching at once.",[11,573,574,575,579,580,584],{},"That failure arrives as empty results rather than errors, which is the recurring theme of this whole category: the expensive failures do not throw. The same shape appears in a crawl returning HTTP 200 with an empty body, described in ",[86,576,578],{"href":577},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fcrawl4ai-when-to-run-your-own-crawler","Crawl4AI: When Should You Run Your Own Crawler?",", and in a search parameter that silently stops working, in ",[86,581,583],{"href":582},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fgoogle-search-url-parameters","Google Search URL Parameters",". Assert on what you extracted, not on whether the request succeeded.",[103,586,588],{"id":587},"a-working-order-for-writing-one","A working order for writing one",[11,590,591],{},"Four steps, and doing them in order takes about two minutes per field.",[11,593,594,595,207,597,599,600,602,603,266,606,609],{},"Search the markup for the value you want rather than for its label, because the label is what you can see and the value is what carries the attributes. Check whether the element holding it has a ",[23,596,206],{},[23,598,218],{}," or a meaningful ",[23,601,210],{},"; if it does, anchor there and stop. If it does not, find a nearby label you can anchor on and reach the value with ",[23,604,605],{},"following-sibling",[23,607,608],{},"ancestor",". Only when neither exists should a class fragment enter the picture, and only when that fails should you match on text.",[11,611,612],{},"The order matters because each fallback is measurably more fragile than the one above it, and people reach for the bottom of the list first because it is the one that is easiest to see in the rendered page.",[148,614,615],{},[11,616,152,617,156,619],{},[110,618,155],{},[86,620,622],{"href":621},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fingest-mixed-documents-llm-embedding","Ingesting Mixed Documents for LLM Embedding: PDF to Markdown",[624,625],"skill-prompt",{"prompt":626},"pull the price, availability and product name from this page as typed JSON, and tell me which fields came back null",[95,628,630],{"id":629},"which-endpoint-should-i-use-for-which-job","Which endpoint should I use for which job?",[237,632,633,655],{},[240,634,635],{},[243,636,637,640,643,646,649,652],{},[246,638,639],{},"Endpoint",[246,641,642],{},"What it does",[246,644,645],{},"Input",[246,647,648],{},"Output",[246,650,651],{},"Best for",[246,653,654],{},"Billing",[256,656,657,682,706,730],{},[243,658,659,667,670,673,676,679],{},[261,660,661],{},[86,662,664],{"href":663},"\u002Ftools\u002Fweb-extraction",[23,665,666],{},"context.dev\u002Fweb\u002Fextract",[261,668,669],{},"Page to typed JSON against a schema",[261,671,672],{},"URL plus a JSON Schema",[261,674,675],{},"Typed fields",[261,677,678],{},"You want fields and not selectors",[261,680,681],{},"Per result",[243,683,684,691,694,697,700,703],{},[261,685,686],{},[86,687,688],{"href":663},[23,689,690],{},"context.dev\u002Fweb\u002Fscrape\u002Fmarkdown",[261,692,693],{},"Page to clean Markdown",[261,695,696],{},"A URL",[261,698,699],{},"Markdown, headings, JSON-LD",[261,701,702],{},"You want prose, or the page's own structured data",[261,704,705],{},"Per call",[243,707,708,715,718,721,724,727],{},[261,709,710],{},[86,711,712],{"href":663},[23,713,714],{},"context.dev\u002Fweb\u002Fcrawl",[261,716,717],{},"The same across a site",[261,719,720],{},"Start URL, depth, cap",[261,722,723],{},"Markdown per page",[261,725,726],{},"Many pages of one shape",[261,728,729],{},"Per page",[243,731,732,740,743,746,749,752],{},[261,733,734],{},[86,735,737],{"href":736},"\u002Ftools\u002Fagents",[23,738,739],{},"x402.browserbase.com\u002Fbrowser\u002Fsession\u002Fcreate",[261,741,742],{},"A remote browser to run selectors in",[261,744,745],{},"None",[261,747,748],{},"Session and connect URL",[261,750,751],{},"Selectors that need interaction first",[261,753,754],{},"Per call, then time",[11,756,757,758,761,762,139],{},"Every row was verified with ",[23,759,760],{},"monid inspect"," on 2026-08-31. The table gives billing shape rather than figures; shape drives design and current numbers live on ",[86,763,765],{"href":764},"\u002Ftools","monid.ai\u002Ftools",[11,767,768],{},"The row worth noticing is the second. A page's JSON-LD block frequently contains the price, the name, the rating and the availability as structured data the site publishes on purpose, and reading it needs no selector at all. Checking for it before writing XPath is the cheapest thirty seconds in this whole discipline.",[95,770,772],{"id":771},"when-should-you-not-be-writing-xpath-at-all","When should you not be writing XPath at all?",[11,774,775],{},"Three cases, and the first is more common than it looks.",[11,777,778,781],{},[110,779,780],{},"The page already publishes structured data."," JSON-LD, microdata or an embedded state blob. Sites ship these for search engines and for their own front ends, and they are a documented contract in a way that markup is not. A scrape endpoint that returns the JSON-LD alongside the text hands you the fields without a single expression.",[11,783,784,787,788,792],{},[110,785,786],{},"Somebody else maintains the parser."," If a purpose-built endpoint covers your target, the selectors are their problem forever. That is the whole trade discussed in ",[86,789,791],{"href":790},"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fweb-scraping-tools-which-kind","Web Scraping Tools: Which Kind Do You Actually Need?",", and it is the right trade whenever the extraction is not itself your product.",[11,794,795,798],{},[110,796,797],{},"You can describe the fields instead."," An extract endpoint takes a JSON Schema and returns typed values, which moves the specification from \"where the element sits\" to \"what the field means\". That survives redesigns by construction, because nothing in the schema references the layout.",[11,800,801],{},"Where XPath remains the right answer: a site nobody has built for, markup with no structured data, extraction rules specific enough that they are part of your product, or a one-off pull where writing three expressions beats evaluating anything.",[11,803,804],{},"And the disclosure: you are reading Monid's blog and we sell extraction endpoints, so we have an interest in the third bullet. The dozen expressions above are still the right tool when you are writing them yourself, which is why they are on this page rather than a pitch.",[95,806,808],{"id":807},"conclusion","Conclusion",[11,810,811,812,814,815,306,817,819],{},"A useful XPath reference is short, because the expressions worth memorising are the ones that survive somebody else's redesign. Anchor on attributes that were put there on purpose, use ",[23,813,526],{}," by default rather than as a fix, know that ",[23,816,413],{},[23,818,139],{}," search different things, and parenthesise when you mean the first match on the page rather than the first within each parent.",[11,821,822],{},"The habit that matters more than any expression is checking what the page already publishes before writing a selector at all. A JSON-LD block gives you the price, the name and the availability as fields with names, and no redesign breaks it, because the site maintains it for its own reasons. The best XPath is frequently the one you did not have to write.",[11,824,825,826,829,830,139],{},"Free next step: fetch a page you were about to write selectors for and look at whether ",[23,827,828],{},"jsonLd"," came back populated. It costs a fraction of a cent and it settles in seconds whether you have a parsing job or a reading job. Start at ",[86,831,833],{"href":88,"rel":832},[90,91],"monid.ai",[95,835,837],{"id":836},"faq","FAQ",[839,840,842],"faq-item",{"q":841},"XPath or CSS selectors, which should you use?",[11,843,844],{},"CSS for anything it can express, because it is shorter, more readable and better understood by whoever maintains the code after you. XPath for the four things CSS genuinely cannot do: selecting by text content, walking up the tree, complex boolean predicates, and positional relationships to siblings. Most real extraction is a mix, and reaching for XPath when a class selector would do is how selector code becomes unreadable.",[839,846,848],{"q":847},"How do you test an XPath expression without running the scraper?",[11,849,850,853],{},[23,851,852],{},"$x(\"\u002F\u002Fyour\u002Fexpression\")"," in the browser console evaluates it against the live DOM and returns the matches, which is the fastest loop available. The caveat is that it runs against the rendered DOM, so an expression that works there can fail in a scraper that never executed JavaScript. If the two disagree, that is your answer about whether you have a rendering problem rather than a selector problem.",[839,855,857],{"q":856},"Is XPath 2.0 available in scraping libraries?",[11,858,859,860,420,863,420,866,869,870,420,873,420,876,878],{},"Usually not, and assuming otherwise is a common source of confusion. Most scraping stacks build on libxml2, which implements XPath 1.0, so ",[23,861,862],{},"matches()",[23,864,865],{},"ends-with()",[23,867,868],{},"tokenize()"," and the 2.0 sequence functions are unavailable. ",[23,871,872],{},"contains()",[23,874,875],{},"starts-with()",[23,877,526],{}," and the axes are all 1.0 and portable. When a copied expression fails for no visible reason, check whether it uses a 2.0 function before checking anything else.",[839,880,882],{"q":881},"How do you select a parent element in XPath?",[11,883,884,887,888,891,892,894],{},[23,885,886],{},"parent::*"," goes up one level and ",[23,889,890],{},"ancestor::tr"," goes up to the nearest matching ancestor, which is the one you usually want. This is the capability CSS lacks entirely and the reason XPath survives in extraction work: \"the table row containing the cell whose text is Total\" is a natural expression here and impossible there. The label-then-",[23,893,608],{}," pattern is worth learning as a unit, because label-value tables are everywhere.",[896,897,900],"tool-cta",{"category":898,"title":899},"web-extraction","Describe the fields, skip the selectors",[11,901,902],{},"Discover the extract endpoint, read its schema and current price for free, then run it against a page.",[11,904,905],{},[906,907,908],"em",{},"Last updated August 2026.",[910,911,912],"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 .sMK4o, html code.shiki .sMK4o{--shiki-light:#39ADB5;--shiki-default:#89DDFF;--shiki-dark:#89DDFF}html pre.shiki code .swJcz, html code.shiki .swJcz{--shiki-light:#E53935;--shiki-default:#F07178;--shiki-dark:#F07178}html pre.shiki code .sTEyZ, html code.shiki .sTEyZ{--shiki-light:#90A4AE;--shiki-default:#EEFFFF;--shiki-dark:#BABED8}",{"title":21,"searchDepth":498,"depth":498,"links":914},[915,919,924,930,939,940,941,942],{"id":97,"depth":498,"text":98,"children":916},[917,918],{"id":105,"depth":505,"text":106},{"id":142,"depth":505,"text":143},{"id":163,"depth":498,"text":164,"children":920},[921,922,923],{"id":170,"depth":505,"text":171},{"id":199,"depth":505,"text":200},{"id":234,"depth":505,"text":235},{"id":363,"depth":498,"text":364,"children":925},[926,927,928,929],{"id":370,"depth":505,"text":371},{"id":400,"depth":505,"text":401},{"id":429,"depth":505,"text":430},{"id":442,"depth":505,"text":443},{"id":455,"depth":498,"text":456,"children":931},[932,933,934,935,936,937,938],{"id":462,"depth":505,"text":463},{"id":472,"depth":505,"text":473},{"id":530,"depth":505,"text":531},{"id":544,"depth":505,"text":545},{"id":557,"depth":505,"text":558},{"id":567,"depth":505,"text":568},{"id":587,"depth":505,"text":588},{"id":629,"depth":498,"text":630},{"id":771,"depth":498,"text":772},{"id":807,"depth":498,"text":808},{"id":836,"depth":498,"text":837},"Search & RAG","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fxpath-cheat-sheet-for-scraping.png","Most XPath references list what the spec allows. This lists what still matches after a redesign, ranked by how long each anchor survives.",false,"md",null,"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fxpath-cheat-sheet-for-scraping-card.png",{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fguides\u002Fxpath-cheat-sheet-for-scraping","2026-08-31","11 min",{"title":5,"description":945},"blog\u002Fguides\u002Fxpath-cheat-sheet-for-scraping",[958,959,960,961,962],"xpath cheat sheet","xpath","css selectors","web extraction","scraping","VnmB9vsjZYnLC-KqUBbg7ky2grdfX3o85C_L0FbiGuA",[965,979,992,1006,1018,1030,1043,1055,1068,1080,1094,1106,1118,1130,1142,1154,1166,1168,1179,1191,1203,1213,1225,1236,1247,1258,1270,1279,1289,1298,1308,1320,1332,1345,1356,1366,1379,1388,1400,1411,1420,1430,1440,1450,1457,1464,1474,1485,1493,1504,1516,1523,1533,1541,1549,1559,1569,1580,1588,1597,1607,1618,1628,1638,1645,1655,1666,1675,1684,1695,1705,1713,1724,1734,1744,1752,1762,1772,1780,1789,1797,1807,1817,1829,1838,1848,1857,1866,1877,1886,1895,1903,1912,1921],{"path":966,"title":967,"description":968,"publishedAt":969,"author":6,"category":970,"tags":971,"readTime":954,"cover":977,"listingCover":978,"image":948},"\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",[972,973,974,975,976],"instagram engagement rate","follower count accuracy","influencer vetting","social data","instagram api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fare-instagram-engagement-trackers-accurate.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fare-instagram-engagement-trackers-accurate-card.png",{"path":980,"title":981,"description":982,"publishedAt":969,"author":6,"category":983,"tags":984,"readTime":954,"cover":990,"listingCover":991,"image":948},"\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",[985,986,987,988,989],"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":993,"title":994,"description":995,"publishedAt":969,"author":6,"category":996,"tags":997,"readTime":1003,"cover":1004,"listingCover":1005,"image":948},"\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",[998,999,1000,1001,1002],"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":1007,"title":1008,"description":1009,"publishedAt":969,"author":6,"category":983,"tags":1010,"readTime":954,"cover":1016,"listingCover":1017,"image":948},"\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.",[1011,1012,1013,1014,1015],"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":1019,"title":1020,"description":1021,"publishedAt":969,"author":6,"category":996,"tags":1022,"readTime":1003,"cover":1028,"listingCover":1029,"image":948},"\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.",[1023,1024,1025,1026,1027],"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":1031,"title":1032,"description":1033,"publishedAt":1034,"author":6,"category":996,"tags":1035,"readTime":1003,"cover":1041,"listingCover":1042,"image":948},"\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",[1036,1037,1038,1039,1040],"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":1044,"title":1045,"description":1046,"publishedAt":1034,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1047,"readTime":954,"cover":1053,"listingCover":1054,"image":948},"\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.",[1048,1049,1050,1051,1052],"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":1056,"title":1057,"description":1058,"publishedAt":1034,"author":6,"category":1059,"tags":1060,"readTime":1003,"cover":1066,"listingCover":1067,"image":948},"\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",[1061,1062,1063,1064,1065],"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":1069,"title":1070,"description":1071,"publishedAt":1034,"author":6,"category":996,"tags":1072,"readTime":954,"cover":1078,"listingCover":1079,"image":948},"\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.",[1073,1074,1075,1076,1077],"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":1081,"title":1082,"description":1083,"publishedAt":1084,"author":6,"category":1085,"tags":1086,"readTime":954,"cover":1092,"listingCover":1093,"image":948},"\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",[1087,1088,1089,1090,1091],"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":1095,"title":1096,"description":1097,"publishedAt":1084,"author":6,"category":996,"tags":1098,"readTime":1003,"cover":1104,"listingCover":1105,"image":948},"\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.",[1099,1100,1101,1102,1103],"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":1107,"title":1108,"description":1109,"publishedAt":1084,"author":6,"category":983,"tags":1110,"readTime":954,"cover":1116,"listingCover":1117,"image":948},"\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.",[1111,1112,1113,1114,1115],"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":1119,"title":1120,"description":1121,"publishedAt":1084,"author":6,"category":996,"tags":1122,"readTime":1003,"cover":1128,"listingCover":1129,"image":948},"\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.",[1123,1124,1125,1126,1127],"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":1131,"title":1132,"description":1133,"publishedAt":953,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1134,"readTime":1139,"cover":1140,"listingCover":1141,"image":948},"\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.",[1135,1136,1137,961,1138],"c# web scraping","htmlagilitypack","dotnet","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":1143,"title":1144,"description":1145,"publishedAt":953,"author":6,"category":983,"tags":1146,"readTime":954,"cover":1152,"listingCover":1153,"image":948},"\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.",[1147,1148,1149,1150,1151],"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":1155,"title":1156,"description":1157,"publishedAt":953,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1158,"readTime":954,"cover":1164,"listingCover":1165,"image":948},"\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.",[1159,1160,1161,1162,1163],"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":952,"title":5,"description":945,"publishedAt":953,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1167,"readTime":954,"cover":944,"listingCover":949,"image":948},[958,959,960,961,962],{"path":1169,"title":1170,"description":1171,"publishedAt":953,"author":6,"category":1059,"tags":1172,"readTime":954,"cover":1177,"listingCover":1178,"image":948},"\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.",[1173,1174,1063,1175,1176],"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":1180,"title":1181,"description":1182,"publishedAt":1183,"author":6,"category":1184,"tags":1185,"readTime":954,"cover":1189,"listingCover":1190,"image":948},"\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",[1186,1187,1188,1163],"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":1192,"title":1193,"description":1194,"publishedAt":1183,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1195,"readTime":954,"cover":1201,"listingCover":1202,"image":948},"\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.",[1196,1197,1198,1199,1200],"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":1204,"title":1205,"description":1206,"publishedAt":1183,"author":6,"category":996,"tags":1207,"readTime":954,"cover":1211,"listingCover":1212,"image":948},"\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.",[1127,1208,1209,1210,1163],"antidetect browser","nodriver","no api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbrowser-automation-without-an-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbrowser-automation-without-an-api-card.png",{"path":1214,"title":1215,"description":1216,"publishedAt":1183,"author":6,"category":983,"tags":1217,"readTime":954,"cover":1223,"listingCover":1224,"image":948},"\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.",[1218,1219,1220,1221,1222],"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":1226,"title":1227,"description":1228,"publishedAt":1183,"author":6,"category":983,"tags":1229,"readTime":954,"cover":1234,"listingCover":1235,"image":948},"\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.",[1230,1231,1232,1233],"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":1237,"title":1238,"description":1239,"publishedAt":1183,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1240,"readTime":1139,"cover":1245,"listingCover":1246,"image":948},"\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.",[1241,1242,1243,1244,961],"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":1248,"title":1249,"description":1250,"publishedAt":1183,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1251,"readTime":954,"cover":1256,"listingCover":1257,"image":948},"\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.",[1252,1253,1254,1200,1255],"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":1259,"title":1260,"description":1261,"publishedAt":1262,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1263,"readTime":954,"cover":1268,"listingCover":1269,"image":948},"\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",[1264,1265,1266,1267,1200],"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":582,"title":1271,"description":1272,"publishedAt":1262,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1273,"readTime":954,"cover":1277,"listingCover":1278,"image":948},"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.",[1274,1198,1200,1275,1276],"google search url parameters","udm","search operators","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fgoogle-search-url-parameters.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fgoogle-search-url-parameters-card.png",{"path":1280,"title":1281,"description":1282,"publishedAt":1262,"author":6,"category":970,"tags":1283,"readTime":954,"cover":1287,"listingCover":1288,"image":948},"\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.",[976,1284,975,1285,1286],"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":1290,"title":1291,"description":1292,"publishedAt":1262,"author":6,"category":970,"tags":1293,"readTime":954,"cover":1296,"listingCover":1297,"image":948},"\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.",[1294,1295,975,1285,1286],"tiktok scraper","tiktok api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-scraper-which-endpoint.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-scraper-which-endpoint-card.png",{"path":1299,"title":1300,"description":1301,"publishedAt":1262,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1302,"readTime":954,"cover":1306,"listingCover":1307,"image":948},"\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.",[1303,1304,1161,1305,1162],"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":1309,"title":1310,"description":1311,"publishedAt":1312,"author":6,"category":996,"tags":1313,"readTime":954,"cover":1318,"listingCover":1319,"image":948},"\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",[1314,1315,1163,1316,1317],"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":1321,"title":1322,"description":1323,"publishedAt":1312,"author":6,"category":983,"tags":1324,"readTime":954,"cover":1330,"listingCover":1331,"image":948},"\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.",[1325,1326,1327,1328,1329],"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":1333,"title":1334,"description":1335,"publishedAt":1312,"author":6,"category":1336,"tags":1337,"readTime":1139,"cover":1343,"listingCover":1344,"image":948},"\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",[1338,1339,1340,1341,1342],"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":1346,"title":1347,"description":1348,"publishedAt":1312,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1349,"readTime":954,"cover":1354,"listingCover":1355,"image":948},"\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.",[1350,1351,1352,1353,1265],"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":1357,"title":1358,"description":1359,"publishedAt":1312,"author":6,"category":1336,"tags":1360,"readTime":954,"cover":1364,"listingCover":1365,"image":948},"\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.",[1361,1362,1363,1163],"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":1367,"title":1368,"description":1369,"publishedAt":1370,"author":6,"category":983,"tags":1371,"readTime":954,"cover":1377,"listingCover":1378,"image":948},"\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",[1372,1373,1374,1375,1376],"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":577,"title":578,"description":1380,"publishedAt":1370,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1381,"readTime":954,"cover":1386,"listingCover":1387,"image":948},"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.",[1382,1383,1267,1384,1385],"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":1389,"title":1390,"description":1391,"publishedAt":1370,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1392,"readTime":1003,"cover":1398,"listingCover":1399,"image":948},"\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.",[1393,1394,1395,1396,1397],"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":1401,"title":1402,"description":1403,"publishedAt":1370,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1404,"readTime":954,"cover":1409,"listingCover":1410,"image":948},"\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.",[1405,1406,1267,1407,1408],"news scraping","news api","media monitoring","web search","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-news-articles.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-news-articles-card.png",{"path":1412,"title":1413,"description":1414,"publishedAt":1370,"author":6,"category":970,"tags":1415,"readTime":954,"cover":1418,"listingCover":1419,"image":948},"\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.",[1416,1417,975,1286,1285],"youtube scraper","youtube data api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fyoutube-scraper-past-the-quota.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fyoutube-scraper-past-the-quota-card.png",{"path":1421,"title":1422,"description":1423,"publishedAt":1424,"author":6,"category":996,"tags":1425,"readTime":1003,"cover":1428,"listingCover":1429,"image":948},"\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",[1426,1127,1163,1138,1427],"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":1431,"title":1432,"description":1433,"publishedAt":1424,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1434,"readTime":1003,"cover":1438,"listingCover":1439,"image":948},"\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.",[1435,1436,1102,1163,1437],"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":1441,"title":1442,"description":1443,"publishedAt":1424,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1444,"readTime":1003,"cover":1448,"listingCover":1449,"image":948},"\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.",[1445,1102,1446,1447,1163],"python","beautifulsoup","selenium","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fpython-web-scraping-without-a-scraper.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fpython-web-scraping-without-a-scraper-card.png",{"path":1451,"title":1452,"description":1453,"publishedAt":1424,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1454,"readTime":1003,"cover":1455,"listingCover":1456,"image":948},"\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.",[1198,1265,1408,1163,1267],"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fserp-api-for-ai-agents.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fserp-api-for-ai-agents-card.png",{"path":790,"title":791,"description":1458,"publishedAt":1424,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1459,"readTime":1003,"cover":1462,"listingCover":1463,"image":948},"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.",[1460,1461,1162,1163,1286],"web scraping tools","no code scraper","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-tools-which-kind.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-tools-which-kind-card.png",{"path":1465,"title":1466,"description":1467,"publishedAt":1468,"author":6,"category":1085,"tags":1469,"readTime":1003,"cover":1472,"listingCover":1473,"image":948},"\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",[1470,1163,1089,1471],"agentic commerce","autonomous business","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fautonomous-store-agent-outside-data.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fautonomous-store-agent-outside-data-card.png",{"path":1475,"title":1476,"description":1477,"publishedAt":1468,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1478,"readTime":1003,"cover":1483,"listingCover":1484,"image":948},"\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.",[1479,1480,1481,1267,1482],"search","web","api","agents","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbing-search-api-retired-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbing-search-api-retired-alternatives-card.png",{"path":621,"title":622,"description":1486,"publishedAt":1468,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1487,"readTime":954,"cover":1491,"listingCover":1492,"image":948},"PDFs, Office files and HTML all become one clean format before chunking. Where the pipeline actually breaks, and which endpoint handles which format.",[1267,1488,1489,1490,1384],"embeddings","pdf","ocr","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fingest-mixed-documents-llm-embedding.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fingest-mixed-documents-llm-embedding-card.png",{"path":1494,"title":1495,"description":1496,"publishedAt":1468,"author":6,"category":970,"tags":1497,"readTime":1003,"cover":1502,"listingCover":1503,"image":948},"\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.",[1498,1499,1481,1500,1501],"instagram","social","creators","engagement","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Finstagram-follower-engagement-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Finstagram-follower-engagement-api-card.png",{"path":1505,"title":1506,"description":1507,"publishedAt":1468,"author":6,"category":996,"tags":1508,"readTime":1003,"cover":1514,"listingCover":1515,"image":948},"\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.",[1509,1510,1511,1512,1513],"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":1517,"title":1518,"description":1519,"publishedAt":1468,"author":6,"category":996,"tags":1520,"readTime":1003,"cover":1521,"listingCover":1522,"image":948},"\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.",[1511,1481,1512,1163,1317],"\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmcp-vs-api-for-ai-agents.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmcp-vs-api-for-ai-agents-card.png",{"path":1524,"title":1525,"description":1526,"publishedAt":1468,"author":6,"category":996,"tags":1527,"readTime":954,"cover":1531,"listingCover":1532,"image":948},"\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.",[1528,1529,1530,962,1482],"n8n","automation","enrichment","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fn8n-data-layer-scraping-enrichment.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fn8n-data-layer-scraping-enrichment-card.png",{"path":1534,"title":1535,"description":1536,"publishedAt":1468,"author":6,"category":996,"tags":1537,"readTime":1003,"cover":1539,"listingCover":1540,"image":948},"\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.",[1538,1509,1512,1511,1513],"openrouter","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fopenrouter-alternatives-after-stripe.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fopenrouter-alternatives-after-stripe-card.png",{"path":1542,"title":1543,"description":1544,"publishedAt":1468,"author":6,"category":996,"tags":1545,"readTime":1003,"cover":1547,"listingCover":1548,"image":948},"\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.",[1538,1511,1512,1546,1317],"claude code","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fopenrouter-mcp-server-tool-layer.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fopenrouter-mcp-server-tool-layer-card.png",{"path":1550,"title":1551,"description":1552,"publishedAt":1468,"author":6,"category":983,"tags":1553,"readTime":1003,"cover":1557,"listingCover":1558,"image":948},"\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.",[1554,1555,1556,1163],"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":1560,"title":1561,"description":1562,"publishedAt":1468,"author":6,"category":983,"tags":1563,"readTime":1003,"cover":1567,"listingCover":1568,"image":948},"\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.",[1564,1530,1481,1565,1566],"linkedin","sales","leads","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fproxycurl-shutdown-linkedin-data-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fproxycurl-shutdown-linkedin-data-alternatives-card.png",{"path":1570,"title":1571,"description":1572,"publishedAt":1468,"author":6,"category":970,"tags":1573,"readTime":1003,"cover":1578,"listingCover":1579,"image":948},"\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.",[1574,1575,1576,1577],"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":1581,"title":1582,"description":1583,"publishedAt":1468,"author":6,"category":970,"tags":1584,"readTime":1003,"cover":1586,"listingCover":1587,"image":948},"\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.",[1294,1585,1576,1575],"content audit","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-scraper-catalogue-audit.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftiktok-scraper-catalogue-audit-card.png",{"path":1589,"title":1590,"description":1591,"publishedAt":1468,"author":6,"category":996,"tags":1592,"readTime":1594,"cover":1595,"listingCover":1596,"image":948},"\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.",[1511,1593,1512,1163,1513],"mcp gateway","13 min","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-is-an-mcp-gateway.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-is-an-mcp-gateway-card.png",{"path":1598,"title":1599,"description":1600,"publishedAt":1468,"author":6,"category":970,"tags":1601,"readTime":1003,"cover":1605,"listingCover":1606,"image":948},"\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.",[1602,1603,1149,1604],"twitter scraper","x api","lead generation","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fx-intent-search-social-selling.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fx-intent-search-social-selling-card.png",{"path":1608,"title":1609,"description":1610,"publishedAt":1611,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1612,"readTime":954,"cover":1616,"listingCover":1617,"image":948},"\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",[1613,1102,1614,1615],"apify alternatives","actors","pay per call","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapify-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapify-alternatives-card.png",{"path":1619,"title":1620,"description":1621,"publishedAt":1611,"author":6,"category":1085,"tags":1622,"readTime":954,"cover":1626,"listingCover":1627,"image":948},"\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.",[1623,1624,1625,1163],"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":1629,"title":1630,"description":1631,"publishedAt":1611,"author":6,"category":983,"tags":1632,"readTime":954,"cover":1636,"listingCover":1637,"image":948},"\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.",[1633,1376,1634,1635],"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":159,"title":160,"description":1639,"publishedAt":1611,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1640,"readTime":954,"cover":1643,"listingCover":1644,"image":948},"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.",[1267,961,1641,1642],"chunking","llm context","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ffree-api-extract-page-content-rag.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ffree-api-extract-page-content-rag-card.png",{"path":1646,"title":1647,"description":1648,"publishedAt":1611,"author":6,"category":1059,"tags":1649,"readTime":954,"cover":1653,"listingCover":1654,"image":948},"\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.",[1650,1651,1286,1652],"google maps scraper","local leads","lead list","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fgoogle-maps-scraper-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fgoogle-maps-scraper-alternatives-card.png",{"path":1656,"title":1657,"description":1658,"publishedAt":1611,"author":6,"category":1184,"tags":1659,"readTime":954,"cover":1664,"listingCover":1665,"image":948},"\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.",[1660,1661,1662,1663],"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":1667,"title":1668,"description":1669,"publishedAt":1670,"author":6,"category":996,"tags":1671,"readTime":954,"cover":1673,"listingCover":1674,"image":948},"\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",[1163,1672,1512,1511],"model gateway","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fai-agent-needs-two-integrations.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fai-agent-needs-two-integrations-card.png",{"path":1676,"title":1677,"description":1678,"publishedAt":1670,"author":6,"category":996,"tags":1679,"readTime":954,"cover":1682,"listingCover":1683,"image":948},"\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.",[1680,1163,1511,1681],"api marketplace","tool use","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapi-marketplace-for-ai-agents.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapi-marketplace-for-ai-agents-card.png",{"path":1685,"title":1686,"description":1687,"publishedAt":1670,"author":6,"category":983,"tags":1688,"readTime":954,"cover":1693,"listingCover":1694,"image":948},"\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.",[1689,1690,1691,1692],"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":1696,"title":1697,"description":1698,"publishedAt":1670,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1699,"readTime":954,"cover":1703,"listingCover":1704,"image":948},"\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.",[1102,1700,1701,1702],"cloudflare","proxies","blocked","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fscraper-blocked-what-gets-through.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fscraper-blocked-what-gets-through-card.png",{"path":1706,"title":1707,"description":1708,"publishedAt":1670,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1709,"readTime":954,"cover":1711,"listingCover":1712,"image":948},"\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.",[1710,1163,1511,1529],"web scraping api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-api-for-ai-agents.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fweb-scraping-api-for-ai-agents-card.png",{"path":1714,"title":1715,"description":1716,"publishedAt":1717,"author":6,"category":983,"tags":1718,"readTime":954,"cover":1722,"listingCover":1723,"image":948},"\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",[1719,1720,1721,1530],"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":1725,"title":1726,"description":1727,"publishedAt":1717,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1728,"readTime":954,"cover":1732,"listingCover":1733,"image":948},"\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.",[1729,1730,1407,1731],"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":1735,"title":1736,"description":1737,"publishedAt":1717,"author":6,"category":983,"tags":1738,"readTime":954,"cover":1742,"listingCover":1743,"image":948},"\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.",[1739,1740,1741,1374],"crunchbase api","pitchbook api","funding data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fcrunchbase-api-alternatives-funding-data.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fcrunchbase-api-alternatives-funding-data-card.png",{"path":1745,"title":1746,"description":1747,"publishedAt":1717,"author":6,"category":983,"tags":1748,"readTime":954,"cover":1750,"listingCover":1751,"image":948},"\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.",[1221,1222,1749,1329],"jobs data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fjob-postings-api-hiring-signals.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fjob-postings-api-hiring-signals-card.png",{"path":1753,"title":1754,"description":1755,"publishedAt":1717,"author":6,"category":983,"tags":1756,"readTime":954,"cover":1760,"listingCover":1761,"image":948},"\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.",[1757,1758,1759,1329],"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":1763,"title":1764,"description":1765,"publishedAt":1766,"author":6,"category":970,"tags":1767,"readTime":954,"cover":1770,"listingCover":1771,"image":948},"\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",[1768,975,1769,1498],"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":1773,"title":1774,"description":1775,"publishedAt":1766,"author":6,"category":943,"tags":1776,"readTime":954,"cover":1778,"listingCover":1779,"image":948},"\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.",[1315,1163,1316,1777],"model context protocol","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmcp-server-live-web-data-agents.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fmcp-server-live-web-data-agents-card.png",{"path":1781,"title":1782,"description":1783,"publishedAt":1766,"author":6,"category":996,"tags":1784,"readTime":1139,"cover":1787,"listingCover":1788,"image":948},"\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.",[1615,1785,1680,1786],"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":1790,"title":1791,"description":1792,"publishedAt":1766,"author":6,"category":983,"tags":1793,"readTime":954,"cover":1795,"listingCover":1796,"image":948},"\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.",[1376,1794,1375,1372],"apollo alternatives","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fpeople-data-labs-apollo-zoominfo-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fpeople-data-labs-apollo-zoominfo-alternatives-card.png",{"path":1798,"title":1799,"description":1800,"publishedAt":1766,"author":6,"category":970,"tags":1801,"readTime":1139,"cover":1805,"listingCover":1806,"image":948},"\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.",[1802,1803,1804,1613],"reddit api","reddit scraper","social listening","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freddit-scraping-api-alternatives.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freddit-scraping-api-alternatives-card.png",{"path":1808,"title":1809,"description":1810,"publishedAt":1811,"author":6,"category":983,"tags":1812,"readTime":954,"cover":1815,"listingCover":1816,"image":948},"\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",[1813,1564,1565,1814],"linkedin scraper api","data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-linkedin-scraper-api-2026.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-linkedin-scraper-api-2026-card.png",{"path":1818,"title":1819,"description":1820,"publishedAt":1821,"author":6,"category":983,"tags":1822,"readTime":954,"cover":1827,"listingCover":1828,"image":948},"\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",[1823,1824,1825,1826],"apollo scraper","apollo.io","lead-generation","b2b-data","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapollo-scraper.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapollo-scraper-card.png",{"path":1830,"title":1831,"description":1832,"publishedAt":1821,"author":6,"category":970,"tags":1833,"readTime":954,"cover":1836,"listingCover":1837,"image":948},"\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.",[1803,1834,1835,1499],"reddit data api","web-scraping","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freddit-scraper.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Freddit-scraper-card.png",{"path":1839,"title":1840,"description":1841,"publishedAt":1821,"author":6,"category":983,"tags":1842,"readTime":1139,"cover":1846,"listingCover":1847,"image":948},"\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.",[1843,1844,1845,1826],"technographic data api","tech stack","company-enrichment","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftechnographic-data-api.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Ftechnographic-data-api-card.png",{"path":1849,"title":1850,"description":1851,"publishedAt":1852,"author":6,"category":970,"tags":1853,"readTime":954,"cover":1855,"listingCover":1856,"image":948},"\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",[1854,1498,1835,1482],"apify instagram scraper","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapify-instagram-scraper.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fapify-instagram-scraper-card.png",{"path":1858,"title":1859,"description":1860,"publishedAt":1861,"author":6,"category":983,"tags":1862,"readTime":1003,"cover":1864,"listingCover":1865,"image":948},"\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",[1863,1564,1565,1814],"linkedin outreach","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-linkedin-outreach-tools-2026.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-linkedin-outreach-tools-2026-card.png",{"path":1867,"title":1868,"description":1869,"publishedAt":1870,"author":6,"category":1085,"tags":1871,"readTime":1874,"cover":1875,"listingCover":1876,"image":948},"\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",[1872,1873,1814,1625],"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":1878,"title":1879,"description":1880,"publishedAt":1881,"author":6,"category":1085,"tags":1882,"readTime":1594,"cover":1884,"listingCover":1885,"image":948},"\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",[1883,1814,1482,1625],"amazon reviews api","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-amazon-reviews-api-2026.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-amazon-reviews-api-2026-card.png",{"path":1887,"title":1888,"description":1889,"publishedAt":1881,"author":6,"category":983,"tags":1890,"readTime":1003,"cover":1893,"listingCover":1894,"image":948},"\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.",[1891,1814,1482,1892],"email verification api","email","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-email-verification-api-2026.png","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-email-verification-api-2026-card.png",{"path":1896,"title":1897,"description":21,"publishedAt":1898,"author":948,"category":996,"tags":1899,"readTime":948,"cover":1902,"listingCover":948,"image":948},"\u002Fblog\u002Fakta-pro-is-now-available-on-monid","Akta Pro Is Now Available On Monid","2026-07-07",[1482,1900,1901,1814],"partner-tools","private-markets","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fakta-pro-is-now-available-on-monid-v2.png",{"path":1904,"title":1905,"description":1906,"publishedAt":1907,"author":948,"category":996,"tags":1908,"readTime":948,"cover":1911,"listingCover":948,"image":948},"\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",[1482,1900,1909,1910],"voice","phone","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fyour-claude-code-can-now-make-phone-calls.png",{"path":1913,"title":1914,"description":1915,"publishedAt":1916,"author":948,"category":996,"tags":1917,"readTime":948,"cover":1920,"listingCover":948,"image":948},"\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",[1918,1482,1919],"3d","creative-tools","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fintroducing-suzanne-chatgpt-for-3d-models.png",{"path":1922,"title":1923,"description":1924,"publishedAt":1925,"author":948,"category":996,"tags":1926,"readTime":948,"cover":1929,"listingCover":948,"image":948},"\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",[1482,1919,1927,1928],"image-generation","music-generation","\u002Fimg\u002Fblog\u002Fminimax-is-now-available-on-monid.png",1788552968354]