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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.
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.
Google SERP Tracker and Analysis: Which SERP API Do You Need?
A SERP API is three products under one name. Tracking needs two rank fields; analysis needs the blocks around them, and one was missing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.