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The Best Web Scraping API for AI Agents in 2026
Search & RAGAug 18, 2026

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.

Company Website API: Find a Company's Homepage by Name
Sales & enrichmentAug 17, 2026

Company Website API: Find a Company's Homepage by Name

Find a company's website from its name with one API call: a lookup that returns candidates, how to pick the right row, and how to run a whole list.

Press Release API: Read a Company's Releases and News
Search & RAGAug 17, 2026

Press Release API: Read a Company's Releases and News

Get the press releases and news about any company through an API: resolve the name, pull articles with summaries, sentiment and a press-release flag.

Crunchbase API Alternatives: Startup Funding Data by Call
Sales & enrichmentAug 17, 2026

Crunchbase API Alternatives: Startup Funding Data by Call

Get startup funding data for a list of companies without a Crunchbase seat: resolve, enrich and watch funding news from your agent, billed per call.

Job Postings API: Pull Hiring Signals for Any Company
Sales & enrichmentAug 17, 2026

Job Postings API: Pull Hiring Signals for Any Company

Get job postings as data, for a role in a city or for one company, with the fields that come back and the traps in them. Billed per call from your agent.

Technographic Data Platforms vs API Calls: Which to Buy
Sales & enrichmentAug 17, 2026

Technographic Data Platforms vs API Calls: Which to Buy

Compare technographic data platforms with per-call tech stack detection, and see which signals reach the application layer, billed per call.

Social Media Scraping API: TikTok, Instagram, X and More
Social dataAug 14, 2026

Social Media Scraping API: TikTok, Instagram, X and More

Pull posts and profiles from TikTok, Instagram, X, YouTube and LinkedIn through one key, with the fields each endpoint returned and the traps in them.

Web Scraping MCP Server: Live Web Data for Your Agent
Search & RAGAug 14, 2026

Web Scraping MCP Server: Live Web Data for Your Agent

Connect a web scraping MCP server to Claude Code, Codex or ChatGPT and let your agent search, scrape and read live pages, billed per call.

Pay-Per-Call Data API vs Subscription: Which Fits Your Usage?
ProductAug 14, 2026

Pay-Per-Call Data API vs Subscription: Which Fits Your Usage?

Choose between a pay-per-call data API and a subscription by how your usage runs. Billing shapes, a worked per-call bill, and when a plan still wins.

ZoomInfo Competitors: People Data Labs, Apollo, and What to Buy
Sales & enrichmentAug 14, 2026

ZoomInfo Competitors: People Data Labs, Apollo, and What to Buy

ZoomInfo competitors split into three jobs: search, enrich, contract. What each is genuinely best at, and why the price gap is not what it looks like.

Reddit Scraping API: Get Posts and Comments Without Apify
Social dataAug 14, 2026

Reddit Scraping API: Get Posts and Comments Without Apify

Pull Reddit posts, comments and keyword search results with one key and no Reddit app, billed per call, and see what each response really contains.

LinkedIn Scraper API: Get Company, People and Job Data
Sales & enrichmentAug 12, 2026

LinkedIn Scraper API: Get Company, People and Job Data

Use a LinkedIn scraper API to pull company profiles, employee lists, job postings and posts without handing over your account, billed per call.

Apollo Scraper Alternative: Export Apollo.io Leads by API
Sales & enrichmentAug 10, 2026

Apollo Scraper Alternative: Export Apollo.io Leads by API

Skip the Apollo scraper extension: search Apollo's people database for free, then reveal verified emails only for the leads you pick, billed per call.

Reddit API Without a Key: Subreddit Stats, Rules, Top Posts
Social dataAug 10, 2026

Reddit API Without a Key: Subreddit Stats, Rules, Top Posts

Get a subreddit's members, weekly active users and rules, plus the top posts site-wide, from Reddit with one key and no registered app.

Technographic Data API: Detect the Tech Stack of Any Domain
Sales & enrichmentAug 10, 2026

Technographic Data API: Detect the Tech Stack of Any Domain

Get technographic data for one domain or a whole list: CMS, framework, CDN and analytics with the evidence behind each, billed per call.

Apify Instagram Scraper: Posts, Reels and Profiles Per Call
Social dataAug 4, 2026

Apify Instagram Scraper: Posts, Reels and Profiles Per Call

Which Apify Instagram scraper pulls posts, reels, hashtags and profiles, what each record contains, and how to run them from your agent, billed per result.

LinkedIn Outreach Tools: Build a Verified List First
Sales & enrichmentJul 29, 2026

LinkedIn Outreach Tools: Build a Verified List First

What LinkedIn outreach tools do and don't do, and how to prepare a clean, verified prospect list from your agent before any message goes out.

Amazon PA-API Alternative: Get Prices, Search and Reviews
EcommerceJul 21, 2026

Amazon PA-API Alternative: Get Prices, Search and Reviews

Replace the retired Amazon PA-API with search, product-detail and review calls on one key, tested live on 2026-10-16, billed per result.

Amazon Reviews API: Pull All Reviews for a List of ASINs
EcommerceJul 9, 2026

Amazon Reviews API: Pull All Reviews for a List of ASINs

Get Amazon review text, ratings and verified-purchase flags for one ASIN or a whole list, with one key, billed per review.

Email Verification API: Check Any Address, Billed per Call
Sales & enrichmentJul 9, 2026

Email Verification API: Check Any Address, Billed per Call

Verify one email address or a whole list through an API: what each check returns, how to loop it, and where a verifier stops helping.

Akta Pro Is Now Available On Monid
ProductJul 7, 2026

Akta Pro Is Now Available On Monid

Your Claude Code can now make phone calls
ProductJul 5, 2026

Your Claude Code can now make phone calls

Saperly is now available on Monid. Your agent can now make phone calls for you.

Introducing
Claude for 3D models
ProductJun 25, 2026

Introducing Claude for 3D models

Suzanne is now available on Monid. Turn any idea into a production-ready 3D model in one prompt.

MiniMax is now available on Monid
ProductJun 24, 2026

MiniMax is now available on Monid

Create images and music with MiniMax models through Monid.