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Brave Search API Key: Get One, Or Search Without One
SEO, GEO and newsAug 27, 2026

Brave Search API Key: Get One, Or Search Without One

How to get a Brave Search API key, what the free credits cover, and how to run web search from your agent with one key and no per-vendor signup.

Google Search URL Parameters: The List and How to Use It
SEO, GEO and newsAug 27, 2026

Google Search URL Parameters: The List and How to Use It

The Google search URL parameters that work (q, hl, gl, start, udm, tbs), what changed with num, and how to get the same results as JSON from your agent.

Instagram API: Which One to Use for Profiles and Search
Social and creatorsAug 27, 2026

Instagram API: Which One to Use for Profiles and Search

Pick the right Instagram API for profile lookups, search and recent posts. Three endpoints run on one public account: fields, speed and billing.

TikTok Scraper: Which Endpoint for Profiles, Videos, Comments
Social and creatorsAug 27, 2026

TikTok Scraper: Which Endpoint for Profiles, Videos, Comments

Pick the right TikTok scraper endpoint for a creator's posts, one video, comments or keyword search, with the fields each one returned when we ran it.

Web Scraping Services: Hire One or Pay Per Call?
Reading the web, and agentsAug 27, 2026

Web Scraping Services: Hire One or Pay Per Call?

Need web data without hiring a scraping service? List a site's URLs, crawl pages into markdown and read the output, billed per call with no contract.

Bright Data MCP Server: What You Install and What It Costs
Reading the web, and agentsAug 26, 2026

Bright Data MCP Server: What You Install and What It Costs

What the Bright Data MCP server puts in your agent, how to connect it to Claude Code, what the free tier covers, and a pay-per-call way to read web pages.

Clay Alternatives: Build Waterfall Enrichment With APIs
Sales and GTMAug 26, 2026

Clay Alternatives: Build Waterfall Enrichment With APIs

Replace Clay's waterfall with a short loop: find a work email, verify it, and fall through to a second provider on a miss, billed per call.

ElevenLabs Alternatives: Test Other Voices on One Key
Generating mediaAug 26, 2026

ElevenLabs Alternatives: Test Other Voices on One Key

Looking for an ElevenLabs alternative? Sort the complaint first, then try other text to speech voices from your agent, billed per call on one balance.

Rank Tracking API: Track Keyword Positions Over Time
SEO, GEO and newsAug 26, 2026

Rank Tracking API: Track Keyword Positions Over Time

Track keyword positions with one API call per keyword, then store the position plus the parameters and page shape so the series stays comparable.

Streaming vs Batch Text to Speech for a Voice Agent
Generating mediaAug 26, 2026

Streaming vs Batch Text to Speech for a Voice Agent

Streaming or batch text to speech for a voice agent? Which jobs need live audio, which need a finished file, and how to run the batch side from your agent.

B2B Data Provider API: Enrich Companies Without a Seat
Sales and GTMAug 25, 2026

B2B Data Provider API: Enrich Companies Without a Seat

Choose between a B2B dataset, a seat and a per-call API, then enrich a list of companies from your agent, billed per call with no contract.

Crawl4AI API: Crawl a Site to Markdown Without Hosting
Reading the web, and agentsAug 25, 2026

Crawl4AI API: Crawl a Site to Markdown Without Hosting

Crawl4AI is a library with no API key. Crawl a whole site to one Markdown document per page from your agent, billed per page returned.

Is Web Scraping Legal? Your Options for Getting Page Data
Reading the web, and agentsAug 25, 2026

Is Web Scraping Legal? Your Options for Getting Page Data

Web scraping rules differ by country and by use. Here are the practical routes: public pages, official APIs, licensed data or a provider, billed per call.

Web Scraping News Articles: Get Clean Text, Author and Date
SEO, GEO and newsAug 25, 2026

Web Scraping News Articles: Get Clean Text, Author and Date

Scrape news articles into clean Markdown with title, author and publish date, or search for articles on a topic first. One key, billed per call.

YouTube Scraper API: Search, Channels and Comments in Code
Social and creatorsAug 25, 2026

YouTube Scraper API: Search, Channels and Comments in Code

Search YouTube, list a channel's videos and pull stats and comments with one key, billed per call. We ran every endpoint live on 2026-10-16.

Agentic Browser: Which Kind You Need and When an Agent Skips It
Reading the web, and agentsAug 21, 2026

Agentic Browser: Which Kind You Need and When an Agent Skips It

Agentic browser means two products: an app you sit in front of, or a remote browser your agent drives. Learn which one fits and when a fetch is enough.

Rotating Proxy for AI Agents: Do You Need One or a Fetch Call?
Reading the web, and agentsAug 21, 2026

Rotating Proxy for AI Agents: Do You Need One or a Fetch Call?

Rotating proxy for an AI agent: what it does, how to rotate in Python, and the fetch call that picks the exit country for you, billed per page.

Python Web Scraping Without a Scraper: Fetch Any Page as Data
Reading the web, and agentsAug 21, 2026

Python Web Scraping Without a Scraper: Fetch Any Page as Data

Scrape pages in Python without running browsers or proxies: fetch rendered HTML or markdown with one call, then parse with BeautifulSoup and pandas.

SERP API for AI Agents: Track and Analyze Google Results
SEO, GEO and newsAug 21, 2026

SERP API for AI Agents: Track and Analyze Google Results

Call a SERP API from your AI agent: ranked Google results with rank fields, search plus page text, and a free fetch, on one key billed per call.

Web Scraping Tools: Which Kind to Use and How to Start
Reading the web, and agentsAug 21, 2026

Web Scraping Tools: Which Kind to Use and How to Start

Pick a web scraping tool by who operates it, then run one from your agent: pay per call, no minimum top-up, with the output and the traps we saw live.

Agentic Commerce: Get Your Store Agent Market Data
Commerce and pricingAug 20, 2026

Agentic Commerce: Get Your Store Agent Market Data

An agentic commerce store agent can build a store from one sentence but cannot see the market. Pull competitor prices, reviews and keywords in one call.

Bing Search API Alternative: Search Results per Call
SEO, GEO and newsAug 20, 2026

Bing Search API Alternative: Search Results per Call

The Bing Search API is retired. Replace it with one search call from your agent, see the fields that come back, and pick an endpoint for each job.

PDF to Markdown API: Convert a Mixed Folder for Embedding
Reading the web, and agentsAug 20, 2026

PDF to Markdown API: Convert a Mixed Folder for Embedding

Convert PDF, Word and Excel files to Markdown with one API call each, and see what a real run returned, from scanned pages to footnotes turned headings.

Instagram Followers API: Get Follower Counts and Lists
Social and creatorsAug 20, 2026

Instagram Followers API: Get Follower Counts and Lists

Get an Instagram account's follower count and a page of its followers with one key. What each call returns, where the list stops, why counts differ.