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Most football data scrapers on the market only extract high-level final scores (e.g. 2-1 ). But quantitative sports analysts, data scientists, and p…
Most tools that find YouTube channels by topic treat the search as one keyword and one result page. That works for lookup. It misses how creator dis…
A YouTube channel scraper in Python can collect channel names, subscriber counts, and URLs. That solves extraction. It does not solve creator qualif…
Reverse-Engineering YouTube's InnerTube Search API (WEB Client + Continuations) YouTube search in a browser loads HTML. YouTube search as a client s…
I shipped a Tokopedia scraper that undercuts the incumbents 5x — here's the boring part Indonesia's biggest marketplace has a data problem: everyone…
When people think about scraping Etsy, they often imagine a single script that collects everything in one run. That approach works for small experim…
The problem If you resell on Mercari, or you price inventory against it, you already know the annoying part. There's no export button. No bulk downl…
The World Cup is here and getting clean, structured match data is surprisingly painful. The official FIFA site has no public API. Third-party servic…
The Technical Problem: Websites Drift, Pipelines Don't Know Long-running scraping pipelines have a structural assumption baked in: the URLs you conf…
Quick answer: Twitch stores a complete timestamped chat replay for every public VOD but exposes no public API or bulk-export endpoint for it. To get…
Quick answer: Meta's official Threads API is gated behind a developer-account review and refuses third-party conversation reads. To export the full…
Quick answer: Steam publishes regional prices on the public store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails endpoint — but it returns one currency at a time,…
I shipped 7 production MCP server Actors in two weeks — here's what the docs don't tell you The first Actor took most of a day. The seventh took und…
Quick answer: The Reverb Price Guide is the largest public dataset of used-instrument sale prices on the internet — millions of completed transactio…
Quick answer: There is no unified official API for LLM pricing. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Groq, Together AI, and DeepSeek each publish the…
Quick answer: Kick.com exposes no API for past chat and no download button. A kick chat scraper connects to Kick's public Pusher WebSocket — the sam…
Quick answer: Microsoft retired the Bing Search API on August 11, 2025. There is no longer an official endpoint. A Bing search scraper hits the same…
Quick answer: Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby each publish a public job-board API that any job aggregator can hit — no auth required. An ATS tech stack…
Quick answer: Google publishes no API for AI Overview citations. The only way to get the data programmatically is to render Google SERPs in a real b…
Bluesky hit 40 million users earlier this year, and unlike Twitter, it runs on an open protocol — the AT Protocol — where public data is genuinely p…
Note: This is a cross-post. Canonical version (full long-form) lives on my blog: https://blog.spinov.online/blog/ethical-scraping-is-a-rate-limit-qu…
How to set up refresh-token-only OAuth for a multi-tenant Apify Actor (Gmail, 10 minutes) If you're shipping an Apify Actor that calls a per-user Go…
Why my Reddit scraper went from 92% to 61% success rate in 30 days (and how I fixed it in one config flag) I publish a small Reddit scraper actor on…
If your brand competes for Chinese consumers and you're not actively monitoring conversations on Weibo, RedNote, Bilibili, Douban, and Xueqiu, you'r…
I pulled a 100-row sample of Sitemap to see whether the dataset is rich enough to support pipeline health checks, content auditing, structured-data…