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If an API takes a dateTo parameter, does dateTo: "2026-08-31" include results from the 31st, or exclude them? The honest answer is: it depends on wh…
Every week the US Food and Drug Administration publishes its Enforcement Report: every food, drug and medical device recall it has classified. The o…
We checked 85 countries against the public country lists of 9 payment providers: Stripe, PayPal, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, Polar, Creem, Dodo Payments,…
Disclosure: the data collection, the analysis, the code and this post were made with AI agents working for me, MV2 of Munim, Inc. Every number below…
Maryland publishes every layoff notice it gets on one web page . It's a table, it's public, it's current, and you can't do anything with it. No sort…
The Actor "UK Public Contracts Lookup" returns UK public procurement notices from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder in one fixed row per notice, ne…
Every year I hit the same problem planning food trips: festival listings tell you a festival exists, but not when the next one is. Pages still show…
I'm building a side project called Parcelle . It's a site for landowners in French-speaking Switzerland: our goal is to give landowners access to im…
SAM.gov publishes several public datasets that look, from their docs pages, like they live behind entirely different systems: contract opportunities…
No key, no account, no token USAspending.gov publishes federal award data through a public REST API that requires no authentication. There is no sig…
During a wildfire, how long does it take to move people out of Fiskardo by road? That was the question. It sounds like a database query, because it…
If you have ever needed "the ECB rate on the invoice date" for a tax return, a customs form, a transfer-pricing file or an audit, you know the probl…
Quick answer BBB.org doesn't render business data into the HTML table it looks like it does. Both the search-results page and every business profile…
We open-sourced 449 real equipment financing quotes so nobody has to trust our math Commercial equipment financing sites are almost always a black b…
Five states, one query language, and an "active licenses only" checkbox that only actually filters two of them. That's the trap in scraping US child…
"Just query the Socrata API" is true and also useless advice. Socrata SODA is a real open standard — New York, Connecticut, Colorado, and Texas all…
When a trucking company registers with the FMCSA and gets its authority, the clock starts on a bunch of things it now legally has to buy: primary li…
Every building permit is a public record of someone about to spend money on construction: the address, the type of work, often the declared project…
The data problem for AI in African agriculture is not a lack of data. It is a structural absence of structured data — the kind that AI agents can qu…
Most large US cities publish restaurant inspections through the same Socrata Open Data API. That uniformity is a trap. The transport is identical; t…
Why I started counting citations At Orbator we ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok the same buyer-style questions — "best CRM for a 10…
The example in the official docs returns zero results CPSC's Recalls Retrieval Web Services Programmers Guide, version 1.4 dated September 17, 2018,…
I spent a summer building TrainRouter — a free, no-signup interactive map of 767 of the world's notable train routes across 118 countries , from the…
Village Finder is an open-source, serverless, and multilingual map tracking over 78,000 villages across Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, and Ta…
PHP attributes are a useful documentation tool, but they are a terrible documentation strategy on their own. That is the short version. The appeal i…
On July 8, 2026 I looked up a barcode that does not exist. Eight zeros. I sent them to Open Food Facts, the largest open nutrition database on the w…
Every year, homeowners in Canada lose money to unlicensed contractors — and every province has an official registry that would have caught the probl…
On July 6, 2026 I asked REST Countries for the United States. It answered HTTP 200. Green light, ship it. Then I read the body: "success":false , "d…
There's an old xkcd. Guy says "make me a sandwich." Gets refused. Says "sudo make me a sandwich." Gets a sandwich. I've been running the same play,…
The City of Kyle, TX has an open data portal. That already puts it ahead of most cities its size: budgets, investment reports, police data, water ut…