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The Mine Works
comparison Aug 12, 2026 · 5 min read

Amazon vs AliExpress Product Scraper: Which One for Sourcing and Price Tracking

Amazon and AliExpress both return price, rating, and demand signal from a keyword search, but they answer different sourcing questions and one costs 2.5x the other. What each returns, and where Shopify Store Scraper fits a job neither of them does.

The Mine Works
comparison Aug 12, 2026 · 6 min read

B2B Lead Generation Tools Compared: Maps Leads vs B2B Leads Finder vs Website Contact Finder

Four actors covering B2B contact discovery, extraction, and validation. Different email sourcing methods, different verification depth, different jobs. A field-by-field comparison of what each actually returns.

The Mine Works
comparison Aug 12, 2026 · 6 min read

LinkedIn Scraping Tools Compared: Which Actor for Which Job

Five LinkedIn actors covering companies, employees, profiles, jobs, and posts. They are not competing for the same query, they are five stages of one sourcing pipeline. A field-by-field look at what each returns and how they chain together.

The Mine Works
comparison Aug 12, 2026 · 7 min read

MagicBricks vs 99acres vs Housing.com vs NoBroker: Which India Property Data Source to Scrape

MagicBricks, 99acres, Housing.com and NoBroker all cover Indian real estate, but three overlap and one is a structurally different market. A field-by-field comparison of coverage, RERA data, coordinates, and access method.

The Mine Works
comparison Aug 12, 2026 · 7 min read

Naukri vs Instahyre vs Hirist vs Shine: Which Indian Job Board API for Sourcing

Naukri, Instahyre, Hirist, Shine, CutShort and Foundit all cover Indian tech and corporate hiring, but none of them overlap the way they look like they should. A field-by-field comparison of access method, salary coverage, and pricing.

The Mine Works
use-case Jul 31, 2026 · 3 min read

Amazon Retail Price vs AliExpress Supplier Cost: The Sourcing Check in One Call

Pull an Amazon listing's retail price and reviews against real AliExpress supplier prices in one call, and read what the sourcing spread tells you.

The Mine Works
use-case Jul 31, 2026 · 3 min read

Federal Contracts, Campaign Finance & UK Company Records as Structured JSON (No Login)

Three official government data sources, SAM.gov contract opportunities, FEC campaign finance, and UK Companies House, turned into clean JSON APIs for GovCon capture, compliance, and political research. No browser, no login, pay only for results delivered.

The Mine Works
use-case Jul 31, 2026 · 14 min read

Five Scholarly Databases in One Call: OpenAlex, Crossref, arXiv, PubMed and OpenCitations

One call across OpenAlex, Crossref, arXiv, PubMed and OpenCitations: works, preprints, biomedical abstracts, citation graphs, and every output field.

The Mine Works
tutorial Jul 30, 2026 · 3 min read

How to Scrape CutShort Jobs for India Tech Hiring Data (No API)

CutShort is where Indian startups post engineering and product roles, and it has no public jobs API. Learn how to extract titles, companies, salary ranges, skills, and experience bands as structured JSON for recruiting feeds and talent market research.

The Mine Works
comparison Jul 30, 2026 · 10 min read

Zestimate vs Redfin Estimate: Which Home Value Is More Accurate?

Redfin publishes a 1.85% median error rate on listed homes. What that hides, why Zestimate and Redfin Estimate disagree, and how to test accuracy in your own ZIP.

The Mine Works
comparison Jul 28, 2026 · 4 min read

Best Threads Scrapers Compared (2026): Prices, Success Rates, and What Each One Misses

Eight Threads scrapers on the Apify Store compared with public data: price per 1,000 posts, start fees, run success, ratings, and modes. Including where ours is not the right pick.

The Mine Works
use-case Jul 28, 2026 · 7 min read

Reddit Data for Market Research After the API Changes: What Still Works in 2026

Reddit locked down its API: enterprise-only commercial access, no self-serve pricing, and the old .json endpoints gone. Here are the working options for market research teams, with honest costs.

X API Pay-Per-Use vs Scraping in 2026: What 10,000 Tweets Actually Costs
comparison Jul 27, 2026 · 5 min read

X API Pay-Per-Use vs Scraping in 2026: What 10,000 Tweets Actually Costs

X killed the $200/month Basic tier for new developers and moved to metered pricing at $0.005 per post read, capped at 2M reads a month. Here is the real cost math against a pay-per-result scraper, and the cases where the official API is still the right call.

The Mine Works
use-case Jul 17, 2026 · 8 min read

I Automated My AI Job Hunt: 8 Tools, One Claude Agent, Under $1

Most job hunting is spent on the wrong problem. Here is the exact end-to-end flow: find who is actually hiring, rank by real fit, research the company, find the human, and write an application grounded in facts, run entirely from Claude via MCP.

The Mine Works
use-case Jul 17, 2026 · 10 min read

Ask an AI for a Company's SEC CIK and It Will Lie to You. Here Is the Fix.

An AI that remembers is not an AI that verifies. This is the exact diligence flow: legal identity from GLEIF, filings from EDGAR, funding, engineering activity and hiring, run from Claude via MCP, grounded in real registries, for about sixteen cents a company.

The Mine Works
use-case Jul 17, 2026 · 13 min read

Stop Cold Pitching: Find Local Businesses With a Problem You Can Actually Fix, Under $4

Cold outreach fails because it is generic. Here is the exact flow: build a prospect universe, diagnose the real problem from their own reviews, qualify who can pay, find the human, and pitch with evidence, run entirely from Claude via MCP. No code.

The Mine Works
use-case Jul 17, 2026 · 11 min read

Sourcing Without a Recruiter Seat: 8 Tools, One Claude Agent, Under $1 a Role

A LinkedIn Recruiter seat costs thousands a year and still leaves you sending InMails nobody answers. Here is the full sourcing flow: longlist by real requirements, enrich, read the push and pull signals, see who you are bidding against, and reach a real address, run from Claude via MCP for about 84 cents a role.

The Mine Works
use-case Jul 17, 2026 · 13 min read

I Validated a Business Idea in 48 Hours by Mining 1-Star Reviews

Asking friends if they like your idea is not validation. The real signal is what people already pay for and still hate. Here is the exact flow: demand, unprompted complaints, funded incumbents, and the 1-star review clusters that become your product spec, run entirely from Claude via MCP.

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