World Bank Trade Data API: How to Pull Global Import and Export Statistics
The World Bank WITS database covers bilateral trade flows between 200+ countries. Here is how to access it programmatically and what the data actually contains.
How to Scrape Yellow Pages US Business Listings in Python (Phone, Address, Website)
YellowPages.com has no public API. Learn how to extract US local business names, phone numbers, addresses, websites, and categories by city and business type as structured JSON for sales prospecting and local research.
Monitor Federal Regulations: A Compliance Watch with the Federal Register API
Build an automated regulatory watch with the Federal Register Scraper: rules, proposed rules, notices and executive orders as structured JSON.
Web Scraping Legality in 2025: What Developers Actually Need to Know
The hiQ ruling, the CFAA, GDPR, terms of service and robots.txt. A developer-focused primer on what web scraping law does and does not allow.
Building a Job Market Intelligence Dashboard with Free ATS Data
How to build a real-time hiring dashboard that tracks roles, skills demand, and company hiring velocity using public Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby APIs.
The Agentic Data Stack 2025: How to Pick the Right Scrapers for Your AI Workflow
A practical guide to building grounded AI agents on live scraped data, and which data sources matter for which kind of agent.
pytrends is Dead: The Best Google Trends Alternatives in 2026
pytrends breaks constantly, the maintainer has stepped back, and the official Google Trends API is still not public. The alternatives that actually work in 2026.
Job Board Scraping 2025: Which Platforms Allow It and How to Do It Right
LinkedIn blocks aggressively, Indeed requires a browser and Naukri needs session warming. The current state of scraping every major job board.
Building a RAG Pipeline on SEC EDGAR Filings: A Step-by-Step Guide
How to scrape SEC EDGAR filings, chunk them for vector search, and build a provenance-aware Q&A system that cites specific filing sections using Claude.
How to Monitor Competitor Job Postings to Predict Their Strategy
Job postings are the most honest signal of a competitor's roadmap. Track their ATS boards automatically and turn hiring data into strategy.
Web Scraping for AI Training Data: Legal, Technical, and Quality Considerations
A guide to collecting web-scraped AI training data: what is legally permissible and which technical approaches produce quality data.
Recruitment Automation: Building a Job Intelligence Pipeline with Free ATS Data
How to use the public Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby APIs to build automated job monitoring and salary benchmarking for recruiting teams.
Threads vs Twitter/X Data: A Developer Comparison for Social Listening
Twitter/X API access is paid and Threads has no public API. How the two platforms compare as data sources for social listening tools.
Using Google Trends to Find Untapped SEO Opportunities in 2025
A step-by-step framework for using Google Trends data to spot rising keywords before they get competitive.
Reddit Data for LLM Fine-Tuning: Quality, Licensing, and What Actually Works
How to use Reddit data for LLM training and fine-tuning: quality patterns, filtering strategies, preference pairs and evaluation sets.
From Raw HTML to Clean Dataset: Data Pipeline Architecture for AI Teams
The full architecture for a production-grade web data pipeline: collection, validation, transformation, storage, and freshness management.
Social Media Data for AI: Reddit, Threads, and the Open Web
Where to get social media data for LLM training, fine-tuning and RAG, with what is accessible on each platform and what it costs.
How to Build a Competitor Intelligence System Using Web Scrapers
How to build automated competitor monitoring with web scrapers: pricing, job postings, content and review tracking in one pipeline.