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Learn why pytrends breaks, how the SERP API approach works, and the fastest way to pull trend data into Python without getting rate-limited.</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorial</category><category>python</category><category>google-trends</category><category>seo</category><category>api</category><category>web-scraping</category></item><item><title>India Government Data API: How to Pull Any data.gov.in Dataset Without the Documentation Confusion</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/india-government-data-api/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/india-government-data-api/</guid><description>data.gov.in has 10,000+ datasets including mandi prices, foreign trade, and census data. 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Threads has no public API. 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Claude and the RAG Crawler</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/rag-crawler-claude-automation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/rag-crawler-claude-automation/</guid><description>Use Apify&apos;s RAG Crawler to ingest any website into a vector database, then wire Claude to answer questions against it.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorial</category><category>rag</category><category>claude</category><category>ai-agent</category><category>vector-database</category><category>python</category><category>llm</category></item><item><title>Build an India Job Market Intelligence Tool with Claude and the Naukri Scraper</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/naukri-scraper-claude-automation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/naukri-scraper-claude-automation/</guid><description>Use Apify&apos;s Naukri Jobs scraper with Claude to automate salary benchmarking, skills demand analysis, and hiring 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Intelligence System with Claude and ATS Job Scrapers</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/ats-scraper-claude-automation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/ats-scraper-claude-automation/</guid><description>Combine Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby job data with Claude to automate candidate sourcing research, salary benchmarking, skills gap analysis</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorial</category><category>ats</category><category>jobs</category><category>claude</category><category>ai-agent</category><category>recruitment</category><category>python</category></item><item><title>From Raw HTML to Clean Dataset: Data Pipeline Architecture for AI Teams</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/web-scraping-data-pipeline-architecture/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/web-scraping-data-pipeline-architecture/</guid><description>The full architecture for a production-grade web data pipeline — 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GMT</pubDate><category>tutorial</category><category>google-trends</category><category>claude</category><category>seo</category><category>content-strategy</category><category>automation</category><category>python</category></item><item><title>Social Media Data for AI: Reddit, Threads, and the Open Web</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/social-media-data-ai-llm/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/social-media-data-ai-llm/</guid><description>Where to get social media data for LLM training, fine-tuning, and RAG pipelines. A developer-focused breakdown of what is accessible, what it costs</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>use-case</category><category>social-media</category><category>llm</category><category>training-data</category><category>reddit</category><category>threads</category><category>ai</category></item><item><title>How to Build a Competitor Intelligence System Using Web Scrapers</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/competitor-intelligence-web-scrapers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/competitor-intelligence-web-scrapers/</guid><description>A practical guide to building automated competitor monitoring — pricing, job postings, content, and review tracking</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>use-case</category><category>competitor-intelligence</category><category>business</category><category>automation</category><category>pricing</category><category>monitoring</category></item><item><title>Build a Reddit Intelligence Agent with Claude and the Reddit Scraper</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/reddit-scraper-claude-automation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/reddit-scraper-claude-automation/</guid><description>How to combine Apify&apos;s Reddit Scraper with Claude to build an autonomous brand monitoring agent, sentiment analysis pipeline</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorial</category><category>reddit</category><category>claude</category><category>ai-agent</category><category>automation</category><category>python</category></item><item><title>India Tech Hiring Trends 2025: What the Job Data Actually Shows</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/india-tech-hiring-trends-2025/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/india-tech-hiring-trends-2025/</guid><description>We analyzed 50,000+ Naukri job postings to surface real patterns in India tech hiring — which skills are surging, which cities are growing</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>use-case</category><category>india</category><category>hiring</category><category>tech</category><category>naukri</category><category>data</category><category>salary</category></item><item><title>Pay-Per-Result vs Subscription Scraping: Why Billing Models Matter More Than You Think</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/pay-per-result-vs-subscription-scraping/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/pay-per-result-vs-subscription-scraping/</guid><description>Most scraping tools charge per run or per month — you pay whether data comes back or not. 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