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Learn how to work with Reddit, Twitter/X, App Store reviews, and YouTube comments through APIs and AI tools.
How to Find the Best Day to Launch on Product Hunt (With Real Data)
'Does your Product Hunt launch day actually matter?' gets asked constantly, and answered with opinions. Here's how to pull the actual leaderboard history and check for yourself — plus how to watch a competitor's launch in real time.
How to Build Your Own Rank Tracker (Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo)
Rank trackers disagree with each other, and with what you see in your own browser. Here's why — country, region, and device parameters — and how to build a tracker across three engines that gets it right.
How to Check if ChatGPT Mentions Your Brand
There's no Search Console for ChatGPT. Here's how to actually check whether it mentions your brand, cites your site, and where you rank against competitors — without mistaking one lucky answer for a trend.
How to Check Resale Margin Across eBay, AliExpress, and Temu
ChatGPT's answer to 'can I resell this AliExpress item on eBay' is: search eBay's UI by hand and count sold listings. Here's the automatable version — batch price-check all three marketplaces and get a margin table back.
How to Detect Suspicious Glassdoor Review Activity
'Mandatory Glassdoor review with mandatory screenshots' gets 106 upvotes on r/DarkCorporate for a reason — coordinated review campaigns are common and visible in the data. Here's how to spot a burst, plus catching reviews that quietly vanish.
How to Fetch Any Web Page Reliably From Code
'Blocked from a website, what are my options?' gets 50 upvotes because a plain fetch() failing silently is a common, frustrating problem. Here's how to build a fetch pipeline that either gives you the real page or tells you clearly why not.
How to Find a Business Email Without a Paid Lead Database
'How do you find email addresses from LinkedIn profiles these days?' is a live thread with 49 comments and no good answer. Here's an automatable version that only ever returns addresses a target actually published.
Instagram's Business Discovery API: What It Actually Returns
Meta does have an official way to read another account's Instagram data — Business Discovery. Here's exactly where it stops: professional accounts only, your own app review, and no path to a highlight, ever.
How to Monitor a Competitor's Shopify or WooCommerce Store
Catch a competitor's price changes and new product launches automatically, whether they run Shopify or WooCommerce — including the one field each platform actually publishes for a clean diff.
How to Monitor a Hotel or Restaurant's Tripadvisor Reviews
'Tripadvisor reviews — why are they disappearing?' has 19 comments and no real answer. Here's how to track new reviews, catch the ones that vanish, and watch the rating trend for a specific property.
How to Monitor Trustpilot Reviews (New and Deleted)
Build an alert for new Trustpilot reviews — and for the ones that quietly disappear. Fingerprinting, the 200-review ceiling, and telling a real removal from a review that just scrolled off page one.
How to Search Printables and MakerWorld for the Same Model
Printables and MakerWorld each have loyal users complaining about the other's search. Here's how to query both in one script and merge results that use completely different field names for the same stats.
Searching What TikTok Creators Say, Not What They Type
TikTok's Research API exists, but it's closed to almost everyone who isn't an academic. Here's what's left for reading what's actually said in a video — not the caption — at scale.
How to Track Amazon Competitor Prices
Build a price-tracking pipeline for Amazon competitor products: batch price checks, marketplace and location pitfalls, MAP-violation alerts, and handling partial failures without breaking the run.
How to Track Competitor Ads Across Facebook, Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn
The four official ad libraries don't cover the same ground. Here's how to pull all of them with one pattern, and the coverage gaps that make relying on just one a mistake.
How to Get Upwork Job Alerts That Actually Work
Upwork's built-in job alerts have a reputation for arriving late or missing matches entirely. Here's how to build your own — searching by keyword or a saved search URL, deduplicated and on a schedule.
Vetting an Influencer's Brand Deals From Their Link-in-Bio Page
A Linktree is a list of shortened and wrapped links. Follow every one of them to its real destination and you can see the actual brands, retailers, and affiliate networks a creator is promoting — not the checklist advice everyone else gives.
App Store & Play Store MCP Server
Connect FetchLayer's App Store and Google Play MCP tools to Claude Desktop, Cursor, or Claude Code to pull app reviews from any AI agent. Setup and pricing.
Google Maps MCP Server for AI Agents
Connect FetchLayer's Google Maps MCP server to Claude Desktop, Cursor, or Claude Code to pull public place reviews from any AI agent. Setup, tools, and pricing.
YouTube MCP Server for AI Agents
Connect FetchLayer's YouTube MCP server to Claude Desktop, Cursor, or Claude Code to pull comments and transcripts from any AI agent. Setup, tools, and pricing.
Export Google Play Reviews to CSV
Get Google Play reviews into a spreadsheet with correct escaping, Excel-safe encoding, and filters that keep the export to the reviews you need.
How to Monitor Google Maps Reviews
Build an automated alert for new Google Maps reviews across one location or hundreds. Polling strategy, deduplication, and multi-location patterns.
Google Play Reviews API Alternatives
Google has no public API for reading Play Store reviews of apps you don't own. Here are the alternatives, and how they compare on filtering and cost.
Google Maps Reviews API Alternatives
Google's Places API caps reviews at five per place. Here are the alternatives that return full review history, and how they compare on cost and coverage.
How to Scrape Google Play Reviews
Fetch and filter public Google Play reviews as structured JSON. Package names, rating filters, version tracking, and release regression detection.
How to Scrape Google Maps Reviews
Fetch public Google Maps reviews for any business as structured JSON. Place IDs, pagination, sort orders, and a working monitoring pipeline.
App Store Review Sentiment Analysis
Use App Store review sentiment analysis to identify product issues, feature requests, release regressions, and customer pain points from public reviews.
4 Best App Store Review APIs in 2026, Compared
Compare the best App Store review APIs and scrapers for public feedback, competitor research, monitoring, AI analysis, and CSV export.
4 Best YouTube Comments APIs in 2026
Compare YouTube comments APIs and scrapers for public comment collection, replies, AI analysis, CSV export, monitoring, and scale.
How to Export App Store Reviews to CSV
Download public App Store reviews to CSV for product research, competitor analysis, monitoring, and AI analysis—with or without code.
How to Export YouTube Comments to CSV
Download public YouTube comments and replies to CSV for audience research, sentiment analysis, content planning, and AI workflows.
How to Get YouTube Comments Through an API
Extract public YouTube comments as structured JSON for audience research, monitoring, and AI analysis. Use the replies endpoint for comment threads.
How to Scrape App Store Reviews in 2026
Fetch public Apple App Store reviews as structured JSON with a practical API workflow for monitoring, research, and AI analysis.
YouTube Comment Sentiment Analysis
Analyze YouTube comments and replies for sentiment, recurring questions, product objections, audience pain points, and future content ideas.
How to Scrape Twitter/X in 2026
A practical guide to getting data out of X/Twitter in 2026. Covers the official API, Tweepy, DIY scraping, scraping APIs like FetchLayer, and MCP for AI agents.
Best Twitter/X Scraper APIs in 2026
Honest comparison of the best Twitter/X scraping APIs in 2026. FetchLayer, ScrapeCreators, Apify, ScraperAPI, and Tweepy compared side by side.
Twitter/X API Alternatives in 2026
X's official API moved to pay-per-use pricing in 2026 and still rate-limits hard. The best alternatives for developers who need Twitter data in 2026.
How to Find Twitter/X Influencers
Discover relevant Twitter/X accounts in any niche using keyword search, follower analysis, and profile filtering. Find influencers, journalists, partners.
How to Export Twitter/X Followers to CSV
Export any public Twitter/X account's followers (including verified followers) to CSV. Step-by-step code for Node.js with the FetchLayer API.
How to Track Competitor Tweets Automatically
Build an automated system to monitor your competitors on X/Twitter. Track their tweets, engagement, and new followers without manual checking.
How to Monitor Replies to a Tweet (Automated)
Build an automated pipeline to track replies on any X/Twitter thread. Get notified via webhooks, Slack, or Discord when new replies appear.
How to Monitor Twitter/X Keywords
Build an automated pipeline to monitor X/Twitter for keywords. Get notified via cron jobs, webhooks, and Slack or Discord alerts when tweets match.
Twitter/X Agent Skill for AI Agents
Build a Twitter/X agent skill that lets Claude, Cursor, or your AI agent search tweets, fetch profiles, and read replies without API rate limits.
How to Connect Twitter MCP to Hermes Agent
Set up FetchLayer's Twitter/X MCP server with Nous Research's Hermes Agent to search tweets, get profiles, and pull follower data — in YAML, not JSON.
How to Connect Twitter MCP to KiloCode
Add FetchLayer's Twitter/X MCP server to KiloCode so your AI assistant can search tweets, get profiles, and pull follower data — via Kilo's own settings.
How to Connect Twitter MCP to OpenClaw
Add FetchLayer's Twitter/X MCP server to OpenClaw's self-hosted Gateway so every agent session can search tweets, get profiles, and pull follower data.
How to Connect Twitter MCP to Windsurf
Step-by-step guide to adding FetchLayer's Twitter/X MCP server to Windsurf's Cascade agent. Give it tweet search, profiles, and follower data.
Search Twitter/X from Claude Code Using MCP
Add FetchLayer's Twitter/X MCP tool to Claude Code (Anthropic's terminal agent) so you can search tweets and scrape data without leaving the command line.
How to Connect Twitter MCP to Claude Desktop
Add FetchLayer's Twitter/X MCP server to Claude Desktop so Claude can search tweets, get profiles, and pull follower data in your conversations.
How to Connect Twitter MCP to Cursor
Step-by-step guide to adding FetchLayer's Twitter/X MCP server to Cursor. Search tweets, get profiles, and pull follower data from your AI coding agent.
Connect Twitter MCP to VS Code
Add FetchLayer's Twitter/X MCP server to VS Code so GitHub Copilot's agent mode can search tweets, get profiles, and pull follower data.
Twitter/X API with Go: Complete Guide
How to search X/Twitter and scrape tweets using Go and the FetchLayer API. Clean, idiomatic Go examples with proper error handling and struct decoding.
Twitter/X API with Bun: Complete Guide
How to scrape Twitter/X using Bun and the FetchLayer API. Fast, lightweight examples for searching tweets, fetching profiles, and pulling follower data.
Twitter/X API with TypeScript: Complete Guide
How to search X/Twitter and scrape tweets using TypeScript with full type safety. Working examples with typed responses for every FetchLayer endpoint.
Twitter/X API with Node.js: Complete Guide
Search X/Twitter, get tweet details, fetch user profiles, and pull follower lists with Node.js and the FetchLayer API. Working code for every endpoint.
Twitter/X API with Python: Complete Guide
How to scrape Twitter/X data with Python using the FetchLayer API. Search tweets, get profiles, fetch replies, and pull follower lists — no Tweepy needed.
Reddit API Shut Down in 2026: What Still Works
Reddit killed unauthenticated .json requests in May 2026 — the last free workaround. Here's the full timeline and what actually works now.
Reddit API npm Package for JS/TS
Use the official @fetchlayer/reddit npm package to search Reddit, scrape posts and comments, and work with typed responses in JavaScript or TypeScript.
Reddit Scraping API with TypeScript
How to search Reddit and scrape posts using TypeScript with full type safety. Working examples with typed responses for every FetchLayer endpoint.
Reddit Agent Skill for AI Agents
Build a Reddit agent skill that lets Claude, Cursor, or your AI agent search Reddit, fetch posts, and read comments without API rate limits.
Reddit Scraping API with Python: Complete Guide
How to scrape Reddit with Python using the FetchLayer API. Search posts, scrape comments, and monitor subreddits — no PRAW or Reddit credentials needed.
Reddit Scraping API with Node.js
How to search Reddit, scrape posts, and pull subreddit data using Node.js and the FetchLayer API. Working code examples for every endpoint.
Reddit Scraping API with Go: Complete Guide
How to search Reddit and scrape posts using Go and the FetchLayer API. Clean, idiomatic Go examples with proper error handling and struct decoding.
Reddit Scraping API with Bun: Complete Guide
How to scrape Reddit using Bun and the FetchLayer API. Fast, lightweight examples for searching posts, scraping comments, and monitoring subreddits.
Best Reddit Scraper APIs in 2026
Honest comparison of the best Reddit scraping APIs in 2026. FetchLayer, ScrapeCreators, Apify, ScraperAPI, Bright Data, and PRAW compared.
How to Scrape Reddit in 2026
A practical guide to Reddit data in 2026, including the May 30 JSON endpoint shutdown, OAuth, PRAW, scraping APIs, and MCP for AI agents.
How to Monitor a Subreddit for Posts
Build an automated pipeline to monitor any subreddit for new posts. Get notified via cron jobs, webhooks, and Slack or Discord alerts.
PRAW Alternative for JavaScript
PRAW needs approved Reddit OAuth credentials that new developers cannot reliably obtain. Here are practical JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js alternatives.
Pushshift Alternative in 2026
Pushshift is dead for most practical purposes. Here are the best alternatives for getting Reddit data in 2026 — from API services to historical archives.
Reddit API Alternatives in 2026: Best Options
Reddit's API requires OAuth approval and bans commercial use. Here are the best alternatives for developers who need Reddit data in 2026.
Reddit API Rate Limits Explained
Reddit API rate limits vary by endpoint and are poorly documented. Here's a clear breakdown of limits, error codes, and how to avoid them.
How to Get All Comments from Reddit
Reddit's API truncates comment trees. Here's how to get the full thread from any post — with code examples and method comparison.
Reddit MCP Server for AI Agents
FetchLayer's Reddit MCP server works with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, and more. Pick your tool and connect in under a minute.
Search Reddit from Claude Code Using MCP
Add FetchLayer's Reddit MCP tool to Claude Code (Anthropic's terminal agent) so you can search Reddit and scrape data without leaving the command line.
How to Connect Reddit MCP to Claude Desktop
Add FetchLayer's Reddit MCP server to Claude Desktop so Claude can search Reddit, scrape posts, and pull subreddit data in your conversations.
How to Connect Reddit MCP to Cursor
Step-by-step guide to adding FetchLayer's Reddit MCP server to Cursor. Search Reddit, scrape posts, and pull subreddit data directly from your AI coding agent.
How to Connect Reddit MCP to Hermes Agent
Set up FetchLayer's Reddit MCP server with Hermes Agent to search Reddit, scrape posts, and pull community data in your AI workflows.
How to Connect Reddit MCP to KiloCode
Add FetchLayer's Reddit MCP server to KiloCode so your AI assistant can search Reddit, scrape posts, and pull subreddit data from inside VS Code.
How to Connect Reddit MCP to OpenClaw
Add FetchLayer's Reddit MCP server to OpenClaw so your AI agent can search Reddit, scrape posts, and pull subreddit data directly.
Connect Reddit MCP to VS Code
Add FetchLayer's Reddit MCP server to VS Code so GitHub Copilot's agent mode can search Reddit, scrape posts, and pull community data.
How to Connect Reddit MCP to Windsurf
Step-by-step guide to adding FetchLayer's Reddit MCP server to Windsurf. Give your AI coding agent access to Reddit search, posts, and comments.
Twitter/X MCP Server for AI Agents
FetchLayer's Twitter/X MCP server works with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, and more. Pick your tool and connect in under a minute.