<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Mine Works — Web Scraping &amp; Data API Blog</title><description>Tutorials, comparisons, and engineering guides on web scraping, Reddit data, Google Trends, RAG pipelines, and job market APIs.</description><link>https://themineworks.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Amazon Retail Price vs AliExpress Supplier Cost: The Sourcing Check in One Call</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/amazon-aliexpress-sourcing-price-check/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/amazon-aliexpress-sourcing-price-check/</guid><description>Before you sell a product, you want to know what it costs to source. Here is how to pull an Amazon listing&apos;s retail price and reviews against real AliExpress supplier prices in a single call, and what the spread actually tells you.</description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>use-case</category><category>ecommerce</category><category>amazon</category><category>aliexpress</category><category>product-research</category><category>dropshipping</category><category>sourcing</category><category>mcp</category><category>claude</category></item><item><title>Federal Contracts, Campaign Finance &amp; UK Company Records as Structured JSON (No Login)</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/govcon-fec-companies-house-data-apis/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/govcon-fec-companies-house-data-apis/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>use-case</category><category>government-data</category><category>govcon</category><category>compliance</category><category>kyc</category><category>campaign-finance</category><category>sam-gov</category><category>fec</category><category>companies-house</category></item><item><title>Five Scholarly Databases in One Call: OpenAlex, Crossref, arXiv, PubMed and OpenCitations</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/literature-review-five-databases-one-call/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/literature-review-five-databases-one-call/</guid><description>A literature scan means five sources with five query languages and five response shapes. Here is how to pull published works, canonical metadata, preprints, biomedical hits and a citation graph for one topic in a single call, and which source to trust for what.</description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>use-case</category><category>academic</category><category>research</category><category>openalex</category><category>crossref</category><category>arxiv</category><category>pubmed</category><category>opencitations</category><category>mcp</category><category>claude</category></item><item><title>How to Scrape CutShort Jobs for India Tech Hiring Data (No API)</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/cutshort-jobs-scraper-india-tech-hiring-data/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/cutshort-jobs-scraper-india-tech-hiring-data/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorial</category><category>india</category><category>jobs</category><category>web-scraping</category><category>hiring</category><category>recruiting</category><category>cutshort</category><category>startups</category></item><item><title>Zestimate vs Redfin Estimate: Which Home Value Is More Accurate?</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/zestimate-vs-redfin-estimate-accuracy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/zestimate-vs-redfin-estimate-accuracy/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>comparison</category><category>zillow</category><category>redfin</category><category>realtor-com</category><category>zestimate</category><category>real-estate</category><category>avm</category><category>valuation</category><category>comparison</category></item><item><title>Best Threads Scrapers Compared (2026): Prices, Success Rates, and What Each One Misses</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/best-threads-scrapers-compared/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/best-threads-scrapers-compared/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>comparison</category><category>threads</category><category>meta</category><category>social-media</category><category>comparison</category><category>scraping</category><category>pricing</category></item><item><title>Reddit Data for Market Research After the API Changes: What Still Works in 2026</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/reddit-data-market-research-after-api-changes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/reddit-data-market-research-after-api-changes/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>use-case</category><category>reddit</category><category>market-research</category><category>api</category><category>social-listening</category><category>monitoring</category></item><item><title>X API Pay-Per-Use vs Scraping in 2026: What 10,000 Tweets Actually Costs</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/x-api-pay-per-use-vs-scraping-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/x-api-pay-per-use-vs-scraping-2026/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>comparison</category><category>twitter</category><category>x</category><category>api-pricing</category><category>social-listening</category><category>cost-analysis</category></item><item><title>I Automated My AI Job Hunt: 8 Tools, One Claude Agent, Under $1</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/automate-ai-job-hunt-claude-mcp/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/automate-ai-job-hunt-claude-mcp/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>use-case</category><category>MCP</category><category>Claude</category><category>AI agents</category><category>job search</category><category>workflow</category><category>automation</category></item><item><title>Ask an AI for a Company&apos;s SEC CIK and It Will Lie to You. Here Is the Fix.</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/company-diligence-grounded-registries/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/company-diligence-grounded-registries/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>use-case</category><category>MCP</category><category>Claude</category><category>due diligence</category><category>SEC EDGAR</category><category>GLEIF</category><category>AI agents</category></item><item><title>Stop Cold Pitching: Find Local Businesses With a Problem You Can Actually Fix — Under $4</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/find-agency-clients-with-evidence/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/find-agency-clients-with-evidence/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>use-case</category><category>MCP</category><category>Claude</category><category>lead generation</category><category>freelancing</category><category>cold outreach</category><category>automation</category></item><item><title>The Deal-Screening Agent: Read an Entire Metro Every Morning for 82 Cents</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/real-estate-deal-screening-agent/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/real-estate-deal-screening-agent/</guid><description>You are refreshing Zillow by hand and doing real comp work on maybe three houses a week. Here is the exact flow — screen every listing in a metro, pull what similar homes actually sold for, read every price cut, and surface only the few worth a second look — run from Claude via MCP. No code.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>use-case</category><category>MCP</category><category>Claude</category><category>AI agents</category><category>real estate</category><category>Zillow</category><category>comps</category><category>automation</category></item><item><title>Sourcing Without a Recruiter Seat: 8 Tools, One Claude Agent, Under $1 a Role</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/source-candidates-without-linkedin-recruiter/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/source-candidates-without-linkedin-recruiter/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>use-case</category><category>MCP</category><category>Claude</category><category>AI agents</category><category>recruiting</category><category>sourcing</category><category>talent acquisition</category><category>automation</category></item><item><title>I Validated a Business Idea in 48 Hours by Mining 1-Star Reviews</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/validate-business-idea-mining-reviews/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/validate-business-idea-mining-reviews/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>use-case</category><category>MCP</category><category>Claude</category><category>AI agents</category><category>idea validation</category><category>market research</category><category>founders</category></item><item><title>Airbnb vs Zillow Rental Listings: Comparing Short-Term and Long-Term Rental Data</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/airbnb-vs-zillow-rental-listings/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/airbnb-vs-zillow-rental-listings/</guid><description>Airbnb and Zillow rental data answer different questions. 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Here&apos;s how to pull nightly price, rating, superhost status and coordinates from Airbnb search results using Python.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorial</category><category>airbnb</category><category>python</category><category>web-scraping</category><category>short-term-rental</category><category>real-estate</category><category>apify</category></item><item><title>Short-Term Rental Market Research: Using Airbnb Data for Dynamic Pricing</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/airbnb-short-term-rental-market-research/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/airbnb-short-term-rental-market-research/</guid><description>How STR hosts and investors use Airbnb comp data to benchmark nightly rates, spot underpriced markets and adjust pricing by season and neighborhood.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>use-case</category><category>airbnb</category><category>short-term-rental</category><category>dynamic-pricing</category><category>real-estate</category><category>revenue-management</category><category>python</category></item><item><title>Automated Reputation Monitoring: Schedule Trustpilot Scans and Get Alerted to New Reviews</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/automated-reputation-monitoring-trustpilot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/automated-reputation-monitoring-trustpilot/</guid><description>Set up a scheduled Trustpilot scraper that catches new reviews as they land — monitor your own brand or a competitor&apos;s without checking the site by hand.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>use-case</category><category>trustpilot</category><category>reputation-monitoring</category><category>reviews</category><category>python</category><category>automation</category><category>customer-success</category></item><item><title>The B2B Lead Generation Stack: Maps Leads, Website Contact Finder, and Email Verification</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/b2b-lead-generation-stack-maps-leads/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/b2b-lead-generation-stack-maps-leads/</guid><description>A three-step pipeline that finds local businesses, fills in missing contacts, and verifies every email before a cold outreach campaign goes out.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>use-case</category><category>lead-generation</category><category>b2b</category><category>google-maps</category><category>email-verification</category><category>cold-outreach</category><category>python</category></item><item><title>Maps Leads: Verified Email Extraction from Google Maps Business Listings</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/google-maps-leads-verified-emails/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/google-maps-leads-verified-emails/</guid><description>How to pull B2B leads from Google Maps with MX-verified emails, past the official API&apos;s 120-result cap, and pay only for contactable businesses.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorial</category><category>google-maps</category><category>lead-generation</category><category>python</category><category>b2b</category><category>email-verification</category><category>local-seo</category></item><item><title>Google Maps Leads vs LinkedIn Company Scraper: Two Approaches to B2B Prospecting</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/google-maps-leads-vs-linkedin-company-scraper/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/google-maps-leads-vs-linkedin-company-scraper/</guid><description>Verified local emails and geo data, or firmographics on any company anywhere. How Maps Leads and LinkedIn Company Scraper differ, and when to run both.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>comparison</category><category>google-maps</category><category>linkedin</category><category>b2b</category><category>lead-generation</category><category>prospecting</category><category>comparison</category></item><item><title>Real Estate Agent Lead Lists: Extracting Contact Data from Redfin and Realtor.com</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/real-estate-agent-lead-lists-redfin-realtor/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/real-estate-agent-lead-lists-redfin-realtor/</guid><description>Build agent and brokerage lead lists by scraping Redfin and Realtor.com listings together — deduping agents across both sources for wider coverage.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>use-case</category><category>real-estate</category><category>lead-generation</category><category>redfin</category><category>realtor</category><category>agents</category><category>python</category><category>b2b</category></item><item><title>The Real Estate Data Stack: Combining Zillow, Redfin, and Realtor.com for Full Market Coverage</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/real-estate-data-stack-zillow-redfin-realtor/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/real-estate-data-stack-zillow-redfin-realtor/</guid><description>No real estate portal has complete listing coverage or every field you need. Here&apos;s how to architect a pipeline combining Zillow, Redfin, and Realtor.com data.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>use-case</category><category>real-estate</category><category>zillow</category><category>redfin</category><category>realtor</category><category>data-pipeline</category><category>cma</category><category>python</category></item><item><title>Building a Real Estate Investor Deal-Sourcing Pipeline with Claude and Redfin</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/real-estate-investor-deal-sourcing-pipeline/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/real-estate-investor-deal-sourcing-pipeline/</guid><description>How to wire the Redfin Scraper into Claude as an MCP tool so an investor can ask for undervalued properties by price, beds, and metro in plain language.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>use-case</category><category>redfin</category><category>real-estate</category><category>mcp</category><category>claude</category><category>investing</category><category>deal-sourcing</category><category>python</category></item><item><title>Realtor.com Scraper: Property and Agent Data Without the MLS Paywall</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/realtor-com-scraper-agent-data/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/realtor-com-scraper-agent-data/</guid><description>Scrape Realtor.com listings in Python — price, beds, baths, county, and the listing agent + brokerage office on every record. No login, no API key.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>tutorial</category><category>realtor.com</category><category>real-estate</category><category>python</category><category>web-scraping</category><category>lead-generation</category><category>mls-data</category><category>mcp</category></item><item><title>Redfin Scraper: For-Sale and Sold Property Data in Python (No API Key)</title><link>https://themineworks.com/blog/redfin-scraper-python-no-api/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://themineworks.com/blog/redfin-scraper-python-no-api/</guid><description>Scrape Redfin listings by city, ZIP, or URL in Python — price, beds, baths, sqft, agent, MLS status, and coordinates. 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