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Learn how to scrape permitted public Twitter/X data with a no-code tool, the official API, or Python, plus the limits to check before you start.

Social media scraping explained: is it legal under GDPR/CCPA, which method fits your use case, and how to scrape TikTok, X, YouTube, Reddit & Xiaohongshu data in 2026.

Looking for an easy tool to free download images from any websites or URLs in bulk? Here you can find the 5 best image downloaders and the web scraping method to get images from any URL easily.

Google Scholar has no official API. Compare the best Google Scholar APIs in 2026 — free tiers, fields returned, and how to avoid getting blocked.

Compare four practical ways to export YouTube comments: an online template, the AgentTools API, Octoparse Desktop, and the official YouTube Data API.

Is there a Google News API? Not officially; it was deprecated in 2011. Here's how to get Google News data in 2026: RSS, a SERP API, or Octoparse.

TikTok API access requires business approval and weeks of waiting. See what each product covers, plus a faster template-based alternative.

Agent Plugins is a new open standard for packaging AI tools. Here's what it means for AI agent data infrastructure, and where Octoparse fits in.

Freelancer Bilal Rajput used Octoparse to build a Custom Task with XPath-based extraction logic, reliably scraping more than 50,000 product pages for an e-commerce client and turning web scraping into a scalable freelance data service.

Which SERP APIs are actually free? Compare real 2026 free tiers, SerpApi, Serper, Bright Data, Octoparse and more, and what each free plan leaves out.

Does Google have a search API? The Custom Search JSON API is closing on Jan 1, 2027. Here are Google's official options in 2026 and what to use instead.

Is SerpApi legal? In July 2026 a US court dismissed Google's DMCA lawsuit against it. Here's what the ruling means for using a SERP API in 2026.