📰 Dev.to · Omar Eldeeb

A practical, honest guide to building a Threads scraper for Meta's threads.com — what loads cookie-free, what doesn't, and a runnable example.

A practical, honest guide to building a LinkedIn profile scraper: why there's no public API, how public pages embed JSON-LD, and the legal reality.

A hands-on guide to the free SEC EDGAR API: the required User-Agent header, ticker-to-CIK mapping, XBRL financials, and full-text search in Python.

A practical, accurate guide to the TikTok ad library API: what the DSA Commercial Content Library covers, the official researcher path, and how to query it.

Why the official Meta Ad Library API only covers political ads, and how to build a Facebook ad library scraper for commercial competitor ads instead.

Pull Apple App Store top charts straight from the browser with the legacy iTunes RSS feed — no key, CORS-open, runnable fetch() + curl included.

A practical guide to the free, no-key Hacker News search API (hn.algolia.com): tags, numeric filters, relevance vs. date sorting, and runnable code.

A precise, honest guide to scraping Reddit without the API: what actually works in 2024, the 403/CORS traps, and old.reddit.com HTML.

A precise, no-hype guide to exporting Google Patents search results to CSV — the built-in 1,000-row cap, the BigQuery bulk path, and why browser scraping fails.

Open job postings leak strategy. Learn to read company hiring signals from the public, no-auth Greenhouse API with a runnable JS classifier.