Use Cases

One API, Any Data Need

AlterLab's web scraping API powers data pipelines across 25+ industries — from price monitoring to AI training data. Pay per request, scale instantly.

E-commerce & Retail

Price tracking, product catalogs, inventory monitoring, and marketplace analytics.

Research & Intelligence

Market research, competitive intelligence, academic data, and financial analytics.

Lead Generation

Build targeted prospect lists by extracting business information from public directories, company websites, and professional listings.

Market Research

Gather competitive intelligence by extracting product catalogs, customer reviews, market trends, and industry data from public sources.

Real Estate Data

Extract property listings, pricing history, neighborhood data, and market trends from real estate platforms and public records.

Job Market Data

Extract job postings, salary ranges, skill requirements, and hiring trends from public job boards and career pages.

Financial Data

Extract stock quotes, financial statements, fund data, and economic indicators from public financial sources and regulatory filings.

Academic Research

Collect metadata from research papers, citation networks, and academic databases for literature reviews and scientometric analysis.

Data Enrichment

Enrich existing database records with publicly available information from company websites, directories, and public profiles.

Weather & Environmental Data

Extract weather forecasts, historical climate data, air quality indices, and environmental metrics from public meteorological sources.

Sports Data

Extract sports statistics, live scores, historical records, and player performance data from public sports platforms.

Restaurant & Food Data

Extract restaurant menus, pricing, reviews, ratings, and delivery information from food platforms and restaurant directories.

Education Data

Extract course catalogs, school information, rankings, and educational content from public education platforms and institutional websites.

Recruitment Data

Collect job listing data, skills in demand, salary ranges, hiring velocity, and talent market signals from public job boards and company career pages.

Real Estate Analytics

Build real estate market intelligence tools by extracting listing prices, property attributes, rental comparables, and neighborhood-level data from public property portals.

Job Market Analysis

Build labor market intelligence by extracting job posting volumes, in-demand skills, salary benchmarks, and hiring trend signals from public job boards and career platforms.

Patent Search & Analysis

Collect patent filing records, claim text, inventor and assignee metadata, citation networks, and prosecution history from public patent databases for IP intelligence and competitive analysis.

Legal Research

Collect court opinions, regulatory filings, statutes, and legal citation networks from public legal databases to build legal intelligence tools, compliance monitors, and research datasets.

App Store Data

Collect app metadata, user ratings, review text, download estimates, ranking positions, and update history from public app store listings for competitive intelligence and market research.

Influencer Analytics

Collect public follower counts, engagement rates, post frequency, content categories, and audience signals from public social profiles and creator pages for influencer discovery and vetting.

Forum & Community Data

Collect public discussion threads, replies, upvotes, and community metadata from forums and Q&A platforms for market research, content analysis, and community intelligence applications.

Monitoring & Tracking

SEO, brand reputation, reviews, competitor changes, and social listening.

SEO Monitoring

Track search rankings, extract SERP features, monitor backlinks, and analyze on-page SEO elements across your target keywords.

Brand Monitoring

Track brand mentions, customer reviews, sentiment, and reputation signals across news sites, forums, and review platforms.

News Aggregation

Aggregate headlines, articles, and media content from news sites, press releases, and industry publications at scale.

Social Listening

Monitor public forums, discussion boards, and community platforms to understand audience sentiment, trending topics, and brand perception.

Review Monitoring

Track customer reviews, ratings, and feedback across review platforms to manage reputation and respond to customer needs.

Competitor Analysis

Monitor competitor websites for pricing changes, new features, content updates, and strategic shifts to maintain competitive advantage.

Website Monitoring

Detect content changes, track updates, and monitor website availability by scheduling recurring data extractions and comparing results over time.

SEO Auditing

Extract on-page SEO signals across large site inventories — title tags, meta descriptions, heading structures, canonical URLs, hreflang, and structured data — for programmatic auditing workflows.

Supply Chain Monitoring

Monitor supplier availability, component pricing, shipping delays, and procurement market signals from public supplier portals, logistics trackers, and industry news sources.

News Sentiment Monitoring

Collect news articles, headlines, publication metadata, and source signals from public news portals for media monitoring, brand sentiment analysis, and financial signal extraction.

AI & Machine Learning

Training data collection, content aggregation, and structured dataset building.

Compliance & Public Records

MAP enforcement, government data, healthcare directories, and regulatory filings.

Looking for in-depth guides?

Check our detailed use case guides for price monitoring, lead generation, market research, and AI training data — with code samples, architecture diagrams, and best practices.

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terminal
curl -X POST https://api.alterlab.io/v1/scrape \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://example.com", "formats": ["markdown"]}'

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