Web Scraping API

Social Listening API

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

$9.4B by 2028 Social listening market65% Brands using social listening40M+ Forum posts daily (Reddit alone)

How It Works

1

Identify communities

Target relevant forums, discussion boards, and public community spaces where your audience participates.

2

Extract discussions

Pull post content, upvotes, comments, and user engagement metrics from community threads.

3

Analyze sentiment

Process extracted discussions to identify trends, sentiment shifts, and emerging topics in your market.

Quick Start

cURL
curl -X POST https://alterlab.io/api/v1/scrape \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://forum.example.com/topic/product-feedback",
    "extract": {
      "posts": [{
        "author": "string",
        "content": "string",
        "upvotes": "number",
        "date": "string"
      }]
    }
  }'

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Related Data Extraction Guides

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Related Use Cases

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Frequently Asked Questions

Responsible Use

AlterLab is designed for extracting publicly available data. Always review the terms of service for any website you access, respect robots.txt directives, and ensure your use case complies with applicable laws in your jurisdiction.

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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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