Recipes that ship in 2026.
Production-tested playbooks for the work data teams actually do. Each recipe walks the full pipeline — the tools, the trade-offs, the costs, the code.
E-commerce
2How to scrape Amazon product data in 2026
A working playbook for pulling titles, prices, ratings, reviews, and ASINs from Amazon at scale — without writing a single line of scraping code.
How to monitor competitor pricing across e-commerce in 2026
Build a real-time pricing intelligence pipeline that tracks competitor SKUs across Amazon, Shopify, and direct-to-consumer sites — the stack, the cadence, the cost.
AI & RAG
4How to build a RAG knowledge base from the web in 2026
The 2026 playbook for ingesting public web content into a retrieval-augmented generation pipeline — clean markdown, structured metadata, and freshness without infrastructure pain.
How to extract structured data from articles in 2026
Pull clean article bodies, JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards, and reading-time metadata from any news or blog page — the modern alternative to building a Readability fork.
How to convert PDFs and documents to clean markdown for RAG in 2026
Turn PDFs, Word docs, spreadsheets, and slide decks into LLM-ready markdown with one API call — OCR for scanned pages included.
How to OCR images and scanned documents via API in 2026
Extract text from images, screenshots, and scanned PDFs with one API call — bounding boxes included — for search, RAG, and data entry.
SEO & AEO
2How to audit your site for AI answer engines (AEO) in 2026
Measure whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI answers can find, fetch, and cite your pages — and fix what's blocking them.
How to run a technical SEO audit with an API in 2026
Programmatic meta-tag, schema, redirect-chain, broken-link, and readability audits — wire a full technical SEO check into CI.
Domain intelligence
8How to detect a website's tech stack from a domain in 2026
Identify the frameworks, analytics, CMS, and infrastructure a site runs — technographic enrichment without a Clearbit contract.
How to monitor SSL certificates and discover subdomains in 2026
Track certificate expiry, certificate-transparency history, and the live subdomain attack surface for any domain via API.
How to geolocate IP addresses and look up ASN ownership in 2026
Resolve any IP to country, city, coordinates, ASN, and network owner — single or bulk — for fraud checks, analytics, and routing decisions.
How to check SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records in 2026
Validate a domain's email-authentication posture — SPF, DKIM, DMARC — to protect deliverability and catch spoofing risk before it bites.
How to audit HTTP security headers (CSP, HSTS) in 2026
Programmatically check CSP, HSTS, security.txt, subresource integrity, and mixed content — wire a security-header audit into CI.
How to check IP and domain reputation with DNSBL in 2026
Look up IP reputation and DNS blocklist status to defend your own infrastructure and vet inbound traffic — free data, no paid threat feeds.
How to track historical page changes with the Wayback Machine in 2026
Pull archived snapshots of any URL to monitor competitor changes, recover lost content, and build change-over-time datasets.
How to check DNS records and propagation via API in 2026
Resolve A/AAAA/MX/TXT/NS records, check propagation across global resolvers, and run DNS-over-HTTPS lookups — for migrations and monitoring.
Crawling
3How to scrape pages behind a login in 2026
A practical guide to authenticated scraping in 2026 — form-based logins, session-persistent flows, and the legal and operational guardrails every team needs.
How to crawl an entire website in 2026
The full-site crawler playbook — depth controls, budget caps, robots.txt obedience, sitemap unrolling, and webhook-based delivery for crawls that finish hours later.
How to solve CAPTCHAs programmatically in 2026
Clear reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, and Turnstile challenges in automation flows on sites you operate or are authorized to access — via one API.