Scraping guides, benchmarks and field notes

The search silo. One operator reference sits at its root and every page here links up to it: dates, accounts, keywords, engagement thresholds and replies, each answering one search question in full.

• How to Search Tweets by Keyword on X (2026)
• How to Search Twitter Replies (All Replies to a Tweet)
• How to Build Complex Twitter Search Queries

The developer silo. Every guide here takes a query you could type into X and turns it into a dataset, with the actor, the inputs and the per-result price stated before you commit to anything.

• How to Monitor a Keyword on X With an API
• How to Build a Competitor Tweet Tracker
• How to Export Tweets to CSV or JSON

The developer silo. One guide maps every TikTok collection task to the apidojo actor that does it, then each page covers one dataset in depth: comments, profiles, followers, hashtags, sounds, search results and locations, plus the use cases built on them.

• How to Scrape TikTok Data in 2026
• How to Monitor TikTok Trends With an API
• How to Build a TikTok Dataset for AI and Research

The platform silo. These answer questions about X itself rather than about collecting data from it, and they reflect how the app behaves now rather than how it behaved before the 2024 changes.

• What Is a Tweet? Posts, Replies and IDs Explained
• What Does 'Deleted by Tweet Author' Mean?
• How to Embed a Tweet on a Website

Who can see what on a TikTok profile, and how to control it. Profile views, follower lists, likes and favorites sit here, beside the blocking guides: blocking someone quietly, telling whether you were blocked, and muting words.

• How to Block Someone on TikTok (Without Them Knowing)
• TikTok Profile Views: See and Turn Off Viewers
• How to Block Hashtags, Sounds and Keywords on TikTok

Everything a creator or a viewer does with comments, starting from one guide that covers them all: pinning, deleting, filtering, posting pictures, finding someone's comments and fixing the ones that vanish.

• TikTok Comments: Pin, Delete, Filter and Find Them
• How to Comment Pictures, GIFs and Stickers on TikTok
• Why Can't I See Comments on TikTok?

The search silo. One guide covers every search filter and hidden feature, and each page here answers one search question in full: finding a person, watching without the app, history, suggestions and why search breaks.

• How to Search on TikTok: Filters and Hidden Features
• Can People See What You Search on TikTok?
• How to Clear Your TikTok Search History

Every official TikTok API, what it returns and who qualifies, set beside scraper APIs for the data the official ones don't cover. The guide here compares them before each API gets its own page.

• TikTok API in 2026: Official Options vs Scraper APIs
• Best TikTok Scrapers in 2026, Compared
• TikTok API vs TikTok Scraper: Which to Use

Your own data on TikTok: requesting the full download, what TikTok collects, watch history, saved collections, drafts and how much mobile data the app uses.

• How to Download Your TikTok Data (What's Included)
• How to Find TikTok Drafts and Save Them to Camera Roll
• How Much Mobile Data Does TikTok Use?

How to spot a trend on TikTok before it peaks and use it once you have: trending sounds, hashtags, products, downloading a sound and adding your own.

• How to Find Trends on TikTok: Sounds and Hashtags
• How to Add Your Own Sound to TikTok
• How to Download a TikTok Sound (Extract Audio)

The API silo. X's own search endpoints, their 7-day and full-archive limits, their per-post pricing, and an honest comparison with running the same query through a scraper.

• How to Get Historical Tweets With an API
• Twitter Recent Search API: The 7-Day Limit
• How to Get Tweet Data by ID With an API

Guides to Instagram's public data. Every figure is read from a live listing and dated, and every claim links to the scraper behind it.

• Measuring a campaign hashtag inside its own window
• Instagram profiles: search or handle lookup?
• What replyCount tells you before you pay

Guides to TikTok's public data, written against the six scrapers that produce it. TikTok is the platform where the entry point matters most, because a handle, a post, a sound and a place are four different products.

• Why geotagged TikTok posts arrive without a geotag
• TikTok date windows that return nothing, and why
• Why your TikTok user run cost three queries

Getting TikTok videos onto your device and back off your profile: downloading with and without the watermark, reposting, and deleting reposts you no longer want.

• How to Download TikTok Videos (With and Without Watermark)
• How to Delete, Undo or Hide Reposts on TikTok
• How to Repost on TikTok (and Undo It)

Guides to YouTube's public data. The family worth reading carefully, because its actors disagree with each other about types: one returns integers where another returns "3.4K" as a string.

• Parsing YouTube's abbreviated counts
• Measuring a YouTube course's real length
• Why hidden YouTube subscriber counts are not zeros

How to read the numbers TikTok gives you and the ones it doesn't. Start with where analytics live in the app, then turn raw counts into an engagement rate you can compare across accounts.

• How to See TikTok Analytics (2026 Guide)
• How to Calculate TikTok Engagement Rate (+ Benchmarks)

The ground-floor guides. What scraping is, what it is not, where the legal lines actually sit, and which of the two very different things sold as a "scraping API" you should be buying.

• What is web scraping, and when is an API cheaper?