I started considering non-API based data flows recently and remembered a company called PhantomBuster who scrapes sites like LinkedIn and Instagram that don’t provide great API lists for things like followers. However they take a token (which is a little sus cause that is like giving your password until you revoke it) so they can act as if it is you and can then grab data from sites.
When checking phantom’s repos around their setup they have
An interesting player in the market is Zyte, they seem
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