# Blog

> Notes on paying for web data, agents, and how fetcher.sh is put together.

- [Crypto, regulation, and policy on X, Reddit, and News](https://fetcher.sh/blog/crypto-regulation-policy-x-reddit-news.md) — 2026-09-04 — Public talk about stablecoins, regulation, and policy. Not a price feed. Not an x402 explainer.
- [Market research: Reddit, app reviews, YouTube comments](https://fetcher.sh/blog/market-research-reddit-app-reviews-youtube-comments.md) — 2026-09-03 — Three public corpora: subreddits, app-store reviews, YouTube comments. Not a survey panel.
- [OSINT: handles, threads, and open-web search](https://fetcher.sh/blog/osint-handle-thread-open-web.md) — 2026-09-02 — Three public JSON steps: handle resolve, comment thread, Google site: search. Public accounts only.
- [SERP data without a Custom Search engine or SerpAPI](https://fetcher.sh/blog/serp-without-custom-search-or-serpapi.md) — 2026-09-01 — Google results as JSON with no CSE id and no SerpAPI account. Category pin, not a vendor takedown.
- [Grounding an agent on live Google results](https://fetcher.sh/blog/grounding-an-agent-on-live-google-results.md) — 2026-08-31 — An agent fetches live Google SERP JSON and cites it. Not a training dump. How it pays is a different page.
- [News monitoring for brands, technology, and policy](https://fetcher.sh/blog/news-monitoring-brands-technology-policy.md) — 2026-08-30 — Headlines in Google News business, technology, and world as JSON. Headlines, not tweets.
- [Google News headlines, topics, and language editions](https://fetcher.sh/blog/google-news-headlines-topics-language-editions.md) — 2026-08-29 — Headlines, topics, and language editions as JSON. Not Google Search. Not Apple News.
- [Google search results as JSON with site: and filetype:](https://fetcher.sh/blog/google-search-results-json-site-filetype.md) — 2026-08-28 — SERP rows as JSON. site:, filetype:, and intitle: pass through. Not Google Ads. Not an SEO retainer.
- [App storefronts by country: US, Japan, Germany](https://fetcher.sh/blog/app-storefronts-by-country-us-japan-germany.md) — 2026-08-27 — The same app query on US, Japan, and Germany catalogs. A storefront here is a country’s store, not Shopify.
- [App store reviews as a product-research feed](https://fetcher.sh/blog/app-store-reviews-as-product-research.md) — 2026-08-26 — Play Store and App Store review text as a qualitative feed. Not Maps reviews. Not YouTube comments.
- [ASO competitor tracking without Sensor Tower or data.ai](https://fetcher.sh/blog/aso-competitor-tracking-without-sensor-tower.md) — 2026-08-25 — Similar apps, reviews, and storefronts as JSON from Play and the App Store. A feed, not a rank-tracking suite.
- [Apple App Store apps, bundles, and similar apps](https://fetcher.sh/blog/apple-app-store-apps-bundles-similar.md) — 2026-08-24 — iOS apps, bundles, similar apps, and reviews as JSON. Not App Store Connect. Not Apple the fruit.
- [Google Play apps, reviews, permissions, and data safety](https://fetcher.sh/blog/google-play-apps-reviews-permissions-data-safety.md) — 2026-08-23 — Play Store apps, reviews, permissions, and data safety as JSON. Not Play Console. Not Play Framework.
- [Place search by text query vs coordinates](https://fetcher.sh/blog/place-search-text-query-vs-coordinates.md) — 2026-08-22 — google-maps.fetcher.sh searches by text or by latitude and longitude. Two methods, not Cloud geocoding.
- [Restaurant and hospitality listings as JSON](https://fetcher.sh/blog/restaurant-hospitality-listings-as-json.md) — 2026-08-21 — Yelp and Google Maps listings and reviews. Not reservations. Not delivery. Not OpenTable.
- [Local SEO: Maps and Yelp reviews in one monitoring feed](https://fetcher.sh/blog/local-seo-maps-yelp-review-monitoring.md) — 2026-08-20 — Listings and reviews on Google Maps and Yelp as JSON. Not ranking for blue links. Not ASO.
- [Yelp business search and reviews without Yelp Fusion](https://fetcher.sh/blog/yelp-business-search-reviews-without-fusion.md) — 2026-08-19 — Businesses and reviews as JSON. Not Yelp Fusion. Not the merchant dashboard.
- [Google Maps places and reviews without a Places API key](https://fetcher.sh/blog/google-maps-places-reviews-without-places-api-key.md) — 2026-08-18 — Place search, details, and reviews as JSON. Not Places API, not Cloud billing, not Apple Maps.
- [Resolving a social handle to a stable id](https://fetcher.sh/blog/resolving-a-social-handle-to-a-stable-id.md) — 2026-08-17 — Turn @handles into user ids and channel ids as JSON. Public resolution, not OAuth login.
- [Creator and influencer lookup from public profiles](https://fetcher.sh/blog/creator-influencer-lookup-public-profiles.md) — 2026-08-16 — Public profile and follower counts on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and X. Lookup, not ad buying.
- [Brand mention monitoring on X, Reddit, and Google News](https://fetcher.sh/blog/brand-mention-monitoring-x-reddit-google-news.md) — 2026-08-15 — A company name in tweets, Reddit posts, and News headlines as JSON. Monitoring, not a tactic to earn LLM citations.
- [Using Reddit for product and community research](https://fetcher.sh/blog/reddit-for-product-and-community-research.md) — 2026-08-14 — Subreddits and comment trees as a qualitative corpus. Access without API approval is a different page.
- [YouTube Shorts, live streams, and playlists as JSON](https://fetcher.sh/blog/youtube-shorts-live-streams-playlists-json.md) — 2026-08-13 — YouTube-native formats: Shorts, live streams, and playlist videos. Not Reels. Not TikTok.
- [Hashtags, sounds, and trending topics as data](https://fetcher.sh/blog/hashtags-sounds-trending-topics-as-data.md) — 2026-08-12 — Hashtags, TikTok/IG sounds, X trends, and YouTube trending as JSON. Topic clusters, not accounts, not Google Trends.
- [Comment threads: YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, X](https://fetcher.sh/blog/comment-threads-youtube-instagram-tiktok-reddit-x.md) — 2026-08-11 — Replies under a video, post, or tweet as JSON. Not app-store reviews. Not Maps ratings.
- [Follower and following graphs on X, Instagram, and TikTok](https://fetcher.sh/blog/follower-following-graphs-x-instagram-tiktok.md) — 2026-08-10 — Public follower and following lists as JSON. A graph here means who follows whom — not the Meta Graph API.
- [X search operators: from, since, until, min_faves](https://fetcher.sh/blog/x-search-operators-from-since-until.md) — 2026-08-09 — twitter.fetcher.sh search passes X operators through. from: and since: are the product, not a slogan about APIs.
- [Reddit posts and comment trees without API approval](https://fetcher.sh/blog/reddit-posts-comment-trees-without-api-approval.md) — 2026-08-08 — Posts, nested comments, subreddits, and users as JSON. No OAuth app. No approval queue.
- [TikTok public posts and profiles without an official API](https://fetcher.sh/blog/tiktok-public-posts-without-official-api.md) — 2026-08-07 — Public posts, profiles, comments, hashtags, and sounds as JSON. Not TikTok Research, not Marketing API.
- [Instagram profiles and reels without the Meta Graph API](https://fetcher.sh/blog/instagram-public-profiles-reels-without-graph-api.md) — 2026-08-06 — Public profiles, posts, reels, and stories as JSON. Not the Meta Graph API, not a Facebook developer app.
- [YouTube public data without a Google Cloud project](https://fetcher.sh/blog/youtube-public-data-without-google-cloud.md) — 2026-08-05 — Channels, videos, and comments as JSON. No Cloud console, no API key quota, no YouTube Data API v3 signup.
- [Twitter/X public data, no official developer platform](https://fetcher.sh/blog/twitter-x-public-data-without-developer-platform.md) — 2026-08-04 — Search, profiles, timelines, and followers as JSON on twitter.fetcher.sh. Not developer.x.com, not OAuth, not app review.
- [How an agent pays for a single public-data request](https://fetcher.sh/blog/how-an-agent-pays-for-a-public-data-request.md) — 2026-08-03 — HTTP 402, sign USDC, retry — or a bby_live_ key. The product is the JSON. x402 is how the agent pays for it.
- [Pay per call vs monthly API plans vs official quotas](https://fetcher.sh/blog/pay-per-call-vs-monthly-api-plans.md) — 2026-08-02 — Official APIs sell a month of capacity. fetcher.sh sells one GET. Credits are a balance, not a subscription.
- [A web data API with no official developer account](https://fetcher.sh/blog/web-data-api-no-official-developer-account.md) — 2026-08-01 — You do not register an app at X, YouTube, or Google. You call a URL. Public JSON comes back.
- [Shipping fetcher.sh in thirty minutes, for $0](https://fetcher.sh/blog/shipping-fetcher-in-thirty-minutes.md) — 2026-06-18 — How fetcher.sh went from idea to a live URL in about half an hour, at a cash cost of zero — and why the first paid GET is the real launch.