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Best Buy price tracker: price drops, the price match, stock and the API

Best Buy matches its own lower price during the return period. Its Developer API gives sale price, regular price and stock, and its terms set rules for bots.

October 4, 2026 · 5 min read

Flipkart price tracker: price history, the tools and building your own

A Flipkart product page we read showed no price history. Trackers say they check prices several times a day; the Affiliate API gives the MRP and prices.

October 4, 2026 · 5 min read

Google Flights price alerts: tracking fares, and what changes by country

Turn on Track prices in Google Flights to get an email when a fare changes a lot. How Any dates works, the price tips, AI deals, and what location changes.

October 4, 2026 · 4 min read

Proxies for Crunchbase: exports, the API, free datasets and what the terms allow

Crunchbase's terms forbid crawling and scraping. Its paid plans export to CSV each month, the API is sold through sales, and two datasets are free.

October 4, 2026 · 4 min read

Proxies for FBref: the rate limit, the terms, and football data the allowed way

Sports Reference blocks bots that send FBref more than ten requests a minute, and its terms bar competing databases and AI training. There is no API.

October 4, 2026 · 4 min read

Proxies for Flashscore: the terms, robots.txt, Favorites and where its data comes from

Flashscore's terms allow personal use only and forbid scraping and aggregating without consent. Favorites send live alerts, and Opta supplies its football data.

October 4, 2026 · 3 min read

Proxies for Google Play: the terms, robots.txt and prices by country

Google's terms tie automated access to robots.txt, which closes Play search and reviews. A store page shows other countries' prices when only gl changes.

October 4, 2026 · 5 min read

Proxies for idealo: how its price comparison ranks offers, Price Alerts and its MCP server

How idealo ranks shop offers, how its Price Alerts and price history work, what its terms say about scraping, and the MCP server idealo runs for AI assistants.

October 4, 2026 · 5 min read

Proxies for IndiaMART: the terms, the Leads API and why there is no Excel export

IndiaMART's terms ban systematic retrieval by robots or spiders without permission. Paid sellers can send their own leads to a CRM through its Leads API.

October 4, 2026 · 4 min read

Proxies for LinkedIn Sales Navigator: exports, CRM sync and what LinkedIn allows

LinkedIn offers no CSV export from Sales Navigator, and Advanced Plus syncs leads with your CRM. What LinkedIn's terms say about scrapers and extensions.

October 4, 2026 · 4 min read

Proxies for Rightmove: the terms, property alerts and the open data on sold prices

Rightmove's terms forbid bots, crawlers and scrapers. Alerts watch new listings, Data Services offers data, and HM Land Registry publishes sold prices free.

October 4, 2026 · 7 min read

Proxies for Substack: the terms, the RSS feed, exports and the MCP server

Substack's terms forbid crawling, scraping and spidering. Every publication has a public RSS feed, writers can export posts, and some can use an MCP server.

October 4, 2026 · 4 min read

Proxies for TradingView: webhooks, the display-only license and what a bot may do

TradingView sends webhooks from four published IP addresses. Its terms license alerts and webhooks for display only and forbid automated trading on them.

October 4, 2026 · 5 min read

Proxies for Transfermarkt: the terms, robots.txt, the bot check and the RSS feeds

Transfermarkt's terms forbid bots, spiders and screen scraping, and an open robots.txt is no permission. What the site offers instead: free RSS news feeds.

October 4, 2026 · 5 min read

Proxies for Yahoo Finance: the terms, the API terms and the paid download

Yahoo's terms forbid collecting data by robots, spiders or scrapers without its permission. Gold subscribers can download historical prices as a CSV file.

October 4, 2026 · 4 min read

Proxies for Argos: the Argos stock checker, and what argos.co.uk showed our server

Argos checks stock on every product page: enter a town or postcode and pick a store. Its app and store checkers do too. What argos.co.uk showed our server.

October 3, 2026 · 7 min read

Proxies for Autotrader: price drop alerts, price labels and what autotrader.co.uk allows

Autotrader UK has its own price drop alerts and price labels against its valuation. What outside price trackers do, and what Autotrader's terms allow.

October 3, 2026 · 6 min read

Proxies for Google Hotels: the price tracker, and why your country can change a rate

Google Hotels tracks prices itself and emails you when they drop. Some rates show only to searchers in one country, which Google reads from the IP address.

October 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Proxies for Google Images: the closing image API, the rules and image rights

Google's own route to image results, the Custom Search JSON API, is closed to new customers and ends on 1 January 2027. What Google allows, and image rights.

October 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Proxies for Google Jobs: where the listings come from, the EEA difference and the rules

Google's job listings start on employers' and job sites' pages. In the EEA, job searches add a Job sites carousel. What Google allows, and where a proxy fits.

October 3, 2026 · 6 min read

Proxies for Google local results: what sets the location and what Google allows

Google places a search by device, home or work address, past searches or IP. Distance is one local ranking factor. How to check another city, and the rules.

October 3, 2026 · 8 min read

Proxies for Google News: editions by country, the RSS feeds and their terms

Google News picks its edition from language and region, carried in the page address. Its feed loaded from our US server, and its terms allow personal use only.

October 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Proxies for Google reviews: the API, the five-review limit and what Google allows

Owners can pull every review of a verified profile through the Business Profile API. For other places, the Places API returns at most five. What Google allows.

October 3, 2026 · 5 min read

Proxies for Takealot: price trackers, wish lists and what Takealot's terms allow

Takealot's app listings name no price history, so outside trackers fill the gap. What they do, what Takealot's terms say about robots, and its Seller API.

October 3, 2026 · 5 min read

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