Notes from building a data API.

Guides, benchmarks, and engineering write-ups on SEO data, SERP scraping, proxies, and AI models. Written by the people who maintain the endpoints — including the parts that break.

Nineteen TTS models now run through the same media queue as image and video. Here's why we bill on UTF-8 bytes instead of characters, and what broke.

YepAPI TeamAugust 6, 2026 4 min read

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Comparisons

SERP API vs scraping Google yourself: the honest maths

Scraping Google looks free until you price the proxies, the parser maintenance, and the 2am pages. Here's how to decide which side you belong on.

AhmedAugust 11, 2026 4 min read

Web Scraping

Four things that break a scraper in production

Your scraper works on your laptop. Here are the four failure modes that show up once it runs on a schedule — and how to catch each one early.

AhmedAugust 4, 2026 4 min read

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Notes from building a data API.

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Four things that break a scraper in production

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