Replacing fragile scrapers with a paid API cut multi-platform brand monitoring to under a cent per run
Suresh935 · reddit · 2026-11-04
The author built a brand/GEO monitoring agent for two ecommerce brands pulling posts and product mentions from Reddit, X, TikTok and YouTube every 48 hours. Headless-browser automation with spare accounts kept failing—cookies died every three days, SMS challenges, locked accounts. Switching to an aggregated public-data API removed logins entirely, at under a cent per run.
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