Tools and Comparisons
Tool roundups run against the same brief rather than assembled from marketing pages, which is why several of them recommend somebody else for jobs we do not do well. The free tier pieces are here for the same reason: every one of these products has one, and the interesting question is never whether it exists but which feature it withholds. We sell one of the tools in this section, and each comparison says so at the point it becomes relevant.
All 6 guides
Is scraping social media legal? The clauses, quoted
Every article on this cites hiQ v LinkedIn as the case that made scraping public data legal. Almost none mention how it ended: hiQ paid $500,000, accepted a permanent injunction, and deleted everything it had built. Here are the actual clauses, photographed in the documents they live in.
The best YouTube Shorts scrapers, ranked
Ten tools ranked, and the problem underneath all of them: YouTube's own API has no idea which of its videos are Shorts, and cannot tell you.
The best TikTok scrapers, ranked
Nine ways to get TikTok data out, ranked. Including the official API, which is free, excellent, and forbidden to almost everybody reading this.
The best Instagram scrapers, ranked
Nine tools that pull public Instagram data, ranked on what you actually pay, what breaks, and how much of Meta's rewritten terms you end up standing on.
Free AI social media tools, and exactly where the limit sits
Free tiers here are real, not bait. The catch is that they are cut along a line you cannot see until you cross it, usually in week three.
10 best AI social media tools
Ten tools, sorted by the job they actually do rather than the label they use. Includes what each one costs you in time, not just money.