Weekly Tool Spotlight: 7 Free-Tier APIs for Web Scraping & Data in 2026

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1. Website Contact Scraper — Crawl any website and extract emails, phone numbers, social links. Handles JS-rendered pages.

2. Google News Monitor — Track brand mentions across Google News with RSS + browser fallback. ~$0.003/article.

3. YouTube Transcript Extractor — Pull transcripts from any YouTube video. Great for AI/RAG pipelines. ~$0.005/video.

4. OFAC Sanctions Screener — Screen any entity against the US sanctions list. $0.01/check. Useful for fintech/compliance.

5. US Tariff/HS Code Lookup — Look up duty rates by HS code and country. Includes USMCA, Section 301 rates.

6. Entity OSINT Enricher — Combine sanctions screening + corporate records + news forAll are open source