Scraping mobile app API

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This article is written by Lukas Prokein, frontend engineer at Thinknum. We started crawling the web in 2014, and to-date have aggregated alternative data on 500,000 companies worldwide. Our users (300+ investment firms, hedge funds, internet companies and more) access these datasets via UI and an API.

If you’re interested in data engineering work check out Thinknum’s career page for our open positions (remote and based in NYC).

In this blog post I'll go through the process of creating a scraper for the REST API used by a food delivery mobile app, when there's no web interface

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May 12th, 2021 - Product Updates and Data Additions

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Product Updates

Used Car Pricing Major Player in Inflation Increase - Old News With Thinknum Alt Data

Our real time car inventory dataset indicated a 18% increase in the average price of cars on Carmax (KMX) over the last three months. News broke today that used car pricing contributed heavily to the rise in inflation numbers…Track economic signals and get ahead with Thinknum Alternative Data!

Data Additions

Retail Products by Geo

Gorillas.io

Traction

Maple Finance
Bitso
Soramitsu
Stake Fish
Centrifuge
O(1) Labs

Stores

AdaptHealth
REMA 1000 and Pressbyrån
Rohlik

Job Listings

Maple Finance
Chainalysis
Bitso
Bitpanda
Soramitsu

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May 6th, 2021 - Product Updates and Data Additions

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Product Updates

The Reopening Index archive

Now you can access Thinknum's public dashboards, and share with friends and colleagues, without a login.

Gain unprecedented access to The Reopening Index, one of our most popular public dashboards, without a Thinknum account. Every week, six hand-picked insights detail how some industries are bouncing back as cities re-open, while others are still hurting from the pandemic.

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Data Additions

Traction

Vivino
Vayner Media
Dgraph Labs

Job Listings

DGraph
VaynerMedia
LG
LG Chem
Kaleyra
PAR Technology
Ontrak
Travel + Leisure
Shipper

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April 22nd, 2021 - Product Updates and Data Additions

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Predict Auto Industry Sales

Our car inventory dataset tracks the daily inventories of all major online dealerships through each vehicle’s unique VIN identification number. Users can filter by brand, year, car model, location and other attributes to predict car sales in real time.

Data Additions

Stores

Talabat Restaurant Delivery
Image Salon Studios

Traction

Tithe.ly
AppLovin

Job Listings

Breg
Eversana
Medical Guardian
Viant Medical
Thread Research
Porch
BeachBody
AppLovin
CORE Group
Crossmark
Acosta
Coursera
Frontier Airlines
Cricut

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