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Alternative Data API for Investment Research

Collect finance, crypto, app-store, web-traffic, and search-interest signals as normalized JSON for investment research, alternative-data products, and quant pipelines — without maintaining a collector per source.

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Crawlora platform

Structured public web data

01

API-first

Documented endpoints and Playground testing.

02

JSON-first

Normalized records instead of raw HTML parsing.

03

Infrastructure managed

Proxy routing, browser rendering, retries, and scaling controls.

04

Responsible boundaries

Public web data workflows with transparent failure handling.

The problem

Alternative-data pipelines stall when every signal needs its own collector

Investment, quant, and data teams stitch signals from many public sources — market quotes, crypto markets, app-store momentum, website traffic, and search interest. Building it in-house means a separate parser, schema, proxy strategy, and usage meter for each source, plus constant maintenance as pages change.

Infrastructure

Proxy routing, browser execution, retries, and usage controls are operational work.

Normalization

Raw pages must become stable records before products and data teams can use them.

Product fit

Use-case landing pages should map directly to buyer workflows and internal data models.

Responsible use

Structured public web data workflows still need clear legal, privacy, and platform boundaries.

What you can collect

Structured data categories

Example fields may include public market, crypto, app, web-traffic, and search-interest signals plus the symbol, ticker, app, domain, or query context used to collect them.

ticker symbols and quote fields
historical OHLC price points
market summaries and movers
company and financial-statement context
crypto prices, market cap, and volume
trending coins and categories
app-store rankings and ratings
app review counts and version history
website traffic and audience estimates
search-interest and related-query signals
news headlines and sources
source, symbol, and request context

Relevant Crawlora APIs

Platform-specific endpoints for this workflow

Start from the platform page or endpoint docs, then test the same route in Playground before production integration.

Yahoo Finance API

Quotes, history, screeners, and market summary workflows for market signals.

Open

Google Finance API

Quote, chart, company, and market news workflows.

Open

CoinGecko API

Crypto prices, market cap, volume, trending coins, and categories.

Open

App Store API

App rankings, ratings, reviews, and version history as demand signals.

Open

Google Play API

Android app rankings, ratings, and review signals.

Open

SimilarWeb API

Website traffic and audience estimates for watchlist companies.

Open

Google Trends API

Search interest and related-query signals for tickers, brands, and products.

Open

Yahoo Finance screener

Run predefined screeners such as day gainers or most active symbols.

Open

CoinGecko markets

Collect normalized crypto market rows with price, market cap, and volume.

Open

App Store charts

Collect app ranking lists for momentum and category tracking.

Open

SimilarWeb website

Collect public website overview metrics for a domain.

Open

Google Trends interest over time

Track time-series search interest for a keyword as a demand signal.

Open

Google Trends trending

Monitor currently trending searches for emerging-interest signals.

Open

Example workflow

From target definition to product output

Crawlora keeps the scraping execution layer behind documented APIs so your product can focus on storage, analysis, alerts, and user workflows.

  1. 01

    Choose signals and universe

    Pick the tickers, coins, apps, domains, and search queries that matter to your thesis.

  2. 02

    Collect across sources

    Call finance, crypto, app-store, SimilarWeb, and Trends endpoints from a scheduler or worker.

  3. 03

    Normalize and align

    Store each signal with its symbol or entity, source, and timestamp so series line up.

  4. 04

    Build features

    Derive indicators — price momentum, traffic trend, ranking changes, interest shifts — for models or dashboards.

  5. 05

    Refresh and monitor

    Re-run snapshots on a schedule and alert on meaningful moves across signals.

API example

Illustrative crypto market request

Illustrative example using the documented CoinGecko markets route. Check Docs for current parameters, response fields, and credit cost.

Request

Illustrative example
GET https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/coingecko/markets?vs_currency=usd&order=market_cap_desc&per_page=10
x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY

Illustrative response

Illustrative example
{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "bitcoin",
      "symbol": "btc",
      "current_price": 64250,
      "market_cap": 1268000000000,
      "total_volume": 28500000000
    }
  ]
}

What you can build

Products, dashboards, and workflows this data can power

These are practical workflow patterns for SaaS products, data teams, AI agents, agencies, growth teams, and internal intelligence tools.

Signals dashboard

Combine finance, crypto, app, and traffic signals in one research view.

App-store momentum tracker

Track rankings, ratings, and review velocity as consumer-demand signals.

Crypto market monitor

Watch prices, market cap, volume, and trending coins across categories.

Web-traffic trend index

Track SimilarWeb traffic and audience estimates for watchlist companies.

Consumer-interest tracker

Follow Google Trends search interest for tickers, brands, and products.

Research data pipeline

Feed normalized signals into notebooks, models, and AI research assistants.

Build or buy

Why not build it yourself?

Custom scrapers can work for prototypes. Production web data workflows need infrastructure, monitoring, stable output, and clear failure behavior.

DIY approachCrawlora approach
Maintain a separate collector for finance, crypto, app stores, SimilarWeb, and TrendsCall documented endpoints across all of them from one account
Normalize each source's schema and align series yourselfReceive normalized JSON per endpoint with documented fields
Run proxies, browsers, and retries to keep collection reliableUse managed proxy routing and browser-backed execution behind the API
Build usage metering and cost tracking from scratchUse API-key usage tracking and credit-based pricing

Infrastructure

Explore the managed execution layer

Crawlora combines platform-specific APIs with managed proxy routing, browser-backed rendering, retries, rate limits, usage tracking, and scaling controls.

Web Scraping API

Open

Proxy Routing

Open

Browser Rendering

Open

Browser Cluster

Open

Anti-bot Resilience

Open

Challenge Handling

Open

Retry & Fallback

Open

Usage & Billing

Open

Scalable Scraping API

Open

Responsible use

Use structured public web data responsibly

Alternative-data workflows should be limited to responsible public research, monitoring, and enrichment. Crawlora is not a broker, investment adviser, exchange data vendor, or real-time market-data provider. Data may be delayed, incomplete, or affected by upstream changes. Do not use Crawlora as the sole source for trading, investment, compliance, tax, or risk decisions. Read Crawlora terms.

Related use cases

More structured web data workflows

Cross-link practical workflows that often share the same data infrastructure and product buyers.

Finance Market Data

Open

Crypto Market Research

Open

App Review Analysis

Open

AI Agent Web Data

Open

FAQ

Alternative Data for Investing FAQ

Answers for developers and product teams evaluating Crawlora for this workflow.

What is alternative data?+

Alternative data is non-traditional signal — app activity, website traffic, search interest, and public market or crypto data — used alongside fundamentals to inform research and monitoring.

Which sources does this use case cover?+

Yahoo Finance, Google Finance, CoinGecko, the App Store, Google Play, SimilarWeb, and Google Trends, where the documented endpoints expose those fields. Check Docs for current coverage.

Can I use this for an investment-research product?+

You can use Crawlora as the data layer for research, monitoring, and enrichment. See the responsible-use note: it is not investment advice and should not be the sole input to decisions.

How current is the data?+

You control cadence with scheduled snapshots. Data may be delayed and should not be treated as real-time trading data; plan refresh frequency around your responsible-use constraints.

Can I collect app-store and web-traffic signals?+

Yes. App Store and Google Play endpoints expose rankings, ratings, and reviews, and SimilarWeb endpoints expose website traffic and audience estimates where supported.

How is this billed?+

Crawlora uses credit-based pricing per documented endpoint call. Use the pricing page and endpoint docs to estimate cost for your signal coverage and refresh cadence.

Is this investment advice?+

No. Crawlora provides structured public web data infrastructure. It does not provide investment advice, brokerage services, or trading recommendations.

Do I need proxies or browser automation?+

For supported endpoints, managed proxy routing, browser-backed execution where needed, retries, and response normalization are handled behind the API.

Start building with structured public web data

Browse Crawlora APIs, test a request in Playground, and move from scraping infrastructure work to production data workflows.

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