Free Alternatives to Expensive Data APIs — Web Scraping Edition

These free tools replace expensive data APIs:

Paid API ($$$)	Free Alternative
YouTube Data API ($)	YouTube Comments Scraper (free, no quotas)
News API ($49/mo)	Google News Scraper (free RSS)
Trustpilot API	Trustpilot Scraper (free)
Statista ($5K/yr)	MCP Market Research (free)
LinkedIn API ($$$)	Email Extractor (free)

All 77 free tools: GitHub

Custom data — $20: Payoneer