Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to mediastack
Free, Simple REST API for Live News & Blog Articles
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. mediastack launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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RESTful API for processing images, documents, & videos
2021 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, It will be more of a "How I released my API without managing a website, servers, users, and payments. With 0$ up-front cost" Over the past year, I have come up with a plan of how I could release my own product without having to deal with managing users and/or dealing with payment processing. It is a 3 steps procedure: 1. Make an API that solves a problem 2. Deploy it with a serverless architecture 3. Distribute through an API Marketplace That took me about 2-3 days to develop an API using Flask, deploy it via Zappa on AWS, and release through RapidAPI. Source code of API:…
2020 · its alternatives →
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Unstack▲611The world's fastest free all-in-one website builder
2020 · elasticpath.com · its alternatives →
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Ditch your scraper. Make one API call with any tool.
Jun 2026 · tabstack.ai · its alternatives →
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Scrape and parse websites with a single endpoint
2015 · api.datastack.co · its alternatives →
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2020 · tidalwaves.io · its alternatives →
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Lifestack▲608Calendar meets wearables to boost your productivity
2024 · lifestack.ai · its alternatives →
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First AI calendar to use health data for better productivity
2025 · lifestack.ai · its alternatives →
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Hacker News API▲317Hacker News now has an API. Awesome. :)
2014 · ycombinator.com · its alternatives →
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Real-time global news API—fast, affordable, reliable
Jan 2026 · rpusa1-prlabs.hf.space · its alternatives →
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2020 · datanews.io · its alternatives →
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Buffer API▲220One API to publish across every social platform.
May 2026 · buffer.com · its alternatives →
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Real-time, Scalable Proxy & Web Scraping REST API
2021 · scrapestack.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! We're excited to share Statusduck, an uptime monitoring tool where the data is publicly viewable. There are an uncountable amount of uptime tools but we thought we'd put a fun spin on the concept by making another one where people can immediately set up a monitor without signing up. Just type in a website and our service will start pinging it every minute!
2024 · statusduck.io · its alternatives →
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New tools for publishing video posts
2023 · on.substack.com · its alternatives →
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Extract web data and automate browsers, no scraper required.
Apr 2026 · tabstack.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, My team and I are building Tabstack to handle the "web layer" for AI agents. Launch Post: https://tabstack.ai/blog/intro-browsing-infrastructure-ai-ag... Maintaining a complex infrastructure stack for web browsing is one of the biggest bottlenecks in building reliable agents. You start with a simple fetch, but quickly end up managing a complex stack of proxies, handling client-side hydration, and debugging brittle selectors. and writing custom parsing logic for every site. Tabstack is an API that abstracts that infrastructure. You send a URL and an intent; we…
Jan 2026 · its alternatives →
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