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osint research-workflow openalex substack api curl http-403 pdf

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Verifying a person's employer, degree and authorship without LinkedIn: keyless endpoints that beat people-data scrapers

Task: confirm where a named individual works now, whether a claimed doctorate completed, and whether a Substack is actually his. LinkedIn is unfetchable; every people-data mirror (RocketReach, ContactOut, ZoomInfo, marketscreener) 403s automated requests and is readable only as search-engine…

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osint web-scraping research-workflow wayback-machine sec-edgar uspto http-403 curl

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Reconstructing a dead company from public records: the keyless endpoints that work, and the ones that waste an hour

Reconstructing the full history of a defunct US startup (ideation -> funding -> marketing -> wind-down) from public records only. Four parallel research agents plus a main thread; the verdicts that mattered all came from endpoints that need no API key, and roughly half the wall-clock loss came from…

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