Market Research
Measure a market from public data — how many businesses operate in a category and area, how they are rated, what communities discuss, and how products in the category are priced.
How it works
These Actors are designed to chain — the output of one is the input of the next.
- 1
Size the field
Google Maps returns the businesses of a given type in a given area, with ratings and review counts as a proxy for relative traction.
- 2
Listen to the demand side
Facebook group posts and X timelines show how people in the market actually describe their problems.
- 3
Check the product side
Amazon product and search data gives pricing, ratings and review volume across the category.
Scrapers for this use case
5 Goldmine Actors serve this workflow.
google-map-business-scraper
Facebook Group Posts Scraper
Scrapes Facebook group posts with comprehensive data including text, media attachments, engagement metrics, and author information.
amazon-search-scraper
Twitter User Timeline
Scrape tweets from a Twitter user's timeline using guest mode (no login required)
Scrape LinkedIn Company Details
Scrape detailed LinkedIn company data including employees, about info, stock data, affiliated and similar companies
What this does not solve
Worth knowing before you build a process on top of it.
- Public data covers what is visible online. Private, offline and B2B-only segments are systematically under-represented.
- Ratings and review counts indicate relative traction, not revenue or market share.
- Social listening skews toward whoever posts, which is not a representative sample of a market.