Terrific source of web data, particularly for early stage product development. We started with Webhose during our MVP, and it's scaled with us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of social data, occasional duplicate data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Webhose is almost unique in that it offers an affordable way of monitoring breaking news stories about my clients.

The specific site search / other boolean terms also help make it easier.

Yes it's a bit fiddly to use and import the data easily into a Google Sheet / Excel, but overall it's the best value service out there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not all publications are covered, but the same is true for all platforms like this, be it Webhose or Meltwater.

Occasionally when you import a JSon to an Excel Sheet the ordering switches from one month to the next ... not sure why. Shouldn't be a big deal but I tend to extract data based on the specific columns and if that gets muddled my automation does too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Webhose is a nice tool for searching data in website and forums. Very easy to use it, and simple to implement it in different programing languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

They have to improve the precision detecting news. Some times they miss some news in webs they crawl Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interface, reliability and ease of use of the APIs and the services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of detailed consumption reports, clack of multiple keys or access token to support tracking of multiple streams or queries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Webhose just works. You can rely on it to monitor content based on your key words from thousands of different sites. It has a great API Playground to test queries to quickly understand if they have the content you're after. Their support team are quick to respond and always get the job done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing serious to dislike. The only small thing would be some of the useless content (i.e. pastebin messages) but they can be easily filtered out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The immediate response, the feeling that the representatives are really trying to help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For academic uses, it is more complicated to pay (the credit card option is less relevant) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Intuitive queries

API for repeatable data downloads Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Limit of 100 stories per API call. So I have to loop through the API calls to get all the matching stories. This makes the process much slower and prone to errors (e.g. internet connection drops out). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing of Webhose is amount of different information they have, from phorums, news, reviews... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes they are a bit late getting the news. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The responses of the support team and the consistency of the data are the major upsides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are some missing features, mainly the reddit support is still not holistic enough and missing some filtering options like specifying a specific case sensitive word search.

Documentation is not necessarily the most up to date and I discovered some filters by change like thread.uuid. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple and easy to use, setup and monitor.

Support is always ready to assist when there are any issues.

Adding new data sources is always easy and done ion a timely manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Latency between publish date and crawl date Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.