What are the best free AI tools for research & trends?

Scrapling: adaptive scraping for agents, last30days: what people said this month, cited, Let your agent scrape social, search and maps data, Social media research skills, Apify skills: scrape IG, TikTok, YouTube to CSV

Research & Trends

Find outliers, hooks and what is trending right now.

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Scrapling: adaptive scraping for agents

A scraper that survives page redesigns and ships an MCP/skill so agents pull trend data themselves.

Claude Code +1★ 87.7k

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last30days: what people said this month, cited

Researches any topic across Reddit, X, YouTube and HN for the last 30 days and returns a cited brief.

Claude Code +1★ 64.3k

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Let your agent scrape social, search and maps data

gives an agent thousands of ready scrapers (Instagram, TikTok, Google Maps, search) to pull research and lead data.

Codex +1★ 11.3k

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Social media research skills

Find outlier posts, mine comments, tear down competitors and read ad libraries from your agent.

Claude Code +1★ 3.7k

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Apify skills: scrape IG, TikTok, YouTube to CSV

Official Apify skills: the agent picks a scraper, runs it and returns CSVs from 130+ sources.

Claude Code +3★ 2.4k

AGENT USE CASE

Automate Competitor Research with Exa.ai, Notion and AI Agents

Free n8n template by Jimleuk. Connects Notion, OpenAI; import it and run it.

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Analyze Reddit Posts with AI to Identify Business Opportunities

Free n8n template by Alex Huang. Connects Gmail, Google Sheets, OpenAI, Reddit; import it and run it.

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Daily AI News Translation & Summary with GPT-4 and Telegram Delivery

Free n8n template by SamirLiu. Connects OpenAI, Telegram; import it and run it.

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Automatic Weekly Digital PR Stories Suggestions with Reddit and Anthropic

Free n8n template by Custom Workflows AI. Connects Anthropic, Google Drive, Reddit; import it and run it.

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AGENT USE CASE

Scrape Competitor Reviews & Generate Ad Creatives with Bright Data & OpenAI

Free n8n template by Yaron Been. Connects Gmail, Google Sheets, OpenAI; import it and run it.

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AGENT USE CASE

Automate Reddit Trend Analysis with GPT-4 and Slack/Gmail Distribution

Free n8n template by Yaron Been. Connects Gmail, OpenAI, Reddit, Slack; import it and run it.

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AGENT USE CASE

Extract Business Leads from Reddit using GPT-4.1-mini Analysis and Google Sheets

Free n8n template by Ari Nakos. Connects Google Sheets, OpenRouter, Reddit; import it and run it.

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AGENT USE CASE

Generate Landing Page Layouts from Competitor Analysis with GPT-4

Free n8n template by Henry. Connects OpenAI; import it and run it.

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