business-review-trust-research

Business & software review research

Look up product launches, business reputation, verified startup revenue, and software reviews across four platforms as normalized JSON from the Crawlora API — no scraping review-site pages.

When to use this skill

• "What did this product launch as on Product Hunt? Who made it?"
• "What are people saying about on Trustpilot?"
• "How much revenue does this startup actually make?" (TrustMRR — payment-provider-verified)
• "What are the reviews / alternatives for this software?" (Capterra)
• Vendor due-diligence before buying or partnering.

Setup (one-time)

• Get a free Crawlora API key (2,000 credits/mo, no card) at https://crawlora.net.
• export CRAWLORA_API_KEY=sk_your_key_here
• All requests: x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY against https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1. Missing/invalid key → 401.

How it works

1. Product Hunt — /producthunt/search (query) to find a product id; /producthunt/product/{id} for detail (+ /about, /makers, /launches, /reviews, /alternatives, /customers). /producthunt/leaderboard and /producthunt/category/{slug}/products cover browsing/trending.
2. Trustpilot — /trustpilot/business-units/search (q) to find a business slug; /trustpilot/business/{slug} for the profile (+ /reviews, /related). /trustpilot/categories / /categories/search browse by industry.
3. TrustMRR — /trustmrr/startups to browse, or /trustmrr/startup/{slug} for one company's payment-provider-verified revenue profile (see also the crawlora-datasets skill's trustmrr dataset for bulk/aggregate queries). /trustmrr/leaderboard ranks by MRR; /trustmrr/categories browses by category.
4. Capterra — /capterra/search (q) to find a product_id, then /capterra/product for detail and /capterra/product/reviews for user reviews.

Full endpoint list, methods, and params: reference/endpoints.md.

Calling the API

# Product Hunt:
scripts/crawlora.sh /producthunt/search query="AI coding assistant" | jq '.'

# Trustpilot:
scripts/crawlora.sh /trustpilot/business-units/search q="acmecorp.com" | jq '.'
scripts/crawlora.sh /trustpilot/business/acmecorp.com/reviews | jq '.'

# TrustMRR:
scripts/crawlora.sh /trustmrr/leaderboard | jq '.'

# Capterra:
scripts/crawlora.sh /capterra/search q="project management software" | jq '.'

Raw curl fallback:

curl -fsS -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/producthunt/leaderboard" | jq '.'

Endpoint reference

See reference/endpoints.md for every Product Hunt, Trustpilot, TrustMRR, and Capterra endpoint this skill uses.

Examples

• Vendor due diligence: /trustpilot/business/{slug} (reputation) + /capterra/product + /capterra/product/reviews (feature-level feedback) before signing a software contract.
• Launch retrospective: /producthunt/product/{id} + /launches + /makers to see how a product performed and who built it.
• Bootstrapped-revenue research: /trustmrr/startup/{slug} for one company's verified MRR trend, or /trustmrr/leaderboard for the top earners in a category.

Notes & limits

• Credits / pay-on-success: billed only on 2xx; free tier 2,000 credits/mo. Key at https://crawlora.net.
• Public data only — public listing/review pages.
• Security: key lives in CRAWLORA_API_KEY only — never hardcode, query-param, or commit it.
• Trustpilot's slug is usually the business's domain (e.g. acmecorp.com), not a display name — resolve via /trustpilot/business-units/search if unsure.
• Reviews/lists are paginated — pass page to walk beyond the first page.