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Market research tools that turn public sources into structured datasets - counts, densities, ratings and inventories with source and date on every row. 0 bots in this category.
Market research listings turn public sources into analysis-ready datasets: industry directories, business counts by area, rating and review-velocity aggregates, product inventories and pricing surveys. The category is defined by the research question - sizing, density, segmentation - rather than by the collection technique, which is what separates it from Scraping.
Expect every row to carry its source and collection date so a figure is citable, aggregates rather than personal data wherever possible, and an honest statement of what one run covers - a search, a directory, a region - and what several runs must be stitched into.
Every listing ships the same four launchers - a Windows .exe and .sh scripts for macOS Apple Silicon, macOS Intel, and Linux - delivered as a single raw file with no archive or extraction step. Restore the executable bit on the shell-script platforms, and clear the macOS Gatekeeper quarantine attribute before the first run. A territory study is several scheduled runs, not one long session; give each run a working directory you control so the per-query files stay separable.
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Market Research bots: frequently asked questions
- What research can I automate with these tools?
- The collection layer: how many businesses operate in a category and area, how they are rated, what a market's products cost, who publishes what. Interpretation stays with you - the artifact is a dated dataset, not an analyst.
- Can a tool size a market for me?
- It can produce the counts and densities a sizing estimate is built from, with sources attached. The estimate itself - and its assumptions - is your work, and no listing claims otherwise.
- Is the output usable for client or academic research?
- Yes, as a primary source with a method: each file carries the query, the date and the source pages, which is exactly what a defensible citation needs.
- How is this different from the scraping category?
- Output shape and intent: research tools produce comparison-ready datasets - counts, ratings, positions, prices - built to be re-run and diffed, rather than a one-off extraction.