sales-openwebninja

What this skill does

# OpenWeb Ninja Platform Help

Help the user with OpenWeb Ninja platform questions — from Website Contacts Scraper and Email Search through Local Business Data, Real-Time Web Search, JSearch, Product Data APIs, Web Unblocker, and more. OpenWeb Ninja is a Sunnyvale-based real-time public data API stack with 30+ APIs, 50K+ subscribers, 1T+ monthly requests, and a 4.8/5 rating on G2. Each API is a separate product with its own subscription, endpoints, and rate limits, available via the app.openwebninja.com portal or RapidAPI marketplace.

## Step 1 — Gather context


If `references/learnings.md` exists, read it first for accumulated knowledge.

Ask the user:

1. **What area of OpenWeb Ninja do you need help with?**
   - A) Website Contacts Scraper — extract emails, phone numbers, and social links from any website domain
   - B) Email Search — find publicly available email addresses by search query
   - C) Local Business Data — search Google Maps businesses with 40+ fields (phone, website, ratings, reviews, hours, emails, social links)
   - D) Social Links Search — find social media profiles for companies or people
   - E) Real-Time Web Search — Google SERP results (organic, AI Overviews, AI Mode, videos, places, news, knowledge graph)
   - F) JSearch — job postings aggregator (LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter — 200M+ listings)
   - G) Product Data APIs — Amazon, eBay, Walmart, Costco product data (35B+ listings)
   - H) Web Unblocker — fetch rendered HTML from any website with rotating proxies
   - I) Finance Data — real-time stocks, crypto, forex data
   - J) AI/LLM APIs — Google AI Mode, Gemini, ChatGPT, Copilot with web access
   - K) Other APIs — Zillow, Yelp, Trustpilot, Events, Waze, Local Rank Tracker, Books, Forums, Shorts, Image Search, News
   - L) Account / Billing — plans, pricing, API subscriptions
   - M) Something else — describe it

2. **What's your role?**
   - A) Sales / SDR / BDR
   - B) RevOps / Sales ops
   - C) Developer / engineer
   - D) Growth / marketing
   - E) Recruiter / talent acquisition
   - F) Other

3. **What are you trying to accomplish?** (describe your specific goal or question)

**If the user's request already provides most of this context, skip directly to the relevant step.** Lead with your best-effort answer using reasonable assumptions (stated explicitly), then ask only the most critical 1-2 clarifying questions at the end — don't gate your response behind gathering complete context.

Note: If the user needs a specialized skill, route them there with a brief explanation of why that skill is a better fit.

## Step 2 — Route or answer directly

If the request maps to a specialized skill, route:
- Cross-platform enrichment strategy / multi-tool enrichment -> `/sales-enrich`
- Prospect list building strategy -> `/sales-prospect-list`
- Connecting OpenWeb Ninja to other tools via middleware -> `/sales-integration`
- Lobstr-specific questions -> `/sales-lobstr`
- Outscraper-specific questions -> `/sales-outscraper`
- Apollo-specific questions -> `/sales-apollo`

Otherwise, answer directly from platform knowledge using the reference below.

## Step 3 — OpenWeb Ninja platform reference

**Read `references/platform-guide.md`** for detailed module documentation, pricing, integrations, and data model.

*You no longer need the platform guide details — focus on the user's specific situation.*

## Step 4 — Actionable guidance

Based on the user's specific question:

1. **Extracting contacts from a list of target company websites**:
   1. Use the Website Contacts Scraper API with each target domain to extract emails, phone numbers, and social links
   2. Expect 0.5-3 second response time per domain — for large lists, batch requests and respect rate limits (1/sec on Free, up to 30/sec on Mega)
   3. Results depend on what the website publicly exposes — some domains will return multiple emails and phone numbers, others may return nothing
   4. Supplement with Email Search API for domains that return no contacts — search by company name with optional domain filter
   5. Use Social Links Search to fill in LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook profiles for discovered contacts
   6. Export results to your CRM via custom API integration — OpenWeb Ninja has no native CRM connectors, so use middleware (Zapier, Make, n8n) or build a direct integration
   7. Verify discovered emails with a separate email verification service before outreach (OpenWeb Ninja does not include email verification)

2. **Building a local business prospect list from Google Maps**:
   1. Use the Local Business Data API to search by category and location (e.g., "dentists in Austin, TX")
   2. Each business returned counts as a separate request — a search returning 20 businesses uses 20 requests from your quota
   3. For each business, you get 40+ fields: phone, website, email, address, ratings, review count, opening hours, social links
   4. Use nearby search for geographic radius queries, or bulk search for larger area coverage
   5. Pull reviews for high-priority targets to understand their pain points and personalize outreach
   6. Enrich results with Website Contacts Scraper for additional email addresses not listed on Google Maps
   7. Export to spreadsheet or CRM — build a simple script or use middleware to format and push the data

3. **Running competitive intelligence via web search API**:
   1. Use Real-Time Web Search API with competitor names, product names, or industry keywords
   2. Retrieve up to 500 results per query — localize by region and language for market-specific intelligence
   3. Parse SERP features: AI Overviews for summarized competitive positioning, People Also Ask for common buyer questions, knowledge graph for company facts
   4. Monitor news results for competitor announcements, funding rounds, and product launches
   5. Track job postings via JSearch to identify competitor hiring patterns (expansion signals, tech stack changes)
   6. Combine with Product Data APIs for pricing intelligence on ecommerce competitors
   7. Set up automated monitoring by scheduling regular API calls and tracking changes over time

## Gotchas

> *Best-effort from research — review these, especially items about per-API subscriptions and pricing that may have changed.*

1. **Each API is a separate subscription — costs add up across multiple APIs.** OpenWeb Ninja is not a single platform subscription. If you need Website Contacts Scraper, Local Business Data, and Email Search, that is three separate subscriptions. Subscribing to Pro on all three costs $75/mo, not $25/mo. Audit which APIs you actually need before subscribing, and consider pay-as-you-go ($0.001-0.005/request) for APIs you use infrequently.

2. **Free tier is very limited (50-500 requests) and varies by API — it is evaluation-only.** Some APIs offer 500 free requests per month, others offer only 50. The free tier is rate-limited to 1 request per second and is not suitable for production use. Always check the specific API's free tier allocation before relying on it for testing.

3. **Rate limits vary by plan AND by API — do not assume uniform limits.** A Pro plan on one API might allow 5 requests/sec while Pro on another allows 10/sec. If you are integrating multiple APIs, you need to track rate limits per API independently. Exceeding rate limits returns errors, not queued requests.

4. **Local Business Data counts per business returned, not per search query.** A single search that returns 20 businesses consumes 20 requests from your quota. Large-area searches or broad categories can consume your monthly allocation quickly. Use specific categories and tight geographic filters to control request consumption. Monitor your usage dashboard closely during bulk operations.

5. **Web Unblocker returns raw HTML, not structured data — you must parse it yourself.** Unlike the other APIs that return structured JSON, Web Unblocker gives you the full rendered HTML of a page. You need your own parsing log