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Digital Exhaust data feeds

App-store rankings, job postings, web traffic, and other byproducts of running a business — the exhaust that leaks intent early.

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SteamDB concurrent players per AppID

Steam Web API ISteamUserStats/GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers + store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails (undocumented but stable, no key needed for player count endpoint)

concurrent-player trend leads publisher quarterly bookings and DLC/microtransaction revenue for single-title-dependent studios weeks before earnings → individual game-publisher equities (e.g. small caps with 1-2 hit titles like Frontier Developments, Team17, Paradox)

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Twitch per-game viewer/channel counts, niche titles

Twitch Helix API /streams and /games (free dev key)

early Twitch viewership surges on newly-released niche titles precede Steam sales spikes and are cheaper to clock than concurrent-player counts, giving 1-3 day lead → small publisher stock moves, crypto-gaming tokens tied to specific titles

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Google Play category rank tracker for obscure sub-categories

Play Store unofficial category listing scrape (play.google.com/store/apps/category/{CAT}/collection/topselling_free) — no official API

rank climbs in a thin sub-category are a leading indicator of user acquisition spend and product-market fit for small fintech/health apps pre-IPO or pre-earnings → small-cap fintech/health app companies, pre-IPO signal for late-stage private cos

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Wikipedia pageview velocity for ticker-adjacent pages

Wikimedia REST Pageviews API (wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews)

retail attention spikes on a company/product Wikipedia page precede retail order-flow surges and can front-run meme-stock-style moves → single-name equities, especially retail-favorite small caps and biotech tickers around FDA news

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npm/PyPI download-count trend for a specific vendor SDK

npm registry API (api.npmjs.org/downloads/point) and PyPI's pypistats.org API

SDK adoption trend for a cloud vendor's client library (e.g. official Snowflake/Databricks connector) leads reported customer/usage growth → cloud/data-platform stocks (Snowflake, Databricks pre-IPO comps, MongoDB)

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Google Trends breakout micro-queries for regional store brands

Google Trends via pytrends unofficial API (trends.google.com backend)

regional search-interest breakouts for a specific small chain precede same-store-sales beats/misses for regional restaurant/retail small caps → regional restaurant chains and small-cap retailers (e.g. specific QSR franchises)

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Google Trends 'X vs Y' comparison queries for competitive displacement

Google Trends pytrends

shifting relative search interest in head-to-head competitor queries leads market-share transfer before subscriber/usage numbers are reported → SaaS competitor pairs, software equities

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YouTube channel subscriber velocity for DTC brand founders/creators

YouTube Data API v3 /channels (statistics part)

founder-led-brand channel growth is a leading proxy for DTC brand awareness spend efficiency ahead of private-company funding rounds or public comps' guidance → DTC consumer brand pre-IPO comps, publicly traded parent holding companies

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Amazon Best-Seller-Rank tracking for niche sub-sub-categories

Amazon product page BSR field, scraped (no official free API for BSR)

BSR climbs in thin B2B/industrial sub-categories reveal SKU-level demand surges for small consumer-goods/industrial suppliers before quarterly filings → small-cap consumer/industrial goods manufacturers selling primarily via Amazon

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Google Maps Places API (popular_times not officially exposed; requires scraping the Maps web widget) or third-party like populartimes library

foot-traffic busyness trend across a chain's locations leads same-store-sales for small-cap retail/restaurant names lacking Placer.ai coverage → small-cap regional retail and restaurant chains not covered by commercial foot-traffic vendors

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GitHub trending page (unofficial, no API — scrape HTML; there are free mirror JSON scrapers but treat as scrape)

sustained multi-day trending streaks for a company-sponsored repo signal genuine developer mindshare gains ahead of platform-revenue inflections → devtool/AI infra company stocks

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TikTok hashtag view-count tracker for micro-brand trends

TikTok's public hashtag page metadata (no free official API for counts; requires scraping the discover page's embedded JSON)

a small DTC brand's hashtag view-count acceleration precedes a sales surge that shows up 4-8 weeks later in retailer sell-through or the brand's earnings → small-cap DTC consumer brands and their public retail partners

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USAspending.gov new federal contract award velocity by NAICS

USAspending.gov API (api.usaspending.gov)

Federal contract award bursts in a narrow NAICS code lead defense/industrial small-cap revenue recognition by a quarter or more → defense and industrial small-caps

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openFDA recall and enforcement report velocity

openFDA API (api.fda.gov)

Recall/enforcement clusters at a manufacturer predict downstream revenue hits and supplier disruption before earnings → consumer staples, medtech, food producers

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USDA APHIS animal disease outbreak report rate

USDA APHIS Animal Disease Information / APHIS-EDDIE public reports (aphis.usda.gov)

Outbreak-report acceleration leads culling volume and egg/poultry/beef price moves before USDA WASDE catches up → agriculture commodities (eggs, poultry, cattle)

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