Dead tools, documented honestly.
Old tutorials keep recommending tools that no longer return data. These pages record what happened and what to use instead.
Bing Maps API retired
The official pages mark the Bing Maps for Enterprise (successor: Azure Maps) as retired or closed.
Bing Search APIs
Microsoft retired the public Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs on August 11, 2025. Which APIs went, what happened to existing keys and what Microsoft points to now.
CrowdTangle is gone
Meta shut CrowdTangle down on August 14, 2024. Meta Content Library is limited to approved researchers. Here are the practical routes for public social data.
Facebook Groups API
Meta deprecated the Facebook Groups API in Graph API v19.0 and removed it from all versions on April 22, 2024. What went and what that means for group data.
Goodreads API retired
The official pages mark the Goodreads public developer API as retired or closed. What they say, what replaced it and the catalogue Actors that return Goodreads data now.
Instagram Basic Display API
Meta ended the Instagram Basic Display API on December 4, 2024, and every request to it fails. What replaced it and which accounts the remaining API covers.
Nitter is offline
X sent cease-and-desist letters in August 2026 and the Nitter repository was archived. The timeline, the remaining public alternatives and the paid official API.
snscrape after the X changes
snscrape was the default open-source Twitter history tool. X's access changes broke its unauthenticated routes. Here is the status and the alternatives that still work.
Spotify Recommendations and Audio Features
Since November 27, 2024 new Spotify apps cannot use Recommendations, Related Artists, Audio Features or Audio Analysis.
Twint is archived
Twint is archived and no longer receives fixes. See what it did, why it broke, and the maintained routes for X data today.
Udemy API retired
The official pages mark the Udemy Affiliate API v2.0 as retired or closed. What they say, what replaced it and the catalogue Actors that return Udemy data now.
Yahoo! Auctions Japan API retired
The official pages mark the Yahoo! Auctions Web API (Yahoo! Developer Network) as retired or closed.