Keep your code working when the API it calls shuts down
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Three widely used APIs are being switched off between December 2026 and March 2027. Their official successors use different requests and responses, so every integration has to be rewritten. The tools below accept the same request and return the same response shape as the API you already call. You change the host, add an Apify token, and keep your code.
They run on Apify and are billed per use, with no subscription. Each one says clearly what is identical, what is approximate and what is not supported.
Drop-in replacements
Google Perspective API (ends after 31 Dec 2026)
POST /v1alpha1/comments:analyze, with TOXICITY, INSULT, THREAT, PROFANITY, IDENTITY_ATTACK, SEXUALLY_EXPLICIT and SEVERE_TOXICITY, in 7 languages. Google's own Python client works with only the discovery URL changed. Scores come from open models: close to Perspective's, not identical. $1 per 1,000 comments · Migration guide · Apify Store · Shutdown checklist
Azure Content Moderator, text screen (retires 15 Mar 2027)
POST /contentmoderator/moderate/v1.0/ProcessText/Screen, with the same Terms, PII, Classification and Status JSON. It matches Microsoft's own documented example field for field. Category scores are approximate, and custom term lists are not supported. $1 per 1,000 texts · Migration guide · Apify Store · Content Moderator vs Content Safety
OpenAI whisper-1 (removed 26 Feb 2027)
/v1/audio/transcriptions and /translations, with SRT, VTT, and word and segment timestamps. It works with the official OpenAI Python and Node SDKs by changing base_url and api_key. It uses the smaller open Whisper model (about 4% word error on clear English), with up to 10 minutes per file. $0.006 per minute · Migration guide · Apify Store · All OpenAI transcription models removed Feb 26, 2027
Data tools
App Store reviews
Reviews and app details for any app in any country, from Apple's public feed, with no App Store Connect key. Up to 500 reviews per app per country. $0.20 per 1,000 rows · Guide · Apify Store
Woolworths Australia prices
Shelf price, specials and unit price per kg or litre, by search term, from public catalog data. $1 per 1,000 products · Guide · Apify Store
Tools for AI coding agents
Free, open-source guardrails for coding agents, with answers to the questions they raise:
- Stop agents installing packages that do not exist (ExactGround)
- Stop agents claiming "done" without evidence (DoneLatch)
- Which MCP server actually works today? (CanaryIndex)
How it works
- Create a free Apify account and copy your API token.
- Open the tool on the Apify Store. For the API replacements, copy its Standby URL.
- Point your existing code at that URL and send the token. Pay only for what you use, and set a spending cap if you like.
Nothing you send is stored: comments, texts and audio are processed in memory and discarded.
New
- Check if an npm or PyPI Package Exists — API & MCP — Confirms an npm or PyPI package exists, and a function or method exists in your exact pinned version, before an AI agent installs or calls it. MCP or REST.
- Extract LocalBusiness Data Without Guessing — Extract a public business name, category, city and hours with evidence per field, explicit nulls, and contact redaction instead of inferred details.
- Extract Product Price and Stock from JSON-LD — Extract Product name, price, currency and availability from public pages, with per-field provenance and explicit nulls instead of guessed values.
- Extract All URLs From a Sitemap — indexes, gzip, robots.txt — Read a site's public sitemap, including sitemap indexes and gzip, and return one row per page URL. Filter by date or regex. $0.40 per 1,000 URLs.
- Parse Nested, Compressed Sitemap Indexes (gzip) — Sitemap indexes can nest children and ship gzip-compressed, up to 50,000 URLs and 50MB per file by spec. This Actor recurses, unzips in memory, dedupes URLs.
- PDF tables, columns and Arabic: Markdown limits — Check PDF table associations, column reading order and Arabic glyphs before RAG. See tested conversion cases, known limits and a practical review checklist.
- PDF to Markdown API for RAG — DOCX & HTML too — Convert public PDF, DOCX, HTML, TXT and Markdown URLs into Markdown and overlapping RAG chunks. Arabic text support, no OCR. $0.0045 per converted page.
- PDF to Markdown for RAG: text layer or OCR? — Choose text-layer extraction or OCR before indexing a PDF for RAG. Document to Markdown has no OCR; inspect page warnings, layout and chunk offsets.
- Transcribe a public audio or video URL to SRT/VTT — Convert direct public media URLs to SRT/VTT with Whisper on Apify. Check file limits, segment timestamps, language, truncation and per-minute pricing.
- Structured Data API — JSON-LD & Schema.org, with Evidence — Turn a public product, article, event, org, local-business or docs page into validated JSON with evidence per field — no LLM, no invented values. $0.009/page.
- Transcribe Audio URL to SRT — Whisper Speech to Text — Transcribe audio and video files from direct URLs into text, timed segments, SRT and VTT subtitles. 99 languages, open-source Whisper. From $0.006 per minute.