{
  "id": 15057724,
  "title": "I Built a Chrome Extension to Mine Autocomplete Search for Niche Analysis",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/i-built-a-chrome-extension-to-mine-autocomplete-search-for-niche",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-16T22:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/swindon/i-built-a-chrome-extension-to-mine-autocomplete-search-for-niche-analysis-440n"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A Chrome extension called Autocomplete Mining was created to extract and analyze search autocomplete data from various platforms like Google, Amazon, Etsy, and YouTube. The extension sits in a browser side panel next to the active tab and automatically detects the platform being used. Users can enter a seed keyword and hit 'Mine Now' to begin the process of systematically typing the seed term plus every letter from a to z (and optionally 0 to 9), grabbing live suggestion dropdowns on the page, and deduplicating the results. The extension offers different modes including suffix (keyword + a) and prefix (a + keyword), allowing users to pause or resume at any time. Once the mining is complete, users have the option to analyze the data using AI, export the results in clean Markdown, or as a CSV or plain newline-separated keyword list.",
  "summary": "Whenever I am researching a new project, product angle, or content idea, the best source of truth is search autocomplete. Whether it is Google, Amazon, Etsy, or YouTube, the autocomplete dropdown tells you what real people are actually typing into the search bar right now. It is unfiltered user intent. The problem is doing it manually. You type your seed term, hit space, type a , write down what…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}