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<title>EuroScrape articles</title><link>https://euroscrape.com/</link><description>Data articles from official registers and public prices.</description>
<item><title>A month after registration, 18% of new Manchester companies have a website, up from 15% in their first week - how long a &quot;no website&quot; lead stays a lead</title><link>https://euroscrape.com/articles/19-new-companies-website-after-a-month</link><guid>https://euroscrape.com/articles/19-new-companies-website-after-a-month</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Every lead list of &quot;businesses without a website&quot; raises the same question: for how long is that true? A company registered last week has not had time to…</description></item>
<item><title>Fridays cost 25% more than Mondays on Ryanair - what the November fare calendars of three routes look like as data</title><link>https://euroscrape.com/articles/17-ryanair-fridays</link><guid>https://euroscrape.com/articles/17-ryanair-fridays</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Ryanair prices every leg separately and every day separately. Its app shows the cheapest fare of each day of a month for one route at a time, which is…</description></item>
<item><title>Duolingo is rated 4.7 in both app stores, and its newest reviews in Germany average 3.1 - what a store rating hides, country by country</title><link>https://euroscrape.com/articles/18-duolingo-reviews-by-country</link><guid>https://euroscrape.com/articles/18-duolingo-reviews-by-country</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The rating on an app&#x27;s store page is a lifetime average. Duolingo&#x27;s is 4.72 on the App Store and 4.73 on Google Play, built on 5.5 million and 50 million…</description></item>
<item><title>38 of 40 online shops in Germany publish a valid VAT number - what an Impressum gives you, and where reading it breaks</title><link>https://euroscrape.com/articles/16-impressum-40-shops</link><guid>https://euroscrape.com/articles/16-impressum-40-shops</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Germany requires every commercial website to say who runs it. The page is called the Impressum, and § 5 DDG (the former § 5 TMG) lists what goes on it:…</description></item>
<item><title>Night power is not the cheapest, and the cheapest fuel station is often a ghost - two things official energy data taught me</title><link>https://euroscrape.com/articles/11-energy-two-assumptions</link><guid>https://euroscrape.com/articles/11-energy-two-assumptions</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Two &quot;everybody knows&quot; rules about energy prices: electricity is cheapest at night, and the cheapest station is the one at the top of the price list. I…</description></item>
<item><title>A 4.8-star shop tells you nothing - across 444 German online shops the rating fits in a third of a point, while the share of 1 and 2 star reviews varies 11x</title><link>https://euroscrape.com/articles/14-trusted-shops-ratings</link><guid>https://euroscrape.com/articles/14-trusted-shops-ratings</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Trusted Shops is one of the most common trustmarks on German online shops. Each certified shop has a public profile with its rating out of 5, the number…</description></item>
<item><title>Check a hotel&#x27;s price on every booking site (and spot rate-parity gaps) without writing a scraper</title><link>https://euroscrape.com/articles/01-google-hotels</link><guid>https://euroscrape.com/articles/01-google-hotels</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Google Hotels quietly does something very useful: for any hotel and any dates, it lists the price on the hotel&#x27;s own website and on Booking.com, Expedia,…</description></item>
<item><title>Same used iPhone, 62% price gap - comparing second-hand prices across 18 European countries</title><link>https://euroscrape.com/articles/02-second-hand-europe</link><guid>https://euroscrape.com/articles/02-second-hand-europe</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>A used iPhone 13 128 GB had a median asking price of €172 in Poland and €279 in Finland on the same day. A Nintendo Switch OLED: €183 in Poland, €266 in…</description></item>
<item><title>57% of the contract lots I sampled got a single bid - mining EU tenders and award winners from TED</title><link>https://euroscrape.com/articles/03-eu-tenders</link><guid>https://euroscrape.com/articles/03-eu-tenders</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>I pulled one week of public contract awards in IT, software and medical supplies from Poland, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Italy: 60 award…</description></item>
<item><title>Find websites running WordPress, WooCommerce or Shopify - and the ones that need your help</title><link>https://euroscrape.com/articles/04-tech-stack-leads</link><guid>https://euroscrape.com/articles/04-tech-stack-leads</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Agencies, freelancers and SaaS sales teams all ask the same question: which companies use technology X, and which of them have a problem I can fix?</description></item>
<item><title>Build B2B lead lists from official company registers (France SIRENE and UK Companies House)</title><link>https://euroscrape.com/articles/05-company-registers-leads</link><guid>https://euroscrape.com/articles/05-company-registers-leads</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>France and the UK both publish their company registers as open data. That&#x27;s every company, with its activity code, address, headcount band, creation date…</description></item>
<item><title>The same flight cost $362 or $162 depending on the day - building a fare calendar from Google Flights</title><link>https://euroscrape.com/articles/06-google-flights-calendar</link><guid>https://euroscrape.com/articles/06-google-flights-calendar</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Nonstop Lisbon → Amsterdam, two adults, one way. Same route, same airlines, same week:</description></item>
<item><title>Get every new 1-star review of your app in Slack (App Store and Google Play, 58 countries)</title><link>https://euroscrape.com/articles/07-app-reviews-alerts</link><guid>https://euroscrape.com/articles/07-app-reviews-alerts</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>App teams usually see reviews late: someone opens App Store Connect or the Play Console once a week, in one country, and the angry 1-star review from…</description></item>
<item><title>When a Vinted search finds nothing, it quietly shows you popular junk - here is how to detect it</title><link>https://euroscrape.com/articles/08-vinted-fallback-feed</link><guid>https://euroscrape.com/articles/08-vinted-fallback-feed</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>While building a Vinted scraper, my cloud test suite flagged something odd: a search for zqxwcevrbtynumz introuvable - deliberate nonsense - returned 50…</description></item>
<item><title>Zero-rating an intra-EU invoice? Without a VIES consultation number, you may owe the VAT yourself</title><link>https://euroscrape.com/articles/09-vat-vies-proof</link><guid>https://euroscrape.com/articles/09-vat-vies-proof</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>When an EU business sells B2B to another member state, the invoice usually goes out without VAT - the customer self-accounts for it. One condition: the…</description></item>
<item><title>France publishes every property sale as open data - most people compute the price per m² wrong</title><link>https://euroscrape.com/articles/10-dvf-prix-immobilier</link><guid>https://euroscrape.com/articles/10-dvf-prix-immobilier</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>France&#x27;s DVF dataset (&quot;Demandes de valeurs foncières&quot;) records every notarized property sale: the real price paid, the address, the surface, down to GPS…</description></item>
<item><title>I matched 2,518 apartment sales to their energy certificates - F and G homes sold 16% cheaper per m²</title><link>https://euroscrape.com/articles/12-dvf-dpe-energy-discount</link><guid>https://euroscrape.com/articles/12-dvf-dpe-energy-discount</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>France is phasing &quot;energy sieves&quot; out of the rental market: homes rated G can no longer be let under a new lease since 2025, F follows in 2028, E in 2034.…</description></item>
<item><title>Companies file 1 French building permit in 5 and build 3 homes in 4 - and the register names them 8 months before the site opens</title><link>https://euroscrape.com/articles/13-building-permits-window</link><guid>https://euroscrape.com/articles/13-building-permits-window</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Every building permit granted in France ends up in a national register called Sitadel, and the Ministry&#x27;s statistics office publishes it as open data…</description></item>
<item><title>The median &quot;PlayStation 5&quot; on Kleinanzeigen costs 55 euros - three traps in second-hand price data</title><link>https://euroscrape.com/articles/15-kleinanzeigen-price-traps</link><guid>https://euroscrape.com/articles/15-kleinanzeigen-price-traps</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>While building a Kleinanzeigen scraper, I wanted every ad to come with a market price, so that a good deal stands out. The first version did the obvious…</description></item>
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