For Your Role

Scavio for Investigative Journalists

SERP, reviews, and forum data for investigations. Newsroom-priced; deadline-friendly.

Jobs to Be Done

  • Pull thousands of Google Reviews across a brand footprint
  • Collect Reddit and YouTube chatter for corroborating sources
  • Archive SERPs for records requests and court filings
  • Cross-reference public filings with web mentions
  • Deliver reproducible data pipelines for projects

Common Workflows

Chain-wide review pull

Pull every Google Review for a restaurant chain's 400 locations; filter for keywords like food poisoning; export CSV for the data desk.

Example: scavio.google_reviews(brand, all_locations) -> csv

Forum corroboration

For every reported incident, pull matching Reddit threads and YouTube commentary to corroborate and add color to the story.

Example: scavio.reddit(incident_query) -> quote pull

SERP archival

Capture SERPs at a defined cadence for later evidentiary use; saved to immutable storage with a hash.

Example: scavio.google(query) -> s3://archive hash()

Notebook-first pipelines

Reporters work in Jupyter; Scavio calls land as DataFrames; analysis is reproducible for the data desk and for records requests.

Example: df = pd.DataFrame(scavio.google(q)['organic'])

Pain Points Scavio Solves

  • Review scraping tools are expensive and rate-limited
  • No newsroom-priced data pipelines
  • Deadlines do not tolerate vendor breakage
  • Records requests need reproducible collection methods

Tools Investigative Journalists Pair With Scavio

Jupyter, Pandas, Datasette, Airtable, Pinpoint, Google Sheets. Scavio returns structured JSON that fits into any of these tools.

Quick Start

Python
import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/search",
    headers={"x-api-key": "your_scavio_api_key"},
    json={"query": "scavio.google_reviews('chipotle', state='CA')"},
)

data = response.json()
# Analyze results for your workflow
for result in data.get("organic_results", [])[:10]:
    print(result["title"], "-", result["link"])

Platforms You Will Use

Google

Web search with knowledge graph, PAA, and AI overviews

Reddit

Community, posts & threaded comments from any subreddit

YouTube

Video search with transcripts and metadata

Google Reviews

Business review extraction with ratings and responses

Google News

News search with headlines and sources

Frequently Asked Questions

Scavio helps investigative journalists serp, reviews, and forum data for investigations. newsroom-priced; deadline-friendly.. Use structured search data from Google, Amazon, YouTube, and Walmart to automate workflows, build agents, and produce insights.

Common pairings include Jupyter, Pandas, Datasette, Airtable. Scavio returns clean JSON that slots into data pipelines and agent frameworks.

Investigative Journalists typically rely on Google, Reddit, YouTube, Google Reviews, Google News. All are available through a single Scavio API key.

Yes. 500 free credits per month, no credit card required. This covers most early prototypes and light production workloads.

Scavio for Investigative Journalists

SERP, reviews, and forum data for investigations. Newsroom-priced; deadline-friendly.