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Find qualified independent ecommerce stores from a niche or seed domain. Optional signals dossier, shipping intelligence and verified decision-maker contact. For Instagram/TikTok hashtag discovery use pequod-labs/instagram-tiktok-shop-leads.

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You can access the Ecommerce Lookalike & Niche Discovery programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

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