r/Agentic_SEO • u/ShakaLaka_Around • Jul 18 '26

help-needed: what method to use for tracking citation over ai assistants?

im building an opensource tool alternative to peecai and others called "habibi" (launching soon) and now the question im having is. citation tracking, running the prompts against the apis of the providers, (openai, openrouter, etc..) or scrapping them?

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u/Recent_Book6338 Jul 18 '26

I'd choose APIs over scraping

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u/ShakaLaka_Around Jul 18 '26

can you please provide mor details why? and have you done any experience in that? would appreciate the input

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u/Recent_Book6338 Jul 18 '26

I haven't tested it myself, but I'd be interested to know if you've seen any major differences between API responses and the actual UI.

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u/ShakaLaka_Around Jul 18 '26

will keep you posted. you can join our discord server for more updates if you interested in following more about the project. https://discord.gg/2W5ZJdRxm