ExtractAPI.com — Extraction planning checklist 1. Define one business task and the receiving system. 2. Confirm the input source and permission to process it. 3. Select required fields and document their meaning. 4. Preserve stable identities, units, and observation times. 5. Distinguish missing, ambiguous, and failed fields. 6. Separate retrieval, extraction, validation, and delivery. 7. Validate syntax, structure, business rules, and evidence. 8. Test authorized fixtures, including awkward inputs. 9. Limit worker access, resource usage, and retries. 10. Keep credentials and unnecessary source content out of logs. 11. Reconcile accepted records with delivered results. 12. Test partial completion, recovery, deletion, and revocation. These are planning questions, not certification of an implementation. Full guides: https://extractapi.com/guides/