Social Fetch - Social media scraper API for every major platform
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Social media scraping API for public profiles, posts, comments, videos, transcripts, and metrics from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, and more. Pay-as-you-go credits, 100 free to start.
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Congrats on the launch, Luke. this is painfully real - the maintenance tax on multi-platform is the whole game.
Two things I'd genuinely want to know before wiring this into an agent:
-When a platform flips (TikTok especially), does the API return a typed error / degraded flag so the caller can tell "no results" from "scraper down"? For anything automated that distinction matters more than raw uptime.
- On the YouTube transcript endpoint - is that pulled live per call or cached, and rough p95 when the platform's being slow?
Either way, nailing one consistent response shape across 20+ platforms is the hard part and clearly what you obsessed over. Nice work.
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
Hey guys, is LinkedIn enabled too? Because they are kind of restrictive towards scrapping and have led to some legal cases in this matter too.
Plugged in a TikTok handle and got clean JSON with metrics and transcripts back in seconds. The pay-as-you-go credits beat juggling another monthly subscription.
how does it actually stay ahead of platform changes, like when tiktok or instagram tweaks their anti scraping stuff? does the team push updates automatically or do users get throttled until something breaks?
Dropped an upvote. Huge congrats for launch @lukem121qq for the LinkedIn source, are you able to fetch company page posts/comments or is it strictly limited to public personal profiles?
the no-subscription pay-as-you-go model is genuinely refreshing, especially for indie builders who burn through credits unpredictably. solid execution on covering all the major platforms in one API instead of stitching together five different services.
@lukem121 Clean idea. How do you handle API changes from social platforms without breaking integration?
Plugged it into a quick TikTok profile fetch and got back posts, metrics, and transcripts in one call. Honestly wish more APIs were this straightforward.
How does the credit pricing actually work for something like pulling a few thousand TikTok profiles plus their recent posts in one batch, does it scale linearly or are there bulk discounts baked in?
Finally tried Social Fetch and the pay-as-you-go model is refreshing, no subscription anxiety. Pulled TikTok profiles and YouTube transcripts in a few minutes without touching a scraper.