Luke Askew
Founder of Social Fetch. Writes about social-data APIs, reliability, and the production incidents that forced better timeouts, envelopes, and billing.
Posts by Luke Askew
Best social media scraping APIs in 2026 — compared
Side-by-side comparison of the best social media scraping APIs — schemas, pricing, and coverage. Social Fetch vs Apify, Bright Data, and more.
Why social media APIs should be boring
If your product relies on social data, stop building brittle scrapers. Predictable JSON APIs are how you scale social pipelines.
Talkwalker alternative: public social data as an API, not another listening suite
This comparison is for product managers, growth engineers, and data teams evaluating a Talkwalker alternative. Every option is judged against the same four...
Effect in production at Social Fetch
How Social Fetch uses Effect's typed errors, Schema validation, Schedule retries, and bounded concurrency to tame a dozen unreliable platform APIs.
Best Hacker News APIs & scrapers in 2026
Compare Hacker News data APIs for search, feeds, stories, comments, users, and hiring — Social Fetch vs DIY, Apify, and scrapers.
Best Facebook Data APIs (2026)
Graph vs scrapers vs REST for pages, posts, groups, Marketplace, and Ad Library. See which Facebook API to buy.
Best Instagram scrapers & data APIs in 2026
Compare Instagram scrapers and data APIs for profiles, reels, comments, and transcripts — Social Fetch vs HikerAPI, Apify, Bright Data, and more.
Best LinkedIn APIs in 2026: partner vs public
Compare LinkedIn APIs for people, companies, and posts — official partner / MDP vs public enrichment (Social Fetch, Enrich Layer, Apify).
Best Reddit APIs in 2026: official vs REST
Compare Reddit APIs for subreddits, posts, comments, and search — official Reddit pricing vs Social Fetch, Apify, PRAW, and scrapers.
Best TikTok scrapers & data APIs in 2026
Compare TikTok scrapers and data APIs for profiles, videos, Shop, search, and transcripts. Social Fetch vs EnsembleData, Apify, Bright Data, and more.
Best YouTube Transcript & Data APIs (2026)
See which YouTube transcript and data API to use: Google v3, Social Fetch, or Apify. Coverage, pricing, and a free caption tool.
Best Twitter API alternatives in 2026
Compare Twitter / X APIs for profiles, tweets, and search — official X pricing vs scrapers and sync REST (Social Fetch, Apify, and more).