Luke Askew
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Luke Askew
Founder of Social Fetch. Writes about social-data APIs, reliability, and the production incidents that forced better timeouts, envelopes, and billing.
- Social data APIs
- Reliability
- API design
- TypeScript
Posts by Luke Askew
The Scrape Job That Never Timed Out
Early in Social Fetch, LinkedIn scrapers ran for hours without failing — and the invoice arrived before the error did. A post-mortem on silent failure.
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).
The official TypeScript SDK for Social Fetch
Install @socialfetch/sdk for typed API calls, Result-based errors, unwrap helpers, and route-aligned methods across every public platform.
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.
The envelope is the product (API design)
Why stable response wrappers (request IDs, credits, typed errors) matter as much as the payload when you integrate social APIs.