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 Truth Social APIs & scrapers in 2026
Compare Truth Social data APIs for public profiles and posts — Social Fetch vs DIY scrapers, Apify actors, and the official app.
Pinterest API pricing in 2026 (what you pay)
How Pinterest API access works for developers and advertisers, and when a public pin-data API is cheaper for enrichment.
Reddit API pricing in 2026 (what you pay)
How Reddit API pricing works for free vs commercial access, and when a public-data API is cheaper for research and monitoring.
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.
X API Pricing: Official vs Public Data
What Twitter/X API access costs in 2026. Official credits vs a cheaper public-data API for profiles, tweets, and search.
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.
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.