Guides
How-to guides for social data APIs
Evergreen tutorials with runnable examples — when to build it yourself, when to call an API, and how to get real JSON back in minutes.
Where to start
The four most recently updated guides — or browse everything below and filter by platform.
Ad library API: search Meta, Google, LinkedIn and TikTok ads
Find an advertiser, fetch its public ads and read the results with Social Fetch. A beginner guide to advertiser IDs, filters, missing fields, pagination and credits.
Cross-platform creator profiles with one API (2026)
Find the same creator on YouTube, Instagram, X and TikTok, link the right accounts, and store their follower counts as one record, with one API key.
Engagement rate API: calculate it properly on Instagram and TikTok (2026)
Get an engagement rate audit for any public Instagram or TikTok account with the Social Fetch API, and learn how to read the average, median, quality label and sample before you quote the number.
How to read public Facebook group posts with an API
Read publicly accessible Facebook group posts, choose a feed order and paginate with a credit budget. Understand empty results and privacy limits.
All guides
Filter by platform, or browse everything. Each tutorial uses the same auth and response envelope as production API traffic.
- Ad library API: search Meta, Google, LinkedIn and TikTok adsGeneralPillar
Find an advertiser, fetch its public ads and read the results with Social Fetch. A beginner guide to advertiser IDs, filters, missing fields, pagination and credits.
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- Cross-platform creator profiles with one API (2026)General
Find the same creator on YouTube, Instagram, X and TikTok, link the right accounts, and store their follower counts as one record, with one API key.
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- Engagement rate API: calculate it properly on Instagram and TikTok (2026)General
Get an engagement rate audit for any public Instagram or TikTok account with the Social Fetch API, and learn how to read the average, median, quality label and sample before you quote the number.
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- How to read public Facebook group posts with an APIFacebook
Read publicly accessible Facebook group posts, choose a feed order and paginate with a credit budget. Understand empty results and privacy limits.
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- How to get a Reddit API key (2026)Reddit
How to get a Reddit API key in 2026: Reddit's approval process, where the client ID and secret live, the free and commercial limits, and how Social Fetch credentials differ.
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- TikTok audience demographics: Studio analytics and API country rowsTikTok
Understand TikTok Studio demographics and the country rows returned by Social Fetch. Add public followers, video views and engagement without treating them as reach.
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- How to get a TikTok video transcript with an APITikTok
Read TikTok caption tracks or opt into AI transcription. Try a real video and understand missing text, formats, limits and credits.
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- YouTube and TikTok transcripts with one APIGeneral
Read YouTube captions, TikTok WebVTT or AI text, and Instagram Reel transcripts. Handle language tracks, empty results and transcription costs.
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- How to scrape Hacker News data with an APIHacker News
Search Hacker News, read a story and look up a user with Social Fetch. Follow real Playground examples, numbered pages and credit billing.
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- How to scrape Instagram data: profiles, posts, comments and ReelsInstagram
The ways to scrape public Instagram data compared: the official API, DIY GraphQL scrapers, a scraper API and free no-code tools. Then a working walkthrough for profiles, posts, comments and Reel transcripts.
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- How to scrape LinkedIn data with an APILinkedIn
Look up a public LinkedIn profile and company page, check the result, and turn company data into research rows.
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- How to scrape TikTok with an API (2026)TikTok
Read a public TikTok profile and its videos, handle unavailable accounts, and save paginated results with the Social Fetch API.
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- How to scrape Truth Social data with an APITruth Social
Pull Truth Social profiles and posts as JSON via Social Fetch's /v1/truthsocial routes, with pagination and credit billing.
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- How to get an Instagram Reel transcriptInstagram
Get the spoken words from a public Instagram Reel. Try the Playground, copy a runnable API example, and understand empty results, long videos and credits.
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- LinkedIn partner API vs public dataLinkedIn
Choose between LinkedIn-authorised integrations and public-data lookups, then try a company lookup in Social Fetch.
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- Linktree API: read public profiles and links as JSONGeneral
Look up a Linktree handle in the Playground or TypeScript SDK. Read links and socials, handle null fields and not-found results, and understand credits.
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- Prompts for social research with your AIGeneral
Copy prompts for public social research with Social Fetch MCP. Set a lookup limit, keep source links and check what the returned data supports.
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- Reddit product research with an APIReddit
Search public Reddit for product mentions, read discussions, and keep one evidence row per thread with the Social Fetch API.
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- Reddit search API: search posts with HTTP and TypeScriptReddit
Run global and subreddit searches, read the response, and paginate within a credit budget using Social Fetch.
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- Collect social comments for sentiment analysisGeneral
Collect public comments with a page budget, save their source and request details, and keep sentiment labels separate from observed data.
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- Social Fetch vs DIY scraping: what you need to maintainGeneralPillar
Compare the work, data contracts and costs of running your own social scraper or using Social Fetch, then test the fields your project needs.
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- Social Fetch with Cursor and ClaudeGeneral
Connect Cursor or Claude with MCP, test a public profile lookup, install the public skill file, and move the request into server code.
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- Build a social listening dashboardGeneral
Collect public brand mentions, remove duplicates, and build a dashboard from real search responses. Includes storage, scheduling and spike checks.
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- Social media monitoring with webhooksGeneral
Watch a public account or search on a schedule, inspect signed events in a test inbox, and connect your own webhook handler.
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- SoundCloud API access: registration and public metadataSoundCloud
How to get official SoundCloud app credentials, when to use Social Fetch for public metadata, and how to read profile and track results.
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- Threads API: read public profiles and postsGeneral
Read public Threads profiles, recent posts and search results with Social Fetch. Try a real request, handle missing data and understand the limits.
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- Connect ChatGPT to Social Fetch (Developer Mode)General
Add Social Fetch to ChatGPT via Developer Mode — MCP server URL, OAuth, then live social lookups in chat.
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- Connect Claude to Social Fetch (no code)General
Add Social Fetch to Claude.ai, Desktop, Cowork, or mobile — then ask for live public social data in English.
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- Connect Cursor to Social Fetch MCPGeneral
One-click MCP install for Cursor — OAuth, then ask your agent for live social data.
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- Connect Gemini to Social FetchGeneral
Add Social Fetch via Gemini Spark custom apps when available on your Google account.
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- Connect Grok to Social FetchGeneral
Add Social Fetch as a custom MCP connector on grok.com — then ask for live public social data.
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- Connect Mistral Le Chat to Social FetchGeneral
Add Social Fetch as a custom MCP connector in Mistral Le Chat.
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- Connect Perplexity to Social FetchGeneral
Add Social Fetch as a custom remote connector in Perplexity Pro, Max, or Enterprise — then ask for live public social data.
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About these guides
These guides are for engineers who already know the job — a transcript, a comment thread, a keyword search — and need the shortest path from curl to something a pipeline can store. Each one names the Social Fetch routes we would call, shows the response fields that matter, and admits where DIY scraping still wins on cost or control.
Most pages include a build-vs-buy section with real maintenance math: proxy bills, DOM breakage, schema drift. Vendor shopping without implementation detail belongs on the compare hub. Workflow pages that map jobs to endpoints without a platform walkthrough live under use cases.
Every guide uses the same response envelope as production traffic: data, meta.creditsCharged, meta.requestId, and typed errors your code can branch on. Check lastUpdated on each row when endpoints change shape.
Production API on every guide
Auth, meta.requestId, meta.creditsCharged, and error codes match what your backend will see. New accounts get 100 free credits with no card.