Use cases
Social data workflows you can ship this week
Each page maps a real job — monitoring, creator vetting, agents, transcripts, research — to the endpoints and JSON fields you need. Same schema on every platform.
Listen, search, and alert
Scheduled keyword and hashtag polling with shared pagination and lookupStatus — you own dedupe, thresholds, and where alerts fire.
Creators and influencers
Profile metrics plus recent content before you approve spend, and longitudinal tracking when you manage a roster instead of one-off lookups.
AI agents and automation
Typed tools for agent loops — MCP in Cursor or Claude, REST function calling, and POST /v1/ask for exploration before you pin explicit routes.
Transcripts and text extraction
Structured transcript text from video URLs when captions or speech matter more than view counts — typical for summarization and RAG pipelines.
Community and niche research
Sources keyword search on the large networks often skip — subreddit threads, Facebook groups, and the long-tail conversations where buyers complain honestly.
Agency delivery
One maintained schema across client accounts, metered credits per report run, and endpoints your PMs can explain on a statement of work.
How to use these pages
Most teams don't arrive looking for a social API — they have a cron job, warehouse table, or agent loop and a gap where public post data should land. These pages spell out which routes to call, how pagination and lookupStatus behave, and where credits deduct.
Pick the workflow that matches your job, not the platform list. Monitoring pages focus on scheduled search and dedupe; creator pages on profile plus recent posts before you approve spend; agent pages on MCP and function calling; research pages on Reddit and Facebook groups where keyword search misses the signal.
Every page includes runnable curl, a step-by-step workflow, and an honest comparison to DIY scraping. For vendor pricing, see the compare hub; for platform tutorials, see guides.
Which page fits your job?
Four common entry points — every workflow is in the list above if you need something more specific.
- You poll keywords or hashtags on a schedule and diff results for alertsSocial media monitoring
- You vet creators before a campaign — followers, recent posts, sponsored-post patternsInfluencer data
- You wire social lookups into an LLM agent via MCP or function callingAI agents
- You need spoken or captioned text from YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram for search or RAGTranscripts
Same API underneath
Routes from different use cases compose in one integration. Auth, error codes, meta.requestId, and meta.creditsCharged look the same whether you're polling X search or fetching a TikTok transcript. Buy credits once; mix jobs without separate vendor contracts.