ScrapeCreators
Real-time social media scraping API
The cheapest, fastest way to get structured social data into your code, as long as you are OK betting your pipeline on a solo founder with no SLA.
Developers and small agencies who want one API for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn data without maintaining scrapers or paying enterprise proxy prices.
No SLA, no legal indemnification, and a one-person operation behind it. Facebook and X coverage is thinner than the homepage implies.
Reach for it when social data is an input to something you build, and you can absorb occasional downtime. Skip it for enterprise pipelines with contractual uptime obligations.
What you're actually getting
ScrapeCreators is a data feed for public social media that your tools or automations can pull from directly. One API key, clean JSON back. No logins to configure, no proxies to rent, no scrapers to maintain.
It covers 36+ endpoints across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Reddit, and more. Profiles, posts, comments, video transcripts, ad library data, audience demographics, TikTok Shop listings.
The model is simple: 1 credit equals 1 request for most endpoints, a few cost more. Cached results cost 0 credits. Credits never expire, so you buy when you need them and use them whenever.
Having one straightforward API for public data across several social platforms that are otherwise difficult and inconsistent to search. The pay-as-you-go model is also a better fit for me than another subscription because cached results are free and purchased credits do not expire.
Where it earns its keep
It shines when social data feeds into something else: an LLM pipeline, a client report, a creator-vetting workflow, a competitive intelligence dashboard.
The video transcript endpoints across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube are a real differentiator at this price. Most scraping APIs in this range do not offer transcripts across three platforms.
G2 sits at 4.6 across 252 reviews, with a median time to implement under one month and ROI inside three months, which tracks with how little setup there is: connect your automation, pick an endpoint, pull data.
Scrape Creators is hands-down one of the fastest and most reliable tools for social media research and competitive intelligence. It saves our team 10+ hours of manual data collection every week.
Where it'll bite you
The solo-founder risk is the headline. Adrian Horning runs this himself from Austin. No documented SLA, no enterprise support tier, no legal indemnification on data sourcing. If your product depends on this API being up, you are betting on one person.
Facebook and X coverage is thinner than the homepage suggests. The site lists 20+ platforms, but endpoint depth varies. Test the specific endpoints you need in the playground before committing credits.
Credit visibility is a real frustration. G2 reviewers report that multi-platform or agent-driven searches can exhaust the balance before you notice. There is no per-response credit cost display or low-balance alert. Under heavy concurrent load, the Instagram search endpoint occasionally fails on upstream rate limits.
They should give more credits for free and not focus so much on the payment options. As a student, I'd really appreciate having more free credits available.
What it costs, really
Four tiers, all pay-as-you-go. Free gives 100 credits, no card required. Freelance is $47 for 25,000 credits at $1.88 per 1,000 requests. Business is $497 for 500,000 credits at $0.99 per 1,000. Enterprise is custom.
The pricing quirk that matters: credits never expire, and cached results cost nothing. For freelancers with uneven project cadence, that eliminates the subscription burn of monthly plans. The real cost driver is how many cache misses you generate, since only live fetches burn credits.
Dead-simple API with honest pricing — pay-as-you-go credits that never expire, no subscription. We found 250+ local wellness creators for influencer outreach in one afternoon, most with contact emails included.
The onboarding is genuinely fast. I had an API key working in under five minutes. The free starting balance of 100 credits is small for a real test — a single larger extraction can consume a meaningful part of it.
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