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Social data APIs for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X and Facebook
Send a public post or profile URL and get its public metrics back as JSON, in the platform’s own field names, with the time each reading was taken.
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5social platforms
37named APIs
JSONready for your app
sourcevine / playground Example data
GET
/v1/tiktok/profileurl
https://www.tiktok.com/@atlas.makesResponse 200 OK · application/json
{
"success": true,
"data": {
"username": "atlas.makes",
"followerCount": 128400,
"videoCount": 246,
"heartCount": 842100
}
} Platform-native fields1 credit
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37 named APIs One endpoint per platform and job, priced per call in credits. Browse by platform and pick the job. Browse the catalog 14 free browser tools Check a follower count, a post’s numbers or a transcript without writing code. Paste a list to check several at once. Open a tool Agent skills Ready-made campaign, competitor and audience reports an agent runs for you through the MCP server. See the skills
Use cases
What teams build on public social metrics.
Three workflows, each built on APIs that exist today.
1 Paste URL A public profile or post URL from a supported platform.
2 Choose API Profile, stats, posts or transcript. A wrong kind of URL is refused free.
3 Use fields In the platform’s own terms.
available fetchedAt 1 credit
Prove a campaign post went live
/v1/tiktok/stats/v1/instagram/stats/v1/tiktok/profile
Read workflow → Compare a creator shortlist side by side
/v1/tiktok/profile/v1/youtube/channel/v1/tiktok/posts
Read workflow → Turn a YouTube video into a script
/v1/youtube/transcript/v1/youtube/stats
Read workflow → Privacy
We never fetch, store or return contact data.
Public metrics are what we return. Contact details are not fetched, not stored and not returned. Responses are assembled from an explicit allowlist, so accidental contact fields stay out of the product surface.
Returned
- Public profile metrics
- Public post metrics
- Availability state
- Fetch timestamps
Allowlist raw payloads are filtered before response assembly
Never returned
- Email addresses
- Phone numbers
- Postal addresses
- Profile bios
- Private accounts
- Cross-platform identity matching
FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
Public Only public profiles and posts
Private No contact or private-account data
Where does the data come from?
Publicly visible profile and post information from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X and Facebook, shaped for each named API. A platform may show a sign-in prompt for public content; that does not make the content private. Sourcevine does not provide private-account content, restricted content or contact details.
What does a credit cost, and what uses one?
Credits are charged per operation, and the cost varies by platform. A profile or post lookup costs 1–2 credits; list operations such as recent posts or comments cost 1–8. The pricing table lists every operation. You are billed for live fetches, including one that finds the resource deleted or private. A read that fails on our side is not charged at all.
How fresh is the data?
Every successful named-API response carries fetchedAt, the second we read the platform, and sourceTimestamp where the platform publishes one, so you can see exactly how old a figure is. We do not advertise real-time: a fetch timestamp records when we retrieved the data, not when every metric last changed.
Why is there no bio field?
Creator bios routinely contain email addresses, phone numbers and messenger handles. Returning them would mean storing contact details for people who never dealt with us, so the field is excluded from the schema entirely rather than filtered after the fact.
What happens when a profile or post no longer exists?
You get a typed availability status, not_found or private, instead of an ambiguous error. A completed lookup uses credits, including when it confirms a post is deleted or private. Credits cover the work of processing that lookup. A retrieval failure returns unavailable and is not charged.
What if I run out of credits mid-integration?
Requests stop with a 402 when your balance reaches zero; there is no overage, so nothing is spent that you have not paid for. Buy a prepaid pack from Billing before the balance runs out. Purchased credits never expire, so buying ahead costs nothing.
Can I use this for anything I like?
Within the acceptable use policy. Building profiles of private individuals, contact enrichment, and redistributing bulk personal data are not permitted. The product is scoped to public metrics for business and campaign use.
Which platforms are coming next?
Coverage expands when we can support a platform reliably. We would rather do five platforms consistently than list ten and have half of them return partial data, so we announce a platform only when its response shape is stable.
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