Social Fetch

What is Social Fetch?

Social Fetch is a social media scraping API that provides structured access to public profiles, posts, comments, videos, transcripts, and engagement metrics from 13+ major platforms. With a single API key and consistent JSON output across every endpoint, it eliminates the maintenance burden of building and managing individual scrapers. The service operates on a pay-as-you-go credit model, starting with 100 free credits and no credit card required.

Who it's for

• Developers building monitoring tools — teams that need reliable, real-time social data without writing and maintaining their own scraper infrastructure
• AI and agent engineers — those creating automated workflows that consume social media content, transcripts, and engagement signals at scale
• Product teams shipping fast — startups and internal tool builders who want to integrate social data without negotiating rate limits or debugging broken parsers

Key features

One API key across 13+ networks

A single authentication header unlocks endpoints for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, and more. The same JSON shape is returned regardless of platform, so your parser never needs to know which network it's reading.

Live upstream fetch, not a shared cache

Every request hits the platform directly — there's no stale cache layer. The response reflects the account's current state, not a snapshot from an hour ago, with an average response time of ~3.2 seconds.

Pay-as-you-go credits that never expire

Credits are purchased in packs and consumed per request. There's no required subscription, no monthly reset, and no expiry date. You buy once, use during burst windows, and pause without penalty.

Burst concurrency without rate-limit tickets

There's no per-minute cap on requests. You set your own concurrency level, and Social Fetch handles the throttling on their side — no negotiating or waiting for quota increases.

What stands out

"We eat the cost of our own lookup_failed errors — you don't."

This pricing philosophy is rare in the API space. If a request fails due to an upstream issue on Social Fetch's side, the credit is not deducted. Combined with credits that never expire and no required subscription, the model removes the financial anxiety of unpredictable usage patterns.