Gab

Read public Gab data: a profile, everything a user posts, one post, the comments on a post with their nested replies, and keyword search over posts. Every endpoint costs 1 credit a call.

Base URL: /v1/gab/...

Getting Started

1. Fetch a profile

curl "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/gab/profile?handle=a" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

2. Walk a user's posts

curl "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/gab/user/posts?handle=a" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Each page holds 20 rows, newest first: the user's own posts, their replies, and their reposts, exactly as the profile shows them. A reply carries the post it answers in post.ext.in_reply_to_id and post.ext.in_reply_to_username. A repost keeps its own id and the time it was reposted, and the original post (text, author and counts) is in post.ext.retweeted_post. A quote post carries the quoted post in post.ext.quoted_post. Send pagination.next_cursor back as cursor for the next, older page; the walk ends when no cursor comes back.

3. Read the comments on a post

curl "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/gab/post/comments?url=https://gab.com/a/posts/117445750063805239" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Each page holds 25 rows: top-level comments and their nested replies together, in the order Gab's thread view shows them. Every row has comment.parent_id, which is the post id for a top-level comment and the parent comment's id for a reply, so you can rebuild the tree. sort is newest (the default), oldest or top.

4. Search posts by keyword

curl "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/gab/search/posts?query=RNLI" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Newest first, 25 posts a page. A query that matches nothing returns an empty list and costs nothing.

5. Read computed fields

When an endpoint supports a computed field and the required source inputs are present, the unified response includes that optional field. Depending on the endpoint, optional fields can include engagement_rate, language, content_category, and estimated_reach. See Computed fields for formulas, clamping rules, and null semantics.

Endpoints

5 endpoints available.

Notes

• All endpoints use GET with query parameters and the x-api-key header.
• gab/post and gab/post/comments take the post URL (https://gab.com/<handle>/posts/<id>); a bare numeric post id is accepted too.
• An unknown handle or post returns a 404 and costs nothing. Gab publishes no view or save counts, so those fields are null.
• Responses follow the unified SocialCrawl schema.