Recipes
Ten working recipes that solve real cross-platform tasks. Brand monitoring, sentiment analysis, competitor tracking, TikTok analytics, transcripts, ad aggregation, engagement scoring, music trends, and hybrid search.
Each recipe solves one task end to end and tells you what it costs before you run it. Every snippet is TypeScript, runs on Node 22+, uses native fetch, and reads SOCIALCRAWL_KEY from the environment. The handles, queries, and URLs are real.
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Pick a recipe
| Recipe | What you'll build | Cost per run |
|---|---|---|
| Brand mention monitoring | Daily brand-mention sweep across 14 platforms | 20 credits |
| Social listening pulse-check | Streaming search over 14 platforms with comments enriched | 20 credits |
| Sentiment analysis | Social sentiment pipeline feeding an LLM | 23-35 credits |
| Competitor tracking | Cross-platform competitor account snapshots | 8 credits per competitor |
| TikTok analytics dashboard | Profile, video, and comment metrics with engagement rates | 3 credits per refresh |
| Video transcription | One transcription function, seven platforms | 3-10 credits per video |
| Ad library aggregation | Parallel fan-out across three ad networks | 15 credits |
| Creator engagement scoring | Apples-to-apples engagement-rate ranking | 3 credits per creator |
| Music trend detection | Cross-platform music heat score | 3 credits per song |
| Hybrid search-then-enrich | Universal search plus per-platform transcripts | 120 credits |
Which recipe should I start with?
If you are evaluating SocialCrawl, start with Brand mention monitoring or the Social listening pulse-check. Both are a single call to GET /v1/search/everywhere, cost a flat 20 credits, and show the universal search endpoint that separates SocialCrawl from a web-search API.
If you already know which platform you need, TikTok analytics dashboard is the cheapest end-to-end example at 3 credits.
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Quickstart
Get an API key and make your first request.
Which endpoint should I use?
Decision tables for the endpoints that look alike.
Endpoint pricing
Every endpoint and its credit cost.
Computed fields
How engagement_rate, language, and estimated_reach are derived.
Pagination
Getting past the first page of any list endpoint.
Universal social search
Full reference for the endpoint that powers the search recipes.