What is social media scraping?
Social media scraping is the automated collection of public data such as profiles, posts, follower counts, and engagement from social platforms, either by parsing pages directly or by calling an API that does it for you. A scraping API absorbs the anti-bot, proxy, and rate-limit complexity and returns clean structured data.
Doing it yourself means maintaining a parser per platform and a proxy pool that platforms actively try to detect. A managed API turns that into one call.
SocialCrawl reads public data across 42 platforms and returns every response in one unified schema, so you write your integration once instead of once per network.
Do it with SocialCrawl
Collect public data across platforms with one call
curl "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/search/everywhere?query=nike" \
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