What is a unified social media API?
A unified social media API is a single API that returns data from many social platforms in one consistent schema, behind one authentication model. Instead of learning each platform's field names, you get the same shape everywhere: followers means followers on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube alike, with one key.
The value is fewer moving parts: one auth flow, one response parser, and one rate model instead of one per platform. For teams covering three or more platforms, that is the difference between days and months of integration work.
SocialCrawl normalizes 42 platforms into one schema and adds computed fields like engagement_rate that no native API returns.
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The same response shape on every platform
curl "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/instagram/profile?handle=nasa" \
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