Prism Scraper API
GET /v1/prism/lookup turns any social or commerce URL into structured data in one call. Hand it a TikTok video, an Instagram reel, a YouTube link, a Reddit thread, a GitHub repo, or an Amazon product page — Prism detects the platform, calls the right endpoint, and returns SocialCrawl's unified JSON. No surcharge: you pay the underlying endpoint's price, nothing more.
TL;DR
The Prism API by SocialCrawl returns Prism data as structured JSON — 33 endpoints behind one x-api-key, from 0 credits per call. It shares one unified schema with 45 other platforms, so the same client code works everywhere.
Where to find SocialCrawl
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Type a real handle, run a real request, see the JSON SocialCrawl returns. No signup, no key — same response shape you get in production.
Try the Prism Lookup API
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What data does the Prism API return?
Every endpoint returns structured JSON in a unified envelope. Computed fields such as engagement rate and content category are included only where the endpoint supports them and the required source inputs are present.
Last updated July 2026
Maintained by the SocialCrawl team, reviewed July 2026
Universal URL dispatcher: any social/commerce URL → the right detail endpoint's unified response.
Every comment on a post, replies nested, server-paginated to completion.
Brand mention volume time-series, sentiment split, top sources, and recent mentions for one keyword.
Consumer-demand nowcast: app-review velocity, web mention slope, Reddit velocity, and commerce review levels, fused into a published demand index.
Campaign tracker: pre/during/post volume lift, cross-platform engagement, and ranked top amplifiers for a hashtag or phrase.
AI Share-of-Voice / GEO monitoring: prompt set x reruns to per-brand appearance-% per AI engine plus a cited-domain ranking.
Crisis post-mortem: a who-said-what-first timeline across web, Reddit, Hacker News, and social, with an origin, peak, propagation sequence, and a grounded narrative.
Stateless crisis breach check: a z-score on daily mention volume and negative share, with on-breach confirmation and a severity grade.
Developer-brand health: a devtool's repo dossier + Hacker News reaction + Reddit chatter + dev-blog echo, in one call.
Ranked feed of public conversations where people seek alternatives to or are switching from a competitor.
A brand's earned-media footprint — news + tech-press + fresh-web clips, deduped and ranked, with an outlet-coverage rollup.
A Truth Social handle's pulse — profile, recent posts, per-post detail drill, and the news echo, in one call.
How a launch landed — the Hacker News reaction (top threads + comments), the dev-blog echo, and an optional repo dossier.
How much two TikTok creators' commenter audiences overlap — Jaccard, shared-fan count, and a confidence label.
A brand's cross-source reputation — Trustpilot + app stores + Google Business + web sentiment, blended into one weighted score with themed pros/cons.
A company's employer brand — what people say about working there across Reddit, the web, YouTube, Naver, and the company's own LinkedIn voice.
The real questions a topic's audience asks — harvested from Reddit + YouTube threads and clustered by intent (who/what/why/how/vs).
A product's reviews across Amazon + Google Shopping + Trustpilot, folded into a cross-marketplace rating + themed pros/cons report.
One app across Google Play + the App Store — resolved, title-matched, and compared into a cross-store rating + listing report.
A GitHub org's footprint — its top repos each expanded into a full dossier (releases, issue load, top request/complaint), rolled up.
Vet a creator before partnering — engagement quality, commenter authenticity, posting cadence, and controversy signals, optionally across platforms.
What the world is talking about that Korea isn't (and vice versa) — the global vs Korean (Naver) conversation gap for a brand/topic.
Engagement-weighted Share of Voice across 2-5 brands, with web+social split, emotion overlay, and ESOV.
Cross-source review integrity verdict (statistical, deterministic).
Multi-engine AI consensus: one question → Perplexity + Grok + Tavily answers verbatim, merged citations, and an agreement matrix.
One video URL → detail + stats + transcript + top comments + commenter sample, across YouTube/TikTok/Rumble/Instagram.
One person's public posts across X, Threads, Bluesky, and Truth Social, time-merged.
Cross-store app review intelligence (Google Play + App Store) — translated, clustered, sentiment-scored.
One handle, unified author cards across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X (and more).
Should you pull this handle? One call scores a handle across platforms, ranks the best ones, and projects the data volume + credit cost to pull it.
Up to 100 mixed-platform post URLs → current engagement per URL, failed URLs refunded.
Re-check up to 25 known comments in one call — per-item results, failed items refunded.
What Prism data can you get?
Every Prism endpoint uses the same response envelope, so one parser handles the whole platform. These are fields returned by current public responses, subject to each endpoint's documented cache window.
Fields you get back in a Prism response include:
- engagement_rate_percentages
- recent_posts
- followers
- comments
- likes
- recent_posts_explanation
- id_user
- username
- is_private
- posts_details
- oldest
- newest
How to scrape Prism in 3 steps
No proxies, no headless browsers, no login sessions. Send one authenticated GET request and read structured JSON back.
- 1
Get a free API key
Create an account and copy your key from the dashboard. Signup includes 100 free credits, and no card is required.
- 2
Call the Lookup endpoint
Send a GET request with your key in the x-api-key header. Here is the full Prism Lookup request:
curl -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \ "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/prism/lookup?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdQw4w9WgXcQ" - 3
Read the unified JSON
The response comes back in the shared SocialCrawl schema. Where the endpoint supports them and the required source inputs are present, fields such as engagement_rate and content_category are filled in too. Your client can rely on the shared envelope while treating enriched fields as optional.
Requirements and limits
Everything you need to know before your first Prism call.
- Authentication
- One API key, passed in the x-api-key request header. No OAuth flow, no app review, and no per-platform credentials to manage.
- Pagination
- List endpoints return a next_cursor and a has_more flag. Pass the cursor back to page through results, with the same contract on every platform.
- Credits
- Calls start at 0 credits and are deducted per request. Every account starts with 100 free credits, and credits never expire.
- Rate limits
- There are no artificial rate limits. Your credit balance is the only throttle, so you can run requests concurrently as fast as you need.
How much does the Prism API cost?
Simple credit-based pricing with no subscription. You pay per call, and the exact credit cost of every Prism endpoint is listed below.
| Endpoint | Credits per call |
|---|---|
| Lookup | 0 credits |
| Comments | 1 credit |
| Brand Mentions | 50 credits |
| Demand Signals | 30 credits |
| Campaign | 35 credits |
| Ai Visibility | 2 credits |
| Crisis Postmortem | 35 credits |
| Crisis Radar | 15 credits |
| Devtool Pulse | 20 credits |
| Leads | 50 credits |
| Earned Media | 25 credits |
| Truthsocial Pulse | 20 credits |
| Launch Echo | 20 credits |
| Audience Overlap | 20 credits |
| Reputation | 30 credits |
| Employer Brand | 30 credits |
| Audience Questions | 30 credits |
| Product Reviews | 30 credits |
| Apps Lookup | 30 credits |
| Org Radar | 26 credits |
| Creator Vet | 50 credits |
| Korea Gap | 40 credits |
| Share Of Voice | 40 credits |
| Review Integrity | 30 credits |
| Answers | 15 credits |
| Video Intel | 5 credits |
| Voice | 5 credits |
| App Reviews | 15 credits |
| Creator Card | 5 credits |
| Handle Audit | 5 credits |
| Post Stats | 1 credit |
| Comment Lookup | 2 credits |
| Profiles | 1 credit |
Every account starts with 100 free credits, and no card is required.
At credit-pack pricing that works out to roughly £0.00 to £0.30 per call, and credits never expire.
How do you scrape social media data in seconds?
The fastest social media scraping API for developers. Scrape profiles, posts, comments, and analytics from 46 platforms covering 10B+ monthly active users.
One schema, every platform
Query 46 platforms with identical response structures. Write your integration once.
Computed fields, not just scraped
When an endpoint supports these metrics and the source provides the required inputs, the normalized record includes engagement_rate, estimated_reach, content_category, and language — ready to use.
See your data before you code
Visual Data Explorer — paste any URL, get rich result cards, sortable tables, CSV export.
import requests
response = requests.get(
'https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/tiktok/profile',
params={'handle': 'charlidamelio'},
headers={'x-api-key': 'sc_YOUR_API_KEY'}
)
data = response.json(){
"success": true,
"platform": "tiktok",
"data": {
"author": {
"username": "charlidamelio",
"followers": 152400000
},
"engagement": {
"likes": 12400000000,
"engagement_rate": 0.087
},
"metadata": {
"language": "en",
"content_category": "lifestyle"
}
}
}How does SocialCrawl handle 46 different platforms?
Social media scraping is hard. Schema normalization, authentication, rate limits, pagination — we handle it all before your data arrives.
Write once, query them all.
46 platforms return 46 different JSON shapes. We normalize every response into one consistent structure.
Metrics ready before you ask.
Normalized records include supported metrics such as engagement rate, estimated reach, content category, and language when the required source inputs are available.
One cursor, every platform.
Every platform paginates differently. We give you one consistent cursor-based system.
Fresh when it matters. Free on repeat.
Cache misses fetch current public data. Identical requests are cached for 2 to 30 minutes by data type and cost 0 credits on a hit; send Cache-Control: no-cache for a billed refresh.
Auth, proxies, and rate limits — handled.
Platform authentication, IP rotation, rate limit management — abstracted away. Just send a GET request.
What developers say
The unified schema saved us weeks of integration work. One parser handles every platform.
Our agents process social data from 46 platforms with zero platform-specific logic — one schema, end to end.
I paste an influencer's URL and get everything — followers, engagement rate, content categories — without touching code.
We switched from building our own scrapers. SocialCrawl handles the hard stuff, we focus on insights.
The computed fields alone — engagement_rate, estimated_reach, content_category — saved us an entire data pipeline.
How does SocialCrawl compare to Calling each endpoint by hand for Prism data?
Same Prism data, two very different paths. Auth, rate limits, schema, and cost — side by side.
| Feature | SocialCrawl | Calling each endpoint by hand |
|---|---|---|
| Platform detection | Sniffs the platform and endpoint from the URL automatically | You map every URL pattern to the right endpoint yourself |
| Calls to learn | One request shape for any of 15 supported URL types | A different request to learn and wire up per platform |
| Pricing | Pass-through — the underlying endpoint's price, no markup | Same per-endpoint cost, plus the routing logic you maintain |
| Response shape | Unified JSON with a resolved{} routing block and legs[] transparency | Each platform hands back its own raw payload to normalize |
| Maintenance | Routing stays current as endpoints and URL shapes change | Your URL parsing breaks when a platform changes its links |
Platform detection
Calls to learn
Pricing
Response shape
Maintenance
How much does Prism scraping cost?
SocialCrawl uses credit-based pricing: you pay per API call, and most Prism endpoints cost just a few credits. Every account starts with 100 free credits — no subscriptions, no compute units, no credit card required.
See pricingIs Prism scraping legal?
SocialCrawl returns publicly available Prism data. Courts have generally upheld scraping public data — most notably in hiQ v. LinkedIn — but compliance depends on your use case and jurisdiction. You are responsible for following applicable laws and platform terms.
Common Prism scraping terms
The phrases developers search for when they need Prism data, and what each one means with SocialCrawl.
- Prism scraper API
- A Prism scraper API returns Prism data as structured JSON without you running any scraping infrastructure. SocialCrawl handles the proxies, parsing, and format changes, so you call an endpoint and get clean fields back. Pricing starts at 0 credits per call.
- Prism data API
- A Prism data API is a programmatic way to read public Prism data on demand. SocialCrawl exposes 33 Prism endpoints behind one x-api-key, all sharing the same unified schema, so your integration never has to change per platform.
- scrape Prism
- To scrape Prism is to extract its public data programmatically instead of by hand. With SocialCrawl you scrape Prism by sending a single authenticated request, and the response is normalised into the same JSON shape used across every platform.
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