Search creators by keyword or hashtag, confirm which market they post from, then score them before you spend anything. Discovery and vetting run on one key and one schema.
Filter, score, then commit
An influencer discovery API finds creators by keyword, niche or hashtag and returns their public profile and recent output so you can qualify them before paying them. SocialCrawl runs discovery, region confirmation and vetting on one key across 46 platforms, and returns engagement quality, commenter authenticity, posting cadence and controversy signals in a single scored call.
Every one of these is a shipped pattern, not a roadmap item. The endpoint chain under each card is the actual call sequence.
Find candidates by keyword, confirm which market each account actually posts from, then read the recent videos before anyone drafts an outreach message. The region step is what stops a UK campaign shortlist filling up with US accounts.
search/users -> profile/region -> profile/videosOne handle in, and back come engagement quality, commenter authenticity, posting cadence and controversy signals as a single scored record. Run it on the shortlist rather than the long list, since it is a metered call.
prism/creator-vet (one handle, scored)Search a niche hashtag, take the accounts behind the posts that rank, then resolve each profile. Discovery by hashtag surfaces working creators rather than the ones optimised to be found.
instagram/search/hashtag -> profileUnified author cards for the same handle across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X, so a creator with a small following on one network is not judged on that number alone.
prism/creator-card (cross-platform card)Search profiles directly when you already know the words a niche uses about itself, then resolve the accounts worth a closer look.
instagram/search/profiles -> profileA link stack page lists the rest of a creator's handles and their commercial links. Coverage depends on the page being public and reachable, so treat it as an enrichment step rather than the discovery step.
linktree/page (resolve the link stack)Four calls take you from a niche to a decision. The cheap calls run on the long list, the metered one runs on the shortlist.
Reads are priced in credits. Metered endpoints bill for what they actually return, and failed upstream calls are refunded automatically.
GET /v1/tiktok/search/usersSearch users by keyword or niche phrase and page through the results. Each row carries the follower counts you filter on locally.
1 credit per pageGET /v1/tiktok/profile/regionCheck which region an account posts from before you shortlist it, rather than inferring a country from a flag emoji in the bio.
1 credit per handleGET /v1/tiktok/profile/videosPull the creator's latest posts and compute your own engagement rate on the non-pinned ones.
1 credit per pageGET /v1/prism/creator-vetScore the shortlist on engagement quality, commenter authenticity, posting cadence and controversy signals, optionally across platforms.
metered, from 50 creditsEach of these is a live lane on the same key. Follow a link to see that platform's full endpoint surface.
Most teams buy a creator database with a seat licence, or build discovery on top of a single network's search. Here is what changes.
| Capability | SocialCrawl | Typical setup |
|---|---|---|
| Data freshness | Every call reads the live public profile at request time. | A pre-indexed database refreshed on the vendor's schedule. |
| Vetting signal | Engagement quality and commenter authenticity returned as part of the vet call, alongside the raw comments behind them. | A proprietary score with no way to see what went into it. |
| Region | Confirm which market an account posts from before outreach. | Country inferred from bio text, or left blank. |
| Coverage | Discovery and vetting on one key across 46 platforms and 375 endpoints. | One directory per network, or a database that stops at two. |
| Pricing model | Credit packs that never expire, charged per call, so a campaign sweep is a one-off cost. | Annual platform licence with seat minimums. |
| Building a product on top | Permitted for transformed, customer-facing views. The terms say so in writing. | Usually restricted or negotiated case by case. |
An influencer discovery API returns creators matching a keyword, niche or hashtag as structured records, together with the public profile and recent posts behind each one. It gives you the raw material a creator database is built from, so you can apply your own filters and your own scoring.
Search takes the keyword or hashtag and returns candidate profiles with their follower counts, so niche and size filtering happens in your code on real numbers rather than on a vendor's stale index. Region is a separate confirmation call on the shortlist, which is more reliable than reading a country out of a bio.
Run the vet call, which returns engagement quality, commenter authenticity, posting cadence and controversy signals for a handle. If you want to apply your own definition of a genuine commenter, pull the comments on the creator's recent posts directly and score them yourself. Both routes use the same key.
Yes. The creator card endpoint takes one handle and returns unified author records across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X. Resolving a link in bio page can add the handles a creator publishes themselves, where that page is public and reachable.
Pull the creator's recent posts, drop the pinned ones so an old hit does not distort the average, then divide engagement on the remainder by follower count. Doing it on live post data means the number is yours and you can explain how it was built.
Per call. Search and profile reads are single credits, and the vet call is metered from 50 credits because it is doing real work across a creator's posts and commenters. A campaign sweep is therefore a one-off cost, not a subscription.
Yes, for transformed views shown to your own users. Our terms permit dashboards and derived products, and restrict raw passthrough or bulk redistribution. Discovery products built on the API run exactly this shape, and if you are unsure where your design sits, ask us before you build.
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curl -G "https://socialcrawl.dev/v1/tiktok/search/users" \
-H "x-api-key: $SOCIALCRAWL_API_KEY" \
--data-urlencode "query=skincare creator"curl -G "https://socialcrawl.dev/v1/prism/creator-vet" \
-H "x-api-key: $SOCIALCRAWL_API_KEY" \
--data-urlencode "handle=charlidamelio" \
--data-urlencode "platform=tiktok"Both calls run against live data. Swap the key and the query and they work as written.