Track a brand, product or topic everywhere people discuss it. One call fans out across social, forums, news and the open web, and every result comes back on the same schema.
One query, every source
A social listening API lets you track every public mention of a brand, product or topic across social platforms, forums and news from a single request. SocialCrawl fans one query out across 46 platforms and returns ranked results on one shared schema, so you never write a separate integration per network.
Every one of these is a shipped pattern, not a roadmap item. The endpoint chain under each card is the actual call sequence.
Send a keyword once and get ranked results from social, forums, news and the open web together. This is the call most listening products are built on, and it doubles as a router: run it first, see which source is hot, then drill into that platform directly.
search/everywhere -> post -> commentsBoolean queries with cursor pagination, then the full comment tree on anything that matters. No Reddit OAuth to configure.
reddit/omni-search -> reddit/post/commentsAsk a question with date filters and handle include or exclude, and get an AI-grounded answer with the posts behind it.
twitter/ai-search -> twitter/tweetTrack one entity across networks over a window, grouped by day, so you can see the shape of a spike rather than just its size.
prism/brand-mentions (date-ranged)Search Threads with start and end dates. Useful where a market has moved off the older networks.
threads/search -> threads/postLocalised news search with language and region controls, sitting beside the social lanes instead of in a separate tool.
google_news/search -> web/scrapeFour calls cover the whole job. Start broad, then go deep only where the first pass found something.
Reads are priced in credits. Empty result sets are not billed on list endpoints, and failed upstream calls are refunded automatically.
GET /v1/search/everywhereOne query, a lookback window, and an optional source filter. Returns ranked results from social, forums, news and the web on one schema.
flat rate per callGET /v1/reddit/omni-searchBoolean operators and deep cursor pagination. This is where most long-form brand opinion actually lives.
per pageGET /v1/prism/brand-mentionsPass a date range and optional daily grouping to turn scattered mentions into a time series.
per callPOST /v1/prism/commentsHand any post URL from any platform to one endpoint and get its comments and replies back on the shared schema.
flat rate per callEach of these is a live lane in the same query. Follow a link to see that platform's full endpoint surface.
Most teams either buy a per-channel listening seat or stitch together several scrapers. Here is what changes.
| Capability | SocialCrawl | Typical setup |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage | One key covers 46 platforms including forums, news and the open web. | Priced per channel, so coverage tends to stop at two or three networks. |
| Response shape | One shared schema across every source, so downstream code is written once. | A different response shape per vendor, normalised by hand. |
| Comment depth | Full comment and reply trees available on the same key. | Top-level comments only, or a separate product. |
| Pricing model | Never-expire credit packs, priced per call, with refunds on upstream failures. | Annual seat licences, often per channel. |
| Getting started | Free credits on signup and a runnable call in the first minute. | Sales call, then onboarding. |
| Building a product on top | Permitted for transformed, customer-facing views. The terms say so in writing. | Usually restricted or negotiated case by case. |
A social listening API returns public posts, comments and articles that mention a keyword, brand or topic, as structured data you can store and analyse. It replaces the dashboards sold as social listening tools with a programmable feed you own.
SocialCrawl covers 46 platforms and 375 endpoints, including Reddit, X, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Threads, LinkedIn, Hacker News, Google News and the open web. One API key covers all of them.
Yes. The universal search endpoint fans a single query out across every source in parallel and returns one ranked, deduplicated result set on the shared schema. You can also scope it to specific sources when you only want a subset.
No. You authenticate once with a SocialCrawl API key. There is no per-platform OAuth app, no review process and no separate credentials to rotate.
Pass a date range and optional daily grouping to the brand mention endpoint, or re-run a standing query on your own schedule and store the results. Repeat lookups of the same entity are the most common production pattern on the API.
Reads are priced in credits from never-expire packs, so you pay per call rather than per seat or per channel. Signup includes 100 free credits, and there is no card required to start.
Yes, for transformed views shown to your own users. Our terms permit dashboards and derived products, and restrict raw passthrough or bulk redistribution. If you are unsure where your design sits, ask us before you build.
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curl -G "https://socialcrawl.dev/v1/search/everywhere" \
-H "x-api-key: $SOCIALCRAWL_API_KEY" \
--data-urlencode "query=your brand name" \
--data-urlencode "lookback_days=7"curl -G "https://socialcrawl.dev/v1/reddit/omni-search" \
-H "x-api-key: $SOCIALCRAWL_API_KEY" \
--data-urlencode 'query="your brand" AND (review OR alternative)'Both calls run against live data. Swap the key and the query and they work as written.