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Scrape Twitch Creator Profiles with the Scrape Creators Unofficial Twitch Profile API
Introduction If you’ve ever tried using Twitch’s official API, you know the struggle, OAuth authentication, rate limits, and restricted endpoints make it nearly impossible to quickly pull the creator data you need. The Scrape Creators Unofficial Twitch Profile API solves that. With a single request, you can scrape any Twitch creator’s profile and get detailed JSON data in seconds, no login, no API key from Twitch required. Whether you’re building a streamer analytics dashboard, doing market research, or finding influencers for campaigns, this API gives you all the essentials, instantly. What You Can Scrape from Twitch Profiles? With Scrape Creators Twitch Profile API, you can get: Basic Profile Info: username, display name, profile image, bio Follower Count: total followers for the creator Social Links: YouTube, Twitter/X, Instagram, Discord, and more Top Clips: most popular clips from their channel, with video URLs and titles Similar Streamers: related creators in the same niche or category Example response (simplified): How to Use the Unofficial Twitch Profile API Making a request is simple: Endpoint: GET https://api.scrapecreators.com/v1/twitch/profile?handle=ninja Example in Node.js: Use Cases Influencer Marketing: find Twitch creators in your niche with large followings and active audiences Competitive Analysis: compare similar streamers to see who’s gaining traction Market Research: analyze follower growth and social reach of gaming influencers Content Discovery: surface trending clips from top Twitch channels Why Use Scrape Creators Over the Official Twitch API? No OAuth: skip the hassle of getting client IDs and secrets, get started immediately No Rate Limit Headaches: designed for higher request volumes Instant JSON: no parsing headaches or multiple calls for basic data Conclusion If you need Twitch creator data without the friction of the official API, the Scrape Creators Unofficial Twitch Profile API is the fastest way to get it. You can pull profile details, follower counts, socials, clips, and similar streamer recommendations in seconds, perfect for marketing, analytics, and research tools. Get started with the Twitch Profile API
Scrape Threads Data Instantly with the Scrape Creators Unofficial Threads API
Meta’s Threads is quickly becoming a major player in the social media space, but if you’ve ever tried to access their official API, you know it’s no walk in the park. To use it, you need to create a developer app, connect a business account, and navigate a pile of review requirements before you can make a single request. For developers, marketers, and analysts who just want to pull public Threads data right now, that’s… less than ideal. That’s where the Scrape Creators Unofficial Threads API comes in. With our API, you can start making requests immediately, no business account, no app review, no OAuth flow. Just grab your API key and you’re ready to go. What You Can Do with the Unofficial Threads API We’ve built endpoints to cover the most useful data on Threads. Here’s what’s available: 1. Profile Retrieve complete public profile data for any Threads user. Returns: username, bio, profile image, follower count, following count, and more. Example use cases: Build an influencer database Monitor competitor profiles Enrich social media reports 2. Posts Pull all public posts from a user in chronological order. Returns: post text, images, videos, timestamps, and engagement stats. Example use cases: Track posting frequency and engagement trends Archive content for analysis Study content formats that perform well 3. Post Retrieve details for a single post by ID. Returns: full text, media, engagement stats, and metadata. Example use cases: Run deep sentiment or keyword analysis Share a single post in another app Store high-value posts for later reference 4. Search by Keyword Search Threads posts by a keyword or phrase. Returns: matching posts with their metadata. Example use cases: Monitor brand mentions Track trending industry topics Discover organic conversations 5. Search Users Find users based on their name or bio keywords. Returns: usernames, bios, profile links, and profile stats. Example use cases: Identify influencers in your niche Build targeted outreach lists Research communities around specific interests Example API Request Here’s how easy it is to start pulling Threads data with Scrape Creators: Sample JSON response: Why Use the Unofficial Threads API Instead of the Official One? Real World Use Cases Influencer Marketing: Discover and track relevant creators in your niche Brand Monitoring: Get alerted whenever someone mentions your brand Content Analysis: See what formats, hashtags, and posting times work Market Research: Understand audience sentiment on trends and products Archiving & Compliance: Keep a historical record of posts for audits Getting Started in 3 Steps Sign Up: Create a free account at Scrape Creators. Get Your API Key: Copy it from your dashboard. Make Your First Request: Use curl, JavaScript, Python, or your favorite language.
Scrape Creators Unofficial Pinterest API - The Easiest Way to Get Pinterest Data
If you’ve ever tried using Pinterest’s official API, you know the drill, you need a business account, and even then the documentation is hard to navigate. You just want to search, get pins, boards, or a user’s pins, but instead you’re stuck wading through permissions, auth flows, and limited endpoints. That’s exactly why we built the Scrape Creators Unofficial Pinterest API, no hoops to jump through, no confusing auth, just JSON results instantly. Why Use the Unofficial Pinterest API? No Business Account Required – Anyone can use it. Fast JSON Responses – Get clean, structured data you can use right away. Simple Search – Search for any keyword and get relevant pins in seconds. Rich Data – Each pin includes: Image URLs (full-size) Pin link URL (destination) Video details (if available) Recipe metadata (if applicable) Board details User profile info Example: Search Pinterest Pins with the API Let’s say you want to scrape Pinterest dessert recipes for “chocolate cake” and instantly get all the image URLs, recipe links, and even the ingredient lists. Example Response: In just a few lines of code, you now have: Direct links to each pin’s full-size image The original recipe source URL Board and user info for categorization Recipe ingredients and instructions if Pinterest has them Available Endpoints Search Pins – Find pins by keyword. Get Board Pins – List all pins from a specific board. Get Boards – See all boards from a user Get Individual Pin – Pull detailed info on a single pin. Real-World Use Cases Recipe Aggregation Pull recipe pins (ingredients, steps, links) into your own cooking app or website. E-Commerce Inspiration Track trending product pins and see what’s getting shared in your niche. Content Curation Power a blog or social media scheduler with the latest visual content from Pinterest. Market Research Analyze how people are pinning products, styles, and trends in real time. Video Pin Discovery Find all video pins for a topic (e.g., “DIY furniture”) and embed them in your site. Why This Beats the Official Pinterest API Pinterest’s official API is designed for marketers and advertisers, not developers who want direct content access. With Scrape Creators’ Unofficial Pinterest API, you skip the bureaucracy and get exactly what you need, data, not red tape. Try It Today Whether you’re building a B2C app, doing Pinterest SEO research, or just want instant Pinterest data in JSON, the Scrape Creators Unofficial Pinterest API gets you there faster. Get started here and start pulling Pinterest data in seconds.
TikTok Shop Products API – Scrape Products, Track Sales, and Analyze Marketing Strategies
TikTok Shop is exploding in popularity, giving brands, sellers, and affiliates a powerful way to sell directly through TikTok videos. But if you’ve ever tried to track product data, stock levels, or sales trends across TikTok Shop, you know TikTok doesn’t make it easy. That’s where the Scrape Creators TikTok Shop Products API comes in. With just a TikTok Shop store URL, you can retrieve every product that store is selling, including pricing, availability, images, and more. What Is the TikTok Shop Products API? Our TikTok Shop Products API lets you pull all products from any TikTok Shop store by passing the store’s URL, for example: https://www.tiktok.com/shop/store/goli-nutrition/7495794203056835079 Once you have that, you can: Scrape the full product list from any TikTok Shop Get real-time stock quantities and price data Collect product images and titles Track affiliate videos promoting each product Link products back to the creator’s TikTok account Example API Call Get API key Make a GET request with an x-api-key header to: https://docs.scrapecreators.com/v1/tiktok/shop/products?url=https://www.tiktok.com/shop/store/goli-nutrition/7495794203056835079 Example Response Going Deeper - Scraping Individual Product Details Once you have the product IDs, you can use our TikTok Product API to pull even more details: *Exact* inventory count Product descriptions Full-size images Affiliate videos TikTok account selling it And with our TikTok Transcript API, you can even get the script, and then extract the hook from affiliate videos, perfect for analyzing what messaging converts best. Use Cases for Businesses Whether you’re a seller, agency, or competitor researcher, here’s how this API can help you: 1. Competitor Product Tracking See what your competitors are selling on TikTok Shop, monitor their stock levels, and track new product launches in real time. 2. Sales Trend Monitoring Watch stock quantities change over time to estimate sales volume and spot fast-selling items. 3. Affiliate Marketing Research Find influencers already promoting a product and study their content strategy. 4. Product Research for TikTok Shop Sellers Identify high-demand products by analyzing prices, descriptions, and marketing videos. 5. Creative Analysis Pull transcripts from top-performing affiliate videos to reverse-engineer hooks, scripts, and offers that drive conversions. Important Note on URLs Right now, the API requires a TikTok Shop store URL, not just the TikTok username. For example: ✅ Works https://www.tiktok.com/shop/store/goli-nutrition/7495794203056835079 ❌ Doesn't work (yet) https://www.tiktok.com/@golinutrition Get Started Today If you want to scrape TikTok Shop products, track sales trends, and analyze marketing strategies, our TikTok Shop Products API is the fastest way to do it. API Docs: TikTok Shop Products API TikTok Product API TikTok Video Transcript API Start scraping today, 100 free requests.
Best Pay-As-You-Go Scraping APIs (No Monthly Commitment Required)
Most software these days wants to lock you into a monthly subscription. And honestly… that’s kinda lame. Unless there’s no way to measure exact usage, a flat monthly fee doesn’t always make sense. The best pricing models are the ones where the value you get from the software is directly aligned with what you pay. That’s why pay-as-you-go APIs are so great. A perfect example is the OpenAI API, you’re charged for usage, and if you don’t use it, you don’t pay. Simple. Fair. Transparent. The same idea applies to web scraping APIs. If you only scrape occasionally, why commit to a monthly plan you might barely use? Below are the only scraping APIs that are truly usage-based, and a few that aren’t. True Pay-As-You-Go Scraping APIs (No Subscription) 1. Scrape Creators - Social Media Scraping Without Subscriptions Scrape Creators is built for social media data extraction. It offers API endpoints for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter (X), Facebook, and more. Why it’s awesome: ✅ 100% pay-as-you-go pricing – no subscriptions ✅ Credits *never* expire ✅ JSON-ready responses (no messy HTML to parse) ✅ Built specifically for creator & influencer data ✅ Easy documentation & fast setup If you need to pull data on creators, posts, profiles, or even ad libraries this is one of the most cost-effective, commitment-free options out there. 2. Serper.dev - Google Search, Maps & Shopping Data Serper.dev is a Google Search API that covers: Google search Google Maps & Places Google Shopping results Why it’s awesome: ✅ Usage-based pricing with no monthly minimum ✅ Fast, clean JSON responses ✅ Focused entirely on Google-related data sources If your scraping project is about ranking data, map locations, or product listings, Serper.dev makes it dead-simple. *Credits do expire after 6 months, which kinda sucks. Scraping APIs That Require Monthly Commitments While these APIs can be powerful, they require a monthly plan—even if you don’t use them much. Firecrawl.dev - General-purpose scraper that can target almost any page. Has AI-assisted parsing but still requires a subscription. ScrapingBee - Another general-purpose scraper with AI features, but you’ll need a monthly plan. Apify - Huge library of “Actors” (pre-built scrapers). Requires a monthly plan plus usage fees. SerpAPI - Popular Google Search API with subscription pricing. SearchAPI.io - Another SERP data API, also subscription-based. Final Thoughts If you hate being locked into software you barely use, true pay-as-you-go scraping APIs are the way to go. For social media data: go with Scrape Creators For Google search, maps, and shopping data: choose Serper.dev Everything else? Great tools, but you’ll need to commit to a monthly plan.
Scraper's Honest Review: Top Proxy Providers in 2025 (Plus a Bonus Pick)
If you’re running a serious scraping operation in 2025, proxies are your lifeblood. They’re the difference between pulling millions of rows of clean data or burning through IP bans and timeouts. At Scrape Creators, I've tested many proxy providers over the years, and today I’m giving you the real talk about the ones I’ve actually used (or seriously considered). This list isn’t just a ranking of "top" proxies, it’s my honest experience with each provider: what worked, what sucked, and what you should expect if you try them. Let’s get into it. 1. Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) Price: starts at $3/GB residential Type: Rotating Residential, Static Residential, Datacenter I’ve been a long-time user of Smartproxy, which recently rebranded as Decodo. Honestly, they're probably still one of the better deals out there for web scraping. Their rotating residential proxies are solid. I rarely have day to day issues with them. That said, they really pissed me off when they randomly changed their proxy endpoint URLs and broke a bunch of my scripts. And then they rebranded weirdly. If you go with Decodo, be ready for occasional reconfigurations. Verdict: Still one of my go-tos for daily scraping. Just expect once a quarter or once a year to have to change a domain or something. 2. Evomi Price: $0.49/GB residential, incredibly cheap Type: Rotating Residential, Static Residential Evomi looks like a dream on paper: dirt-cheap residential proxies and simple dashboard. But once I started running real volume through them, the problems showed up fast. Requests would hang, not fail, just hang, which is arguably worse because you can't even retry. Their static proxies had the same issue. Customer service? Unprofessional as hell. And they don't communicate outages, which became frequent toward the end when I used them. I still use them, but not to a large scale. I have to pray that nothing breaks when I use them. Verdict: Not worth the headache, no matter how cheap. If they fixed their infrastructure, happy to divert all traffic back to them. 3. Webshare Price: Starts at $3.50/GB residential Type: Static Residential, Datacenter, Rotating Residential I haven’t personally used Webshare, but I know a lot of scrapers who do. For static IPs, they’re probably the cheapest game in town, $0.30 per IP starting out. You’ll want to test heavily before going all-in, but for small projects or non-sensitive scraping, they’re hard to beat on price. Verdict: Budget-friendly static proxy provider. Worth testing for low-risk scraping. 4. IPRoyal Price: $3.50/GB residential Type: Residential, Mobile, Datacenter Another one I haven’t run at scale myself, but I’ve seen other developers use them without major complaints. They offer a wide variety of proxy types (including mobile), which is a plus if you’re scraping harder targets. They haven’t earned a permanent spot in my rotation yet, but they’re on my radar. Verdict: A wildcard option. Could be solid, but I’d run controlled tests before relying on them. 5. DataImpulse Price: Starts at $1/GB (rotating residential) Type: Rotating Residential, ISP, Datacenter This is one of the newer players I’ve tried. For $1/GB, it’s honestly a steal. I’ve only used them lightly, as a backup when other proxies failed, but I had zero problems. No hangs, no weird errors. For the price, the performance was impressive. Thinking about switching back to them for more regular usage just based on cost-effectiveness alone. Verdict: Great bang-for-your-buck proxy provider. Could be the hidden gem of this list. Bonus: Bright Data Price: $4.20/GB (residential) Type: Residential, ISP, Mobile, Datacenter Bright Data (formerly Luminati) is the biggest and most enterprise-tier proxy provider in the space. Their founder, Or Lenchner, is a genuinely good guy, and their platform is solid. The only downside? Price. They are the most expensive out there. At $4.20+/GB, you’re definitely paying premium. If you’re running a lean operation, it might be hard to justify the cost. Verdict: Enterprise-grade performance, if you can afford it. Final Thoughts Your proxy provider can make or break your scraping workflow. My recommendation: Decodo. As of August 2025 that is my preferred proxy provider. Competitive pricing and you don't have to babysit the proxies. But if you are scraping social media or ad libraries, we can handle all this for you, don't even worry about proxies. If you just want clean data and a simple scraping experience, skip the proxy headaches entirely. Use Scrape Creators, we handle all the proxy management, rotation, retries, and edge cases for you. Focus on building your product. We'll handle the messy stuff.
How to Get the Estimated Age & Gender of a Social Media Creator (Using Just Their Profile Pic)
Ever wish you could instantly figure out how old a creator is, or whether they're male or female, just by looking at their profile picture? Well…now you can! With Amazon Rekognition, you can analyze any profile picture and get things like: Age range (e.g. 25–34) Gender (Male/Female) Confidence score (%) Whether they’re smiling, wearing glasses, have a beard, etc. Even their emotion (happy, sad, confused, etc.) This is crazy powerful, especially for anyone doing influencer research, ad targeting, or demographic analysis. How It Works To get this kind of insight, here’s what you’d need to do: Scrape the creator’s social profile Download their avatar/profile image Send it to Amazon Rekognition Boom. Get the age/gender back Here’s an example of the AWS Rekognition portion in Node.js: Pretty slick, right? Or… Just Use Scrape Creators (No Code Needed) Don’t worry, we already built this for you. With Scrape Creators, you can: Just paste in a profile URL We scrape the profile + download the image Then run it through Amazon Rekognition for you You get back age, gender, confidence It’s one simple API call. No scraping or AWS setup required. All you need is a GET request to our API, like this: https://api.scrapecreators.com/v1/detect-age-gender?url=https://x.com/adrian_horning_ Then you will get a response that will look like: And this is scary accurate. When I got that picture taken I was 32 🤯 Try It Now Use our /detect-age-gender endpoint and pass a social profile URL. 📄 Docs here Or check out our full suite of APIs for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit and more, including ad libraries.
How to See How Much a TikTok Shop is Making Daily (And Build Your Own FastMoss/Kalodata)
You ever wonder how much money a TikTok Shop product is making per day? Well guess what, it's actually super easy to estimate, and I’ll show you how to build your own version of FastMoss or Kalodata using public data and Scrape Creators. Let’s dive in. The Basic Idea Get the product URL Call the Scrape Creators endpoint to get the stock + price Store it in your DB 24 hours later, call it again Subtract yesterday’s stock from today’s Multiply by the price Bada bing, bada boom: daily sales estimate Example Product Let’s use this product, from popular store, Goli Nutrition: https://www.tiktok.com/shop/pdp/goli-ashwagandha-gummies... How to Do It All we'd need to do is make a GET request to Scrape Creators like this: https://api.scrapecreators.com/v1/tiktok/product?url=https://www.tiktok.com/shop/pdp/goli-ashwagandha-gummies-with-vitamin-d-ksm-66-vegan-non-gmo/1729587769570529799 Check out the docs for more information. Then get the stock and price_val (Note: price_val is a string, so you'll want to convert it into a float first) Just store stock and price in your DB every day per product. Do a simple subtraction the next day to get: Done ✅ Why This Is Useful Find winning products TikTok creators can search for what's selling well and make videos on those products Spy on competitors Validate product demand before selling Track TikTok Shop trends Build a FastMoss competitor Attract brands & creators with actual sales data Want to Build This at Scale? Scrape Creators makes it dead simple to scale this out. Just loop through product URLs, record daily stats, and you’ve got a mini FastMoss/Kalodata. Start with this endpoint: https://docs.scrapecreators.com/v1/tiktok/product
HUGE Update: TikTok Shop is Now Public on Desktop (No Login Needed!)
Big news just dropped for developers, data geeks, and SaaS builders... TikTok Shop is now fully accessible on desktop, publicly, and without requiring a login. Yeah, you heard that right. That means we can scrape the hell out of it. Why This Is Game Changing Until now, TikTok Shop was mostly locked down behind mobile apps and required authentication. Scraping product listings, affiliate videos, or shop details was a serious pain, often requiring workarounds, reverse engineering, or mobile device emulation. But now? It’s wide open. And that changes everything. You can now easily: Scrape hundreds or thousands of TikTok Shop products See affiliate videos promoting those products Get *exact* stock counts Scrape product + shop details (including the shop’s TikTok profile) Explore entire shop inventories All of this data is now sitting there, publicly, waiting to be collected. The Data Gold Rush Has Begun If you’ve ever thought about building a product around TikTok Shop data, now is the time. Massive SaaS products like: Fastmoss Kalodata Are already built on scraping this exact type of TikTok data. But until now, they had to jump through hoops to get it. With TikTok Shop open on desktop, the barrier to entry is lower than ever. This is the perfect time to build a competitor. Whether you’re creating a dropshipping tool, an affiliate campaign analyzer, or a product research dashboard, the raw data is just sitting there! Scrape Creators Has You Covered We already have a ready to use endpoint that scrapes TikTok Shop product data: TikTok Product Details API It returns: Full product details (title, price, images, etc.) Exact stock available TikTok shop details (including TikTok url) Affiliate videos promoting the product And that’s just the beginning. More endpoints are coming soon to help you: Scrape full shop inventories Get all affiliate content for a given product Discover top-selling items across TikTok Shop Stay tuned on Scrape Creators and our Docs page for updates. What’s Next? Right now, TikTok still doesn’t expose the product link directly on desktop video pages, that’s still mobile-only. But we’re hopeful that’ll change soon. Once they make product links more visible in video metadata, you’ll be able to tie videos to exact products even more easily. TL;DR TikTok Shop is now publicly available on desktop No login required = easy scraping Get product details, affiliate videos, shop info, stock counts The data is wide open, and it’s the perfect time to build tools around it Check out our TikTok Product API to get started instantly 🔥 Let the scraping begin. Got questions or want early access to upcoming endpoints? Email me adrian@thewebscrapingguy.com or hit up Scrape Creators.
How to Get Someone’s TikTok Followers (and What You Can Do With Them)
If you’ve ever wanted to see who follows a certain TikTok creator, TikTok doesn’t exactly make that easy… unless you know where to look. With Scrape Creators, you can pull *thousands* of a creator’s followers, quickly, reliably, and at scale. What You Can Get Using our TikTok Followers endpoint, you can grab: Username (unique_id) Region (country) Avatar (profile picture URL) Biography (signature) Example JSON snippet: *you can't view the avatars because the url's expire after a while How to Get the Data Check out the docs: https://docs.scrapecreators.com/v1/tiktok/user/followers Sign Up For an API Key Make a GET request to https://api.scrapecreators.com/v1/tiktok/user/followers *Make sure you put the API key in a x-api-key header Paginate with min_time Use min_time from the response and pass that as a query parameter to get more followers! The Cool Stuff You Can Do With That Data Once you’ve got a creator’s followers, that’s just the start. Here’s where it gets interesting: Enrich with profile info – Use our TikTok Profile endpoint to get bios, follower counts, See their content – Use our TikTok Profile Videos endpoint to pull their videos to understand what they post and how well they perform. Audience demographics – Use our Detect Age & Gender endpoint to figure out the gender and approximate age of each follower. Combine that with the region field and you’ve got a full breakdown of where a creator’s audience is from and who they are. Competitor analysis – See who follows your competitors, then reach out or target similar audiences. Lead generation – Build marketing lists of highly engaged users in your niche. Why Use Scrape Creators? We make it dead simple to get clean, structured TikTok data without dealing with browser automation or getting blocked: High request limits Multiple social media platforms (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X/Twitter, and more) Fast, clean JSON output you can plug straight into your tools or database Try It If you’re ready to get a list of someone’s TikTok followers (and unlock all the insights that come with it), sign up here and start pulling data in minutes.
How to Scrape Linktree (and Find Emails or Social Links)
Why Scrape Linktree? Linktree is a popular tool used by creators to display all their important links, emails, social media accounts, websites, and more. That makes it a goldmine for anyone looking to extract useful contact info like: Emails Social media links (Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, etc.) Websites or personal blogs Step-by-Step: How Linktree Works Under the Hood Let’s walk through scraping a Linktree page using this example: https://linktr.ee/miguelangeles Open Dev Tools Right-click → Inspect → Go to the Network tab. Refresh the Page The very first request is for the HTML document. Click on the first request It should be miguelangeles Go to the response tab Search for __NEXT_DATA__ In the HTML response, search for __NEXT_DATA__. This is where Linktree stores a full JSON blob of the page’s data (thanks Next.js for making this super easy to scrape). This includes things like: EMAIL_ADDRESS Social links URLs Profile Data Scrape Linktree with Node.js Here’s how to do it in code using got-scraping and cheerio: Use a Proxy for Scale If you're scraping lots of Linktree pages, use a proxy to avoid rate limits or bans. Good options include: Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) Evomi Webshare Brightdata Bonus: Scrape Linktree's Public Directory You can discover thousands of profiles using their discover API: https://linktr.ee/discover/_next/data/zd5lRJ4hQhc2caWwdfD1Z/profile-directory/c/all/page-1.json?category=all&page=page-1 Just change the page number to increment. ⚠️ If Linktree updates their site, that zd5lRJ4hQhc2caWwdfD1Z hash will change. To get the latest: Visit https://linktr.ee/discover/profile-directory/c/all/page-1/ Open Dev Tools → Network → Watch for requests when you paginate Or Use our Prebuilt Linktree Scraper! Don’t want to code this yourself? Use my Linktree Scraper, quick, easy, and real-time. Need more? Scrape Creators also supports: Instagram TikTok YouTube Truth Social Ad libraries for Meta, LinkedIn, Google, and Reddit Sign up for 100 free requests, no credit card required!
How to Find Emails of YouTube Creators (Without Breaking the Rules)
If you're trying to find a YouTube creator's email for outreach or research, you’ll quickly hit some limits. YouTube makes it tough to get contact info in bulk. But with the right tools or APIs, you can collect emails from public sources, no CAPTCHA-solving or login hacking required. Here are three proven ways to do it: 1. Use a Paid Tool Like Influencers.Club influencers.club is a premium database of influencers across platform, including YouTube. Their platform is easy to use, and gives you verified emails in bulk with a nice UI, no coding required. 2. Use an API Like Scrape Creators (Best for Public Bio Emails) If you're technical and don't want to spend as much as Influencers.club will charge, consider using an API to scrape the email directly in their bio, description, or "about" section. These emails are visible without logging in and can be pulled via an API. Scrape Creators gives you access to this public data quickly and cheaply. For example, if you wanted to get the email for the Triggernometry YouTube channel, here's what you'd do: Make a GET request to https://api.scrapecreators.com/v1/youtube/channel?handle=triggerpod *Remember to add your API key as a x-api-key header And among other things, it will return 3. Use a Link Aggregator Scraper (e.g., RapidAPI) Some creators don’t list their email directly in their bio, but they link to a personal website, Linktree, or other social media. These often contain contact info. This is where YouTube Channel Email Contact Finder on RapidAPI comes in clutch. It scrapes publicly available data only, and is surprisingly good at finding emails from linked sources (like websites or other social accounts). No login. No CAPTCHA solving. Just smart scraping. What About the “View Email Address” Button on YouTube? You’ve probably seen the “View Email Address” button on the About tab of a YouTube channel. It does give access to email, but: You need to be logged in You can only access 10 emails/day per account You must solve a CAPTCHA Sadly these limitations make this method completely unusable. It’s not worth the headache (or legal risk). Summary Final Recommendation If you want to build a real list of YouTube influencers: Start with Scrape Creators to grab emails directly from bios Use the RapidAPI tool to catch additional emails from linked websites and social media Consider Influencers.club if budget isn’t an issue and you want it all done for you
How to Find Emails and Followers of Public Instagram Accounts (3 Proven Methods)
If you’re trying to get the email address or follower's of a public Instagram profile, you’re probably realizing Instagram doesn’t exactly make that easy. You’ve got three real options: Use a paid service like Influencers Club Build your own system (good luck) Use an API that scrapes behind the login Let’s break down the pros, cons, and effort involved in each: 1. Use a Paid Service like Influencers Club If you want clean data, no hassle, and you're okay paying a bit more, a paid software like this is the easiest option. Influencers Club They already have massive databases of creators You get emails, bios, engagement, and more Great if you’re doing influencer outreach or building a list Downside? It’s not cheap. You're paying for polish and convenience. You don’t get full control or flexibility over how data is pulled or filtered. But if you're not technical or just want results now, this is your move. 2. Build Your Own Scraper (Good Luck) This is the DIY route. You’ll need to: Buy or create aged IG accounts Reverse engineer Instagram’s private mobile API Deal with logins, proxies, rate limits, blocks, and bans Parse out JSON responses and handle IG’s anti-bot systems It’s a mess. And Instagram makes it harder every year. The only reason to go this route is if you want full control or are doing this at massive scale. But for most people, it’s way more headache than it’s worth. 3. Use an API That Scrapes Behind the Login This is the sweet spot between DIY and done for you. There are services that already handle the hard part: logging in, navigating Instagram’s internal APIs, and returning the data you care about. Here are a couple solid ones: Hiker API Based in Russia or Ukraine UI looks like it was made in 2008 But it works, and it’s relatively cheap Use it with this endpoint: https://api.instagrapi.com/v1/user/by/id?id={IG user id} (you'll need an x-access-key API key) Social Master on RapidAPI Simple API that takes an IG username and gives you the associated email Also supports YouTube email lookups Great for devs who want programmatic access without building a full system This route gives you flexibility, a decent price point, and way less headache than building your own stack from scratch. Final Thoughts If you're technical but don’t want to waste days building scrapers and dodging bans, use an API. If you're non-technical, go with something like Influencers Club. Just know: Instagram doesn't want you doing any of this. You're operating in a gray zone. So move smart. Need Public Data From IG, TikTok, YouTube, or TruthSocial? If you're looking for an API that gives you public social media data, without logging in, check out Scrape Creators. You can: Get public Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and TruthSocial data Make your first request in under a minute Get 100 free requests (no credit card required) It’s the easiest way to get started with social scraping, without building anything from scratch.
Snapchat Public API: Get Follower Count, Stories, and Spotlights with Scrape Creators
Looking for a Snapchat API to get follower count, public stories, or Spotlight videos? Snapchat does offer an official API, but it’s locked behind a partner application process and built mostly for advertisers and business partners. If you just want to grab public profile data like follower count, related accounts, or video content, Scrape Creators is the fastest way to go. No login. No scraping headaches. No waiting for approval. You can sign up and make a successful request in under 60 seconds. Includes 100 free requests, no credit card required. What Can You Use This For? Influencer Discovery & Marketing Get a creator’s Snapchat subscriber count Preview their Stories and Spotlight content Find similar creators via related accounts Analytics & Reporting Track Snapchat profiles alongside TikTok and IG Use real media URLs for thumbnails or previews Engagement stats like viewCount, shareCount, commentCount Apps, CRMs & SaaS Tools Enrich influencer databases with Snapchat insights Automatically show a creator's Snap profile content Link directly to their public page What Snapchat Data Do You Get? The Scrape Creators Snapchat API returns clean JSON with: Follower Count "subscriberCount": "1535700" Related Creators Stories & Spotlights (with Media URLs) "mediaUrl": "https://cf-st.sc-cdn.net/d/.../spotlight-video.mp4" Engagement Stats Real Example: Scraping MrBeast’s Snapchat MrBeast’s public Snapchat profile lives at: https://www.snapchat.com/@mrbeast Using Scrape Creators, you can instantly get: His follower count Related accounts Recent story/Spotlight videos Engagement Stats on Spotlights How to Use the Snapchat API (with Node.js) Step 1: Get an API Key Sign up for free at Scrape Creators Includes 100 free requests, no credit card required Step 2: Make a GET Request to the Snapchat API Response You'll get a response that looks something like: And that's it! Why Not Use the Official Snapchat API? Snapchat’s official API exists, but it’s gated and intended for large-scale ad platforms and business partners. You can apply here, but don’t expect instant access. If all you want is to scrape public profile data like this: https://www.snapchat.com/@mrbeast https://www.snapchat.com/@zane Scrape Creators is the quickest and easiest way to go. Start Now, No Credit Card Required Read the API Docs Get an API key: https://app.scrapecreators.com/
New Endpoint: Scrape Instagram Comments from Any Public Post!
You asked for it. I needed it myself. And now it’s finally live, you can now scrape Instagram comments directly from a public post using the Scrape Creators unofficial Instagram comments API. No login. No shady tactics. Just good old public data. Why This Is a Big Deal Instagram comments are a goldmine of insight: Want to know what customers really think about a product? Looking to analyze sentiment on a viral post? Need to build a dataset of user-generated content, testimonials, or audience engagement? Now you can. Until now, there weren’t many ways to get IG comments without logging in or doing something sketchy. But this endpoint works entirely from public data. That’s how all Scrape Creators endpoints work, and that’s how we stay in business. How It Works All you have to do is submit the post URL and the amount of comments you want. I handle all the pagination and complexity behind the scenes. Let's say we wanted to get the comments for this Mr Beast post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DC7Y9vyyg_b First, sign up for an API Key: https://app.scrapecreators.com/ Don't worry, you get 100 free credits. Then just make a GET request to https://api.scrapecreators.com/v1/instagram/post/comments?url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DC7Y9vyyg_b&amount=500 Make sure to include your API key as the x-api-key header. And we actually got 500 comments! It did take 4 minutes though, so if you want a lot of comments, be prepared to wait unfortunately. The response will look like this: A Few Things to Note You likely won't get *all* the comments You’ll get roughly 100–300 comments (although we did get 500 above), depending on how many IG will return publicly. For huge posts with thousands of comments, you probably won’t get all of them, that’s Instagram limiting what’s public, not me. Since I’m handling the pagination, this endpoint costs multiple credits. It’s about 1 credit per 15 comments. Most of my other endpoints cost 1 credit and return exactly what you request. This one’s different because I’m calling the IG API for each new page of results What You Can Do With This The use cases are wild: Sentiment analysis on influencer campaigns Pull UGC for DTC product pages (testimonials, feedback, reactions) Build datasets of real customer language Analyze virality, what kinds of comments do people leave on viral reels/posts? Find leads by scraping who’s engaging with posts in your niche Track reactions to a new product, feature, or campaign Seriously, if you’re in marketing, UGC, influencer research, or AI training, this is 🔥 Try It Out Now The endpoint is live: https://docs.scrapecreators.com/v1/instagram/post/comments/simple Just pass a public Instagram post URL and how many comments you want. Sit back. I’ll handle the rest. This has been one of my most requested features, and something I’ve personally wanted for a while. Now it’s here. Go crazy. Sign up for an API key and get 100 free credits.
Don't Want to Pay Outrageous Twitter (X) API Fees in 2025? Here Are Your Options for Scraping Twitter
If you're building anything that relies on Twitter (X) data, you've probably come face to face with their API pricing. In 2025, it’s downright brutal. $100/month gets you just 15,000 tweets, and $5,000/month caps you at 1 million tweets. Enterprise pricing? Don’t even ask. So what do you do if you’re not a Fortune 500 company but still need Twitter data? Here are the best options in 2025: Option 1: Scraping Behind the Login (Powerful but Risky) This is where all the good stuff lives: full user timelines, Twitter Search, replies, and more. But here's the deal: scraping behind the login is against X's terms of service. It's risky. Tools that do this could be shut down overnight, just like SocialData.tools was recently. Still, there’s one standout: Old Bird V2 on RapidAPI Old Bird v2 is a third-party API that mimics the old Twitter API and scrapes behind the login. Pros: Read access to user timelines, tweet search, tweet metadata Way cheaper than Twitter/X’s official API Been around for years and still working as of 2025 Pricing (as of July 2025): Pro: $24.99/month → 100k tweets Ultra: $69.99/month → 300k tweets Mega: $179.99/month → 1M tweets Cons: It scrapes behind the login — which means it could disappear anytime No write/post access (read-only) Verdict: If you want full-featured access at a reasonable price and can accept the risk, Old Bird is your best option today. 🌐 Option 2: Scraping Only Public Twitter Data (Compliant but Limited) Want to stay fully compliant and not worry about takedowns? Then stick to scraping only public data, the kind you can see when not logged in. BUT: You can’t access search You can’t see replies A user’s profile only shows their top ~100 tweets, not their most recent Test it yourself: open a profile in an incognito browser and you’ll see what we mean. If you're okay with those limits, I’ve made it super easy with my own tool: Scrape Creators. We only scrape public data, so it’s stable and safe. Here’s an example of how easy it is to get someone's public profile: GET https://api.scrapecreators.com/v1/twitter/profile?handle=elonmusk Bonus Trick: Get Recent Tweets via Google Google’s search results often show a user’s most recent tweets. Search for: twitter austen allred This will show a block of tweets in the results. Weirdly, if you search for: austen allred twitter …it won’t work. 🤷♂️ So the query is a little finicky. If you want to automate this, I’ve got a Google Search scraper you can use. I’d just need to tweak it to extract tweets from the result block. Email me if you want help with that: adrian@thewebscrapingguy.com Final Thoughts There’s no perfect solution to scraping Twitter in 2025, but there are smart options. Want full power? Use Old Bird. Want safety? Use Scrape Creators. Want the most recent tweets? Hack Google or use Old Bird As long as you stay out of the login wall, you’re golden. But if you go behind it, don’t be surprised if your API provider disappears overnight. To try Scrape Creators for free sign up here: https://app.scrapecreators.com/
Top SERP APIs for 2025 Compared: Which Google Search API Is Right for You?
If you're building a product that depends on Google search data, like an SEO tool, keyword analyzer, or lead scraper, you’re likely exploring SERP APIs. These tools let you extract structured search results from Google without worrying about proxies, headless browsers, or HTML parsing. But with multiple SERP APIs on the market, how do you choose? In this post, we’ll compare three leading search APIs in 2025: SerpApi SearchAPI.io Scrape Creators We’ll break down their pricing, features, and supported endpoints to help you choose the best fit for your use case. SERP API Pricing Overview Feature Comparison API Coverage: Search vs. Social Both SerpApi and SearchAPI.io offer rich SERP features and multiple Google-related endpoints, including: Google Maps News Images Shopping Autocomplete This makes them ideal for deep SEO platforms and location based queries. Scrape Creators, on the other hand, is built for high volume scraping across search and social, and includes powerful APIs you won’t find elsewhere at this price or scale: TikTok User, Video, and Hashtag APIs Meta Ad Library Scraping LinkedIn Company & Profile Data Instagram, Reddit, YouTube APIs Google Ad Transparency Data If your project spans across search engines and social media platforms, Scrape Creators offers a broader scraping toolkit than traditional SERP APIs. Choosing the Right API for You Final Thoughts The right SERP API depends on your goals. If you're building an SEO tool that needs full featured Google data (including maps, shopping, and knowledge panels), SerpApi and SearchAPI.io are strong candidates. If you're focused on scalable search scraping or want access to hard to access social media data, Scrape Creators offers more coverage at a fraction of the cost, and with no subscription required. Scrape Creators is built for developers who want to move fast, scrape at scale, and access both search and social platforms with one flexible API stack.
Scrape Creators x Databar AI Partnership 🤝
Scrape Creators x Databar AI: Enrich Any Lead List with Just a Few Clicks We just partnered with Databar AI, and it unlocks some seriously powerful workflows you can now run using Scrape Creators scraping APIs, all without writing a single line of code. Databar is like a spreadsheet on steroids, it lets you call APIs and chain them together visually. And now, they’ve plugged in our TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Ad Library scrapers directly into their platform. Here are two game-changing use cases you can run right now: Use Case #1: Competitor Ad Intelligence by Domain Want to know what ads a company is running across the internet? Just drop a company’s domain into Databar, and it’ll use our Scrape Creators ad endpoints to fetch: LinkedIn ads Meta (Facebook/Instagram) ads Google ads Each row includes ad copy, start/end date, targeting info, and ad creative, giving you a complete view of their ad strategy. Perfect for: Competitive research Finding ad angles that are working Reverse-engineering go-to-market strategies Check out the demo below Use Case #2: Discover TikTok Creators in Any Niche + Grab All Their Followers Let’s say you want to find TikTok influencers talking about web scraping. Search TikTok for creators for “web scraping” using our search endpoint Enrich each profile to pull: Username, follower count, profile bio, and more Use our TikTok followers endpoint to grab all of their followers, turning one profile into thousands of leads Perfect for: Building outreach lists Discovering niche communities Analyzing follower overlap between creators Check out the demo below Why This Is So Powerful Zero code: Just plug in keywords or domains and Databar takes care of the rest Scrape Creators power under the hood: You get battle-tested endpoints for social scraping, ads, and more Stackable workflows: Turn a single TikTok search into a 10,000-row lead list in seconds Try It Free You can test these workflows today Start using Scrape Creators on Databar AI → Explore our API docs →
The Ultimate Guide to Scraping LinkedIn Profiles in 2025
The Ultimate Guide to Scraping LinkedIn Profiles (2025 Edition) LinkedIn is one of the richest sources of professional data on the internet and everyone from recruiters to B2B founders to data analysts wants access to it. But scraping LinkedIn isn’t as simple as hitting an endpoint and calling it a day. There are a lot of changes, legal developments, and tradeoffs you should know about before you dive in. Here’s everything you need to know. TL;DR – Which Option is Right for You? The Big Shift: LinkedIn No Longer Shows Work History Publicly (for most profiles) Until recently, you could get a lot of value from scraping public LinkedIn profiles, even without being logged in. But LinkedIn has quietly removed work history from public profiles. That means if you’re scraping the open web version of LinkedIn, you're no longer getting the most important part of someone’s professional profile. So what’s the workaround? Option 1: Scraping Behind the Login (Full Data, Higher Risk) If you need full job history and detailed professional background, there’s only one way to get it: scrape LinkedIn while logged in. That means using buying accounts, authenticated sessions, or API services that go behind the login. Here are some options: Scrapers That Access Full Profile Data Fresh LinkedIn Profile Data (RapidAPI) Gives you job history and more. Scrapin.io Another scraper with detailed data. Like all such tools, it’s subject to takedown risk. These services work, and if you absolutely need that juicy data, they’re often the best option. Just keep in mind they could go down unexpectedly due to legal pushback. Legal Context: Why These Tools Can Disappear Several high profile legal cases explain why behind-the-login scrapers operate in a gray zone: HiQ vs. LinkedIn: The court ruled that scraping public LinkedIn data is legal, but didn’t grant protection for scraping behind login. Meta vs. Bright Data: Court rules in favor of Bright Data, stating public data can't be policed Case in point: Proxycurl, one of the most popular LinkedIn scraping APIs, recently shut down under legal pressure, because they were scraping behind the login. Read their shutdown post. Option 2: Scraping Public Profiles (Limited Data, Lower Risk) If you're looking for a stable, compliant, and cost effective solution, and you're okay with not having full job history, then public scraping is still a viable path. That’s where Scrape Creators comes in. We focus on publicly available LinkedIn data, and don’t require login or cookies. This means: No risk of your scraper being shut down overnight No need to manage sessions or proxies Affordable pricing for ongoing use You won’t get full job history, but for many use cases (light lead gen, contact enrichment, etc.), it’s more than enough. Final Thoughts There’s no “one size fits all” answer when it comes to scraping LinkedIn. If you need the full data, you'll have to go behind the login, just understand the risks. If you're looking for something lightweight and stable, a public scraper like Scrape Creators might be the better fit. Try Scrape Creators Free Want to try a compliant LinkedIn scraper that just works? Get 100 free requests here
Unlock Facebook Group Insights with Our Facebook Groups API (Posts + Comments)
Why You Need a Facebook Groups API Facebook groups are a gold mine for niche conversations online. Whether it's fitness, crypto, parenting, SaaS, or real estate there’s a Facebook group full of your exact target audience. But good luck getting data out of it. Until now. Introducing the Facebook Groups API Our Facebook Groups API lets you scrape public group posts and comments programmatically, no browser automation or sketchy workarounds. ✅ Get the latest posts from any public group ✅ Pull all comments from a specific post ✅ Extremely fast and easy to use ✅ Designed for high-volume scraping This is simple API built for devs and data teams. What You Can Do With It 1. Lead Generation Find Facebook posts where people are asking for recommendations, then offer your service or put leads into your CRM. 2. Market Research Analyze the language your customers use. Scrape posts + comments, summarize sentiment, identify recurring pain points, or categorize discussion topics with ChatGPT or another LLM. 3. Competitor Intel See what people are saying about your competitors in niche Facebook groups. Are people complaining? Loving certain features? You'll know. 4. Trendspotting Track what’s trending inside communities before it breaks out. See what new product ideas or tools people are talking about, straight from the source. How to Use the Facebook Groups API Using the API is dead simple, here’s how you can get started in just a few lines of code. Step 1: Get Your API Key Sign up and automatically get an API Key Step 2: Grab Posts from a Public Group Lets say we want to get the posts and some of the comments from the Dad Jokes Facebook Group. Just grab the link to the group, and make a GET request to the API (docs link) https://api.scrapecreators.com/v1/facebook/group/posts?url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/1158298182085866/ Make sure include your API key as a x-api-key header. The response will look something like this: Use the cursor in your next request to get additional posts (sadly, Facebook only returns 3 posts at a time). Try It Out. 100 Free Requests on Us We made this API because scraping Facebook groups was too damn hard. Now it’s easy. If you’ve been trying to: Extract insights from niche communities Do smarter lead gen Monitor trends or competitors Or just build something cool with real data... You’re gonna love this. 👉 Get Your API Key Now, includes 100 free requests so you can try it risk-free. No credit card. No rate limit headaches. Just clean data from public Facebook groups, ready to use.
The Best Unofficial Reddit API for Fast, Easy Access to Posts, Comments & Trends (2025)
The Unofficial Reddit API That Actually Works for You If you've ever tried using Reddit’s official API, you already know it’s hard to use, and you're severely rate limited. Whether you're a solo dev testing an idea or a data analyst building dashboards, Reddit’s official API makes it hard to move fast. That’s why we built an Unofficial Reddit API, designed to be simple, fast, and powerful, without the bloat or the headaches. What You Can Do With It Our API supports just the essentials you need: Search Reddit posts by keyword Get posts from any subreddit Get comments from any Reddit post No OAuth. No bloated response objects. No need to read a 20 page wiki just to get a list of posts. Even Reddit admits it: The Data API is not intended for use as a high-volume data source. Real World Use Case: How Notion Could Spy on ClickUp Let’s say you work on the growth team at Notion, and you want to better understand what users are saying about your competitor, ClickUp. Your goal? Find out: What frustrates users about ClickUp What features they rave about Where Notion could win over those users Here’s how you’d do it with our API: 1. Search Reddit for mentions of ClickUp First grab an API key from Scrape Creators (100 free requests) Here's the documentation if you want to follow along there. We're going to search all of Reddit for clickup, sorting by new and trimming the response to make it easier for us to read. Make sure to include a header called x-api-key and use your API key. https://api.scrapecreators.com/v1/reddit/search?query=clickup&sort=new&trim=true 2. Grab comments from high-engagement posts Let's take a look at this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/projectmanagement/comments/1lvfkgp/curious_what_people_are_doing_with_project/ https://api.scrapecreators.com/v1/reddit/post/comments?url=https://www.reddit.com/r/projectmanagement/comments/1lvfkgp/curious_what_people_are_doing_with_project&trim=true 3. Analyze with ChatGPT Paste the comments into GPT-4 and ask: “Summarize what Reddit users like and dislike about ClickUp. What problems do they mention? What features stand out? How could Notion position itself as a better alternative?” Or use the OpenAI API to automate this. Here's exactly what Chat GPT said: Example: Reddit + ChatGPT Insight Topic: ClickUp Findings: Users dislike weak automations, steep learning curve, and shallow AI features. They want tools that integrate with existing workflows (e.g. SmartSheets) and offer real AI value. Alternatives like Motion.io and custom setups with Make/N8N are preferred. Insight: Notion can win by being easier to train, more flexible, and offering deeper AI-powered workflows. Other Use Cases Reddit is a goldmine of unfiltered opinions and unmet needs. With our API, you can: Spot Trends Before They Explode Track keyword spikes across Reddit and get notified when new ideas go viral. Validate Product Ideas Just like GummySearch, you can mine niche subreddits for problems, questions, and tool requests that people are begging to solve. Monitor Your Own Brand Set up alerts to track sentiment and feedback as it happens, from product launches to bug complaints. Power Internal Tools & Automations Send Reddit threads to Slack, add quotes to your CRM, or feed your analytics dashboards. Simple, Flexible Pricing No subscriptions. No surprises. Just buy credits and each API call === 1 credit. Use them whenever you want. Scale up or down as needed. TL;DR If you want to: Skip Reddit’s API drama Get only the data you care about Build fast, iterate faster Do it all without breaking the bank Then our Unofficial Reddit API is your new secret weapon. Try it now
5 Best Web Scraping APIs to Use in 2025 (Based on Your Use Case)
Whether you’re scraping Google results, TikTok videos, or just trying to grab structured data from a JavaScript-heavy site, the scraping tool you choose makes a big difference. Here are the top 5 scraping APIs in 2025, what they’re best at, and when you should actually use them. 1. Scrape Creators - Best for Social Media Data (TikTok, IG, YouTube, etc.) Scrape Creators is built specifically for social media, including the social media Ad Libraries. With over 100+ endpoints across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter/X, Reddit, the Meta Ad Library and more, it’s the most complete social media scraping API out there. Unlike general-purpose scraping tools that give you HTML, Scrape Creators gives you clean, structured JSON, already parsed and ready to use. Want TikTok trending videos, IG bios, YouTube transcripts, or TikTok Shop detection? It’s one API call away. ✅ 100+ social endpoints ✅ Real-time data from social platforms ✅ JSON out-of-the-box (no parsing needed) ✅ Available via API or prebuilt Apify actors Best for: Building influencer tools Monitoring creators Social media lead generation Anything social-related at scale Ad Spying Ad Inspiration 2. ScrapingBee - Best for Headless HTML Scraping (No Setup Required) ScrapingBee is a solid, general-purpose scraping API. It's the OG scraping API and was recently acquired by OxyLabs. It renders JavaScript, manages proxies, and returns the HTML of the page (you parse it yourself). It’s great when you want something quick and reliable for scraping content-heavy sites like blogs, ecommerce pages, or product listings. ✅ Headless browser ✅ Handles JavaScript & CAPTCHAs ✅ Simple HTML extraction Best for: Scraping non-social websites General purpose use Devs who want to write their own parsing logic 3. Firecrawl – Best for AI-Powered Extraction via Natural Language Firecrawl is the new kid on the block that’s building around natural language extraction, meaning you can ask for what you want using plain English, and it tries to give you back the structured data. Under the hood, it also uses headless browsing to fetch pages. ✅ Headless browser ✅ Handles JavaScript & CAPTCHAs ✅ Use AI to parse the page, or return straight up HTML Best for: AI agents or LLM tools that need structured data People who don't want to parse the html themselves and want AI to extract content for them General Purpose use 4. ScrapingDog – ScrapingBee Alternative With Built-In Endpoints ScrapingDog offers a very similar experience to ScrapingBee: pass it a URL, and it handles headless browsing, proxy rotation, and returns the raw HTML. Where it stands out is in pricing (generally cheaper) and having more built-in scrapers, like for Google Search, some social media, or even job boards, without needing to build your own logic from scratch. ✅ Headless + proxy support ✅ Built-in endpoints for Google, LinkedIn, etc. ✅ HTML response (you parse) Best for: Developers comparing against ScrapingBee Projects that benefit from built-in endpoints Anyone who wants general-purpose scraping at scale 5. Apify – Best for No-Code + Scraping Automation Apify isn’t just a scraping API, it’s a scraping platform. Meaning any dev can write a scraper and put it up on Apify. You can run bots ("actors") that scrape and automate workflows, then send the data to Airtable, Google Sheets, or an API. And yes, Scrape Creators APIs are also available as Apify actors, so you can connect social scraping to no-code tools like n8n, Zapier, Make, or Retool. ✅ Marketplace of prebuilt actors ✅ Great for non-coders and automation ✅ Powerful for teams Best for: No-code teams Workflow automation Connecting scraped data to apps, CRMs, or Airtable Final Thoughts Not all scraping APIs are built the same, and you’ll save hours (and dollars) if you pick the right tool for the job. Need structured social media data? → Scrape Creators Want AI to extract data with no selectors? → Firecrawl Need fast, cheap HTML scraping? → ScrapingDog Want no-code workflows? → Apify Just need a simple headless scraper? → ScrapingBee
Track Influencers and Analyze Instagram Bios at Scale
Most people don’t realize this, but Instagram actually does offer an official API. The catch? You have to get your app reviewed and approved, have users log in and authorize your app, and deal with strict rate limits. Oh, and good luck if you’re just trying to look at public info like bios, follower counts, or recent posts, most of that isn’t even accessible unless the user authenticates. That’s why I built something better. The Scrape Creators Instagram Profile API gives you real-time access to public Instagram data, no login, no approval process, no rate limits. You give it a user's handle, it gives you the info you actually want. What You Get with One Call Here’s what the API returns when you pass in an Instagram handle: Bio text Follower count Following count Links Profile image URL Last 12 posts (with captions and media URLs) Related accounts (when Instagram suggests them) No friction. Just public facing profile data, at scale. Why This Works (And Keeps Working) We don’t rely on hacky workarounds like headless browsers or logging into fake accounts. Instead, this API pulls directly from Instagram’s public facing endpoints. That means: Real-time results: every time you call it, you’re getting fresh info No rate limits: make as many concurrent calls you want Sustainable: no sketchy tactics that get shut down in 3 months It’s built for devs, SaaS tools, marketers, anyone who needs creator intel, fast and reliably. Use Cases: How People Are Using It You can plug this API into a bunch of different workflows: Build internal influencer databases for outreach Enrich lead lists with bio info and follower counts Monitor creators over time to track growth or posting habits Discover related creators in a niche using Instagram’s “related profiles” Pull recent posts to analyze content themes or brand collabs Whether you’re a marketing agency, a B2B SaaS product, or just running your own research workflow, this unlocks a ton of value with very little setup. How to Use It You can either use this in code, or no code. Check out the instructions below if you are using code. If you are using n8n, check out our integration. Sign up for an API key View the documentation Find someone's IG page, in this case lets use Zucks. His handle is zuck Make a GET request to https://api.scrapecreators.com/v1/instagram/profile?handle=zuck Make sure you include your API key in a x-api-key And that's it! The response will look something like: Try It Out 👉 View the Docs 👉 Test the Endpoint Live 👉 Start for Free No upfront payment required. Pay as you go, scale as you need.
How to Spy on Your Competitors’ Facebook Ads with One API Call
Introduction If you're running Facebook ads, one of the easiest wins is just seeing what your competitors are doing. And yeah, you can go scroll through Meta’s Ad Library manually… but that sucks. It’s slow, clunky, and impossible to scale if you’re checking more than one or two pages. What you actually want is an API that just gives you all the ads, clean JSON, no login, no BS. That’s where the Scrape Creators Meta Ad Library API comes in. It lets you pull all the ads for any Facebook Page, even your competitors, in a few lines of code. Or you can use our Apify or n8n integrations. Let me walk you through what it gives you and how people are using it. Why It’s Worth Looking at Your Competitors’ Ads If you’re running ads and not keeping tabs on other brands in your space, you’re missing out. It’s not about copying, it’s about understanding: What kinds of offers are people pushing? What angles are they testing? How much are they spending (based on volume or how long the ads have been running)? What’s working right now in your niche? You can get a bunch of ideas for your own ads just by seeing what other brands are paying to promote. Especially if you’re doing DTC or working with clients. What You Can Actually See in the Facebook Ad Library Meta shows a lot of info in the Ad Library, most people just don’t realize how much you can get: Text + visuals (image or video) Start date (when the ad launched) Whether it’s still active Which countries it’s running in Page name and ID Categories (like political, credit, housing, etc.) It’s all public. Meta makes this data available for transparency reasons, but that doesn’t mean you have to sit there and click through it manually. The Problem with Meta’s Official API Meta has an official Ad Library API, but using it is kind of a pain: You need a developer account and access tokens You have to get app approval You’ll run into rate limits You can’t search all ad types And honestly, it’s just not that easy to use If you’re just trying to get ad data for research or to keep an eye on competitors, you probably don’t want to jump through all those hoops. A Better Way: The Scrape Creators Meta Ad Library API This API makes it dead simple to pull ad data for any Facebook Page, even if you don’t own it. Here’s what it does for you: Easy to sign up and get started No rate limits Clean JSON response Supports pagination if there are a ton of ads Works with cURL, JS, Python, whatever you want Or no code tools like Apify, n8n How It Works (Example) Let’s say you want to see what ads lululemon is running in the US right now. First sign up for an API key. You’d just hit the API like this: GET https://api.scrapecreators.com/v1/facebook/adLibrary/company/ads?companyName=lululemon&country=US&trim=true Make sure you include your API key in a x-api-key header. Response (simplified) If there are a lot of ads, you just paginate with the cursor. Easy. Check out the full documentation here: https://docs.scrapecreators.com/v1/facebook/adLibrary/company/ads Real World Use Cases Here’s how people are using it: DTC brands: tracking competitors messaging and product pushes Agencies: pulling ads for pitch decks or client reporting Growth hackers: studying ad angles before launching something new Political orgs: monitoring election ad spend AI tools: training on ad creative + messaging at scale Whether you’re doing manual research or building something automated, this saves a ton of time.
How to Find Out If a TikTok User Has a TikTok Shop
If you're targeting TikTok creators for outreach, sales, or influencer marketing, one of the most valuable data points you can get is whether they have a TikTok Shop. And now, with Scrape Creators, you can instantly tell if any TikTok user has a shop, plus get their seller_id for further research. Why This Matters TikTok Shop is where creators monetize directly. If someone has a shop, they're already trying to sell, which makes them an ideal target for: Cold outreach: these users are warm leads eCommerce service providers: agencies, UGC creators, designers Brand partnerships: partner with creators who’ve already sold something Market research: see who’s entering the space and what they’re selling How It Works: The Scrape Creators Endpoint We made it dead simple. Sign up for an API Key: https://app.scrapecreators.com/ Check out the endpoint in the documentation. Make a GET request to: https://api.scrapecreators.com/v1/tiktok/user/is-shop And you need a header called x-api-key, and the value will be your API key. The response will look like this: No headless browser. No proxies. No captcha headaches. It just works. Why Use Scrape Creators? Blazing fast API. Most responses return in 3 seconds or less No scraping headaches, we handle all that for you Pay-as-you-go pricing Use our Apify or n8n Works at scale
How To Tell If a TikTok Video Is an Ad (And Why It Matters for Your Brand)
Why This Matters: Ad Status = Performance Signal If a brand takes a creator’s TikTok and turns it into an ad, it’s a signal that the video performed well, and that the creator likely drove real results. For marketers, influencer agencies, and competitive researchers, identifying which TikToks are ads can help you: Find high-performing creators worth working with Discover creative styles that resonate enough to get paid promotion Track brand partnerships before they’re obvious Reverse-engineer what’s converting across your industry How To Check if a TikTok Video Is an Ad TikTok doesn't display ad status in the UI, but if you're savvy you can still find it. The raw HTML of a video page contains a field called isAd. If this is set to true, the video was promoted as a paid advertisement. Here’s how to find it: Visit the TikTok video URL in a browser (e.g., https://www.tiktok.com/@noah.rolette/video/7376380452136914218) Right-click and click Inspect Go to the Network Tab Refresh the page Click on the first request, which should be the HTML document In the Response tab, search (Cmd+F or Ctrl+F) for isAd You’ll see something like this inside a JSON blob: Scrape Creators If you don't want to build and manage your own scrapers to get this information, consider using Scrape Creators, which makes is super simple to get this information with a simple API call. (On Scrape Creators the field is actually is_ad. In addition to is_ad you can also see if the video is an affiliate for a product, get the images if the tiktok is a photo carousel, get the raw video without the watermark, and much more. And get access 100 other API's for Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, TruthSocial, etc. All for a pay as you go plan, no monthly subscription required. And if you don't code, we also have integrations with n8n and Apify 🙌
How To Tell if a TikTok Video Is Promoting a TikTok Shop Product (With Examples + API Tips)
TikTok has become more than just a place for trends and dances, it’s now a full-blown e-commerce platform. With TikTok Shop, creators can earn commissions by promoting products directly in their videos. But how do you actually **tell** if a TikTok video is promoting a product through TikTok Shop? This post will show you exactly how to spot those videos both **visually** and **programmatically**, so you can analyze, track, or build tools around TikTok Shop content. Why this matters Identifying TikTok Shop videos is useful for: Marketers looking for creators who are actively promoting products Brands scouting for potential influencer partnerships Devs scraping TikTok to track product trends or build affiliate dashboards Analysts measuring which content converts into sales And they're actually pretty easy to spot. There’s one clear signal that gives them away. The Key Indicator: "Eligible for Commission" If you visit this video: https://www.tiktok.com/@thecutechiro_/video/7433747950766951723, you'll see that on the web, at the bottom of the video it will say "Eligible for commission" Check out how it looks below On the TikTok mobile app it will actually say "Creator earns commission" or "Commission paid" How it looks on mobile: How to Get This Info TikTok does not expose this data in their public API. But if you want this field at scale, you can get it using Scrape Creators, a powerful API that returns a is_eligible_for_commission field as part of every TikTok video object. Specifically you'll want to use the TikTok Profile Videos endpoint to get the users videos, or if you have an individual video you want to check, use the TikTok Video Info endpoint. Example response (using the tiktok from above) Scrape Creators helps you find videos that are monetized, allowing you to: Track product trends Build TikTok affiliate dashboards Discover top-performing promotional content Real Use Cases Affiliate Discovery: Find creators actively promoting TikTok Shop products Trend Analysis: Track what types of videos are most often linked to product sales Build Tools: Power search engines, databases, or dashboards for TikTok Shop Partnership Research: Identify affiliate-heavy creators for collabs Final Thoughts Knowing how to spot TikTok Shop content gives you a huge edge, whether you're building something, running campaigns, or just trying to understand what’s selling. Look for the “Eligible for commission” tag on videos, or tap into the is_eligible_for_commission field using Scrape Creators.
The Best Truth Social API for Tracking Trump’s Posts
What Is the Truth Social API? If you’re trying to monitor Trump’s posts on Truth Social or build anything programmatic with the platform, you’ve probably noticed something frustrating: there’s no official Truth Social API. That’s where Scrape Creators comes in. We built an unofficial Truth Social API that gives you real-time access to posts, perfect for alerts, automations, dashboards, or just staying ahead of the news cycle. Why No Official Truth Social API Exists Truth Social was never designed with developers in mind. There's no public documentation, no API, and no developer portal. As of now, there’s no official way to pull posts, user timelines, or search content via an API. This is why we built something fast, lightweight, and reliable. How the Scrape Creators Unoffical API Works Our API hits Truth Social directly and delivers clean JSON data in a REST format. We handle all the heavy lifting behind the scenes, rotating proxies, bypassing detection, and making sure the data stays fresh and accurate. You just hit the endpoint, and boom the latest posts are yours. Use Case: Monitor Trump Posts Want to get notified the second Trump posts something? After you sign up for an API key, here's how you would do that: API Features REST Endpoint Simple, fast GET requests with optional filters by username or date. Webhook Support (Coming Soon) Soon you’ll be able to register a URL and get new posts pushed to you in real time, no polling required. Clean JSON Response No HTML parsing, no fluff, just structured, developer-friendly data. Pay-As-You-Go Only pay for what you use. No monthly minimums, no surprise charges. No Rate Limits We don’t throttle. Use it as fast as your infrastructure allows.
How To Scrape Images from TikTok Slideshow
Why Slideshows? TikTok photo carousels, or slideshows, are helping creators get millions of views, with relatively little effort. If you've ever wanted to scrape the images from a TikTok, here's how you do it: How to: Let's take this account as an example: https://www.tiktok.com/@mens.guidance All of their posts are photo carousels and some of their posts are popping off. First sign up for this product named Scape Creators, it grabs public social media data in real time. It only take a couple clicks to sign up. Let's use this post as a example: https://www.tiktok.com/@mens.guidance/photo/7467226363544554770 We want to grab the images from this post. The endpoint we will be hitting will be TikTok Video Endpoint (docs link) You can test it out using the playground. Pro tip, enable trim to trim the response to make it a little more manageable. Look for the key `image_post_info`. That will have an array called `images` And we actually want to go into the `thumbnail` key to get the image that doesn't have a watermark. Key into the first url in `url_list`, and we have the url of the image! Go ahead and visit that url to verify. To get all the images, simply loop over the images array! In code it would look like this: We are gonna use JavaScript (Node.js) for this example. I'm using the http client library called axios here, but feel free to use the one you want. And that's it! Those url's will expire after a few hours, so if you want to save them to view later, you will want to download them and then upload them to a cloud storage provider like supabase storage, Amazon S3, or Cloudinary, etc. In node.js you would fs to download the image. Also, if you don't want to do this for each individual video, you can use Scrape Creators Profile Videos endpoint to grab the user's first 20 tiktoks (or however many you want), and then loop through all their tiktoks and grab the images (or videos) from all of them.
How to scrape YouTube transcripts with node.js in 2025
I’m going to show you how to scrape YouTube transcripts in node.js, but the technique can be used for any programming language. If you are just looking for a pre-built API, check out the scrape creators YouTube Transcript API. Scrape Creators also has transcript API’s for TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Ok first, go to the youtube search page. In this case, I am going to search for “Charles Barkley Jussie Smollett” Next we want to see if we can find any API’s that YouTube is using to fetch the video and hopefully transcript, so open up the dev tools by Right clicking > Inspect Element Then go to the “Network Tab” To make things easier for us, filter by “Fetch/XHR” Now click on any video you want, and observe the requests. Notice the route: “next?prettyPrint=false” Click on that route and check out the Response. If you start searching for the video title or views, you’ll see them in this response: So cool, looks like we found the endpoint that YouTube is using to fetch video details. Now we want to actually call it in Node.js. Go to the next?prettyPrint=false endpoint and right click to Copy as fetch (Node.js) Make sure you have node-fetch installed with npm install node-fetch We’re going to be using async/await, so your code should look something like this: If you make the request, it should be successful. Whoohoo! 🥳 Nice job. But, we don’t want to fetch the same video over and over again, we want to dynamically fetch different videos. So if you notice in the request payload, there is a “videoId” field. And that’s pretty convenient for us, because it means we can just pass a different “videoId” and get the videos details. You can find the videoId easily because its always in the query params of the video. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Ah_DFr8cw So just make sure to pass whatever videoId you want to get, and that should be it. You can get rid of that params key. Cool, now how do we get the transcript? Well lets first see how YouTube is getting the transcript. Click the “...more” in the video description Clear the Network Requests so we can get an easier view of what happens when we click on the Show Transcript button Click on the Show transcript button Now they fire off the “get_transcript” endpoint, which doesn’t take a genius to figure out that that’s how they are getting the transcript. Click on the response, and you can see that the transcript is there in nice JSON for us. Excellent. Now lets look at how they’re calling it. So if you go to the Payload tab you’ll see an “externalVideoId”, which you can see is just the videoId, and there is this “params” value, which we did not need to fetch the video details, but spoiler alert, we will need it here. So where does it come from? Well, if you still have the video details response available, search for “getTranscriptEndpoint” If you copy the params value and search for it in the video details response, you’ll see that is identical to the params value YouTube is using to get the transcript 🙌 So now, to actually call the endpoint to get the transcripts, Copy the get_transcript request like we did for the video details request. Then make sure to pass the externalVideoId and the getTranscriptEndpoint param from the video details endpoint, and thats it!
Instagram Scraping in 2025: The Workarounds That Still Work
First, for all the lawyers out there reading this, we're only getting *public* data, so just relax. Aight lets get into it: Now, if you try to scrape via the browser, you're already cooked. Using tools like puppeteer or selenium are easy to detect. If you want to find the API that gets someone's public profile (their follower count, bio, links, etc), do this: Visit my IG page (adrianhorning) Next, we need to monitor the network requests as they're happening> Open the dev tools with right click > Inspect > Network (filter by Fetch/XHR) Scroll to the bottom, to the "Related Accounts"> Click on one Observe the requests Notice one that is named "web_profile_info"? That is probably the one we need 😅 Next, the http client you use is super important. Use got-scraping from Apify. It is incredible at getting around stuff. And lastly, you'll need residential proxies. There are a lot of providers out there, I have my personal favorites. The just pretty much do that for all the public information you want. Sometimes you need to include the headers that they are, so pay attention to that. And to get additional pages of results, they use cursor based pagination, so just look for "cursor" (most of the time), in the payload. If you want a solution that's already done for you, you can just call my IG profile endpoint, docs here: https://docs.scrapecreators.com/v1/instagram/profile
Instagram API Without Rate Limits: How to Easily Access Public Data
The Instagram Graph API is awesome, but it has a rate limit of 200 calls per hour * the number of users. So if you're doing any kind of volume, this really sucks and is a huge bottleneck for your project. To get around this, you could try scraping Instagram yourself, using proxies, running headless browsers, constantly dodging bans, etc. But unless you want to babysit all that headache 24/7, there’s a much easier way: Scrape Creators gives you direct access to public Instagram data, without rate limits, and it's really easy to use. Here’s how easy it is to pull public Instagram data using Scrape Creators: Example: Get Public Profile Data Let’s say you want to pull public info about an Instagram user like nike. You want some basic information like bio, website, follower count, recent posts, etc. By the way the documentation for this api is here: Instagram Profile Endpoint All you need to do is make a GET request to /v1/instagram/profile like so: To get an API key, just sign up at app.scrapecreators.com (free trial, no credit card required) That will return something like this, which has that basic information, and even the users recent posts also: If you want to get just the posts of the user, use the /v2/instagram/user/posts endpoint. And that's it! How to Get Started Sign up for a Scrape Creators account Get your API key Start making requests You can check out the full API docs here. If you want reliable, no-drama access to public Instagram data, Scrape Creators makes it stupid simple. Sign up here and get started.
How to scrape the Meta Ad Library
The Meta Ad Library is a goldmine for marketers, researchers, and growth, but it wasn’t built with automation in mind. That’s why I built the Scrape Creators API to pull real-time Meta Ad Library data using simple HTTP requests. In this post, I’ll show you exactly how to do that using **JavaScript with Axios**. But, you can use any no-code platform also like Clay, Make or Zapier. Anything where you can make API calls from. You’ll also find: - A video walkthrough on YouTube - A working code example on GitHub - Live demos for searching ads, finding companies, and more 🎥 Watch the Video 👉 Click here to watch on YouTube 🧠 What You'll Learn - How to search for ads by keyword - How to look up a company page - How to get all ads from a specific advertiser - How to retrieve a single ad by ID - Copy/paste-ready Axios code examples 🛠 Setup Before you start: - Sign up at [Scrape Creators](https://scrapecreators.com) and grab your API key - If you are using JavaScript (Node.js), install Axios in your project: 🔍 Search Ads by Keyword You know how you can search for ads by a keyword in the Meta Ad Library? Well, you can do the same thing programmatically! All you have to do is call the Search Ads endpoint with a `query` parameter, like so: And you can even search by Ad Type, Country, Status, and Start and End Date! The response will look something like this. Here are some of the valuable fields that will be returned: `ad_archive_id` -> this is the ad id `start_date_string` `end_date_string` `publisher_platform` -> to know if the ad is running on Instagram, Facebook, etc `snapshot` -> This is where all the ad copy and variations will be `body` -> body of the ad `cta_text` `link_url` -> where the user goes after they click on the ad `page_id` -> The company's ad library page id `videos` `images` And if you want more pages of results, just pass the `cursor` that is returned. Get Individual Ad Details Lets say we want to get the ad detail of a single ad. For that we just need the Library ID, in this case 1755312555404167. You will get the same details as above, including start_date_string, end_date_string, publisher_platform, snapshot, cta_text, link, etc. Search for a company's ads Now lets say we wanted to just get the ads from lululemon. First we need the lululemon page id. If you already know it, great, hold onto it. If you don't, you can find it by using this endpoint: That will return a `searchResults` array. You want to key into the first search result and return the page_id, like so: Then you can use that to fetch their ads using this endpoint: And the response will almost be identical to the Search endpoint. If you want additional pages, a `cursor` will be returned, and you need to pass that to subsequent requests like so: And that's it! 📦 Get the Full Code Want to see all this code in one file? 👉 View on GitHub ✅ Ready to Start? Create your free API key at Scrape Creators and start pulling Meta Ad Library data into your app. Questions or feedback? Hit me up at adrian@thewebscrapingguy.com Other APIs If you're looking to scrape other Ad Libraries like the LinkedIn Ad Library, or Google Ad Transparency Center, check out Scrape Creators. Also, if you want to scrape Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, and more, you can also use scrape creators for that too!