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ScrapeCreators Alternative Built for Complete Social Media Data

Access social media transcripts, AI summaries, comments, profiles, posts, search results, engagement data, and supported media downloads through one API. Work with YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and direct video files.

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Pick a platform to see the data you can pull from it.

api.socialkit.dev/youtube
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SocialKit vs ScrapeCreators

Both platforms provide structured social media data. ScrapeCreators covers a wider range of platforms and public data sources, while SocialKit includes built-in AI summaries, custom AI output, and direct video-file processing.

Video transcripts
SocialKitYes
ScrapeCreatorsYes
Built-in AI video summaries
SocialKitYes
ScrapeCreatorsNo
Built-in custom AI output
SocialKitYes
ScrapeCreatorsNo
Individual comments
SocialKitYouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook
ScrapeCreatorsAvailable across multiple platforms
Profiles, posts, and search
SocialKitAvailable across supported platforms
ScrapeCreatorsAvailable across a broader range of platforms
LinkedIn data
SocialKitProfiles, companies, posts, and transcripts
ScrapeCreatorsProfiles, companies, posts, search, and transcripts
Direct video-file processing
SocialKitTranscript and summary APIs
ScrapeCreatorsPlatform-specific transcript endpoints
Media downloads
SocialKitDedicated APIs for YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram
ScrapeCreatorsAvailable through selected TikTok and Instagram endpoints
Ad-library data
SocialKitNot offered
ScrapeCreatorsFacebook, TikTok, Google, and LinkedIn
Additional data sources
SocialKitMajor social platforms and direct video files
ScrapeCreatorsSocial platforms, ad libraries, commerce, marketplaces, music, and more
Free credits
SocialKit20 credits
ScrapeCreators100 credits

Which API Fits Your Use Case?

Both tools are good at different jobs. Here is the honest split, so you can pick the one your product actually needs.

Choose ScrapeCreators when you need

  • Public data from a wider range of platforms
  • Facebook, TikTok, Google, or LinkedIn ad-library data
  • TikTok Shop or Facebook Marketplace data
  • Reddit, Threads, Bluesky, Pinterest, Twitch, or Snapchat data
  • GitHub, Spotify, Apple Music, or SoundCloud data
  • Pay-as-you-go credits that do not expire
  • High-concurrency requests without a fixed rate limit

ScrapeCreators is a good fit when broad platform coverage and raw public data are the main requirements of your application.

Built-in AI advantage

Choose SocialKit when you need

  • Built-in AI video summaries
  • Custom prompts and structured AI response fields
  • Transcripts and summaries from direct video-file URLs
  • Dedicated download APIs for YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram
  • Transcripts, summaries, comments, stats, and creator data in one workflow
  • Focused social media APIs with consistent JSON responses

SocialKit is a good fit when your application needs to analyse and process video content without building a separate transcript-to-AI workflow.

Go Beyond Raw Social Data

ScrapeCreators already gives you access to profiles, posts, videos, comments, transcripts, search results, ads, and engagement data across a wide range of sources. SocialKit adds built-in AI analysis and direct video-file processing for workflows that need more than the original platform response.

Generate structured AI summaries

SocialKit provides dedicated summary APIs for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and direct video files. Receive a structured response containing the summary, main topics, key points, tone, target audience, quotes, and content timeline.

ScrapeCreators provides transcripts and metadata that you can connect to your own AI model. SocialKit handles the summarisation inside the API.

Define the AI response your product needs

Add custom instructions or define your own response fields with SocialKit. You can request fields such as sentiment, category, language, products mentioned, claims, calls to action, or brand references. The result is returned as structured JSON using the fields required by your application.

ScrapeCreators returns the data extracted from the selected platform. It doesn't support custom AI response fields.

Process direct video files

Pass a publicly accessible video-file URL to SocialKit to generate a transcript or structured summary. This allows you to process videos hosted on your server, CDN, storage bucket, or media library without publishing them on a social platform first.

ScrapeCreators' transcript APIs process URLs from its supported platforms.

Use dedicated media download APIs

SocialKit provides separate download APIs for YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram.

ScrapeCreators handles media downloads differently. Its TikTok Video Info and Instagram Post/Reel Info endpoints include a download_media option that can return stored media URLs. SocialKit gives you a separate endpoint for each supported download workflow, including YouTube.

Need built-in AI summaries, custom output fields, direct video processing, or dedicated download APIs?

Try SocialKit for Free20 free credits. No credit card required.

Integrate with Your Favorite No-Code Platform

Use Zapier, Make, n8n or any other no-code platform using our native connection or by using the access token.

MCPMCPAgent Skills

Your agents already know how to use this

A first-party Claude Code skill, a hosted MCP server, and a plain REST API - all official, all maintained.

For AI agents

AI agents guideMCP setupAgent skillOpenAPI specFull docs

Agent skill

A drop-in skill for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. It teaches them every endpoint, param, and response shape.

terminal
$ npx skills add \
    SocialKit-API/skills --all
  ✓ added 7 SocialKit skills

> summarize the last 5 reels from
  @nasa and rank them by views
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MCP server

One config block. Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client gets every SocialKit endpoint as a first-class tool.

mcp config
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "socialkit": {
      "url": "https://mcp.socialkit.dev/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}
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REST API

Pipe-friendly and framework-agnostic. Wrap the endpoints as tools in OpenAI, LangChain, CrewAI, or anything with function-calling.

terminal
$ curl https://api.socialkit.dev/\
    tiktok/stats?url=... \
    -H "x-access-key: YOUR_KEY"

  → { likes, views, shares, ... }
    1 credit used
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Pricing

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Extract transcripts, generate summaries, and analyze engagement across YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and more at scale.

Free

$0/month
  • 20Credits
  • Perfect for testing
  • 40 requests / minute
  • Includes All APIs
  • YouTube APIs
  • TikTok APIs
  • Instagram APIs
  • Facebook APIs
  • Twitter/X APIs
  • LinkedIn APIs
  • Video File APIs
  • More Coming Soon

Standard

$29/month
  • 12,000Credits
  • $2.42 per 1k credits
  • 120 requests / minute
  • Includes All APIs
  • YouTube APIs
  • TikTok APIs
  • Instagram APIs
  • Facebook APIs
  • Twitter/X APIs
  • LinkedIn APIs
  • Video File APIs
  • More Coming Soon
Most Popular

Growth

$39/month
  • 18,000Credits
  • $2.17 per 1k credits
  • 180 requests / minute
  • Includes All APIs
  • YouTube APIs
  • TikTok APIs
  • Instagram APIs
  • Facebook APIs
  • Twitter/X APIs
  • LinkedIn APIs
  • Video File APIs
  • More Coming Soon

Ultimate

$95/month
  • 50,000Credits
  • $1.90 per 1k credits
  • 360 requests / minute
  • Includes All APIs
  • YouTube APIs
  • TikTok APIs
  • Instagram APIs
  • Facebook APIs
  • Twitter/X APIs
  • LinkedIn APIs
  • Video File APIs
  • More Coming Soon
  • Higher Rate Limits
  • Priority Support

Business

$210/month
  • 150,000Credits
  • $1.40 per 1k credits
  • 600 requests / minute
  • Includes All APIs
  • YouTube APIs
  • TikTok APIs
  • Instagram APIs
  • Facebook APIs
  • Twitter/X APIs
  • LinkedIn APIs
  • Video File APIs
  • More Coming Soon
  • Higher Rate Limits
  • Priority Support

Need a Custom Plan? Contact us for a personalized plan that fits just right.

Frequently Asked Questions

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https://api.socialkit.dev/video/summarize?url=youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
AI Summary
+transcript

Video discusses upcoming social media trends including AI-generated content...

• Full transcript available
Engagement
+15 metrics
94%
Rate
8.2
Score
• Views, likes, comments...
Topics
+keywords
AI ContentTrendsMarketing...
• Sentiment, entities...