Use this skill whenever a user wants to get, pull, grab, fetch, or look up public data from social media platforms — profiles, posts, videos, comments, followers, engagement stats, transcripts, trending content, hashtags, or creator info from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Facebook, Reddit, Threads, Bluesky, Pinterest, Snapchat, Twitch, Kick, Truth Social, or link-in-bio sites (Linktree, Komi, Pillar). Also covers ad library lookups (Meta, Google, LinkedIn, Reddit) and TikTok Shop data. Trigger even when users say "scrape", "monitor", "search", or "check" a platform. Do NOT trigger for building apps, using official platform SDKs/APIs (like PRAW, tweepy, YouTube Data API), analyzing local files, or creating dashboards — only when the user needs to retrieve data directly from a social platform.
ScrapeCreators provides 100+ REST endpoints to scrape public data from 20+ social media platforms. One API key, one header, simple curl requests.
Every request needs a single header:
x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY
Get your key at https://scrapecreators.com (100 free credits on signup, no card required).
Store the key in an environment variable so it stays out of scripts and doesn't end up in version control or chat history:
export SCRAPECREATORS_API_KEY="your-key-here"
curl -s -G "https://api.scrapecreators.com/v1/tiktok/profile" \
--data-urlencode "handle=khaby.lame" \
-H "x-api-key: $SCRAPECREATORS_API_KEY" | jq .
That's the whole pattern. Every endpoint works the same way: GET request, query parameters, one auth header.