Social Fetch

What it does

Social Fetch is a social media scraping API that provides structured data from 13+ platforms including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, Facebook, and Reddit. It returns profiles, posts, comments, videos, transcripts, metrics, and engagement signals via simple REST endpoints. The service handles all scraper maintenance, proxy rotation, and rate limiting internally, delivering consistent JSON responses. Pricing is pay-as-you-go with credits that never expire, starting at $1.65 per 1,000 lookups at scale. A free tier offers 100 credits with no credit card required.

Who it is for

Social Fetch is built for founders and engineering teams who need to integrate social media data into their products. Use cases include social analytics dashboards, creator tools, data enrichment pipelines, monitoring systems, and AI agents that require real-time social signals. The API is designed for developers who want to avoid the overhead of building and maintaining custom scrapers for each platform.

Why it matters

Social media data is valuable for market research, competitive analysis, influencer discovery, and content moderation, but scraping it reliably at scale is notoriously difficult. Platforms frequently change their frontend structure, enforce rate limits, and block IPs. Social Fetch abstracts away these challenges, offering 99.8% uptime and a guarantee that customers are not charged for failed lookups caused by infrastructure issues. The service provides fresh data on every request (no caching) with an average response time of ~3.2 seconds, and supports burst concurrency without rate-limit negotiations.

Launch signal

Social Fetch has processed 3.6 million lookups in the last 30 days (as of the website's stated metrics). It was ranked #3 Product of the Day on Product Hunt and has over 3,200 developers using the API. The website includes a testimonial from a customer called "Social Crow" who reports that their previous TikTok and Instagram scrapers broke constantly, and Social Fetch allowed them to focus on building features instead of maintaining scrapers.

Brand and naming

The name "Social Fetch" is functional and descriptive, clearly indicating the product's purpose of fetching social media data. However, it lacks distinctiveness and memorability, as "Fetch" is a common verb in tech. The domain socialfetch.dev is available and aligns with the name, but the .dev TLD may limit mainstream appeal. The tagline and website clearly position the startup as a unified API for scraping multiple social platforms, which is a strong, focused value proposition.