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Social Media Scraper API

Use our Social Media Scraper API to extract data from platforms quickly. Automate data collection, monitor trends, and integrate social insights into your apps with ease.

Key Benefits:

Real-time insights for smarter decisions Get more, scrape less Automate tedious tasks
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Extracting data from website
Block ads on page to scrape
Use a pre-saved request configuration
Take a screenshot of the full page to scrape
Mike Ritchie

Mike Ritchie

CEO @ SeekWell

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ScrapingBee simplified our day-to-day marketing and engineering operations a lot. We no longer have to worry about managing our own fleet of headless browsers, and we no longer have to spend days sourcing the right proxy provider

Limitless Insight Acquisition. Experience Boundless Insights for Visionary Thinkers

Unleash unprecedented insights with our tool, tailored for visionary minds. Explore these three transformative social media strategies to boost your competitive edge.

Extract follower counts

Monitor competitor growth by extracting social media follower counts, aiding strategic positioning and market analysis.

Gather user demographics

Use ScrapingBee to gather user demographics for lead generation or competitor analysis, transforming social media data into actionable business insights.

Monitor brand mentions

Monitor brand mentions to extract valuable insights for lead generation, competitor analysis, and strategic business positioning.

Transparent Social media scraper API pricing.

Cancel anytime, no questions asked!

API Credits
Concurrent requests
JavaScript rendering
Rotating & Premium Proxies
Geotargeting
Screenshots, Extraction Rules, Google Search API
Priority Email Support
Dedicated Account Manager
Team Management
Freelance $49/mo
250,000
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Startup $99/mo
1,000,000
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Business + $599/mo
8,000,000
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All prices are exclusive of VAT.

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How ScrapingBee works

Manually collecting Social Media data is slow, limited and hard to scale. That’s why more and more teams choose ScrapingBee.

STEP 1

Create an account - get instant access to API key and 1,000 free credits to get started

STEP 2

Quickly add our official Python library to your project. This makes it easy to send scraping requests without worrying about proxies or browsers.

STEP 3

Use your Social Media API key to fetch any detail programmatically. We do all the heavy lifting, you get ready-to-use, rendered HTML for parsing and analysis.

STEP 4

Use our advanced features to handle complex pages with dynamic elements while maintaining full control over your scraping workflows.

Scrape Social Media Data Efficiently with our Scraper API - Engineered for Speed

Effortlessly extract social media data with our high-speed scraper API. Accelerate data retrieval, enhance analysis, and optimize business strategies.

Smart Data Extraction

Utilize AI Web Scraping to efficiently extract and organize data from the specified social media platform. Enhance data retrieval accuracy and speed for strategic business insights.

AI Web Scraping

Social Media Screenshot Extraction

Effortlessly capture full or partial page visuals Social Media instantly. Useful for visual verification.

Screenshot API

Find Social Media results on Google search

Efficiently extract any social media results that appear on Google Search with our specialized API to get strategic insights. No limits, just precision.

Explore Google Search API

Scrape automatically - mimicking real user behaviour

Effortlessly mimic real interactions with our JavaScript feature. Emulate authentic user actions, ensuring you gather the most precise and relevant data from platforms.

JavaScript Scraping API

Accessible social media data for everyone

Effortlessly access comprehensive data with advanced anti-blocking measures and stealth proxies. Seamlessly bypass restrictions, ensuring every crucial data point is captured.

Data Scraping Tool

Social media scraper, no coding experience required

Effortlessly transform complex social data into structured JSON without coding. Harness seamless integration and over 1000 tools to power your strategic goals.

No Code Scraper

Trusted by 3,000+ developers and data teams

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Scraping is 50% dealing with ever-changing HTML files and 50% massaging data into a useable format. ScrapingBee’s incredible AI feature can do both much better than I ever could. Now I can spend 100% of my time on what matters most; my business.

Arvid Kahl

Arvid Kahl,

Founder at Podscan

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

ScrapingBee helps us to retrieve information from sites that use very sophisticated mechanism to block unwanted traffic, we were struggling with those sites for some time now and I'm very glad that we found ScrapingBee.

Anton R

Anton R,

CTO

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★ ★ ★ ★ ★

ScrapingBee clear documentation, easy-to-use API, and great success rate made it a no-brainer.

Dominic Phillips

Dominic Phillips,

Co-Founder at CodeSubmit

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

I'm a PhD candidate with absolutely no web scraping experience and needed to scrape some data for a dissertation project. ScrapingBee helped me get the job done quickly and easily. Excellent customer support too. Couldn't be happier!

Sam,

PhD candidate

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★ ★ ★ ★ ★

So easy to set-up, straightforward and performance. They are reachable and kind, they introduced us properly their tool and offered the best solution for our need.

Maxime Y

Maxime Y,

Product Manager @ NordFolk

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★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Great SaaS tool for legitimate scraping and data extraction. ScrapingBee makes it easy to automatically pull down data from the sites that publish periodic data in a human-readable format.

Andy Hawkes

Andy Hawkes,

Founder at Loadster

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Good experience. I found this proxy service more effective compared to previous ones that were being used. It is fast and efficient.

Aayushi,

Senior analyst

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★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Fantastic service: works flawlessly, best support I've experienced. It just works: and its parsing meta-language is wonderfully powerful. Most importantly, the support I've received has been superlative.

Mike P.

Mike P.,

VP

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★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Excellent service, glad we made the switch! We could always dedicate resources and build our own systems for everything... or we could simply call the scrapingBee API and focus on the data. It makes our work so much easier.

Daniel L,

Lead dev

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You're in great company

2,500+ customers all around the globe use ScrapingBee to solve their web scraping needs.

Social Media Scraper API. Precision, Power and Deep Insight

Extract rich social media insights effortlessly, transforming data into strategic advantage for enhanced decision-making.

Efficient and Intuitive Use

Integrate with ease using our tool's intuitive setup and detailed documentation. Empower developers with clarity, ensuring swift, effective operations essential for business success.

Documentation

Insightful Data Command Center

Harness ScrapingBee's API to navigate the dynamic world of social media data. Extract nuanced insights, streamline workflows, and stay ahead with unparalleled accuracy and speed.

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Our team is here to guide you when you need the extra assistance. And we're constantly working on new features to make your life easier.

Fantastic documentation

Take a look at our documentation and get started in minutes!

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Code samples

Whatever the programming language you enjoy, we have written code samples ready.

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Knowledge base

Our extensive knowledge base covers the most frequent use cases with code samples.

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Exceptional support

Fast, engineer-led support via live chat or email

Explore web scraping insights

Check out our documentation to find out more on how to utilise our API for your scraping needs.

AI Data Extraction

JS Rendering

Stealth Proxy

Screenshots

Custom Cookies

Download Images

More markets. More opportunities.

Expand your data collection beyond this scraper.

Why ScrapingBee?

The most reliable web scraping API, trusted by 3,000+ developers worldwide.

Perfect for:
  • Data analysts
  • Growth teams
  • Developers
  • E-commerce businesses

GDPR and CCPA compliant

ScrapingBee does not collect or store personal data from scraped sites unless their user explicitly requests it.

CAPTCHA bypass capacity

We handle proxy rotation to avoid IP-based blocking. With headless browser rendering, we mimic real user browsing behaviour and reduce the blocking risk.

Scalable

The platform scales smoothly with thousands of headless browsers and rotating proxies, ensuring fast, reliable performance even during traffic spikes.

Speed and accuracy

We deliver fast, reliable results in 1-5 seconds with high accuracy across most sites, even JavaScript-heavy ones.

Social Media Scraping API: Questions Clarified

Is web scraping social media legal?

Web scraping social media legality depends on the platform's terms of service and applicable laws. It's essential to ensure compliance with legal requirements, respect terms, and avoid scraping private data. Always check specific policies and consult legal guidance for clarity.

Is Instagram scraping allowed?
Is Twitter web scraping legal?
Is LinkedIn scraping illegal?
Does YouTube allow web scraping?
Does Reddit prohibit web scraping?