# Social Media Web Scraping

##  Posts, profiles, and trends structured at scale. 

 Extract public posts, engagement metrics, and trending content from X, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, Reddit, Facebook, and Threads. Anti-bot bypass and JS rendering built in. One API key, structured JSON output.

 [ Get Free API Key ](https://scrapfly.io/register) [ Web Scraping API ](https://scrapfly.io/products/web-scraping-api) 

 1,000 free credits. No credit card required. 

 

  

 

 

 

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## 8+

platforms supported

 



 

## 5B+

scrapes / month platform-wide

 



 

## 99%+

success rate

 



 

## JSON

structured output, CSV export

 



 

 

 

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 // FORMULA## Turn every profile and post into structured signal.

 `Post URL` + `Extraction Schema` = Feed-grade Data 

One API call fetches the page. A second extracts the schema. You get clean JSON, ready for your pipeline.

 

 

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 COVERAGE## Every Platform. Every Signal.

Public data across the platforms your use case demands, structured and ready.

 

 ### Profile & Follower Data

Collect public bios, follower counts, post counts, and engagement history from professional and personal profiles.

X / Twitter



Instagram



LinkedIn



Facebook



YouTube



Threads



 

 



 

 ### Posts & Engagement

Extract public post content, view counts, likes, comments, and share data at volume.

TikTok



YouTube



Reddit



Threads



 

 



 

 

 // FEATURED ### Trend Discovery

Track rising topics, hashtags, and keywords before they peak. Identify signals early from public search and explore pages.

**volume**search counts

**velocity**rate of growth

**reach**impressions

 

 



 

 ### Brand Monitoring

Monitor mentions, sentiment, and share of voice across platforms. Track how brands are discussed in public posts, comments, and threads.

**mentions**per platform

**sentiment**positive / negative

 

 



 

 ### Creator & Influencer Signals

Build ranked datasets of public creator accounts by niche, engagement rate, and audience size.

 **Handle**public username

 

 **Posts**public content feed

 

 **Metrics**likes, comments, shares

 

 **Ranking**by engagement rate

 

 

 



 

 

 ### Anti-bot Bypass for Social Platforms

Social media platforms use advanced bot detection. Scrapfly's anti-scraping protection bypass handles the major vendors automatically - so your scrapers keep running.

 [Cloudflare](https://scrapfly.io/bypass/cloudflare) 

 [DataDome](https://scrapfly.io/bypass/datadome) 

 [Akamai](https://scrapfly.io/bypass/akamai) 

 [PerimeterX](https://scrapfly.io/bypass/perimeterx) 

 

 



 

 

 

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  - Web Scraping API
- Extraction API
- Screenshot API
- Crawler
- Cloud Browser
 
 

Products

## The Full Stack for Social Data.

Every Scrapfly product works together. Scrape the page, render JS, extract structure, capture screenshots, and crawl entire profiles.

   Web Scraping API

Fetch any public social URL with anti-bot bypass, residential proxies, and JS rendering. Returns full HTML ready for parsing.

 [ Landing page ](https://scrapfly.io/products/web-scraping-api) 

 

   Extraction API

Turn scraped HTML into structured JSON with a natural-language prompt or JSON schema. No custom parsers to maintain.

 [ Landing page ](https://scrapfly.io/products/extraction-api) 

 

   Screenshot API

Capture full-page screenshots of any social profile or post page. Useful for visual archiving, compliance, and monitoring.

 [ Landing page ](https://scrapfly.io/products/screenshot-api) 

 

   Crawler

Traverse profile pages, follow links, and collect post URLs at depth. Each discovered URL is scraped with the full Scrapfly stack.

 [ Landing page ](https://scrapfly.io/products/web-scraping-api) 

 

   Cloud Browser

Full headless Chromium with CDP access. Required for platforms that rely heavily on client-side rendering and interactive scrolling.

 [ Landing page ](https://scrapfly.io/products/web-scraping-api) 

 

 

 [Get Free API Key](https://scrapfly.io/register) 

 



 

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 CODE## Scrape Any Social Platform in Seconds

Same API, same pattern across X and Reddit. Swap the URL and go.

 

Anti-bot bypass and JS rendering on public X profiles and Reddit communities.

     Python TypeScript HTTP / cURL  

    

 ```
from scrapfly import ScrapeConfig, ScrapflyClient, ScrapeApiResponse

client = ScrapflyClient(key="API KEY")

api_response: ScrapeApiResponse = client.scrape(
  ScrapeConfig(
    # add real estate property url
    url='https://www.instagram.com/p/DD-UZnOsiPW/',
    # enable bypass anti-scraping protection
    asp=True,
    # enable headless browser if necessary
    render_js=True,
    # use AI to extract data
    extraction_model='social_media_post'
  )
)
# use AI extracted data
print(api_response.scrape_result['extracted_data']['data'])
# or parse the html yourself 
print(api_response.content)
```

 ```
import { 
    ScrapflyClient, ScrapeConfig 
} from 'jsr:@scrapfly/scrapfly-sdk';

const client = new ScrapflyClient({ key: "API KEY" });

let api_response = await client.scrape(
    new ScrapeConfig({
        url: 'https://www.instagram.com/p/DD-UZnOsiPW/',
        // enable bypass anti-scraping protection
        asp: true,
        // enable headless browser if necessary
        render_js: true,
        // use AI to extract data
        extraction_model: 'social_media_post'  // or reviews
    })
);
// use AI extracted data
console.log(api_response.result['extracted_data']['data'])
// or parse the HTML yourself
console.log(api_response.result['content'])
```

 ```
http https://api.scrapfly.io/scrape \
key==$SCRAPFLY_KEY \
url==https://www.instagram.com/p/DD-UZnOsiPW/ \
asp==true \
render_js==true \
extraction_model=social_media_post
```

 

 

 [ Python SDK docs → ](https://scrapfly.io/docs/sdk/python) [ TypeScript SDK docs → ](https://scrapfly.io/docs/sdk/typescript) [ HTTP API docs → ](https://scrapfly.io/docs) 

 

 

 

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 AI INTEGRATION## Automate with AI & Workflows

Connect social data pipelines to LLMs and agent frameworks without writing custom parsers.

 

 ### Extraction API

Send scraped HTML directly to the Extraction API with a plain-language prompt. It returns structured JSON - no CSS selectors, no XPath, no maintenance when the page layout changes.

**prompts**natural language

**schemas**JSON validation

**bulk**batch processing

 

 



 

 ### MCP Server

Scrapfly ships an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. Connect Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible agent directly. The agent calls scrape, extract, screenshot, and crawl as tool calls - no glue code needed.

**Claude**Desktop / Code

**Cursor**IDE agent

**any**MCP client

 

 



 

 

 

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  FAQ## Frequently Asked Questions

 

  ### What social media data can be scraped?

 Publicly visible social media data - profiles, posts, comments, likes, shares, follower counts, hashtags, and more - can all be collected. This data is useful for market analysis, brand monitoring, competitor tracking, and trend discovery.

 

   ### Is web scraping social media websites legal?

 Generally, scraping publicly visible data is legal in most jurisdictions. Extra consideration is needed for PII (personally identifiable information) and copyrighted content, which may be subject to additional restrictions in some countries. For more detail, see our in-depth [web scraping laws](https://scrapfly.io/is-web-scraping-legal) article.

 

   ### How do you bypass social media bot detection?

 Social platforms use advanced bot detection layers including browser fingerprinting, TLS analysis, and behavioral signals. Scrapfly's anti-scraping protection (ASP) handles this automatically - rotating residential proxies, rendering JavaScript with a stealth browser, and passing fingerprint checks. Enable it with `asp=true` in your scrape config.

 

   ### Are proxies alone enough to scrape social media?

 No. Most modern social platforms can identify proxies and will block access. Bypassing protection requires a combination of stealth browser rendering, realistic fingerprinting, residential IP rotation, and behavioral mimicry. Scrapfly combines all of these behind a single API parameter.

 

   ### How do I extract structured data from scraped social pages?

 Modern social platforms serve data through interactive JavaScript applications. The Extraction API accepts scraped HTML and a plain-language extraction prompt, and returns a validated JSON object. This means no CSS selectors to write and no parsers to update when a platform changes its layout.

 

   ### What is a Web Scraping API?

 A Web Scraping API is a service that abstracts the infrastructure and bypass challenges of web scraping. Instead of managing proxies, browsers, and anti-bot evasion yourself, you send a URL and get back clean HTML or structured data. Scrapfly supports Python, TypeScript, and any HTTP client.

 

   ### Does Scrapfly support scraping private or authenticated content?

 Scrapfly is designed for publicly accessible data. Scraping content that requires login credentials or bypasses account-level access controls is outside the intended scope and may violate the platform's terms of service.

 

  

 

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 // GET STARTED### Start collecting social media data today.

Free account, 1,000 credits, no credit card. Anti-bot bypass and JS rendering included on every request.

 

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