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Short, practical guides for developers and researchers who need public social media data, with working code you can run today.

The best social media APIs in 2026

Official APIs for X, YouTube, Reddit, TikTok and Instagram, plus Apify, Bright Data and Vanefeed, and who each one suits.

Price per 1,000 results, credit expiry and output format, including where Apify is the better choice.

TikTok's Research, Display and Commercial Content APIs compared, and how to read public videos and comments without approval.

What the Graph API can and can't do since December 2024, and how to read any public account.

10,000 units a day, 100 per search: what each call costs, how to get more, and how to skip quotas.

The free tier, commercial contracts, what the $0.24 per 1,000 calls figure really means, and another way in.

What the official API costs per 1,000 posts, and how to pull profiles, timelines and boolean search for a fraction of it.

What changed since 2023, what's still possible, and how to collect responsibly across platforms on a grant budget.

Connect the Vanefeed MCP server in two minutes, then ask your assistant for profiles, posts and search across eight platforms.

Point the API at a site like techcrunch.com. It finds the feed for you, or falls back to Google News, and returns clean articles.