ScrapeCreators

ScrapeCreators is an API over the public parts of social platforms: ad libraries, profiles, posts, transcripts. You send a URL or a search term, you get JSON back. No browser extension, no dashboard you have to click through, no export button. For someone who would rather write ten lines of Python than scroll, that is the whole pitch.

How I use it

Two jobs. The first is competitor research in an ad library. I search a brand or a keyword, pull the active ads with their start dates, and sort by how long they have been running. An ad that has run for months is an ad that works, and that list is the starting point before I design anything of my own. The second job is teardowns of creator videos: the API returns the transcript with the post, so I can read a hundred openings in a spreadsheet and find the patterns without watching a hundred videos.

I keep a small script for each of those, and run them when I start on a new product or a new angle. The output lands in a folder; the useful part is reading it, not collecting it.

What surprised me is the pricing. Credits are bought once and sit there. A month where I do no research costs nothing, which is how a utility should behave and how almost no SaaS does.

What annoys me: a few endpoints cost more than one credit, and the documentation mentions it in a place you only find after a batch came back more expensive than expected. Paging through a large library hits rate limits, so a big pull is a background job with retries, not a loop. And when the platform underneath changes a field, the response changes with it; that is not their fault, but it is your script that breaks.

Who it is for

Anyone technical enough to call an API who does ad or creator research more than once a month. If you want boards, tags and a visual swipe file, this is the wrong shape, look at Foreplay. If you want the raw data and your own analysis, this is the right one.