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The field manual for social data APIs

Practical guides to request handling, public data collection, and reproducible measurement.

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API playbooks, platform notes, and field research

Explore collection methods, request handling, and measurement practices for public social data. Endpoint availability varies during preview; verify the required route before building a workflow around it.

alertssentimentSlack
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Playbook · Preview guide · 13 min readBuild a social media monitoring API workflowMention tracking, sentiment, deduplication, and alert delivery as a repeatable API-first workflow.Read article
RedditQPMthreads
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Platform guide · Preview guide · 14 min readReddit API in 2026: limits, contracts, and alternativesWhat still works for Reddit data, where the official API fits, and how to model commercial workloads.Read article
Xtweetsprofiles
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Platform guide · Preview guide · 12 min readX API in 2026: pricing, rate limits, and useful workaroundsA practical map of public X data access, request costs, and when a normalized social endpoint saves time.Read article
B2Bcompanyposts
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Platform guide · Preview guide · 10 min readLinkedIn API in 2026: a developer reality checkScopes, approval friction, company data needs, and where public business intelligence workflows fit.Read article
YouTubequotacaptions
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Platform guide · Preview guide · 11 min readYouTube Data API quotas, transcripts, and real limitsQuota math, channel lookups, video metadata, transcripts, comments, and alternatives for product teams.Read article
agentmemoryalerts
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Agents · Preview guide · 16 min readBuilding an AI agent for social media monitoringFetch social posts, classify the signal, write memory, and send alerts with a small production-minded agent loop.Read article
Instagramreelsposts
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Platform guide · Preview guide · 12 min readInstagram data in 2026: what works and what it costsCompare official Graph API coverage, public profile needs, engagement calculations, and API call economics.Read article
TikTokvideohashtags
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Platform guide · Preview guide · 11 min readHow to get TikTok data without the TikTok research APIThree ways to pull public TikTok profiles, videos, comments, and hashtags with code-level tradeoffs.Read article

Platform APIs

What official routes expose, what they leave out, and how to model the gap.

Builder tutorials

Small API-first workflows with code, response shapes, and production tradeoffs.

Original research

Benchmarks, posting windows, engagement ranges, and crawlable source notes.

Agent workflows

How AI agents discover, call, and reason over public social data safely.

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