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API Direct

A pay-as-you-go social media API. Search real-time data across multiple social platforms through one standardized API. No monthly fees or commitments — just pay per request.

API Direct

API Direct Alternatives & Competitors

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    Social media scraping API for public profiles, posts, comments, videos, transcripts, and metrics from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, and more. Pay-as-you-go credits, 100 free to start.

    Key SocialFetch.dev features:

    API Data Scraping Pricing Model

    freemium $9 (Pay-as-you-go credits, never expire)

    /socialfetch-dev-alternatives
  2. 1

    Transcripts, AI summaries, comments, followers, search, ad intelligence, commerce data, and engagement metrics across 33 platforms — one REST API, clean JSON.

    /captapi-alternatives
  3. Ensure healthy website performance, uptime, and free from vulnerabilities. Automatic checks for SSL Certificates, domains and monitor issues with your websites all from one console and get instant notifications on any issues.

    Key Netumo features:

    Monitoring SSL Monitoring Twitter SMS notifications

    Try for free freemium $9 / Monthly (Lite plan) Sponsored

    Try for free
  4. 1

    Transcripts, stats, comments, and profiles from TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and Threads. Clean JSON in seconds, one simple API, from $5/month.

    /scrapersocial-alternatives
  5. 1

    Unified social media scraper API. One key for builders and AI agents : Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, Reddit and more through the same schema.

    free

    /socify-alternatives
  6. 1

    Reliable Twitter API Alternative | Access Twitter data at scale without limits. Our enterprise-grade API offers unlimited data access, better pricing, and higher rate limits than Twitter's official API. Perfect for businesses needing mass data.

    Key twitterapi.io features:

    User Information Tweet Operations Advanced Search Social Engagement

    /twitterapi-io-alternatives
  7. 2

    Page2Api is a powerful and versatile API that makes scraping web pages easy and fun.

    Key Page2Api features:

    User-Friendly Interface No Coding Required Supports Multiple Data Formats Scheduled Scraping

    /page2api-alternatives
  8. 1

    GetXAPI is the cheapest Twitter API and X API. $0.001 per call returns ~20 tweets ($0.05 per 1,000). Fetch tweets, profiles, followers. Cheapest Twitter & X API alternative.

    Key GetXAPI features:

    API Discovery Centralized Information User-Friendly Interface Categorization

    freemium $0.05 (1000 tweets)

    /getxapi-alternatives
  9. 1

    Twitter data API for developers and researchers: 82 endpoints, pay as you go from $5, SDKs, MCP, 100 free requests.

    Key TweetAPI features:

    API Coverage Pay as you go Batch lookups Payments

    paid Free Trial $5 / One-off (10,000 requests ($0.0005 each), no subscription. Plans from $17)

    /tweetapi-alternatives
  10. 1

    One API for public TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, LinkedIn and 21 more platforms. One JSON shape, pay per call, 100 free credits.

    Key Crawlfeed.dev features:

    Developer-oriented positioning Potential for automated data extraction

    /crawlfeed-dev-alternatives
  11. 1

    Brand24 is an AI-powered media monitoring tool that analyzes mentions and presents actionable insights.This tool is designed to keep track of online conversations about your brand, products, and competitors.

    Key Brand24 features:

    Real-time online media monitoring AI sentiment analysis Estimated social and non-social reach Share of voice

    paid Free Trial $79 / Monthly (3 keywords, 2K mentions/mo, 1 users ,Update every 12h and more.)

    /brand24-alternatives
  12. 1

    Twitter/X data API without the enterprise price.

    Key SocialData Tools features:

    Complete data coverage Full-power search Batch endpoints Monitoring API with webhooks

    paid Free Trial $0.2 (per 1000 tweets)

    /socialdata-tools-alternatives
  13. 1

    Build and manage web scraping Actors in the cloud.

    Key Apify Python SDK features:

    Ease of Use Integration Flexibility Community and Support

    Open Source

    /apify-python-sdk-alternatives
  14. 1

    An open-source visual scraping tool that lets you scrape the web without coding, built by Scrapy...

    Key Portia features:

    Ease of Use Open Source Integration with Scrapy Auto-Generated Spiders

    /portia-alternatives
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