Best of · Influencers
The best influencer data sources are Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, because that is where most creators brands work with publish, and each returns follower counts, recent posts with engagement and a free growth history. Instagram adds similar-account discovery and public business contact fields, TikTok adds search by hashtag or sound, and YouTube adds views per video.
Updated 21 October 2026
| # | Source | What you get | Best for | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Instagram profiles and similar accounts | Profiles, recent posts, related accounts, business email and phone fields | Discovery and vetting | $0.0018 per record |
| 2 | TikTok profiles and post search | Followers, total likes, video count, posts with views, shares and saves | Trend-led creators | $0.0022 per record |
| 3 | YouTube channels and videos | Channel cards, videos with views, likes, comments, duration, publish date | Long-form and review creators | $0.00045 per record |
| 4 | Instagram comments | Top comments on posts by URL | Checking the audience talks back | $0.00045 per record |
List prices are per record and some calls carry a minimum. Quote any call first with "estimateOnly": true: the quote is free and is the most the call can cost.
Find creators with account search, or with the similar operation, which lists accounts related to one you already like. Profile cards can include the business email and phone fields an account lists publicly, and the free history operation tracks followers and engagement rate for accounts already held.
Profiles carry followers, total likes, video count, verification and business or seller flags. Posts carry views, shares and saves, so you can work out engagement per video. Search posts by hashtag or sound URL to see who is making content around a trend.
Channel cards plus recent videos with views, likes, comments, duration and publish date, in one call. The free history operation reads stored subscriber, video and view counts. There is no video search here, so start from channels you already know.
Top comments on up to ten posts per call, by post or reel URL. Reading them shows whether an audience replies with real words or only emoji and links. Commenters come back as free text, not full profiles.
Search Instagram or TikTok accounts by keyword, then ask Instagram for accounts similar to the best ones. On TikTok, search posts by hashtag or sound to find who is active on a topic.
Instagram profile cards can carry the business email and phone an account lists publicly; ask for the contact fields. The contacts lookup here works by LinkedIn handle only.
Posts carry likes and comments (and views, shares and saves on TikTok), so you can compute it. Instagram's free history operation also stores an engagement rate series for accounts already held.
Every row carries the time it was measured. A fresh fetch is charged per record; your own answer is free while it is fresh.
The playground runs any endpoint by hand: pick a platform and what you want from it, fill a short form named in plain words (or press Use sample input), see the free quote on the Run button, run it, then read the answer as a table or JSON and download it as CSV or JSON. The same call is written out as cURL, Python and Node while you type.
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