OnlyFans API
REST API with 260 endpoints for OF creator data
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Hi HN,I built OnlyFans API — 200+ endpoints covering creator profiles, messages, subscribers, vault media, and revenue data, direct integration with Meta Pixel (believe it or not, OF agencies used to run Meta Ads on FB blindly - now they use OnlyFansAPI to feed back Meta Pixel with click-accurate conversion data).A few years ago I kept seeing OnlyFans agencies doing everything in spreadsheets. They wanted CRMs, automated messaging tools, traffic dashboards. None of it was possible because OnlyFans exposes nothing to developers (not very Steve Ballmer of them).The architecture is essentially very simple. Creators connect their accounts once through OAuth-style flows, and developers get clean REST endpoints plus HMAC-signed webhooks that fire on messages, sales, renewals, and new subscribers.One thing I spent a lot of time on was the live API playground — you can test any of the 200+ endpoints directly in the browser before writing a line of code. There's also a real-time dashboard for monitoring usage, logs, and credits.No-code support through Make.com, Zapier, and n8n is built in for teams that don't want to write code.
HN · launched Mar 16, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: creator economy platforms · 179 launches, 19 in the last 7 days ▲ +73% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Partial While wrapping an API with REST endpoints is easy, reverse engineering and continuously bypassing OnlyFans' dynamic anti-bot protection and signature hashing requires ongoing adversarial maintenance.
What it would actually take: A reliable third-party OnlyFans scraping API requires a distributed residential proxy pool, automated session and cookie management, and reverse engineering of proprietary request signing algorithms (dynamic app tokens, timestamp hashing, dynamic request headers) used by OnlyFans' mobile apps and web client. The critical obstacle is evading Cloudflare and internal bot mitigation at scale while handling 2FA challenges and rotating authenticated creator sessions without triggering bans. Building this demands reverse engineers skilled in anti-bot countermeasures and distributed web scraping architectures.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Gumroad (mentioned as alternative for cheat sheets/resources)
Concerns raised: Unclear if 260 endpoints are distinct resources or wrapper formulas around same data, Whether webhooks are real-time or polling-based
Feature requests: Printable cheat sheets for quick reference, Clarification on typical agency use cases (CRM/messaging vs analytics)
Competitors
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Attention rank: #65 of 67 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 116 days after the earliest competitor.
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