Access X, Reddit, Threads and all social media data from a single API
Details
- External ID
- 47755116
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Access X, Reddit, Threads and all social media data from a single API
- Website domain
- socialcrawl.dev
- Launched
- April 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.11182519280205655
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
On a mission to provide the cleanest, AI-ready social media data on the internet.
Enrichment
- Theme
- alternative social platforms and feed readers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- unified api for social media data
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The unified API gateway and data transformation layer are easy to vibe code, but scraping or legally aggregating real-time data across X, Reddit, and Threads requires anti-bot bypass infrastructure or expensive enterprise data licensing.
What it would actually take: A production version requires a distributed proxy network (residential/mobile proxies), headless browser fleets (Playwright/Puppeteer with stealth patches) or direct mobile app API reverse engineering to bypass Cloudflare/DataDome on multiple walled-garden platforms. Backing infra includes Kafka or SQS message queues, Celery or Temporal workers for distributed ingestion, and structured normalization pipelines to handle constant upstream schema and DOM changes.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Firecrawl.dev (web crawling inspiration), Apify, Rapid API, Individual platform APIs (X, Reddit, Threads, Instagram)
Concerns raised: Bot detection and scraping circumvention, Fragmented data sources with different structures, Inconsistent API documentation across platforms, Token waste from poorly structured data
Feature requests: Support for additional social media platforms beyond current list, Viral post detection and opportunity alerts
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 15 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #15 of 16 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 32 days after the earliest competitor.
- all-profile · github · 2026-09-09 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Api Social Media · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Give every agent the right data, access and context to get work done · hn · 2026-09-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Social Rocket AI · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.33
- s@: decentralized social networking over static sites · hn · 2026-03-12 · 414 upvotes · similarity 0.33
- Trove · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.32
- Context.dev: Live web data API for AI agents · yc · 2026-08-05 · 113 upvotes · similarity 0.32
- Strivex · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.32
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a data infrastructure tool for Media & entertainment yet.