Captapi

Developers who need data from social platforms like YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, or LinkedIn face restrictive official APIs with rate limits, OAuth flows, app review processes, and deprecated endpoints, and many platforms don't support transcript extraction for Reels or TikToks at all. To cover multiple platforms, teams end up juggling separate scrapers or SDKs for each network, each with its own authentication and quirks. Publishing and scheduling tools help push content out, but they don't provide the read-side data needed to measure and analyze performance across platforms in a consistent format. This is costly for AI startups building RAG pipelines, marketing teams tracking competitors, content creators repurposing their own videos, and researchers doing bulk data analysis.

Captapi offers a single API key with 179 REST endpoints across 33 platforms including YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, Reddit, LinkedIn, Threads, Pinterest, Twitch, Spotify, ad libraries, and commerce platforms. It handles authentication, proxies, rate limits, and retries, so developers make plain REST calls without OAuth or per-platform SDKs. Specific capabilities include AI-generated video summaries powered by GPT-4o-mini with key points and sentiment, a cross-platform analytics endpoint that normalizes metrics like views, likes, comments, shares, and engagement rate regardless of source platform, and a credit-based billing model where failed or empty results (404s, 503s, disabled comments) cost zero credits. An optional 24-hour shared cache makes repeated lookups free and instant, and the product also offers an MCP server and n8n node for integration into existing workflows, plus configurable credit-usage email alerts.