The best social media data API for marketing agencies (2026)

I build crawlfeed. Agencies are a big share of the people who ask me about social data, so here’s my honest answer, including the tools I’d pick over mine.

The picks at a glance

Tool	Best for	Price	Scheduling
Apify	scheduled pulls into Sheets	Monthly plan, $1.50 to $2.70 per 1k results	Built-in schedules and webhooks
crawlfeed (mine)	one report format across platforms	From $19 prepaid; $7.60 to $2.33 per 1k calls	Via Zapier, Make or n8n; Monitoring from $29 a month
SocialCrawl	the most platforms in one schema	£6.00 to £1.99 per 1k credits, prepaid (GBP)	Mention webhooks, Zapier, Make, n8n
ScrapeCreators	cheap calls for an in-house dev	$1.88 to $0.99 per 1k, prepaid	n8n node
Bright Data	enterprise clients and datasets	$1.50 to $1.30 per 1k records	Scheduled delivery to storage

1. Apify

Best for: scheduled pulls without an engineer
Price: Monthly plan, $1.50 to $2.70 per 1k results
Scheduling: Built-in schedules and webhooks

Schedules, Google Sheets, Zapier, Make and Slack are built in. A strategist can set up a weekly competitor pull without code. Each Actor has its own output, so cross-platform reports take some cleanup.

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2. crawlfeedMine

Best for: one report format for every client and platform
Price: From $19 prepaid; $7.60 to $2.33 per 1k calls
Scheduling: Zapier, Make, n8n; Monitoring from $29 a month

Every platform returns the same fields, so one Zapier, Make or n8n flow feeds one report template. For mention alerts there’s crawlfeed Monitoring: an AI filter drops posts that only share a client’s name, in English and Arabic. The Scale plan is $299 a month for 15 keywords.

Monitoring doesn’t cover X today, and the API costs more per call than ScrapeCreators.

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3. SocialCrawl

Best for: the widest client coverage
Price: £6.00 to £1.99 per 1k credits, prepaid (GBP)
Scheduling: Webhooks, Zapier, Make, n8n

67 platforms, sentiment scores and mention webhooks in one schema. Good if clients ask about niche platforms.

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4. ScrapeCreators

Best for: agencies with a developer
Price: $1.88 to $0.99 per 1k, prepaid
Scheduling: n8n node

The cheapest calls, if someone on the team can map each platform’s JSON.

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5. Bright Data

Best for: enterprise clients
Price: $1.50 to $1.30 per 1k records
Scheduling: Scheduled delivery to storage

When a client’s procurement team gets involved, Bright Data’s certifications and delivery options settle it.

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My pick

No developer on staff: Apify for scheduled pulls. Building a repeatable cross-platform report or mention alerts: crawlfeed. Clients on unusual platforms: SocialCrawl.

What I’d do today

Pick one client report you rebuild by hand every month.
Automate just that one with a free tier, then decide.

Questions

Can a non-developer use these?

Apify, crawlfeed and SocialCrawl all work from Zapier, Make or n8n. Apify is the most no-code friendly.

Which one tracks brand mentions?

crawlfeed Monitoring and SocialCrawl’s mention webhooks. With others, you build the polling yourself.

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100 free credits, no card. Credits are prepaid and never expire, so a quiet month costs nothing. Run your real workload through it for a week. If another tool on this page fits better, use that one.

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I checked prices and features for every product here in October 2026, on each vendor’s own site: Apify pricing, SocialCrawl pricing, ScrapeCreators, Bright Data pricing. Pricing in this market changes often, so check before you buy. Spotted something out of date? Tell me and I’ll fix it.