Why We Built ByCrawl

Every social media platform has data — posts, profiles, comments, trends. But getting that data programmatically? That's where things get painful.

Official APIs are rate-limited, expensive, and often don't expose the data you actually need. Scraping is fragile — one DOM change and your pipeline breaks at 3 AM. And if you need data from multiple platforms? Multiply that pain by ten.

The Problem

We kept running into the same scenario: a team needs social media data for their product — sentiment analysis, competitor monitoring, trend detection, lead generation — and they spend weeks building and maintaining scrapers instead of focusing on their actual product.

Every platform has different auth flows, different rate limits, different data formats. Proxies break. Sessions expire. Anti-bot systems evolve. It's a full-time job just keeping the data flowing.

Our Approach

ByCrawl is a single API that abstracts all of this away. One endpoint format across 10 platforms. You send a request, you get structured data back. No browser automation on your end, no proxy management, no session handling.

Under the hood, we run a gateway-worker architecture: FastAPI gateway accepts your request, queues it to Redis, and platform-specific workers handle the actual data extraction. Each platform is a self-contained plugin — Threads, Facebook, X, Instagram, Reddit, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, and Job104.

What You Can Do With It

• Search posts across platforms by keyword
• Fetch user profiles with follower counts, bios, and metadata
• Get post details including engagement metrics
• Pull feeds and comments for content analysis
• Monitor hashtags and trending topics

What's Next

We're actively expanding platform coverage and adding new endpoints. Webhook support, batch operations, and real-time streaming are on the roadmap.

If you're building something that needs social media data, check out our plans or jump straight into the docs.