LurkAPI
LurkAPI gives AI applications and developers live access to public social-media data as clean JSON. Its stated aim is to give AI 'eyes on social media' through one API/MCP interface spanning many platforms.
At a Glance
- AI application and agent developers
- Software developers and API consumers
- Marketing and advertising teams
- Market-research and competitive-intelligence teams
- +3 more
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LurkAPI
Social Media Data API and MCP
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Products & Services
A REST API that turns public pages and platform data into clean JSON. The site describes profiles, posts, comments, searches, transcripts, ads, Google Maps/News, eBay listings and web-page retrieval across major social and web platforms.
A Streamable HTTP MCP server at api.lurkapi.com/mcp that exposes LurkAPI endpoints as tools for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP-capable applications.
An MIT-licensed open-source plugin/repository with social-media research skills for ad research, Reddit research, creator vetting, video transcripts, demand research and general endpoint selection; later manifests support Gemini CLI, Cursor and Kiro.
A collection of 29 browser tools, including profile viewers, transcript generators, video downloaders, engagement and money calculators, ad-library search, comment viewers and website-to-text/markdown tools.
Market Position
LurkAPI positions itself as a faster, lower-cost alternative to unified social scraping/data APIs, specifically comparing itself with ScrapeCreators and listing SocialCrawl, SociaVault, Social Fetch, CreatorCrawl, EnsembleData, Data365, TikAPI, HikerAPI, Apify and Bright Data as alternatives. Its differentiators are a single key across many public platforms, MCP-first access for AI apps, pay-per-call credits with no subscription, and claims of lower prices and faster responses than ScrapeCreators.
Leadership
Founders
Mesmer Lord
Founder of LurkAPI; F6S lists Mesmer Lord as the founder and places the founder in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Executive Team
Mesmer Lord
Founder
Founder of LurkAPI and the maker identified on LurkAPI's F6S and developer-community profiles; based in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Founding Story
The product was started to let AI assistants and software read current public posts, profiles, ads, comments and transcripts instead of relying on stale model knowledge or platform-specific integrations. The initial vision was a single GET-based API and MCP server returning a consistent JSON envelope across social platforms.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Prepaid pay-per-call credits sold through Stripe; credits do not expire and there is no subscription. Most social-data calls cost one credit, with higher credit costs for eBay and certain web/residential/browser or transcript operations.
Pricing Tiers
10,000 credits; $0.90 per 1,000 calls; shown as lasting 3 days.
100,000 credits; $0.59 per 1,000 calls; shown as lasting 1 month.
500,000 credits; $0.45 per 1,000 calls; shown as lasting 5 months.
100 free credits to start, no card; balance under 25 tops back up to 25 daily. The site also advertises five free tries per day for live tools.
Target Markets
- AI application and agent developers
- Software developers and API consumers
- Marketing and advertising teams
- Market-research and competitive-intelligence teams
- Creator-economy, influencer and sponsorship teams
- Sales and lead-generation teams
- AI assistants and agents that need live social-media context
- Ad-library research and competitor creative analysis
- Creator vetting, audience and engagement research
- Reddit/community and demand research
- Video transcription, summarization and content research
- Market research and social listening