LurkAPI gives developers (and, via its MCP server, their AI agents) public social media data as clean JSON: creator profiles, posts, comments, video stats, ad libraries. “Give your AI eyes on social” is the pitch, and it’s the right one — competitor research and creator vetting are agent-shaped jobs blocked mainly by data access.
What it costs
Free API key to start; plans at $59–$188 — scraping-infrastructure pricing, cheaper than building and maintaining your own collectors.
What we can’t tell you
The legal weather. Scraped public data lives in the contested zone between “public is public” case law and platform ToS that say otherwise — fine for research and internal analysis, riskier as a load-bearing product dependency, since platforms periodically break or sue this category. Build with a fallback, not a monoculture.
The details
| What it is | Public social data as JSON + MCP server for agents |
| Price | Free key; $59–$188 plans |
| Best for | Competitor/creator research pipelines and agent workflows |
| Think twice if | Your product dies if this API does — the category has weather |
