API Direct
io.apidirect/api-directSearch social media, news, forums and Google Maps: LinkedIn, X, Reddit, TikTok, YouTube.
Tools · 102
START HERE for common goals. Lists the ready-made API Direct skills — expert playbooks that chain these tools (with non-obvious filters like author_title, mentions_company, author_company, freshness w…
Get a ready-made skill's step-by-step playbook with your inputs filled in, then follow it. Returns an ordered recipe of tool calls to execute. PREFER running a matching skill over improvising raw sear…
Search LinkedIn posts. Provide a `query` and/or a filter below. Powerful filters: author (posts BY a person), author_title (posts by people with a given job title, e.g. Founder/CEO — applies alongside…
Get recent posts authored by a LinkedIn person by profile URL or public slug. Returns posts with engagement metrics (likes, comments, shares, reactions), author info, images, videos, and articles.
Get detailed information about a specific LinkedIn post by URL. Returns full post text, author details, and engagement metrics (likes, comments, shares, reaction breakdowns).
Get detailed information about a LinkedIn company page by URL. Returns company name, description, employee count, locations, specialities, industry, website, and similar companies.
Get recent posts from a LinkedIn company page by URL. Returns posts with engagement metrics (likes, comments, shares, reactions).
Search LinkedIn companies by keyword. Returns company name, description, followers, and logo.
Search LinkedIn job listings by keyword. Returns title, company (with company_id), location, posting date, job type, experience level, workplace type, industry, salary, and full description. Filter by…
Get detailed information about a specific LinkedIn job listing by URL or numeric job ID. Returns title, company, location, posting date, job type, experience level, workplace type, industry, salary, b…
Search Twitter/X posts.
Search Twitter/X users by keyword. Returns profile data including username, bio, follower counts, and verification status.
Get detailed profile information for a Twitter/X user by username. Returns follower/following counts, bio, verification status, and account metadata.
Get tweets posted by a specific Twitter/X user.
Get the followers of a specific Twitter/X user.
Get the accounts that a specific Twitter/X user is following.
Get the verified (blue checkmark) followers of a specific Twitter/X user.
Get replies posted by a specific Twitter/X user.
Get detailed information for a single tweet by its ID. Returns full content, engagement metrics, and author info.
Get the users who retweeted a specific tweet.
Get the quote tweets for a specific tweet.
Get the comments (replies) on a specific tweet.
Get the current trending topics for a specific location on Twitter/X. Use woeid=1 for Worldwide.
Search Reddit posts.
Search Reddit comments.
Search Reddit users by keyword. Returns profile data including username, karma scores, account age, and bio.
Search YouTube videos.
Search YouTube channels by keyword. Returns channel name, description, subscriber count, and thumbnail.
Get comments from a YouTube video. Returns each comment's text, author, like count, reply count, date, a direct link, and up to 5 preview replies. Billed $0.005 per page.
Get details for a YouTube channel: channel name, description, subscriber count, video count, total views, country, creation date, verification status, external links, profile picture, and banner. Prov…
Get details for a YouTube video: title, full description, channel name and ID, publish date, duration in seconds, view count, category, keywords, and thumbnail. Works for regular videos, Shorts, and l…
Search Instagram posts by keyword.
Search Instagram users by keyword. Returns username, full name, verification status, and profile picture.
Get the full profile for a single Instagram user by username or profile URL. Returns biography, follower / following counts, media count, category, external link, verification status, country the acco…
Get a single Instagram user's recent posts and reels (their feed) by profile URL or username. Returns captions, engagement metrics (likes, comments, shares, views), author metadata, hashtags, and ment…
Get full details for a single Instagram post, reel, or IGTV video by post URL or shortcode. Returns the caption, like/comment/share/view counts, media URLs, carousel slides, audio track info, tagged u…
Get an Instagram user's followers by username or profile URL. Returns username, full name, user ID, verification and privacy status, and profile picture for each follower, 50 per page (billed per page…
Get the accounts an Instagram user follows, by username or profile URL. Returns username, full name, user ID, verification and privacy status, and profile picture for each account, 50 per page (billed…
Get an Instagram user's currently active stories (last 24 hours) by username or profile URL. Returns each story's media URLs (image or video), post time and expiry, link stickers, mentions, tagged use…
Get an Instagram user's story highlights tray by username or profile URL. Returns each highlight's ID, title, story count, cover image, created / updated dates, and link. Use instagram_highlight_stori…
Get the stories saved in one Instagram highlight by highlight ID (from instagram_user_highlights) or highlight URL. Returns the highlight's title and cover plus every story's media URLs, post time, li…
Get the comments on an Instagram post or reel by post URL or shortcode. Returns each comment's text, author details, like and reply counts, date, and link, up to 15 per page (billed per page), sorted …
Get the replies to one Instagram comment (its thread) by post URL or shortcode plus the comment ID from instagram_post_comments. Returns each reply's text, author details, like count, date, link, and …
Get the users who liked an Instagram post or reel by post URL or shortcode. Returns username, full name, user ID, verification and privacy status, and profile picture for every liker Instagram exposes…
Get Instagram posts and reels for a hashtag. Returns the same post objects as search_instagram (captions, engagement metrics, media URLs, author metadata, hashtags, mentions) plus the hashtag's total …
Search Threads (Meta's Threads app) posts by keyword. Returns post text, author, engagement metrics, media, and post permalinks. Billed $0.006 per request.
Search Threads (Meta's Threads app) users by keyword. Returns username, full name, verification status, and profile picture. Billed $0.006 per request.
Get the full profile for a single Threads (Meta's Threads app) user by username. Returns biography, bio links, follower count, verification status, and profile metadata. Billed $0.006 per request.
Get a single Threads (Meta's Threads app) user's recent posts by username. Returns post text, engagement metrics, media, timestamps, and permalinks. Billed $0.006 per request.
Get a single Truth Social user's recent posts (their feed) by username. Returns post text, engagement metrics (replies, reposts, likes), media attachments, hashtags, reply status, and permalinks. Up t…
Search Bluesky posts by keyword. Billed $0.003 per page.
Search Bluesky users by keyword. Billed $0.003 per page.
Get a Bluesky user's full profile by handle, DID, or profile URL. Billed $0.003 per request. Provide exactly one of username or url.
Get a user's feed by handle: their posts, replies, and reposts in feed order (the pinned post first, then newest first), each flagged with is_reply, is_repost, and is_pinned. Billed $0.003 per page. P…
Get the followers of a Bluesky user, newest first. Billed $0.003 per page. Provide exactly one of username or url.
Get the accounts a Bluesky user follows, newest first. Billed $0.003 per page. Provide exactly one of username or url.
Get the posts a Bluesky user has liked, newest first. Billed $0.003 per page. Provide exactly one of username or url.
Get a single Bluesky post by URL or ID. Billed $0.003 per request. Provide exactly one of url or post_id.
Get the replies to a Bluesky post. Billed $0.003 per request. Provide exactly one of url or post_id.
Get the users who liked a Bluesky post, newest first. Billed $0.003 per page. Provide exactly one of url or post_id.
Get the posts that quote a Bluesky post, newest first. Billed $0.003 per page. Provide exactly one of url or post_id.
Get the users who reposted a Bluesky post, newest first. Billed $0.003 per page. Provide exactly one of url or post_id.
Search TikTok videos by keyword.
Search TikTok users by keyword. Returns username, bio, follower/following counts, likes, and video count.
Get the full profile for a single TikTok user by username, numeric user ID, or profile URL. Returns bio, bio link, follower/following counts, total likes, video count, verification status, join date, …
Get full details for a single TikTok video by video URL or numeric video ID. Returns the caption, play/like/comment/share/save counts, watermark-free playback and download URLs, cover images, music tr…
Get detailed information about a Facebook page including name, followers, categories, contact info, and verification status.
Get recent posts from a Facebook page by page ID.
Get photos from a Facebook page.
Get videos from a Facebook page. Requires the delegate_page_id from the page details endpoint.
Get reels from a Facebook page. Requires the reels_page_id from the page details endpoint.
Get reviews for a Facebook page.
Get Facebook group details including name, description, members count, and privacy setting.
Get posts from a public Facebook group.
Get comments on a Facebook post by post ID. Returns each comment's text, author details, reaction and reply counts, date, and any attachment.
Search Facebook posts by keyword across all of Facebook. Optionally scope results to a place with location_id (resolve one via the search_facebook_locations tool).
Search Facebook pages by keyword.
Search Facebook videos by keyword.
Search Facebook events by keyword. Optionally scope results to a place with location_id (resolve one via the search_facebook_locations tool).
Resolve a place name (city, region, or country) to Facebook location IDs. Use the returned id as the location_id argument to search_facebook_posts or search_facebook_events to scope a search to that p…
Search forum posts across the web.
Search news articles from thousands of sources worldwide.
Search the web (Google organic results). Returns title, URL, snippet, source and domain for each result. Supports country and language targeting, time filters, city-level geo, and an optional Google A…
Send a prompt to Google's AI Mode and get back a structured conversational reply (reply_parts: paragraphs, headings, lists, images) with reference_links citations. Use session_token from a previous re…
Search Google Maps places (local businesses, points of interest) by free-text query. Returns place_id, name, address, phone, website, rating, review count, opening hours, coordinates, and more. Option…
Get full details for a Google Maps place by place_id (the ChIJ... value returned by search_places). Returns name, address, phone, website, rating, review counts per star, opening hours, photos sample,…
Get user reviews for a Google Maps place by place_id. Each review includes rating, review text, author info, timestamps, photos, and any owner response. Each page returns up to 10 reviews. The `langua…
Get photos and videos for a Google Maps place by place_id. Returns photo URLs (both standard and large), coordinates, and capture timestamps. Photos and videos are returned together — filter by the ty…
Search Amazon products by keyword across 24 marketplaces. Returns ASIN, title, price, original price, rating, ratings count, Prime status, sales volume, badges, and delivery info. Filter by category, …
Get full details for an Amazon product by ASIN (the 10-character code returned by search_amazon_products). Returns pricing, buy box with seller_id, availability, condition, photos, videos, specs, abou…
Get an Amazon seller's profile by seller ID (from a product's main_buy_box.seller_id). Returns seller name, logo, about text, registered business name and address, average rating, total ratings, posit…
Get customer feedback for an Amazon seller by seller ID. Each review includes author name, text, star rating, date, and whether the seller responded. Filter by star rating (5_stars..1_stars) or positi…
Get the catalog of products sold by an Amazon seller by seller ID. Returns the same product objects as search_amazon_products plus the seller's total catalog size. Each page returns ~16 results; sorta…
Get Amazon best-seller rankings for a category — Best Sellers, New Releases, Movers & Shakers, Most Wished For, or Gift Ideas. Each item includes rank, rank change, ASIN, title, price, and rating. Eac…
Get a company's Trustpilot reviews plus its full profile (TrustScore, star rating, review counts, per-star breakdown, categories, claimed/verification status, reply behaviour, contact details). Each r…
Search Trustpilot companies by name or keyword. Each match includes business_unit_id, name, domain, website, Trustpilot page URL, logo, TrustScore rating, stars, review count, categories, and location…
List the companies in a Trustpilot category (20 per page, up to 500 pages) with name, domain, TrustScore, review count, categories and location, plus the category's size and subcategories. Filter by c…
Get the newest companies added to a Trustpilot category (a short unpaginated list, often 0-10 entries) with name, domain, TrustScore, review count and location, plus the category's size and subcategor…
Get a Trustpilot category: display name, number of businesses, parent category, and its subcategories with their ids and business counts. Works for top-level, second- and third-level category slugs.
Search Trustpilot categories by keyword. Returns up to 6 fuzzy matches with category_id and name; the search never returns zero matches, so check the names. Feed a category_id into trustpilot_category…
Get a Trustpilot reviewer's public profile (name, country, review count, verified, likes, reads) and the reviews they have written across all companies, 20 per page, each with the company name/domain,…
Execute up to 100 API Direct requests in a single call — any mix of the other tools' endpoints (e.g. 50 twitter_user_profile lookups + 50 instagram_user_profile lookups). Items run concurrently server…
Prompts · 63
Intercept people publicly complaining about a competitor — on LinkedIn, X and Reddit — the moment they post.
Turn fresh job posts that imply a tooling gap into ranked accounts, the internal budget owner, and a cross-platform talking point.
List a named competitor's employees in a target role across LinkedIn, X and Instagram — sourced from their own profiles, not the company page.
Crawl one seed's similar-companies graph on LinkedIn, then cross-fill the gaps with AI competitor lists and funding news into a full, sized market map.
Detect competitor instability from a surge of 'open to work' employees, cross-checked against X, Reddit, layoff forums and the news wire.
Find startups hiring their first GTM/finance exec — then confirm the raise across news and X.
Harvest fragmented local operators across Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and news — with owner contacts plus live sale and succession signals — for acquisition outreach.
Surface founders announcing launches across LinkedIn, X, and Reddit — filtered to founders, then graded for conviction and traction.
See what Google's AI tells the public about your brand — then trace that narrative back to the Reddit, news, and forum sources you can actually fix.
For a damaging tweet, map who's spreading it and how angry the room is — then check if the crisis has jumped to Reddit, the press, and forums.
Score a key B2B account's churn risk from employee posts, rival-tool job reqs, risk-event news, and public switching chatter.
Catch 'I'm cancelling / switching' posts across X, Reddit and forums and prioritize the loudest accounts for a save.
Find undervalued creators across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube by engagement-to-follower ratio before they blow up.
Turn a business listing into the owner's emails, phones and every linked social — Instagram, X, Facebook and LinkedIn — resolved into one person.
Catch a rising topic, find the B2B founders posting about it on LinkedIn and X, then surface their contact channel.
Catch companies the week they raise — when budgets are fresh and buyers are saying yes
Find the people actively shopping away from a rival across Reddit, X, forums and LinkedIn, and intercept them mid-defection
Catch locals the moment they post — on Facebook, Reddit, or X — that they need exactly what you sell
Walk into every discovery call already knowing the company, its latest moves across web and news, and the buyer's hot buttons
Catch freshly laid-off talent across LinkedIn, X and Reddit within days of the announcement, before every other recruiter circles back
Surface passive technical experts across Reddit, forums and X by the depth of the answers they give, not the resumes they wrote
Find portfolio-grade creative talent across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X — and pull their public emails and portfolio links in one pass
Map a trade's local operators and the named standout staff in their reviews, then optionally source individual performers self-promoting on Instagram and TikTok — all with direct contact
Track one brand keyword across the social networks you choose and roll it into a single share-of-positive scoreboard
Surface the happiest creators posting about your brand across Instagram, TikTok and X — handing back follower counts and contact emails
Find the creators dominating your topic across YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram and rank them by reach and sentiment
Measure whether your employees — and the wider public — out-amplify your own company page on LinkedIn
Catch only the angry brand mentions across X, Reddit and Facebook and rank them by the size of the audience that could see them
Surface the angriest reviews and public complaints nobody has answered yet, ranked so your team replies in the order that protects your reputation most
Measure whether your crisis statement calmed the room or poured gas on it — on X and, optionally, across Reddit, news, and forums
Catch every mention of a named leader across LinkedIn, X, news, Reddit, and optionally YouTube and Facebook, and split the wins from the reputation risks
Reverse-engineer a rival's unannounced roadmap from the roles they just opened — then cross-check it against the news and open web
Harvest authentic, sentiment-scored pricing complaints about a rival across the platforms you choose to arm your sales battlecard
Surface a rival's recurring failures from their angriest reviews and complaint threads across Google, Facebook, and Reddit
Teardown a competitor's best-performing video hooks and angles across Facebook, TikTok and YouTube
Find established local businesses with proven demand but failing management — the owner's direct line, plus cross-platform proof the reputation is broken
Catch consumer brands breaking out across TikTok, Reddit and YouTube before they raise, then surface the founder's inbox
Catch founders the day they announce a round across X, LinkedIn and Reddit, rank them by real traction, and corroborate against fresh press before everyone else calls
Turn any niche into a contact sheet of reachable creators — with public emails and links — across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and X
Reverse-engineer the week's winning short-form hooks, sounds, and formats across TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram before they saturate
Turn one viral tweet — plus optional Instagram and LinkedIn creators on the same topic — into a reach-ranked amplifier list for your launch
See who's actually winning a niche by momentum, not follower vanity — YouTube core, optionally extended to TikTok and Instagram
Catch a topic breaking in one region before it spreads — diff live X trend lists across markets, then confirm the surge on TikTok and in regional news
Sweep one-star reviews — plus optional Reddit, X, and Facebook chatter — across a metro's category to surface the unmet needs nobody is solving
Map the affiliate, comparison, AI-answer, and community landscape that owns a high-intent buying keyword
Turn fresh job-posting velocity for an emerging skill into a forward demand signal — triangulated with news and practitioner chatter — and a map of who is investing
Promote a topic only when it surges at once across X, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and the news — killing one-platform fads
Turn scattered "I wish it could" chatter across Reddit, forums, X, YouTube and Facebook into a ranked, evidence-backed feature backlog
Detect an incident from a corroborated cross-platform complaint surge minutes before the support queue floods
Find the questions users keep asking that no doc, video, or AI answer deflects — across forums, Reddit, X and YouTube
Catch a high-follower complaint on Instagram, X, or TikTok and get a private contact to fix it before it spreads
Turn a niche and a city into a deduped, CRM-ready list of every local business — across Google Maps and Facebook — with phones, emails, and social handles
Find local businesses whose own 1-star reviews — on Google and (optionally) Facebook — name the exact pain your product fixes, then hand you the owner to pitch
Go from a map pin to the decision-maker, then open with a genuine hook pulled from their latest LinkedIn post, Google review, press mention, or Instagram
Reveal which local businesses get recommended for 'best X in city' across Google's AI and the community threads it cites — and which strong, well-reviewed ones stay invisible
Catch a brand opening in a new metro weeks early by triangulating its local hiring cluster, Maps footprint, local press, and resident chatter
Scan every public surface — press, web, social, video, and forums — for lawsuits, fraud claims, and negative chatter before you onboard a person or company
Pin one real person to all of their social handles and confirm the match with shared bio links and emails
Generate a subject dossier, then independently re-verify every AI-stated claim against its primary source and optional first-hand social corroboration
Trail one Google reviewer across nearby venues — and optionally the wider web and X — to infer their home turf and daily routine
Turn a map full of local businesses into a contact-rich, multi-platform lead dossier for every place
Prove a niche is not just hot but accelerating by triangulating fresh demand and buyer-intent signals across up to six independent platforms — and run only the ones you trust
Get a 360-degree read on one city before you expand — local chatter on Facebook and Reddit, trending hooks, competitor density, and hiring momentum — running only the lenses you choose.
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Add to your Claude Desktop / Cursor / Cline MCP config:
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"url": "https://apidirect.io/mcp",
"transport": "streamable-http"
}
}
}