---
title: "Collect Public Social Batch"
method: POST
path: "/api/v1/social/batch"
tags: ["public-social-collection"]
---

# Collect Public Social Batch

`POST /api/v1/social/batch`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://smartcrawler.io` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://smartcrawler.io/api/v1/social/batch`
- Auth: none declared

## Headers

- `X-Workspace-ID` string, nullable
- `authorization` string
- `X-API-Key` string

## Request body

- SocialBatchRequest
  - `items` SocialCollectRequest[], required
    - `platform` string, required
    - `target` string, required: Public handle, channel/page ID, or URL
    - `resources` string[]
    - `content_limit` integer
    - `comment_limit` integer
    - `content_refs` string[]: Optional public content IDs/URLs whose comments should be collected
    - `content_cursor` string, nullable
    - `comment_cursors` object
  - `concurrency` integer

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- SocialBatchResponse
  - `results` SocialBatchItemResult[], required
    - `index` integer, required
    - `platform` string, required
    - `target` string, required
    - `result` SocialCollectResponse
      - `platform` string, required
      - `target` string, required
      - `profile` PublicProfile
        - `platform` string, required
        - `id` string, required
        - `handle` string, nullable
        - `url` string, required
        - `display_name` string, nullable
        - `biography` string, nullable
        - `avatar_url` string, nullable
        - `banner_url` string, nullable
        - `verified` boolean, nullable
        - `followers` integer, nullable
        - `following` integer, nullable
        - `content_count` integer, nullable
        - `total_likes` integer, nullable
        - `karma` integer, nullable
        - `created_at` string, date-time, nullable
        - `metadata` object
      - `contents` PublicContent[]
        - `platform` string, required
        - `id` string, required
        - `author_id` string, nullable
        - `author_handle` string, nullable
        - `url` string, required
        - `content_type` string, required
        - `text` string, nullable
        - `title` string, nullable
        - `published_at` string, date-time, nullable
        - `media_urls` string[]
        - `thumbnail_url` string, nullable
        - `duration_seconds` number, nullable
        - `engagement` Engagement: Common public counters; unsupported counters remain ``None``.
          - `likes` integer, nullable
          - `comments` integer, nullable
          - `shares` integer, nullable
          - `views` integer, nullable
          - `reactions` integer, nullable
          - `saves` integer, nullable
          - `upvotes` integer, nullable
          - `score` integer, nullable
        - `metadata` object
      - `comments` PublicComment[]
        - `platform` string, required
        - `id` string, required
        - `content_id` string, required
        - `author_id` string, nullable
        - `author_handle` string, nullable
        - `author_display_name` string, nullable
        - `text` string, nullable
        - `published_at` string, date-time, nullable
        - `parent_comment_id` string, nullable
        - `url` string, nullable
        - `engagement` Engagement: Common public counters; unsupported counters remain ``None``.
          - `likes` integer, nullable
          - `comments` integer, nullable
          - `shares` integer, nullable
          - `views` integer, nullable
          - `reactions` integer, nullable
          - `saves` integer, nullable
          - `upvotes` integer, nullable
          - `score` integer, nullable
        - `metadata` object
      - `next_cursors` object
      - `warnings` CollectionWarning[]
        - `code` string, required
        - `resource` 'profile' | 'content' | 'comments', nullable
        - `message` string, required
        - `retryable` boolean
      - `provenance` Provenance[]
        - `source` string, required
        - `fetched_at` string, date-time
        - `public_only` boolean
        - `authenticated` boolean
      - `counts` object
      - `storage` StorageSummary
        - `run_id` integer, required
        - `workspace_id` integer, required
        - `profiles` integer
        - `contents` integer
        - `comments` integer
        - `versions_created` integer
        - `engagement_snapshots` integer
        - `cursors` integer
        - `search_hits` integer
    - `error` object, nullable
  - `summary` object, required
  - `proxy_status` object, required
  - `batch_id` string, nullable

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

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