prism

Public posts and comments that mention a handle or contain a link, from the first page of each search that can find them.

Pass handle (the @ is optional), or url (a link or a link prefix), or name on its own. platforms defaults to twitter, reddit, facebook. Opt in to instagram for posts that tag the handle, or web (url only) for a web page that contains the link. since is YYYY-MM-DD. include_self defaults to false and drops the account's own rows. A handle counts as an @handle (u/handle on Reddit) or as a link to the handle's profile or one of its posts (x.com/handle, instagram.com/handle, tiktok.com/@handle and the like). Each kept row has match_kind reply, retweet, mention, tag or link (kept for a profile or post link, named in matched_url). Unverified rows are dropped and counted in dropped_unverified. Url mode adds first_seen for the link. name is judged; a handle or a url is checked in code and is not judged. If that judgment is unavailable the rows are kept and warnings says why. Instagram comments on unknown posts cannot be searched, and Instagram caption mentions cannot. TikTok comments on unknown posts cannot be searched. Threads search is weak: measured 23/09/2026 it returned no row containing the handle, so Threads is not searched. Facebook post search returned no row containing the handle or the link on the same day, so Facebook is not searched. TikTok search for @handle returned no row containing that @, so TikTok is not searched. Bluesky has no search lane. LinkedIn is not covered. Private or deleted content is not covered. This is a first page of each search, not an index.

get/prism/mentions

Request

  • Base URL: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1
  • URL: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/prism/mentions
  • Auth: API key in header x-api-key

Query parameters

handlestring

Account handle, with or without @. Checked in code: an @handle (u/handle on Reddit) or a link to its profile or one of its posts. Not combined with name. (one of: handle, url, name; at least one required)

urlstring

A link or a link prefix, such as example.com/news. Checked in code. Not combined with name. (one of: handle, url, name; at least one required)

namestring

A display name, 2 to 120 characters, passed on its own. Each row is judged. A failed judgment keeps the rows. (one of: handle, url, name; at least one required)

platformsstring

Comma-separated subset of twitter, reddit, facebook, threads, instagram, tiktok, web. Default twitter, reddit, facebook. Instagram needs a handle. Web needs a url. Facebook, Threads and TikTok are accepted and not searched.

sincestring

Only keep rows published on or after this date, YYYY-MM-DD. On X it is also part of the search.

include_selfboolean

When true, keep rows whose author is the handle. Default false.

Headers

Cache-Controlstring

Send no-cache to bypass the response cache and force a live fetch. Billed at the normal endpoint cost; the fresh result is written back to cache for the next caller. Only the no-cache directive triggers this. See the Response Schema guide for details.

Idempotency-Keystring

Optional UUID that makes the request safely retriable. The key is reserved atomically per account before billing. A concurrent retry receives 409 IDEMPOTENCY_IN_PROGRESS with a Retry-After of 1 second while the original is young, growing to a quarter of the time it has been running (at most 30); a crashed reservation expires after 5 minutes. A replay keeps the cached payload immutable except for billing metadata: credits_used becomes 0, idempotent_replay becomes true, and credits_remaining is refreshed to the current balance. A known current balance appears in both the body and X-Credits-Remaining header; no balance row resolves to 0. On a transient lookup failure, body credits_remaining is null and X-Credits-Remaining is omitted. Completed outcomes expire after 24 hours. If the claim store is unavailable, the request fails closed before billing. GET endpoints do not combine idempotent replay with Server-Sent Events: use Accept: application/json when sending this header. The unsupported key-plus-SSE combination is rejected before billing.

Response

Successful response

successboolean required

Whether the request succeeded

platformstring required

Platform name

endpointstring required

API endpoint path

credits_usedinteger required

Number of credits consumed

credits_remaininginteger nullable required

Current account balance, or null when this response could not establish one. Free cache hits always return null because they do not establish an authoritative post-request balance. An idempotency replay also returns null when its current-balance lookup fails. It is never a fabricated zero, so a zero here means the account really is empty. The authoritative reading is the one on a billed response, which comes straight from the deduction.

request_idstring required

Unique request identifier for support

cachedboolean required

Whether the response was served from cache

idempotent_replayboolean

True only when this response is an idempotency replay

Example response

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "prism",
  "endpoint": "/v1/prism/mentions",
  "credits_used": 1,
  "credits_remaining": 4999,
  "request_id": "req-abc123",
  "idempotent_replay": true,
  "meta": {
    "hint": {
      "code": "search_multi",
      "message": "You searched \"matcha\" on 3 platforms one call at a time; /v1/search/multi returns each platform's own search rows in one call at the same price per platform, and a platform with no rows is not charged.",
      "method": "GET",
      "path": "/v1/search/multi?query=matcha&platforms=instagram,tiktok,youtube"
    }
  }
}

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.