Pay as you go, credits never expire, and failed scrapes are free.
Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, and Facebook are live today — same request, same response, zero migration.
Post engagement plus public profile counts and recent media discovery.
Video engagement plus creator profiles, audience counts and recent videos.
Long-form, Shorts, channel stats and recent upload metrics with the identical request shape.
Real-time post metrics, replies, and public profile feeds formatted uniformly.
Post metrics, page profiles, and recent links discoverable by normalized queries.
A single X-API-Key header authenticates everything — no OAuth dance, no SDK to install. It's just HTTP.
$ curl "https://api.refetcher.com/" \
-H "X-API-Key: pc_live_••••" \
-d '{"url":"https://tiktok.com/@u/video/73…"}'Success rate and latency, published live on our status page.
Most scraping APIs bill you for every call — even when it returns nothing. You only ever pay for a successful scrape.
Refetcher routes every request through a 100M+ IP residential proxy network spanning 195 countries.
Prefer clicks to curl? Paste links or upload a CSV directly into our visual studio to get clean metrics back.
No subscriptions. No expiring balance. Add funds when you need to, then spend them two days — or two years — from now. They'll still be there.
We scrape 1,000,000 real public posts in front of you in about 20 minutes — roughly 72 million a day at that pace. Every result on the record, free to audit by downloading.
Trigger a run →Authenticate with a single header and get clean, predictable JSON back — the same shape across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, and Facebook.
# Authenticate once. Works everywhere.
curl -s https://api.refetcher.com/ \
-H "X-API-Key: pc_live_••••" \
-d '{ "url": "https://instagram.com/reel/C8x…/" }'
// → 200 OK
{ "platform": "instagram",
"metrics": { "views": 1284203, "likes": 48211, "comments": 1903 } }"I'd built my own Instagram scraper twice and both times it broke inside a month, banned proxies, login walls, the usual. Moved everything to Refetcher on a Sunday and basically stopped thinking about it. Last month's bill came in under what I used to spend on proxies alone."
"We pay clippers per view, so the numbers have to be right or people get upset. This replaced a spreadsheet and a ton of manual double-checking. Wish I'd found it six months ago."
"Signed up mostly because I was sick of paying $99 a month for an API I touched maybe twice a week. Put $20 on it back in March and I've still got credit left. That alone sold me."
"The response shape is identical across Instagram and TikTok, which saved me writing a pile of mapping code. Dropped it into our pipeline in an afternoon and it's just quietly run since."
Quick answers about the API, billing model, credits, reliability and supported platforms.
Refetcher is a developer API for retrieving real-time public Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, and Facebook data through one normalized HTTP interface. Send a public URL and receive clean JSON for the matching platform.
Refetcher is purely pay as you go. There is no recurring subscription and no monthly minimum spend. Add funds when you need them and pay only for successful results.
No. Purchased funds and bonus credits remain in your account until you use them. Unused balance carries into the next month and beyond instead of being forfeited at a billing reset.
Yes. A $200 top-up receives 5% bonus credit, and a $500 top-up receives 10% bonus credit. The bonus is added immediately and does not expire.
No. Failed scrapes do not reduce your balance. Refetcher charges only when a scrape returns a successful result.
Refetcher routes every request through a 100M+ IP residential proxy network spanning 195 countries, rotates IPs continuously, and monitors per-platform extraction engines around the clock. The resulting rolling success rate is published on the public status page — and you can read more about the infrastructure on the network page.
The public status page publishes rolling uptime, scraper success rate, average API latency, component health and incident history.
$10 of free scraping, no card required. See real numbers before you commit to anything.
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