Social Data API Infrastructure Platform

Stop building platform
integrations. Ship on
Public and Consented
social data.

Phyllo gives you public and consented social data across 25+ platforms. No scrapers to maintain, no proxies to run, no per-platform approvals to chase.

One platform does all of it.

Powering Social-Data products at

HeyGen
Ulta Beauty
impact.com
UnitedMasters
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Click Analytic
Collective Artists Network
Passionfroot
Howl
Acast
SamCart
Collabstr
Gameover
Zeno
Compass Group
Karat
Two kinds of data

Two data layers. One platform.

Most teams need both. Phyllo returns both on the same data standard, so you build once and switch layers without touching your parser.

Public DataStart here
Consented Data
Public APIs

Public data

Four surfaces, any profile, no account connection needed.

Creator Search: Find anyone across 220M+ profiles by niche, audience, location and growth.

Profile Analytics: Audience demographics, engagement and content performance on any profile.

Content: Every post, reel, short and comment, retrieved without a connection.

Social Listening: Mentions, sentiment and share of voice across 25+ platforms.

Explore the Public APIs →
Public APIs
Public • no permission
Maya Reyes
@mayamakes
Beauty & Skincare • Austin, Texas
96
Safety score
Creator search, 220M+ profiles searchable by niche, audience, location and growth
Profile analytics, 4.7% engagement rate with audience split and content performance
Content, 1,842 posts, reels, shorts and comments with no connection needed
Social listening, 1,284 mentions in 30 days with sentiment and share of voice
Consented

Consented data

See what only the account owner can see. With their permission.

Verified income: Across ad revenue, sponsorships, subscriptions, and affiliates.

Audience truth: Real age, location, and interests, straight from the platform.

Private performance: Engagement rate, stories, reach, saves, and metrics no public source exposes.

Explore the Authenticated APIs →
Verified creator analytics
Consented • creator approved
$18,420
Verified income, monthly
▲ 12.4% vs last month
Ad revenue
41%
Sponsorship
38%
Subscriptions
14%
Affiliates
7%
Engagement rate
4.7%
Story reach
84,102
Saves
12,140
Real audience demographics
Consented
The alternatives

How teams get social data today

Most teams try all three of these first. Each one covers part of the surface and leaves the rest to your engineers. The gap is never the first integration. It is the twenty-fifth, and every platform change after it.

Platform clients shipped one at a time over eighteen months

Build it in-house

Your engineers write a client per platform, run the proxies, and apply for platform access one product at a time.

12 to 18 months to multi-platform coverage, then permanent maintenance.

Public platforms covered, consented data unreachable

Buy scraping vendors

Fast to start on public data, and it works until a platform changes its markup or blocks the traffic.

Cannot reach consented data at all, and hard to defend in a legal review.

One vendor per surface, leaving gaps

Stitch point solutions

One vendor for listening, another for discovery, a third for analytics. Each with its own contract and format.

Four formats to reconcile, four renewals, and no single view of a profile.

Time to multi-platform production

Build in-house
12 - 18 months
Scraping vendors
Weeks, then breakage
Point solutions
Per vendor, repeated
On Phyllo
7 days, median

The hatched bars have no finish line. Scraping and point solutions keep consuming engineering time after launch, which is the cost that never appears in the build estimate.

Build in-house
Scraping vendors
Point solutions
On Phyllo
Public data at scale
You build it and you run it
Until a platform blocks the traffic
Usually one surface per vendor
All four surfaces across 25+ platforms
Consented first-party data
Separate approval per platform, if you qualify
Not possible. Official sign-in cannot be scraped
Rarely offered, and rarely on the same schema
Phyllo holds the platform approvals. The creator still approves.
When a platform changes
Your engineers stop and fix it
Breaks quietly, you find out from your data
You wait for each vendor's fix
Phyllo absorbs it
Data format
Different on every platform
Whatever the page happened to render
One format per vendor, several vendors
One schema across all of it
Compliance posture
Yours to establish and defend
Difficult to clear in procurement
As strong as the weakest vendor
SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, formal platform partnerships
Time to production
12 to 18 months
Weeks, then ongoing breakage
One integration per vendor
7 days, median
What you operate
Clients, proxies, retries, platform apps
Nothing, until it breaks
Several integrations and contracts
Nothing. No scrapers, no proxies
Delivery

In from every platform. Out to everything you already run.

Phyllo sits in the middle. It pulls from every platform your customers care about, and pushes into the tools your team already works in. No scrapers, no proxies, nothing to operate.

CAPABILITIES

What the API does

Eight capabilities on one data standard. Each one links to its own page.

Influencer vetting

Screen a creator’s full public history, audience authenticity and brand-safety risk before you sign anything.

PUBLIC
Creator profile screened for violence and explicit content, with weekly engagement totalsExplore

Campaign intelligence

Measure delivered reach and engagement across every creator you use.

PUBLIC
CONSENTED
Campaign tracker and campaign summary showing reach and engagement rate per creatorExplore

Social listening

Every mention of a brand, product or keyword across 25+ platforms, with sentiment and intent.

PUBLIC
Brand mentions dashboard with total mentions, reach, sentiment and top resurfaced mentionsExplore

Competitor intelligence

Track a rival’s content, cadence, share of voice and audience overlap.

Share-of-voice radar placing Ferrari against Porsche, Redbull, Mercedes and McLaren
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Creator search

Find anyone across 220M+ profiles by niche, audience, location and growth.

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Social screening

Check an applicant’s public footprint for risk and adverse content.

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Profile analytics

Audience demographics, engagement and content performance on any public profile.

Verified identity icon

Social KYC

Confirm account ownership and link one identity across every platform.

CONSENTED
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INDUSTRIES AND USE CASES

Who builds on Phyllo, and what they build

Tabs advance every 10 seconds, or click one. The workflows stay in this fold, so nothing moves you off the page.

Consumer brands and retail
Influencer Marketing Platforms
PR & Communications
Social Listening & Intelligence
Creator Tools & Monetization
Background screening and HR
Immigration and visa services
Fintech & Lending
Product conversation, pre-contract vetting and campaign measurement for consumer brands
Product conversation tracking across social and retail

Product conversation

Track product mentions, reviews and sentiment across social and retail.

PUBLIC
Pre-contract vetting of creator history and brand safety

Pre-contract vetting

Check history, audience quality and brand safety before you sign anyone.

PUBLIC
Campaign measurement of reach and engagement per creator

Campaign measurement

Measure real reach and engagement across every creator you work with.

PUBLIC
CONSENTED
Creator search, fake-follower detection and verified rosters for influencer marketing platforms
Creator search across niche, audience and location

Creator search

Search 220M+ profiles by niche, audience, location and growth rate.

PUBLIC
Fake-follower detection on a creator profile

Fake-follower detection

Separate real audiences from inflated ones with an authenticity score.

PUBLIC
Verified creator rosters

Verified rosters

Creators connect accounts to unlock verified income and audience data.

CONSENTED
Earned-media pickup, narrative tracking and talent vetting for PR teams
Earned-media pickup tracking

Earned-media pickup

Track mentions, hashtags and pickup across every major platform.

PUBLIC
Narrative tracking across platforms

Narrative tracking

See how a story is moving and get alerted the moment it turns.

PUBLIC
Talent vetting before signing

Talent vetting

Pre-screen spokespeople and creators before a client signs them.

PUBLIC
Mention tracking, intent classification and share of voice for social listening teams
Mention tracking across social sources

Mention tracking

Every mention of a keyword or brand, wherever it appears online.

PUBLIC
Intent classification of mentions

Intent classification

Understand what an audience means, not just how many replied.

PUBLIC
Share of voice against competitors

Share of voice

Measure your share of the conversation against named competitors.

PUBLIC
In-app analytics, income aggregation and cross-platform publishing for creator tools
In-app analytics for creators

In-app analytics

Real-time post, story and audience analytics for connected creators.

CONSENTED
Creator income aggregation across platforms

Income aggregation

Every revenue stream in one verified monthly income statement.

CONSENTED
Cross-platform publishing

Cross-platform publishing

Publish across every connected platform from a single interface.

CONSENTED
Footprint screening, adverse content and continuous monitoring for background screening teams
Social footprint screening for background checks

Footprint screening

Screen an applicant’s public presence for risk and safety signals.

PUBLIC
Adverse content detection

Adverse content

Surface controversies and flagged history from public activity.

PUBLIC
Continuous monitoring of screened profiles

Continuous monitoring

Re-screen on a schedule and get alerted when something new appears.

PUBLIC
Applicant vetting, identity confirmation and case-ready reporting for immigration services
Applicant vetting for visa services

Applicant vetting

Screen public social history for H-1B, H-4 and other visa reviews.

PUBLIC
Identity confirmation from social accounts

Identity confirmation

Confirm an applicant genuinely owns the accounts they declared.

CONSENTED
Case-ready reporting

Case-ready reporting

Defensible, timestamped output ready to drop into a case file.

PUBLIC
Verified income, social KYC and lending decisions for fintech and lending teams
Verified creator income for lending

Verified income

Every revenue stream, pulled from the platforms with consent.

CONSENTED
Social KYC checks

Social KYC

Verify identity and trust through cross-platform account linkage.

CONSENTED
Lending decisions from social data

Lending decisions

Verified income, audience size and engagement as credit inputs.

CONSENTED

If you have used 3 social data products, at least one runs on Phyllo

AICPA SOC 2 Type II compliantGDPR compliant
25+
Platforms covered
220M+
Profiles indexed
5B+
Signals processed monthly
99.99%
Uptime
7 days
Median time to live

Frequently asked questions

Phyllo basics
Compliance and access
Concepts and measurement
Does Phyllo scrape social data?
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No. Phyllo provides two kinds of social data through two products. The Public APIs collect data at scale across 25+ platforms with no account connection required. The Authenticated APIs collect non-public data through each platform’s official sign-in, only after a creator explicitly connects their account and sees what is being shared. Phyllo maintains formal platform partnerships and is SOC 2 Type II certified. Customers run no scrapers and no proxies.

What is the difference between public and consented data on Phyllo?
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Public data, served by the Public APIs, covers any profile, post, or conversation with no permission needed, and powers influencer discovery and vetting, social listening, brand intelligence, and social screening. Consented data, served by the Authenticated APIs, unlocks non-public first-party data including verified income, real audience demographics and private performance metrics once a creator connects their account. Both arrive in the same shape.

Do creators have to connect their accounts to use Phyllo?
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Only for the Authenticated APIs. The Public APIs work on any profile with no creator involvement at all. When a use case needs verified income or private metrics, the creator connects their account and approves what is shared.

How is Phyllo different from a social media scraping tool?
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A scraping tool can only return what is publicly visible, and you operate it. Phyllo covers the full public surface and adds consented first-party data, which requires official platform sign-in that scraping cannot perform. Phyllo also carries SOC 2 Type II certification, GDPR and CCPA alignment, and formal platform partnerships, so legal and procurement teams can clear it.

Which platforms does Phyllo cover?
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Phyllo covers 25+ platforms including Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, TikTok Shop, X, LinkedIn, Twitch, Reddit, Snapchat, and Facebook. Every platform returns data in the same shape.

How long does it take to get live on Phyllo?
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Median time to production is seven days. Teams building the same coverage themselves typically spend 12 to 18 months, then carry the maintenance for as long as the product exists.

Is Phyllo compliant with platform terms and GDPR?
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Phyllo is SOC 2 Type II certified and aligned with GDPR and CCPA. Consented data is collected through each platform’s official sign-in, with the creator shown exactly what is being shared before they approve it. No passwords are shared and no credentials are stored.

Can AI agents use Phyllo?
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Yes. Phyllo connects to Claude, Cursor, Codex, and any AI assistant that supports MCP, in a single step.

Does Instagram have a public API?
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No. Instagram retired its open public API in 2018. What exists today is the Instagram Graph API, which returns data only for Business and Creator accounts that have connected to an approved app, and only after that app passes Meta’s App Review. There is no official Instagram endpoint that returns arbitrary public profile data at scale.

Phyllo covers both sides of that gap: public Instagram data collected across the platform with no account connection, and consented Instagram data through Meta’s official sign-in once a creator approves what is shared.

Is the Instagram API or the TikTok API free?
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Neither platform charges a licence fee, so both are nominally free. The real cost sits elsewhere: App Review and business verification, per-app rate limits, restricted permission scopes, and the engineering time to keep each integration alive when the platform changes it.

Teams building multi-platform coverage in-house typically spend 12 to 18 months reaching production, then carry maintenance for as long as the product exists. Median time to production on Phyllo is seven days.

How do you get access to the Instagram Graph API or the TikTok API?
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Each platform runs its own approval process. Meta requires a registered app, business verification, and an App Review that names every permission you intend to use. TikTok requires developer registration and separate approval per product. Approval is discretionary, scoped to the use case you declared, and can be revoked.

Phyllo already holds these platform approvals and runs the consent flow on your behalf. Phyllo does not remove the consent requirement. The creator still approves what is shared.

What is a social data API?
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A social data API is a single interface that returns data from multiple social platforms in one consistent format, instead of requiring a separate integration and data model for each platform. Phyllo is social data API infrastructure covering 25+ platforms including Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, TikTok Shop, X, LinkedIn, Twitch, Reddit, Snapchat and Facebook. It serves two layers: public data available with no account connection, and consented data available once an account owner connects.

What is the difference between social listening and social monitoring?
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Social monitoring is reactive and item-level: you track individual mentions, replies and tags so someone can respond to them. Social listening is analytical and aggregate: you measure sentiment, share of voice, trends and intent across a whole conversation to inform strategy.

Monitoring answers “who said something about us”. Listening answers “what does the market think, and where is it moving”. Both run on the same underlying data: public posts, comments and conversations across every platform, which is what a social data API supplies.

How do you use social listening for influencer marketing?
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Three ways, at three points in a campaign. Before it runs, listening identifies which creators already appear in conversations about your category, so you shortlist on genuine topical relevance rather than follower count. While it runs, listening measures whether a creator’s audience actually discusses the product, not just whether the post collected likes. After it runs, listening separates paid lift from organic conversation so you can attribute what the campaign changed.

How do you measure influencer marketing ROI?
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Reliable measurement needs three inputs, and most teams only have two. Public data supplies reach, engagement and conversation volume for any creator. Consented data adds story reach, saves and true audience demographics that no public source exposes, which is what distinguishes a creator who reached your actual buyer from one who reached a large number of people.

Divide verified delivered audience by spend, then weight the result for audience match. Follower count alone is not a measurement input.

How do you verify a creator’s real income?
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Verified income requires the creator’s consent, because earnings are visible only to the account owner. The creator connects their accounts through each platform’s official sign-in, sees exactly which fields are being shared, and approves it. No password is shared and no credential is stored.

Phyllo then aggregates ad revenue, sponsorship payments, subscription income and affiliate earnings across every connected platform into one normalised figure. Self-reported income and estimates derived from follower count are not verification.

One platform for public and consented social data across 25+ platforms.