Social media data API

What is a social media data API?

A social media data API is a way for your software to read performance from social accounts without logging into each dashboard. MySoMeData is a read-only social media data API and MCP layer for AI. It connects social accounts to AI applications and software, providing structured historical performance data that can be analyzed, queried, and used to build products. You call one HTTPS endpoint. The response is JSON your app, your agent, or your AI can use.

What data does it provide?

You get the history those platforms make available: profile details, media metrics, and audience metrics, in one structure. Calculated fields cover engagement, period-over-period change, and outliers. Instagram, TikTok, and Pinterest do not expose the same native metrics, so each platform page lists what that network actually returns.

• Profile identifiers, names, and follower counts.
• Post, Reel, video, and pin performance for a stored sample of items.
• Audience detail where the platform provides it: Instagram follower, reached, and engaged mixes; a TikTok follower mix; Pinterest ads audience interests.

Why are social platforms difficult to integrate one by one?

Each platform has its own developer program, review, token, pagination, and field names. Metric definitions also change when a platform ships or retires a feature. Building three clients means you maintain three of those changes. A social media data API keeps that work behind one connection.

What historical data can you retrieve?

You start with the history those platforms make available, not an empty account. After you connect, you can query a rolling window of up to 365 days, the last completed calendar month, or the last completed calendar week. Item lists are ingest samples, typically a capped set of posts per day, not every post the account has ever published.

What does normalization mean?

Normalization means Instagram, TikTok, and Pinterest arrive in one consistent structure, with metrics calculated before your AI sees them. You still have to respect platform differences. A pin does not have Instagram reach. A TikTok view is not a Pinterest impression. The Raw vs normalized social data page explains that split.

How does authentication work?

You connect each social account with that platform’s official OAuth flow, read-only scopes only. Your software then calls https://api.mysomedata.com/v1 with a Bearer API key. Rotating the key does not disconnect the social accounts. See the Developer API for the request shape.

What are the rate limits?

The API allows 120 requests per minute. A 429 response means the client should back off. Other statuses you should handle are 200 for success, 401 for an invalid key, 403 when a connection scope is missing, and 5xx when an upstream platform has a problem.

How is an API different from a dashboard?

A dashboard shows you charts. An API gives the same kind of performance data to software. You use a social media management platform when you want to publish, schedule, and run an inbox. You use a social media data API when you want AI or your own product to read the numbers. MySoMeData does not publish posts.

How does the MySoMeData API work?

You connect Instagram, TikTok, and Pinterest. MySoMeData retrieves what those official APIs allow, stores it within platform retention rules, and serves a normalized payload. Your AI can use the same data through MCP instead of HTTP. One MySoMeData account covers one company.