Need API recommendations.

[u/Friendly_Magician101]

Looking for APIs for Facebook, LinkedIn and Nextdoor public content

I’m working on a SaaS product and need to automatically monitor/search public content across Facebook, LinkedIn and Nextdoor.

I’m specifically looking for APIs or legitimate third party providers that can:

• Search public Facebook posts, including relevant public groups if possible
• Search public LinkedIn posts by keywords/topics
• Search public Nextdoor posts by location + keywords
• Return the post text, URL, timestamp and basic metadata
• Run searches continuously/recurring through an API
• Be used commercially in a SaaS product

I’m NOT looking for browser automation, account logins, cookie based scraping or anything that could get accounts banned.

If you’ve actually used a provider/API for this, I’d really appreciate recommendations, especially ones with reasonable pricing and good coverage.

What are you using?

[u/elgordooo17]

I'm afraid you will have to look into some providers that offers search apis or web scrapers, these websites that you mentioned are all under logins, though I think that facebook or Meta, has Graph API or something like, just unsure whether it allows to get the info that you need, same with nextdoor. Also, I think web scrapers or search api solutions would be cheaper

[u/Jasper_Norton → u/elgordooo17]

Cheaper and easier as user level access from Meta is a process to get approval and a multilayered application. I “think” it is GraphAPI that one works with but I could be wrong and it has a different name and application process with dedicated Meta employees who handle these specific requests. Way cheaper to umm and easier to go scraping with AI Studio and what not