Data365 and Metrika are both APIs for public social media data, but they hand you different levers. With Data365 you trigger collection for the profiles you care about and fetch the results, and the data can go broad, down to posts and engagement. With Metrika there is nothing to trigger: we keep a daily snapshot of a few public counts, and your request reads it.
What Data365 is built for
Data365 is aimed at teams that need substantial public datasets: profiles, posts, and engagement across a range of networks, delivered as structured JSON. You ask it to collect a profile, wait for the task to finish, and retrieve whatever it gathered. That model gives you breadth, and control over what gets collected and when.
Where Metrika fits instead
If what you actually consume is follower counts, that pipeline is more machinery than the number needs. Metrika holds three public datapoints per account, follower count, following count, and verified status, across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X, Threads, and YouTube, and serves the latest value from a snapshot we refresh daily. There are no collection tasks to create and no polling loop to write: one request, one answer.
$ curl -X POST https://metrika.run/api/v1/resources/search \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"resources": [{"platform": "instagram", "type": "account", "identifier": "natgeo"}]}'The one exception is a handle nobody has asked about before:
the first response says pending while the account joins our
next collection run, and reads are instant from then on.
When Data365 is the better choice
When counts are not enough. Posts, comments, engagement metrics, or networks beyond our seven are simply not in Metrika, and if your product needs to decide the exact moment data gets collected, an on-demand model fits that requirement better than our daily snapshot does. Datapoint coverage also varies a little by platform; the docs list what is available for each one.
Getting started
The free tier includes up to 500 API requests per month with no credit card required. Create an account, generate an API key from your dashboard, and the docs cover authentication and response formats.
Get started with Metrika
Create a free account and start pulling social media datapoints in minutes. The free tier includes 500 requests per month, no credit card required.