You are building something that needs a follower count as a number in your code: a dashboard widget, a lead-scoring column, a nightly job watching a handful of brand accounts. Social Blade is where most people go to look these numbers up, and for good reason, but looking numbers up on a website and feeding them into a program are different jobs.
What Social Blade is built for
Social Blade is a long-running public statistics site. You type in a handle and get growth charts, rankings, and grades, with years of history behind them, and there is a business API on top of that data. For eyeballing a creator's trajectory over time, it is the obvious first stop, and nothing below changes that.
Where Metrika fits instead
Metrika starts from the API and ends there. One endpoint, one bearer token, and a JSON response with the latest public datapoints we hold for an account: follower count, following count, post count, and verified status across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X, Threads, YouTube, and Bluesky, where each platform provides them. You can sign up, generate a key, and make your first request in minutes, on a free tier, without talking to anyone.
Metrika also does not scrape anything while you wait. We
collect datapoints ahead of time into a snapshot that is
refreshed daily, and your request simply reads the latest
value we hold. Responses are fast, and every datapoint carries
a collected_at timestamp, so you always know how fresh a
number is.
$ curl -X POST https://metrika.run/api/v1/resources/search \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"resources": [{"platform": "youtube", "type": "account", "identifier": "mkbhd"}]}'A single call takes up to ten accounts, mixing platforms freely, and the request shape never changes from one network to the next.
When Social Blade is the better choice
If the job is "show me how this channel grew over five years", use Social Blade. Metrika returns the latest value only: no historical series, no rankings, no earnings estimates, no engagement statistics. If you want history you own, you can build it by calling Metrika on a schedule and storing the values, but the charts are on you. Metrika is also a young product in beta, and deliberately narrow.
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 you can be pulling counts in a couple of minutes. The docs cover authentication and response formats, and if you are also weighing the platforms' own APIs, we keep a comparison for each one.
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.