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What it costs to scrape social media sites
100,000 pages a month cost from $90.00 for LinkedIn on ScrapingDog to $725.00 for Facebook and Instagram on SerpApi, across these 7 social media sites.
6 of them have a rate an API publishes for that site; the other is priced as an ordinary page with the JavaScript and protection it needs. Each bill is the cheapest of that API's current plans, worked out from its own pricing page.
| Site | 100,000 pages | Cheapest API | Rates for this site | How hard | The site's own API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $90.00 | ScrapingDog, post, Standard | 5 from 4 APIs | Very hard | LinkedIn APIs | |
| TikTok | $90.00 | ScrapingDog, Standard | 1 from 1 API | Very hard | TikTok Research Tools |
| X, formerly Twitter | $90.00 | ScrapingDog, Standard | 1 from 1 API | Very hard | X API |
| YouTube | $90.00 | ScrapingDog, search, Standard | 5 from 4 APIs | Hard | YouTube Data API v3 |
| $99.00 | Scrape.do, Pro | None: priced as an ordinary page | Hard | Reddit API | |
| $725.00 | SerpApi, Searcher | 1 from 1 API | Very hard | Meta Graph API | |
| $725.00 | SerpApi, Searcher | 1 from 1 API | Very hard | Instagram API with Instagram Login |
What the levels mean: Easy means no protection is recorded; moderate, rate limits or fingerprinting without CAPTCHAs; hard, CAPTCHAs and IP checks that usually call for residential proxies; very hard, all of that plus measures such as TLS fingerprinting, a login wall in front of most data or honeypot links.
What each site's terms say
A vendor that can fetch a site is not permission to scrape it. Each site's own terms, as its record holds them:
- LinkedIn: LinkedIn's User Agreement prohibits scraping or copying the service through scripts, robots, or similar technology. The terms, read Oct 11, 2026
- TikTok: TikTok's U.S. Terms prohibit scraping, crawling or otherwise extracting data from the platform with automated systems or bots except as approved in writing by TikTok USDS Joint Venture. The terms, read Oct 11, 2026
- X, formerly Twitter: X's Terms prohibit crawling or scraping the service in any form, for any purpose, without X's prior written consent. The terms, read Oct 11, 2026
- YouTube: YouTube's Terms prohibit accessing the service by automated means such as robots or scrapers, except public search engines following robots.txt or with YouTube's prior written permission. The terms, read Oct 11, 2026
- Reddit: Reddit's User Agreement permits crawling only as allowed by robots.txt and prohibits scraping without prior written consent. The terms, read Oct 11, 2026
- Facebook: Meta's Terms prohibit accessing or collecting data from Facebook by automated means without prior permission, whether or not the automated access happens while logged in. The terms, read Oct 11, 2026
- Instagram: Instagram's Terms prohibit accessing or collecting information in an automated way without express permission, whether or not logged in. The terms, read Oct 11, 2026