The founder's story
I stopped babysitting scrapers.
And started shipping answers.
Proxy pools? Selector updates at 2am? CSV exports that die at row 500?
Marketers and builders shouldn't be doing this manually. I built
ScraperSocial to make public social data a five-minute task, so you
can spend the week on what the data tells you.
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8+ years in growth Engineer by training Amsterdam
The founder
Nikhil Kumar
Founder, ScraperSocial
I'm a marketer who learned to build, an engineer who spent eight
years in growth. Growth work runs on one raw material: what people
are saying, posting and watching on social media. What are creators
in this niche doing? Which hooks work? What does the comment
section actually think?
Every one of those questions used to end the same way: a brittle
scraper, a $500/month enterprise quote, or an intern with a
spreadsheet. ScraperSocial is the tool I wanted on every one of
those projects. It's built by one person with strong opinions.
The insight
"Social media is the world's largest focus group. It just doesn't
return JSON. ScraperSocial is the adapter."
The "Marketer Who Builds" arc
How a decade of asking what the internet thinks became an API.
2013 — 2017 The engineering foundation
Electrical & Electronics Engineering at VTU. Systems are logical: input equals output. Then I discovered where all the unpredictable inputs live: people, and what they say online.
2017 — 2022 The marketing years, Bengaluru
Performance ads, SEO, content. Certified in all of it, hands-on in most of it. Every campaign started with the same homework: what is this audience actually saying? The homework never got easier, only more manual.
2022 — 2024 Leading growth teams
Growth Lead at Seedstars. Head of Digital Marketing at Invact Metaversity. Growth Marketer at GrowthSchool. High-stakes targets, and still 80% of the real insight came from manually mining social: creator research, comment sentiment, competitor breakdowns. Copy, paste, spreadsheet, repeat.
The pain: the data I needed most was public, visible in any browser, and somehow still the hardest part of the job.
2026 — Present Building ScraperSocial, Amsterdam
I stopped treating that pain as a cost of doing marketing and treated it as a product spec. Every platform I actually use, one request shape, honest metering, priced like a tool, not like an enterprise procurement cycle.
Or, in a format this site prefers
Everything on this page, the way ScraperSocial would return it.
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"I'm building ScraperSocial in public because the next wave of great
products will be built by people who ship fast and listen faster:
founders, marketers and AI agents who treat public social data as a
first-class input. If that's you, you're in the right place."
Nikhil Kumar · @nikhonit
The facts
ScraperSocial is an independent API company founded in 2026. We turn
publicly available social media content from 32 platforms
— TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and more —
into clean, predictable JSON: transcripts, AI summaries, post
statistics, comments, profile data and search, through one REST API and
an MCP server for AI agents. Plans start at $5/month.
Founded2026, Amsterdam
FounderNikhil Kumar
Platforms32, including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn
Endpoints226 REST endpoints + MCP server
PricingFrom $5/month for 1,000 credits
OwnershipIndependent and bootstrapped
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