Sign up and open the dashboard. A new account gets a one-time grant with no card. See free credits. Create a key there. It is shown once.
Put it in an environment variable and call the balance. Account calls are free.
export SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY="your key here"
curl "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/account/credits" \
-H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"A success has ok: true, credits_remaining, and a request_id. A failure has ok: false, an error object, and credits_charged: 0. Quote request_id if you write to support.
For a profile, a post or a search, follow the quickstart. Pass trim=true for a smaller body, or raw=true to also get the platform's original object. Lists return a cursor: pagination.
Full detail: Quickstart.