Find the creators worth a brief, before you open a spreadsheet
Finding and vetting creators with DataXAPI: 1 ready-made Skill on 9 platforms. The example run makes 2 calls and costs at most $0.0040; a failed call is never charged.
Who it is for
For influencer and partnership teams who start every campaign with a search box. Your AI searches accounts by category on the platforms you pick and returns a shortlist with follower and post counts.
Influencer and partnership teamsStart every campaign with a shortlist, then check account after account.
BrandsWant the accounts of one category on several platforms, side by side.
Agencies and MCNsNeed a first-pass table with followers and links for a client proposal.
The questions it answers
The ones a marketing team asks every week.
- Who are the accounts to work with in this category?One page of matching accounts on each platform: handle, name, bio, followers, posts.
- Is this account real and active?Whether it is verified, how much it has posted, and a link to check it yourself.
- What does a creator charge?Rate cards and audience profiles are a separate family of endpoints, read from Douyin Xingtu (星图) and Xiaohongshu PGY (蒲公英) when you ask for them.
Three steps
Once the skill is installed, one sentence starts it.
- 1
Show the plan first
Free, and needs no key: the most calls and the most money this run can come to.
dataxapi run creators platforms=douyin,tiktok 'query=咖啡' --plan - 2
Run it, capped at that amount
Each line is one endpoint of the example run, at its listed price. A call that fails is not charged. The run stops rather than spend more than its cap.
douyin/users/searchtiktok/users/search - 3
Line everything up in one table
9 columns, the same on every platform; a column a platform does not give is empty. No call, no cost.
creators.csv · 9 columns
What you get
Every Skill hands back one table. These are its columns, and what each one holds.
platformThe platforms to search, at most 5account_idIDusernameHandlenameDisplay nameurlLink to the profilebioBioverifiedWhether the account is verifiedfollowersFollowerspostsPosts publishedThe data it reads
Public data only. Each row is one endpoint, with its price per call.
GET /v1/douyin/users/searchyes$0.0020TikTok user searchGET /v1/tiktok/users/searchyes$0.0020Instagram user searchGET /v1/instagram/users/searchon request$0.0040Kuaishou user searchGET /v1/kuaishou/users/searchon request$0.0200Weibo user searchGET /v1/weibo/users/searchon request$0.0020X user searchGET /v1/x/users/searchon request$0.0004 / itemXiaohongshu user searchGET /v1/xiaohongshu/users/searchon request$0.0200YouTube channel searchGET /v1/youtube/channels/searchon request$0.0020And 1 more endpoints for the same job on 9 platforms: each Skill's page lists its own.
What a run costs
Finding accounts and creators: Who are the accounts to work with in this category?
Worked out from the catalog's prices, with the example inputs: platforms = douyin, tiktok · query = 咖啡. You pay for the calls actually made; whether an empty result is charged is on each endpoint's page. What your AI itself costs is not counted here.
Say this to your AI
Once DataXAPI is connected, any of these works.
dataxapi-creatorsSearches one page of accounts on each platform you pick, as one table with a platform column: name, bio, followers, posts. Every platform is one call charged on its own. Rates and audience profiles exist only on Xingtu and Pugongying and are not in this table.
Not connected yet? It takes one prompt →
How teams do it today, and with DataXAPI
- Search the category on each app and open profiles one by one.
- Copy follower counts into a sheet.
- Start again for the next campaign.
- Say the category and the platforms.
- One call a platform returns a page of accounts with the same fields.
- Keep the table; run it again when the brief changes.
Questions
From marketers, not developers.
Do I need to write code?
No. You paste one prompt into your AI to connect it, then ask in plain words. Code is there if your team wants it: every row in the table above is one GET.
What does it cost?
The example run of Finding accounts and creators makes 2 calls and costs at most $0.0040. Run it every day for 30 days and that is $0.12. There is no subscription, and a failed call is never charged.
Can it see private accounts, or data behind a login?
No. It reads what anyone can see on the platform: public posts, public counts, comments, and the ads the platforms publish in their ad libraries. It cannot post, message or sign in to an account.
Which platforms does it cover?
9 for this job: Douyin, Instagram, Kuaishou, TikTok, Weibo, X (Twitter), Xiaohongshu (RedNote), YouTube, Zhihu. Each Skill's page lists its own.
The other 5 jobs
Run it on your own question.
Sign-up takes an email and no card. A failed call is never charged.