Social Media Research Skills: turn public social data into briefs
Working out what performs in a niche usually means hours of scrolling TikTok, YouTube and Reddit. These ScrapeCreators skills give the agent complete research workflows: spot posts that beat a creator's baseline, mine comments for objections, tear down a rival's ads. Data comes through the ScrapeCreators API and each run ends in a cited artifact.
Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, VS Code
What it does
outlier-post-finder flags posts, reels and shorts that beat a creator's own baseline and builds a swipe file of their hooks and formats.
comment-mining pulls questions, objections, complaints, product ideas and buying intent out of public comments and replies.
ad-library-teardown reads active Meta, Google and LinkedIn ads for hooks, offers, CTAs, landing page claims and test ideas.
social-listening-brief gathers what people say about a brand or category across platforms, with cited themes and sentiment caveats.
content-repurposing turns videos, transcripts and posts into LinkedIn posts, X threads, short-form scripts or newsletter outlines.
When to use it
You are validating a product idea and want pain points and exact customer wording from Reddit and comment sections.
You need a side-by-side brief on what five competing brands post on TikTok and Instagram and where the gaps are.
You are building a creator outreach list and want fit scores and notes instead of a raw follower count.
Ask your agent
Find the outlier reels from these three coffee brands on Instagram and explain what they have in common.
Mine the comments on this TikTok for objections and buying intent, with exact quotes and links.
Run a social listening brief on what people say about standing desks across Reddit and YouTube.
Questions
How do I install the social media research skills?
Run npx skills add ScrapeCreators/social-media-research-skills, then export SCRAPECREATORS_API_KEY with a key from scrapecreators.com.
Which agents can use them?
The README lists Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Windsurf and VS Code, plus other agents that follow the Agent Skills spec.
Which platforms are covered?
TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky, Pinterest, Rumble and ad libraries. The scrapecreators-api skill routes raw requests to the right endpoint.
