Influencer search API for TikTok, Instagram and YouTube creator data

1. Find creators by topic

   Search Instagram for profiles that match a keyword with Instagram search, or search videos for a keyword with TikTok search and YouTube search. Every video result names its author or channel.

2. Pull their numbers

   Send the handles you found to the profile and content tools: bio and follower count, recent posts and reels, YouTube videos and Shorts, X profiles.

3. Score and shortlist

   Compare likes, comments and views with follower counts in your own code, or hand the JSON to a model and ask for a ranked shortlist.

This run searches Instagram for accounts that match "coffee roaster" and returns at most 20:

curl https://lovelyrouter.com/v1/tools/instagram-search/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOVELY_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "input": {"search": "coffee roaster", "searchType": "user", "searchLimit": 20},
    "max_results": 20
  }'

The request waits up to 60 seconds. A finished run returns its status, its cost in charge_usd and the accounts in items. A longer run returns 202 and a poll path; Run a tool covers polling and paging.

Then look up the accounts you want to keep. Instagram profiles returns one result per username, with the bio, followers, posts count and recent posts. Leave out max_results and the cap is the length of your list:

curl https://lovelyrouter.com/v1/tools/instagram-profile/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOVELY_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"input": {"usernames": ["natgeo"]}}'

Each tool's page shows its full input schema and an example input. Field names in the results differ from tool to tool, so run a small search first and look at what comes back.

Connect the MCP server to Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http lovely-tools https://lovelyrouter.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $LOVELY_API_KEY"

Then ask: "Find 15 TikTok creators in the US who posted about home espresso in the last three months. For each, get their follower count and the views on their last 10 videos, and give me a table sorted by median views. Set max_results on every run and tell me the estimated cost before you start."

Every run is billed from your prepaid balance: a fee per result (a profile, a post, a reel, a video), plus a per-call fee on the tools that have one. When a run starts, its maximum cost, the per-call fee plus the per-result fee times max_results, is held from your balance. When it ends, you pay for the results it returned and the rest of the hold goes back. A run that fails or times out pays only for the results it delivered, and a run refused at the start costs nothing.

There is no subscription or monthly minimum. The cards above show today's prices, and pricing lists every tool. To keep a sweep cheap, search first, set max_results on every run, and fetch full profiles and posts only for the accounts you keep.