
Web Scraping API for Social Media Data Extraction: 7 Platforms + 4 Patterns That Bypass Blocks
A web scraping API for social media data extraction has to handle 7 distinct platforms (Twitter/X, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, TikTok, Reddit, YouTube), each with its own auth scheme, rate-limit shape, and anti-bot pattern. Here's the 4-pattern architecture (direct API / headless browser / marketplace proxy / hybrid) and the 3 things that always break.




