# FetchLayer
> Structured social data API for developers and AI agents. Access public social discussions, App Store reviews, and YouTube comments as clean JSON via REST or MCP — no scraping infrastructure.

## Main pages
- [Home](https://fetchlayer.dev/): Social platforms, one API. Overview of FetchLayer's structured social data platform.
- [Reddit Scraper API](https://fetchlayer.dev/reddit-scraper): First product — 15 endpoints for public Reddit posts, comments, subreddit data, and user profiles.
- [Twitter/X Scraper API](https://fetchlayer.dev/twitter-scraper): Search public tweets, retrieve tweet details and replies, inspect profiles, and traverse follower/following graphs as structured JSON.
- [App Store Reviews API](https://fetchlayer.dev/app-store-reviews-api): Fetch public App Store reviews by app ID with country, language, platform, and pagination controls.
- [YouTube Comments API](https://fetchlayer.dev/youtube-comments-api): Extract public YouTube video comments and nested replies as structured JSON.
- [Blog](https://fetchlayer.dev/blog): Integration guides and tutorials.
- [Pricing](https://fetchlayer.dev/reddit-scraper#pricing): Plans, request limits, and free tier details.

## About FetchLayer
- FetchLayer is a unified API for accessing public social platform data as structured JSON.
- One endpoint, simple auth, no scraping infrastructure or HTML parsing.
- MCP-compatible: works as a native tool in Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Desktop, and other MCP clients.
- Live platforms include Reddit, Twitter/X, App Store, and YouTube.
- Operated by HootCodes LTD, based in Europe.
- Free tier included, no credit card required.

## Reddit Scraper
- 15 endpoints: search, search-comments, post, community-posts, community-details, user-profile, user-posts, user-comments, search-communities, search-users, comment-permalink, popular, leaderboard, resolve-url-type, explore.
- Returns structured JSON for publicly available Reddit data.
- No Reddit authentication required on the developer's end.
- Also available as an Apify actor: https://apify.com/neatrat/reddit-scraper
- TypeScript/JavaScript SDK: @fetchlayer/reddit on npm.

## Twitter/X API
- 10 endpoints for public Twitter/X search, tweet details and replies, user profiles, timelines, and follower/following graphs.
- Returns structured JSON for publicly available tweets, engagement data, profile metadata, and network data.
- No Twitter/X authentication required on the developer's end.
- Documentation: https://fetchlayer.dev/documentation/twitter

## App Store API
- Search the App Store by name or keyword and fetch public customer reviews by app ID.
- Reviews include rating, title, body text, version, date, reviewer name, and helpful count where available.
- Supports country, language, platform, sorting, and pagination controls.
- Documentation: https://fetchlayer.dev/documentation/appstore

## YouTube API
- Extract public comments from a YouTube video URL with sorting and pagination.
- Extract video transcripts as timestamped segments and plain text with optional language selection.
- Fetch replies to a specific comment thread by comment ID.
- Documentation: https://fetchlayer.dev/documentation/youtube

## Optional
- [npm SDK](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@fetchlayer/reddit): Official TypeScript client for the Reddit API.
- [GitHub](https://github.com/fetchlayer-dev/reddit-scraper-js): Open-source SDK source.