# Recipes (/docs/recipes)

Fifteen working recipes that solve real cross-platform tasks, from brand monitoring and sentiment to a monthly brand report and the accounts behind a topic.

Each recipe solves one task end to end and tells you what it costs before you run it. The snippets are TypeScript that runs on Node 22+, uses native `fetch`, and reads `SOCIALCRAWL_KEY` from the environment, except the sound-tracking recipe, which is a Monitor created with one cURL call. The two Discover recipes come as a TypeScript program, a Python program and an n8n workflow, read `SOCIALCRAWL_API_KEY`, and show what their last run spent. The handles, queries, and URLs are real, and every recipe here has been run against the API with its own example.

New to the API? [Quickstart](/docs/quickstart.md) takes five minutes.

## Pick a recipe

| Recipe                                                                     | What you'll build                                         | Cost per run             |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ |
| [Brand mention monitoring](/docs/recipes/brand-mention-monitoring.md)         | Daily brand-mention sweep across 15 platforms             | 20 credits               |
| [Social listening pulse-check](/docs/recipes/social-listening-pulse-check.md) | Streaming search over 15 platforms with comments enriched | 20 credits               |
| [Sentiment analysis](/docs/recipes/sentiment-analysis.md)                     | Social sentiment pipeline feeding an LLM                  | 23-35 credits            |
| [Competitor tracking](/docs/recipes/competitor-tracking.md)                   | Cross-platform competitor account snapshots               | 8 credits per competitor |
| [TikTok analytics dashboard](/docs/recipes/tiktok-analytics-dashboard.md)     | Profile, video, and comment metrics with engagement rates | 3 credits per refresh    |
| [Video transcription](/docs/recipes/video-transcription-api.md)               | One transcription function, seven platforms               | 3-10 credits per video   |
| [Ad library aggregation](/docs/recipes/ads-library-aggregation.md)            | Parallel fan-out across three ad networks                 | 15 credits               |
| [Creator engagement scoring](/docs/recipes/creator-engagement-scoring.md)     | Apples-to-apples engagement-rate ranking                  | 3 credits per creator    |
| [Music trend detection](/docs/recipes/music-trend-detection.md)               | Cross-platform music heat score                           | 3 credits per song       |
| [Track sound growth](/docs/recipes/track-sound-growth.md)                     | A daily reel count for one sound, with a growth alert     | 2 credits per day        |
| [Hybrid search-then-enrich](/docs/recipes/search-then-enrich.md)              | Universal search plus per-platform transcripts            | 120 credits              |
| [Comments in bulk](/docs/recipes/comments-in-bulk.md)                         | The comments under 25 posts, then only the new ones       | 7 credits for 3 posts    |
| [Monthly brand reaction](/docs/recipes/monthly-brand-reaction.md)             | Last month's posts and news per brand, from one run       | Up to 150 credits        |
| [Accounts behind a topic](/docs/recipes/accounts-behind-a-topic.md)           | The accounts posting about a topic, with their profiles   | Up to 400 credits        |
| [Instagram reels from one market](/docs/recipes/instagram-reels-by-market.md) | Reels by creators based in one country, such as the UAE   | 1 credit a page, plus 2 per creator checked |
| [Discover rows from one country](/docs/recipes/discover-rows-by-country.md) | Posts from one country across platforms, in each of its languages | 1 credit per platform search |

## Which recipe should I start with?

If you are evaluating SocialCrawl, start with [Brand mention monitoring](/docs/recipes/brand-mention-monitoring.md) or the [Social listening pulse-check](/docs/recipes/social-listening-pulse-check.md). Both are a single call to `GET /v1/search/everywhere`, cost a flat 20 credits, and show the universal search endpoint that separates SocialCrawl from a web-search API.

If you already know which platform you need, [TikTok analytics dashboard](/docs/recipes/tiktok-analytics-dashboard.md) is the cheapest end-to-end example at 3 credits.

## Related

- [Quickstart](/docs/quickstart.md): Get an API key and make your first request.
- [Which endpoint should I use?](/docs/choosing-endpoints.md): Decision tables for the endpoints that look alike.
- [Endpoint pricing](/docs/endpoint-pricing.md): Every endpoint and its credit cost.
- [Computed fields](/docs/computed-fields.md): How engagement_rate, language, and estimated_reach are derived.
- [Pagination](/docs/pagination.md): Getting past the first page of any list endpoint.
- [Universal social search](/platforms/search/everywhere): Full reference for the endpoint that powers the search recipes.