# Utility Task Recipes API (https://www.socialcrawl.dev/platforms/utility/recipes)

> The catalog of task recipes: common jobs (export a video's comments, vet a creator, compare a product's reviews across retailers, watch a competitor's uploads, crawl a site to markdown, and more) as the cheapest chain of calls, with the inputs each needs, which step's rows feed the next (bind), which steps page or run once per row (repeat), any setup call (a monitor, a cohort), pitfalls, cheaper and deeper alternatives, and cost: the whole job's credits for the stated size, computed from current prices, with exact false when a page count had to be guessed. A recipe monitor also shows per_run, one scheduled run. Every recipe carries last_run: what it really spent the last time we ran it end to end against the API (date, calls, credits, the ITEMS it ran with, and measured, the same in one sentence), or null before its first run. Pass id for one recipe and it also carries code: the whole job as a TypeScript program, a Python program that needs nothing installed, and an n8n workflow, each reading your key from SOCIALCRAWL_API_KEY and the row cap from ITEMS, following async runs and jobs to their end, and printing what it spent. A utility/plan job id (creator_profile) returns the recipe that documents it. Free to call.

TL;DR: `GET /v1/utility/recipes` costs Free (0 credits) and returns SocialCrawl's unified JSON schema. Single x-api-key auth, 100 free credits on signup.

## Parameters

| Parameter | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | no | One recipe id (export-tiktok-comments), which adds its runnable code. Omit for the whole catalog |

## Code example

```bash
curl "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/utility/recipes" \
  -H "x-api-key: sc_YOUR_API_KEY"
```

## FAQ

### What does the Task Recipes API return?

Returns the task recipes: each job's chain of calls with its inputs, binds, paging and setup, pitfalls, alternatives, and the whole job's credit cost for its stated size. The response uses the same JSON envelope as every SocialCrawl endpoint, with the data, credits_used and request_id fields.

### When should I use the Task Recipes endpoint?

Use it to copy a proven multi-step job and see what it costs before you build it. It runs nothing. Free to call.

### How much does the Task Recipes API cost?

This endpoint is free to call and uses no credits. Every new account still gets 100 free credits for the paid endpoints. Credits for failed or empty calls are refunded automatically, and there is no subscription.

### What parameters does the Task Recipes API need?

No parameter is required, so the bare URL works. It also accepts 1 optional parameter, listed on this page.

### How do I call the Task Recipes API?

Send a GET request to https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/utility/recipes with your API key in the x-api-key header. An Authorization: Bearer header works too.

See the full Utility API: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/platforms/utility

## Pricing

- Standard endpoints: 1 credit per call
- Advanced endpoints: 5 credits per call
- Premium endpoints: 10 credits per call
- 100 free credits on signup, no credit card required. Cached responses cost 0 credits. Credit packs never expire.
- Full pricing: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/pricing

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