Bright Data alternative

A Bright Data alternative for social media data

If you use Bright Data only to collect social media data, Captapi returns that data as JSON from fixed REST endpoints, with no proxies or scrapers for you to manage. If you need proxy infrastructure or data from sites outside social media, Bright Data is the better fit.

What a request looks like

Real production responses, trimmed. Replace $CAPTAPI_KEY with your key.

TikTok profile

1 credit · captured 2026-10-10

curl "https://api.captapi.com/v1/tiktok/channel-details?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tiktok.com%2F%40nasa" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CAPTAPI_KEY"

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "platform": "tiktok",
    "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@nasa",
    "id": "7664638705177150477",
    "displayName": "NASA",
    "bio": "Making the seemingly impossible, possible.✨",
    "followers": 2035863,
    "following": 23,
    "likes": 10779514,
    "postCount": 55,
    "verified": true,
    "private": false,
    "isOrganization": true
  }
}

Trimmed. The full response also has avatar, secUid, bio link, and interaction settings. Full field list on the TikTok Channel Details API page.

Endpoints that cover this job

TikTok Channel Details APIFollowers, likes, post count. 1 credit.TikTok Video Details APIOne TikTok video: caption, counts, creator, sound. 1 credit.Instagram Channel Details APIProfile, followers, bio links. 1 credit.YouTube Video Details APIOne YouTube video's metadata and counts. 1 credit.YouTube Channel Details APISubscribers, total views, video count. 1 credit.Reddit Search APIReddit post search. 2 credits.Twitter/X Profile APIX profile and counts. 1 credit.

What Captapi does not do here

No proxies, IPs, or unblocking tools.
No data from sites outside the social platforms in the catalog.
No bulk dataset downloads. Data comes one request at a time.

Captapi and Bright Data, side by side

	Bright Data	Captapi
What you buy	Proxy infrastructure and scraping tools	Finished JSON per request
Coverage	The whole web	The social platforms in our catalog
What you maintain	Your scraper and parser, on their network	Your API calls
Pricing	See Bright Data's current Scraper API pricing at brightdata.com/pricing/web-scraper. They bill per delivered record and also offer proxy networks and pre-collected datasets as separate products.	Credits per request, listed on each endpoint page

Choose Bright Data when

Choose Bright Data when you need proxies, data from non-social sites, or full control over how pages are fetched.

Choose Captapi when

Choose Captapi when you only need social media data and would rather call an endpoint than build and run a scraper.

Frequently asked questions

Is Captapi a Bright Data alternative?+

Only for social media data. Captapi returns finished JSON from a fixed set of social endpoints. It does not sell proxies or cover the rest of the web.

Do I manage proxies with Captapi?+

No. You send a request with your API key and get JSON back.

How is a request priced?+

Each endpoint page lists its credit cost. Cache hits with cache=true are free.

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