> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.veedcrawl.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What is Veedcrawl? Video Intelligence for AI Agents

> Veedcrawl is a REST API and MCP server that turns public social videos into metadata, transcripts, and structured data for AI agents and workflows.

Veedcrawl is a REST API and MCP server that lets your code and AI agents understand public social media videos. Point it at any YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X/Twitter, or Facebook URL and it returns clean, normalized data — video facts, spoken transcripts, or structured answers extracted from the content — without you building platform-specific scrapers.

## Supported platforms

Veedcrawl reads public videos from five platforms through a single, consistent API surface:

* **YouTube**
* **TikTok**
* **Instagram**
* **X / Twitter**
* **Facebook**

## Core capabilities

Every Veedcrawl request falls into one of four operations. Start with search or metadata to find and evaluate videos before committing credits.

| Capability     | Endpoint              | Cost        | What you get                                                                   |
| -------------- | --------------------- | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Search**     | `GET /v1/search`      | Free        | Find public videos by topic, creator, hashtag, or keyword across all platforms |
| **Metadata**   | `GET /v1/metadata`    | Free        | Title, author, view count, like count, duration, thumbnail, platform           |
| **Transcript** | `POST /v1/transcript` | 1–5 credits | Full spoken text with timestamped segments — native captions or AI-generated   |
| **Extract**    | `POST /v1/extract`    | 10 credits  | A structured answer to any prompt you write about the video                    |

Use search to discover videos, metadata as a cheap evaluation pass, and transcript or extract only when you know the video is worth deeper processing.

## What you can build

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  <Card title="Video discovery" icon="magnifying-glass" href="/api-reference/search">
    Search for public social videos by topic, hashtag, creator, or product. Get agent-ready results with URLs, stats, and thumbnails — no URLs required up front.
  </Card>

  <Card title="AI agent tools" icon="robot" href="/mcp/overview">
    Connect the Veedcrawl MCP server to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible host. Your agent can search, pull video data, transcripts, and extraction results from natural language.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Creator research" icon="user" href="/guides/creator-audit">
    Feed a TikTok or Instagram username into the profile endpoints and get back 24 recent videos with per-post engagement stats — no video URLs needed up front.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Competitive analysis" icon="chart-bar" href="/guides/competitive-analysis">
    Pull the last 24 posts from multiple competitor accounts in parallel, compare posting frequency, average views, and top hashtags across all of them at once.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Content pipelines" icon="arrows-split-up-and-left" href="/api-reference/metadata">
    Drop Veedcrawl into analytics jobs, moderation tooling, internal search, or RAG systems. The same API and response shape works for all five platforms.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

<Note>
  New accounts receive 50 free credits on signup — enough to run hundreds of metadata lookups, dozens of transcripts, or a handful of extract jobs while you evaluate the API.
</Note>

## Get started

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  <Card title="Quickstart" icon="bolt" href="/quickstart">
    Make your first API call in under 5 minutes.
  </Card>

  <Card title="MCP server" icon="plug" href="/mcp/overview">
    Add Veedcrawl tools to Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Metadata reference" icon="code" href="/api-reference/metadata">
    Full parameter and response documentation for `GET /v1/metadata`.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Creator audit guide" icon="user" href="/guides/creator-audit">
    Step-by-step walkthrough of a full creator audit using the profile endpoints.
  </Card>
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