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# Social post lookup: get engagement and caption from a post URL

Paste the link to a post, video or pin and get back who published it and how it performed. Use it to track competitor content, verify an influencer's numbers or log the posts your campaign produced.

## What it tells you

- Which platform the post is on, and whether it was found at all.
- The handle and display name of the author.
- Headline engagement: likes and views.
- Deeper engagement: comments and shares.
- The caption text of the post.
- The date and time it was posted.

## What you need to provide

The full post, video or pin URL. Supported platforms are Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky, Truth Social, Pinterest and LinkedIn.

## What it costs

5 credits per lookup. This one is success-based: you are charged 0 credits on a no-match. Live per-product costs are shown on the Billing page in your dashboard.

## How to run it

- In the dashboard: Social Post Lookup
- From your code: POST /v1/social-post-lookup, then see the Developer Hub at app.1lookup.io/developer-hub.

## Good to know

- Results are point-in-time. Likes, views, comments and shares keep moving after you run the lookup, so treat every count as a snapshot with a timestamp, not a fixed figure.
- It works on the ten platforms listed above. A link from anywhere else will not resolve.
- If the post cannot be found at that URL, the lookup returns a no match and costs you 0 credits.
- One URL per lookup. To follow a whole account's output, run the posts you care about individually.
- Captions and author names are content published by real people. Use them for legitimate business purposes only.