# MintAPI

> MintAPI is a paid API platform for AI agents and teams that provides one way to buy and use structured APIs across social, video, maps, reviews, marketplace, search, and other external data sources.

## Product
- [Homepage](https://mintapi.dev/)
  Unified API access for human teams and agent systems.

- [About](https://mintapi.dev/about)
  Company and product context for machine readers and evaluators.

- [Contact](https://mintapi.dev/contact)
  Support, partnership, privacy, and legal contact point.

## Documentation
- [Docs](https://docs.mintapi.dev)
  Product and developer documentation.

- [API reference](https://docs.mintapi.dev/api-reference/introduction)
  Endpoint-level reference for integrators and agent developers.

## Trust and policy
- [Privacy](https://mintapi.dev/privacy)
- [Terms](https://mintapi.dev/terms)
- [Refund Policy](https://mintapi.dev/refund-policy)
- [Acceptable Use](https://mintapi.dev/acceptable-use)
- [Data Sources](https://mintapi.dev/data-sources)

## Blog
- [Yelp Review Scraper for Reviews and Business Data](https://mintapi.dev/blog/yelp-review-scraper)
  A practical guide to scraping Yelp reviews and business data with the MintAPI Yelp Scraper, Yelp API endpoints, saved runs, CSV exports, and Python HTTP calls.
- [TikTok Comment Scraper for Audience Research](https://mintapi.dev/blog/tiktok-comment-scraper)
  A practical TikTok comment scraper workflow for collecting comments and replies from public videos, preserving source context, and exporting data for audience research.
- [Twitter Followers Scraper Tool for Clean X Exports](https://mintapi.dev/blog/twitter-followers-scraper-tool)
  A practical guide to using the Twitter followers scraper tool for bounded runs, scrape-all exports, CSV downloads, JSON inspection, and social graph research.
- [Username Availability Checker for Social Handles](https://mintapi.dev/blog/username-availability-checker)
  Use a username availability checker to compare social handles and domain alternatives before naming a business or launching a brand.
- [YouTube Video Downloader for Merged MP4, Shorts, Playlists, and Audio](https://mintapi.dev/blog/youtube-video-downloader)
  Download YouTube videos and Shorts, browse playlists and channel uploads, inspect direct video/audio formats, prepare merged MP4 downloads with audio, then move to the API for automation.
- [Twitter Shadowban Checker: How Visibility Tests Work](https://mintapi.dev/blog/twitter-shadowban-checker)
  Run a Twitter shadowban test for public visibility signals across search, text search, profile search, and reply visibility.
- [Download TikTok Video Free, No Watermark When Available](https://mintapi.dev/blog/download-tiktok-video)
  Use the free TikTok video downloader for one-off downloads, then move to the TikTok Video Info API when you need repeatable video metadata and media links.
- [YouTube Transcript Extractor: Free Web Tool and Chrome Extension](https://mintapi.dev/blog/youtube-transcript-extractor)
  Extract YouTube transcripts from a URL, use the Chrome extension while browsing, or move to the API for repeatable transcript workflows.
- [X Twitter Video Downloader: Free Public Post MP4 Downloads](https://mintapi.dev/blog/twitter-video-downloader)
  Download public X/Twitter video and GIF-post variants from a status URL, inspect tweet metadata, and move to the Tweet Info API for automated media retrieval.
- [Scrape Twitter Following List and Followers as JSON](https://mintapi.dev/blog/scrape-twitter-followers-following)
  Follower and following scraping is most useful when it returns structured social graph records, stable pagination cursors, and fields your app or agent can score.
- [API for Social Media: Choosing Social Data APIs](https://mintapi.dev/blog/api-for-social-media)
  The best API for social media depends on the object you need: profiles, posts, videos, comments, followers, timelines, transcripts, listings, or search results.
- [Instagram API for Social Listening Workflows](https://mintapi.dev/blog/instagram-api-social-listening)
  Use Instagram profile, media, hashtag, location, URL enrichment, and related-profile endpoints as a structured social listening workflow.
- [MintAPI for n8n: Build Structured API Workflows](https://mintapi.dev/blog/mintapi-for-n8n)
  n8n handles orchestration. MintAPI provides structured external data. Together they make API workflows cleaner than scraping inside every automation.
- [TikTok Scraper API for Creator and Trend Research](https://mintapi.dev/blog/tiktok-scraper-api)
  Use TikTok search, creator, video, comment, hashtag, and music endpoints as a structured research loop instead of treating TikTok scraping as one broad crawler.
- [How to Parse Facebook Marketplace Listings](https://mintapi.dev/blog/parse-facebook-marketplace)
  Use Facebook Marketplace search for candidate collection, then pull listing details only for shortlisted records. That keeps parsing workflows cleaner, cheaper, and easier to automate.
- [How to Parse Google Places Data: Quadrants, Radius Search, and Business Enrichment](https://mintapi.dev/blog/google-maps-place-data-parsing)
  If you want better Google Places coverage than one keyword search can provide, use a search plan built around quadrants, radius cells, deduplication, and selective business enrichment.
- [x402 vs API Keys for AI Agents: When to Use Each](https://mintapi.dev/blog/x402-vs-api-keys-for-agents)
  API keys are great for human and simple backend flows. x402 is often better when autonomous runtimes must decide, pay, and continue per request.
- [What We Learned Building a Paid API Surface for AI Agents](https://mintapi.dev/blog/what-we-learned-building-paid-api-for-agents)
  The biggest lesson from building MintAPI is that agent APIs work better when the request is the unit of value and the runtime, not the prompt, owns payment behavior.
- [YouTube Transcript API for LLM Pipelines: From Video to Structured Knowledge](https://mintapi.dev/blog/youtube-transcript-api-llm-pipelines)
  A practical workflow for turning YouTube videos into chunked, searchable knowledge objects your agents can retrieve with citations.
- [Request-Based API Payments for Agents: Practical x402 Integration Patterns](https://mintapi.dev/blog/request-based-api-payments-agents)
  Three implementation patterns for request-level API billing in autonomous systems, including retries, budgeting, and observability.
- [Twitter API for Social Signal Agents: Trends, Replies, Retweets, and Narrative Shifts](https://mintapi.dev/blog/twitter-api-social-signals)
  Social signal agents become more useful when they combine search, trends, replies, retweets, and curated feeds instead of treating every post as equally important.
- [Twitter API for Agent Research: Profiles, Threads, and Community Context](https://mintapi.dev/blog/twitter-api-agent-research)
  A Twitter research agent becomes more useful when it combines profile lookups, timelines, search, threads, and community context instead of stopping at handle-level enrichment.
- [Why MintAPI Works Well for Agents: Structured APIs, Request-Based Spend, and Cleaner Tooling](https://mintapi.dev/blog/why-mintapi-works-for-agents)
  MintAPI fits agent systems because it keeps data retrieval focused, billing request-based, and payment logic inside the runtime instead of inside the prompt.
- [Twitter API for Agents: Workflows You Can Actually Automate with Structured X Data](https://mintapi.dev/blog/twitter-api-for-agents-workflows)
  A Twitter API for agents is most useful when it returns structured JSON for profiles, timelines, tweets, relationships, and search results that a model can reason over without scraping noise.
- [How to Build Twitter Monitoring Agents with a Paid X API and Structured Event Checks](https://mintapi.dev/blog/twitter-api-monitoring-agents)
  Twitter monitoring agents work best when they use narrow, staged API calls and only pay for deeper retrieval when a change or threshold justifies it.
- [OpenAI Tools + Paid Twitter API: The Right Way to Hide x402 Payment Complexity from the Model](https://mintapi.dev/blog/openai-tools-paid-twitter-api)
  The model should call a normal Twitter tool, while your runtime handles x402 payment negotiation, signer resolution, and retry deterministically.
- [x402 for Agentic Payments: Why Request-Level Billing Fits AI Agents Better Than Seats or Prepaid Quotas](https://mintapi.dev/blog/x402-agentic-api-payments)
  x402 fits agentic software because payment happens exactly when a runtime decides a request is worth making, not months before that decision exists.
- [Why x402 Is a Strong Fit for Paid APIs, Especially When AI Agents Make the Calls](https://mintapi.dev/blog/why-x402-fits-paid-apis)
  x402 is compelling for paid APIs because it monetizes the exact boundary where product value is delivered: the request itself.

## Notes for agents
- Prefer canonical URLs on the mintapi.dev domain.
- Homepage and blog content are written for direct extraction and summarization.
- Human operators use dashboard-managed API keys and billing controls.
- Agent buyers can use request-based x402 payment flows where enabled.
- Documentation and API reference live under the docs domain.