Signalfind social profiles
Find a creator's other social profiles. GET /v1/find-social-profiles accepts your x-api-key header. Costs 2 credits per successful fresh call; failures and opt-in cache hits (cache_max_age) are free. Native path: GET /api/v1/web/find-social-profiles. Same request parameters and JSON shape as the reference API, so you can switch by changing the base URL.
Request parameters
Collects public profile links from the source profile (bio links, website), its link-in-bio page (Linktree, Komi, Pillar, Linkme, Lnk.Bio via our guest ops), the creator website's social links, and one search-engine query for the handle. Same-handle URLs on other platforms are listed as unverified candidates.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
handle | string | Yes | Public handle on that platform (no @). |
cache_max_age | string | No | Accepted for compatibility and ignored (cache window). |
platform | string | Yes | Source platform. Allowed: instagram, tiktok, youtube, x, twitter, facebook. |
freshness | string | No | 24h (default), 1h, 7d, or live. Accepted cache hits are free; live forces refresh except simultaneous requests may share newly fetched data. |
Code examples
Set SIGNALSHELF_BASE_URL and SIGNALSHELF_API_KEY on your server.
curl "$SIGNALSHELF_BASE_URL/v1/find-social-profiles?handle=handle&platform=instagram" \
-H "x-api-key: $SIGNALSHELF_API_KEY"const response = await fetch(process.env.SIGNALSHELF_BASE_URL + "/v1/find-social-profiles?handle=handle&platform=instagram", {
headers: { 'x-api-key': process.env.SIGNALSHELF_API_KEY },
});
const body = await response.json();
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(body.error.message);
console.log(body.data, body.meta);import os, requests
response = requests.get(
os.environ['SIGNALSHELF_BASE_URL'] + "/v1/find-social-profiles?handle=handle&platform=instagram",
headers={'x-api-key': os.environ['SIGNALSHELF_API_KEY']},
timeout=30,
)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json())Response and pagination
The response contains data and meta. data includes platform, resource, sample:false, provider, and the public source payload. Lists return data.items; individual resources return data.data.
Author feeds include data.next_cursor. Return it unchanged in cursor for the next page. Feed entries can include reposts. Single-post lookups resolve the handle to a DID first. Deleted or moderated posts may be unavailable.
meta includes event_id, mode, cache, credits_charged, fetched_at, age_seconds, and duration_ms. A fresh successful result costs one credit; accepted cached results and failures cost zero.
Availability and failures
Implementation is not a continuous availability guarantee. Source rate limits, retention, deleted content, restrictions, and regional availability apply. This is an independent SignalShelf contract, not a drop-in competitor response format.
400: invalid parameters. 401: missing/revoked key. 402: insufficient credits. 404: missing public resource. 429: SignalShelf throttle. 502/503: upstream failure or rate limit, with credit restored.