# Influship API

> Build creator discovery, campaign matching and profile workflows with the Influship API.

## Documentation

- [Influship API](https://docs.influship.com/index.md): Build creator discovery and social research into your product.
- [Quickstart](https://docs.influship.com/quickstart.md): Make your first creator search, then retrieve a returned creator.
- [Client Setup](https://docs.influship.com/sdks/index.md): Install the TypeScript SDK or call REST from another language.
- [Authentication](https://docs.influship.com/guides/authentication.md): How to authenticate requests to the Influship API
- [Search Creators](https://docs.influship.com/concepts/semantic-search.md): How AI-powered search finds relevant creators
- [Find Similar Creators](https://docs.influship.com/concepts/lookalikes.md): Expand a creator selection using weighted examples and filters.
- [Campaign Fit & Evidence](https://docs.influship.com/concepts/match-reasons.md): Understand the AI explanations returned by search, lookalike, and match endpoints
- [Understanding Creator Data](https://docs.influship.com/concepts/creators-vs-profiles.md): Use creator IDs, profile usernames, and timestamps in your application.
- [Get Creator Emails](https://docs.influship.com/guides/lookup-creator-emails.md): How to fetch known creator email addresses by creator ID or social username.
- [Add an Instagram Creator](https://docs.influship.com/guides/ingest-creators-on-demand.md): Add a public Instagram creator and retrieve their profile for discovery and campaign research.
- [Saved Shortlists](https://docs.influship.com/guides/saved-shortlists.md): Save, reopen, update, and delete your creator selections through the REST API.
- [Cookbook](https://docs.influship.com/cookbook/index.md): Choose a runnable example or workflow for creator discovery, campaign comparison, and exports
- [Build a Creator Research App](https://docs.influship.com/cookbook/creator-research-app.md): Run a complete interface for search, supporting evidence, and saved shortlists.
- [Build a Creator Search App](https://docs.influship.com/cookbook/creator-search-nextjs.md): Run a Next.js app that turns a campaign brief into an Instagram creator shortlist
- [Build a Creator Shortlist](https://docs.influship.com/cookbook/build-a-shortlist.md): Search ten creators, score campaign fit, and expand up to three candidates with a bounded runnable workflow
- [Compare Creators for a Campaign](https://docs.influship.com/cookbook/compare-creators.md): Score known Instagram creators against a campaign brief without running a discovery search
- [Score Campaign Fit for an Existing List](https://docs.influship.com/cookbook/score-campaign-fit.md): Resolve up to ten Instagram handles, retain profile data, and score distinct creators against a campaign brief
- [Export a Shortlist to CSV](https://docs.influship.com/cookbook/export-shortlist-csv.md): Run a bounded creator search and save names, handles, scores, and reasons for spreadsheet review
- [Live Platform Data](https://docs.influship.com/guides/live-platform-data.md): Research profiles, content, and transcripts across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
- [Instagram Live Data](https://docs.influship.com/guides/download-instagram-videos.md): Retrieve Instagram profiles and posts, and download their videos.
- [TikTok Live Data](https://docs.influship.com/guides/tiktok-live-data.md): Fetch current TikTok profiles, videos, comments, media URLs, and transcripts.
- [YouTube Live Data](https://docs.influship.com/guides/youtube-live-data.md): Discover current YouTube topics, paginate search results, and fetch channel, video, and transcript data.
- [MCP Server](https://docs.influship.com/guides/mcp-server.md): Connect AI agents to the Influship API using the Model Context Protocol
- [Zapier](https://docs.influship.com/integrations/zapier.md): Enrich any Zap with creator search, creator records, posts, lookalikes, and campaign-fit scoring.
- [Pagination](https://docs.influship.com/guides/pagination.md): Read saved search results for free and paginate other API resources.
- [Error Handling](https://docs.influship.com/guides/error-handling.md): How to handle errors from the Influship API
- [Pricing](https://docs.influship.com/concepts/pricing.md): Credit-based pricing for the Influship API
- [Rate Limits & Tiers](https://docs.influship.com/concepts/quotas-and-limits.md): Credit budgets, trust tiers, and how to handle 429 and 402 responses
- [x402 Payments](https://docs.influship.com/guides/x402.md): Use the Influship API with USDC on Base, per-request, no signup
- [MPP Payments](https://docs.influship.com/guides/mpp.md): Use the Influship API with Stripe cards or USDC on Tempo via the Machine Payments Protocol
- [What's New](https://docs.influship.com/changelog.md): Recent changes and updates to the Influship API
- [API Reference](https://docs.influship.com/api-reference.md): Request fields, response schemas, and examples for every REST endpoint.

## API contract and runnable source

- [API reference](https://docs.influship.com/api-reference.md): Start here for generated endpoint documentation.
- [Public OpenAPI specification](https://docs.influship.com/openapi/openapi.yaml): Complete REST request and response contract.
- [TypeScript SDK source](https://github.com/Influship/influship-sdk-typescript): Published client, types and API methods.
- [Runnable examples](https://github.com/Influship/influship-examples): MIT Next.js starter and bounded CLI workflows.
- [Creator research source download](https://github.com/Influship/influship-examples/releases/tag/v1.1.0): Node.js app for evidence review and saved API shortlists.
- [Source downloads](https://github.com/Influship/influship-examples/releases/tag/v1.0.0): Next.js starter and CLI workflow archives.