The Problem
Brands tracking UGC usually end up with a browser-extension scraper per platform and a human exporting CSVs. Extensions break on every layout change, cannot run unattended, and produce one-off files no pipeline can read. The result is monitoring that happens when someone remembers to do it, not continuously, so a viral mention or a brand-safety problem is found days late rather than the same afternoon. The deeper issue is fragmentation: a TikTok exporter, a YouTube exporter, and a Reddit tool each have their own format, their own breakage, and their own manual step, so nobody owns the full picture. UGC monitoring only works when it is continuous, structured, and cross-platform, which is exactly the shape browser-extension scrapers cannot deliver. The fix is an API sweep that runs on a timer and returns the same JSON shape from every platform.
How Scavio Helps
- One API key spans TikTok (search/videos, hashtag/videos, video/comments and replies), YouTube (search, metadata), and Reddit (search) instead of three separate scraper setups with three formats
- Structured JSON from every platform that you can dedupe, score for sentiment, and count by volume, not CSV exports a human has to open and reconcile
- Runs server-side on a schedule, so a viral mention or a brand-safety issue surfaces the same day instead of whenever someone next remembers to export
- Flat 1-credit pricing on TikTok and YouTube calls ($0.005 each) makes a daily sweep cost predictable: a 200-call sweep is $1, versus per-result scraper pricing that climbs with every comment pulled
- Pairs with a simple alerting step: diff today's mention volume against the trailing 7-day average and post spikes (or sentiment drops) to Slack
- Cross-references the same campaign across platforms, so you catch a TikTok video driving a Reddit thread before it becomes a support fire
Relevant Platforms
TikTok
Trending video, creator, and product discovery
YouTube
Video search with transcripts and metadata
Community, posts & threaded comments from any subreddit
Quick Start: Python Example
Here is a quick example searching TikTok for "hashtag: yourbrand (TikTok) + search: yourbrand review (YouTube) + yourbrand (Reddit)":
import requests
API_KEY = "your_scavio_api_key"
response = requests.post(
"https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/search",
headers={
"x-api-key": API_KEY,
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
json={"query": query},
)
data = response.json()
for result in data.get("organic_results", [])[:5]:
print(f"{result['position']}. {result['title']}")
print(f" {result['link']}\n")Built for Brand and social teams, agencies running creator campaigns, and developers building social-listening or brand-safety tools who need continuous, cross-platform mention tracking rather than manual one-off exports
Scavio handles the search infrastructure — proxies, CAPTCHAs, rate limits, and anti-bot detection — so you can focus on building your cross-platform ugc monitoring solution. The API returns structured JSON that is ready for processing, analysis, or feeding into AI agents.
Start with the free tier (50 credits on signup, no credit card required) and scale to paid plans when you need higher volume.