The Snapchat API in 2026: what Snap's official APIs return, and how to get follower counts

Maybe you're vetting creators for a campaign and need their Snapchat audience next to their TikTok and Instagram numbers. Or you report on a brand's growth every month, and Snapchat is the one network you still copy numbers from by hand.

I read Snap's developer docs on October 3, 2026, looked up creators from a few thousand followers to 29 million through AnyAPI's Snapchat endpoint, and priced three more options from their own pages.

Here's what each one is for.

The best Snapchat APIs

• Snap Public Profile API for approved partners running creator campaigns
• AnyAPI for follower counts billed per lookup
• ScrapeCreators for Spotlight views and comments
• SocialCrawl for one schema across 69 platforms
• Apify Snapchat Scraper for scheduled exports with Spotlight videos

What makes a good Snapchat API?

I'm assuming you're a developer or a marketer with a script who needs public profile data for accounts you don't own: a creator's follower count, their bio and website, and what they've posted. Here's what I compared.

• Access you can actually get. An API that needs a Snap contact doesn't help if you don't have one.
• Lookup by username. You usually start with a handle from a creator's bio or a spreadsheet.
• Which fields come back. Follower counts, saved stories, and Spotlight views aren't all in every response.
• Price at your volume. Prices below are for 10,000 profile lookups a month, or the vendor's closest unit.

The best Snapchat APIs at a glance

Best Snapchat API for approved partners running creator campaigns

Snap Public Profile API

Snap Public Profile API pros:

• Snap's own data: follower counts, saved stories, Spotlights, and Lenses for any public profile
• A discover endpoint that searches creators by follower count, country, and audience
• Deeper stats and audience breakdowns for creators who opt in or authorize your app

Snap Public Profile API cons:

• Allowlist only: you need a Snap contact to approve your app
• Profiles are fetched by Snap's profile ID, so a username takes a search call first
• Discover results stop at 5,000 creators per query

This is the official answer to "is there a Snapchat follower count API". Snap's Public Profile API has public endpoints that "do not require profile owner authorization" and return "basic metadata and stats about any Public Profile on Snapchat". Its FAQ says what's public: subscriber stats for a profile, and shares and views for Spotlights.

Getting in takes three steps. You create a business account in Snap's Ads Manager, generate an OAuth app under Business Details (Snap warns that a Developer Portal app "will not work with the Public Profile API"), then email your Snap contact the client ID and what you plan to do with it. The Get Started page doesn't say how long approval takes or who qualifies.

Once you're in, a profile comes back with subscriber_count, category, country, and logo URLs, and separate public endpoints list its saved stories, Spotlights, and Lenses. The discover endpoint filters by minimum and maximum followers, creator country, audience gender, and paid-partnership history, and returns up to 5,000 creators per query. Snap's own example responses show counts of 409 and 210, not round hundreds.

What about Snap's other APIs? None of them reads a creator's profile:

Snap Public Profile API pricing: no price published. Access is by allowlist through a Snap contact. Source: Get Started, October 3, 2026.

Best Snapchat API for follower counts billed per lookup

AnyAPI

AnyAPI pros:

• A follower count for all 24 public profiles that show one, from 5,200 to 29 million, each matching Snapchat's own page
• Saved stories with titles and thumbnails, up to 17 a profile
• Takes a username or a full profile URL, billed per call from a prepaid wallet

AnyAPI cons:

• One endpoint: the profile and its saved stories, without Spotlight videos or view counts
• Counts are the rounded figure Snapchat shows the public

AnyAPI is the pick if you have a list of usernames and need follower counts without asking Snap for access. You send a username to snapchat.profile and get the profile back as one item.

curl -sS -X POST 'https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/snapchat.profile' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ANYAPI_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"username":"nasa"}'

Here's what came back for NASA on 2026-10-03, trimmed to two of its 10 saved stories:

{
  "output": {
    "found": true,
    "data": {
      "items": [
        {
          "handle": "nasa",
          "displayName": "NASA",
          "url": "https://www.snapchat.com/add/nasa",
          "subscribers": 756100,
          "category": "Government Org",
          "bio": "Explore the universe and discover our home planet with official NASA snaps.",
          "website": "https://www.nasa.gov",
          "image": "https://cf-st.sc-cdn.net/aps/bolt/aHR0cHM6Ly9jZi1zdC5zYy1jZG4ubmV0L2QvUVg2VHZkaDBHNUMzcXVidWhWaTJhP2JvPUVnMGFBQm9BTWdFRVNBSlFHV0FCJnVjPTI1._RS0,90_FMjpeg",
          "stories": [
            { "id": "ddf02468-ae16-4fc6-b1bc-bde7e1e22218", "storyTitle": "Moon Joy", "thumbnailUrl": "https://cf-st.sc-cdn.net/d/wAUDrJs74QBAl504N3DhT.410?mo=GjUaFDIBBDoBfUIGCMWw5M4GSAJQXmABUMUBWhBEZkxhcmdlVGh1bWJuYWlsogEHCJoDIgISAA%3D%3D&uc=94" },
            { "id": "7479819b-d2de-44ff-a394-8db45a27c8d6", "storyTitle": "Full Capsule", "thumbnailUrl": "https://cf-st.sc-cdn.net/d/C7eHkq29ayMBY0xtSF9ej.410.IRZXSOY?mo=Gj4aFDIBBDoBfUIGCJT73s4GSAJQXmABUMUBWhBEZkxhcmdlVGh1bWJuYWlsogEQCJoDIgsSACoHSVJaWFNPWQ%3D%3D&uc=94" }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "costUsd": 0.0012,
  "items": 1
}

Every call came back, usually in about 2 seconds and never more than 6. The test cost $0.036.

A hidden count comes back missing, so don't read it as zero. Snapchat lets profile owners turn off Show Follower Count, and CNN's page showed no count either. Every returned count was a round hundred, the same figure snapchat.com showed. A personal account without a Public Profile returns found: false, the same as a name that doesn't exist.

stories holds the saved stories pinned to the profile, not the 24-hour Story. NASA's 10 matched the titles on its profile page, and most profiles had at least one. For a one-off look at a profile without writing code, the free Snapchat Story Viewer runs the same lookup in your browser.

AnyAPI pricing: $1.10 per 1,000 profile lookups ($0.0011 each). A call the cheapest source can't answer goes to a backup, which costs up to $3.30 per 1,000. Prepaid, no plan; new accounts get free credit, no card required.

Best Snapchat API for Spotlight views and comments

ScrapeCreators

ScrapeCreators pros:

• Three Snapchat endpoints: profile, a Spotlight by link, and a Spotlight's comments
• Its profile response includes Spotlight descriptions with view, share, and comment counts
• 100 free credits, no card, and credits never expire

ScrapeCreators cons:

• Prepaid packs: the first paid one is $47
• Counts come back as strings, so you convert them yourself

If Spotlight is the part you care about, ScrapeCreators is the pick. You send a GET with an x-api-key header to /v1/snapchat/profile?handle=..., at 1 credit a request, and its own write-up shows the response: subscriberCount, category, whether a Story is live, and a spotlightStoryMetadata list with each Spotlight's views, shares, and comments.

Two more endpoints take a Spotlight URL: one for the video's data and one for its comments. If you already use ScrapeCreators for TikTok or Instagram, Snapchat comes with the same key, and the $47 pack covers two and a half months at 10,000 lookups.

ScrapeCreators pricing: 100 free credits. Freelance is $47 for 25,000 credits ($1.88 per 1,000 requests) and Business $497 for 500,000 ($0.99 per 1,000). A Snapchat profile is 1 credit, and cached results cost nothing. Source: scrapecreators.com, October 3, 2026.

Best Snapchat API for one schema across 69 platforms

SocialCrawl

SocialCrawl pros:

• Profile and Spotlight comments at 1 credit each
• The same Author and Comment shape as its other 69 platforms
• Its page says cache hits cost nothing and empty or failed calls are refunded

SocialCrawl cons:

• Priced in pounds
• Two Snapchat endpoints, with no stories or Spotlight videos listed

SocialCrawl lists two Snapchat endpoints: a profile that returns "display name, Bitmoji avatar URL, subscriber count, and bio", and a Spotlight's comments. Both come back in the same envelope as every other platform it covers, so a Snapchat creator looks like a TikTok or YouTube creator in your code.

Pick it if your app already reads several networks and you'd rather not write another parser. If Snapchat is all you need, the other options return more of it per call.

SocialCrawl pricing: 100 free credits. Starter is £15 for 2,500 credits, Growth £49 for 20,000, and Pro £299 for 150,000, one-time and never expiring. Snapchat endpoints are 1 credit each. Sources: pricing and Snapchat page, October 3, 2026.

Best Snapchat API for scheduled exports with Spotlight videos

Apify Snapchat Scraper

Apify Snapchat Scraper pros:

• One row per profile with follower count, bio, website, stories, and Spotlight videos with views and media links
• Runs on a schedule and writes to a dataset you export as JSON or CSV
• Busy and steady: nearly every public run in the last 30 days succeeded, per Apify's store

Apify Snapchat Scraper cons:

• A run is a batch job, so your code waits for it to finish
• Built for lists of profiles; a single live lookup still starts a run

Tri Angle's Snapchat Scraper is the most used Snapchat actor on Apify's store, with about 2,100 users, and Apify maintains it. You start a run with a list of usernames or URLs, and it writes one row per profile with the Spotlight videos included.

It suits a nightly or weekly export of a creator list into a spreadsheet or warehouse, especially if you want Spotlight views in the same row. At 10,000 profiles a month, the per-profile fee comes to $20 plus a tenth of a cent per run.

Apify Snapchat Scraper pricing: $2.00 per 1,000 profiles plus $0.001 per run start, with platform usage included. Source: Apify Store, October 3, 2026.

Which Snapchat API should you use?

• You have a Snap contact and run creator campaigns at scale: ask for the Public Profile API.
• You need follower counts and saved stories for a list of usernames, pay as you go: AnyAPI.
• You need Spotlight views, shares, and comments from code: ScrapeCreators.
• Your app reads many social networks and you want one schema: SocialCrawl.
• You want a scheduled export of a creator list, Spotlight videos included: Apify's Snapchat Scraper.

Whichever you pick, store a missing follower count as missing, because it means the owner hid it. The Snapchat API page lists AnyAPI's Snapchat endpoint, and the Instagram and TikTok pages cover the same creators on the networks you're probably comparing.

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