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Snapchat API
Public profiles, live stories, highlights and Spotlight videos from Snapchat.
Overview
Read a Snapchat Public Profile the way snapchat.com shows it to a logged-out visitor: the profile, the story that's live right now, saved highlights and recent Spotlight videos, with direct links to every image and video. Useful for creator research and keeping an eye on brands.
Source: snapchat.com.
Endpoints
Call it
Each endpoint is a web address. Request it with GET, put your API key in the x-api-key header, and you get JSON back. For example, Profile and stories:
curl "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/snapchat/profile?handle=nba" \-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"Use it in Claude
Connect LurkAPI to Claude and ask in plain English. Each endpoint is a tool Claude can call:
| Tool | Endpoint |
|---|---|
snapchat_profile | Profile and stories |
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