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Threads API

Public profiles, paginated account posts and individual Threads posts.

Overview

Read public Threads data visible to logged-out visitors. Useful for competitor monitoring, audience research and tracking post engagement. Private posts and content behind login are unavailable. Unknown counts are null rather than estimated.

Source: threads.com.

Try it live

Pick an endpoint and run it: real data, no signup, 5 free requests a day.

Endpoint

GET/v1/threads/profile

1 credit per request

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Results come back as a table you can download as CSV, or as the raw JSON.

Endpoints

Threads profileGET /v1/threads/profile · 1 creditPublic profile biography, links, follower count and account metadata.

Threads account postsGET /v1/threads/user/posts · 1 creditOne page of a public account's Threads posts, with text, media and engagement.

Threads postGET /v1/threads/post · 1 creditThe text, author, media and engagement of one public Threads post.

Call it

Every endpoint is a GET with your key in the x-api-key header. For example, Threads profile:

curl

curl "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/threads/profile?handle=zuck" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

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Use it in Claude

Once LurkAPI is connected to Claude, each endpoint is a tool Claude can call:

Tool	What it does
`threads_profile`	Threads profile: Public profile biography, links, follower count and account metadata.
`threads_user_posts`	Threads account posts: One page of a public account's Threads posts, with text, media and engagement.
`threads_post`	Threads post: The text, author, media and engagement of one public Threads post.