Does Threads have an API?
Yes, mainly for the users who authorise your app; searching public posts by keyword needs approval. SocialToAI reads its publicly visible posts and accounts without a Threads developer account: 4 interfaces from 2 credits a call (≈ $0.004–$0.0067), and failed calls are free. Official facts checked 2026-10-17.
The short answer
Yes, mainly for the users who authorise your app; searching public posts by keyword needs approval.
What the official API allows
The Threads API mainly serves users who authorise the app. It can search public posts by keyword once the app is approved for the keyword-search permission (before that, only the user's own posts), and public-profile lookup beyond Meta's official accounts also needs approval.
Source: Threads's own developer documentation, checked 2026-10-17. What a platform allows changes; its own pages are the authority.
Reading Threads's public data with SocialToAI
SocialToAI is an API and MCP server for publicly visible content and account information. You need no Threads account and no app review: one SocialToAI key, or signing in from Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex. Each call costs a fixed number of credits, and a failed call costs nothing.
| Interface | What it returns | Price key | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search | Find posts by keyword: text, author, likes, comment count and publish time. | threads.search | 2 |
| Detail | One post by ID or link: text, author, likes, comment count, views and publish time. | threads.detail | 2 |
| User Profile | One account: name, bio and followers. | threads.user_profile | 2 |
| User Posts | The recent posts of one account. | threads.user_posts | 2 |
curl https://api.socialtoai.com/v1/search \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOCIALTOAI_KEY" \ -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "platform": "threads", "query": "nasa" }'- No Threads account, cookie or developer approval on your side.
- What comes back is what the platform shows publicly; commenters are anonymised.
- Every platform answers in the same response format, so the same code reads Threads and the others.
- Prepaid credits from 2 credits a call; 100 free credits on sign-up, no card.
Sources
- Threads: developers.facebook.com, checked 2026-10-17
- Threads API on SocialToAI: every call and its credits, last tested 2026-10-17
- The live catalog: what is offered now and its credits, readable without a key
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