Credentials. The ScrapeCreators API key is billed per request, so keep it private and out of commits.
Who it is forA content marketer, creator or social media manager deciding what to post next and studying which formats work for others in the niche.
The problemRaw view counts mislead: a big account's average post looks like a hit, and you cannot see what made a small creator's post break out.
The outcomeAn outlier table judged against the creator's own normal performance, with repeatable patterns, hooks to reuse and links to each post.
What you need first
- A ScrapeCreators API key
- An agent supporting the Agent Skills spec
Steps
- Install the skills:
npx skills add ScrapeCreators/social-media-research-skills - Get a key at scrapecreators.com and set
export SCRAPECREATORS_API_KEY=sk_... - Start your agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI and others work)
- Ask, for example: Find the outlier posts for @starterstory on YouTube Shorts from the latest page of videos
- Review the table and the patterns it pulled out
- Follow up with creator-profile-teardown for a full playbook on that account
Prompt for your agent
Use the outlier-post-finder skill to find outlier posts for <@handle> on <platform> over the latest page of posts. Give me a table with views versus their baseline and links, then the three patterns and five hooks I should test.
Caveat. Public data only; the skills do not reach logged-in or private content.
Use this in your AI agent
Ask your agent
Using the Deduped MCP, get the setup steps for ScrapeCreators/social-media-research-skills and "Find a creator's posts that beat their usual numbers"
Add Deduped to Claude Code once
claude mcp add --transport http deduped https://dedupedai.com/mcp
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