Social listening & brand monitoring with UnifAPI
Build an AI agent that tracks brand mentions, sentiment, and emerging conversation across Twitter / X, Reddit, TikTok, and news — through a single API. Live use-case page: unifapi.com/solutions/social-listening.
The problem
A traditional social-listening stack stitches together a Twitter scraper, a Reddit client, a TikTok provider, and a news API — each with its own shape, auth, rate limits, and billing. The agent code becomes 60% glue and 40% product.
The UnifAPI shape
One key, four calls, one consistent JSON shape:
# Mentions on Twitter / X
curl https://api.unifapi.com/v1/twitter/search \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY" \
-d '{"q": "\"Acme Corp\"", "since": "24h"}'
# Mentions on Reddit
curl https://api.unifapi.com/v1/reddit/search \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY" \
-d '{"q": "Acme Corp", "subreddit": "all", "since": "24h"}'
# Discussion on TikTok
curl https://api.unifapi.com/v1/tiktok/search \
-d '{"q": "Acme Corp"}' \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"
# Press coverage
curl https://api.unifapi.com/v1/news/search \
-d '{"q": "Acme Corp", "since": "24h"}' \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"
Pipe the four streams into the agent’s reasoning loop. Same auth, same error model, same pagination.
APIs used
- Twitter / X API — search, replies, user timelines
- Reddit API — subreddit & global search, comments
- TikTok API — video search, hashtag, profile
- News Search API — real-time press coverage
Typical agent loop
- Discover — scheduled UnifAPI calls every N minutes for the brand keywords
- Classify — pass results through an LLM (model routed by your LLM gateway of choice) for sentiment + topic
- Enrich — for high-priority hits, scrape the linked URL via URL → markdown
- Notify — post to Slack, file a ticket, or escalate
Why pay-per-call wins here
Social listening volume is bursty — a launch week is 100× a normal day. UnifAPI’s pay-per-call pricing lets the bill match the load. Subscription-based vendors force you to size for peak and overpay in the troughs.
Related
- Trend discovery — broader version of this loop, without the brand filter
- Competitive intelligence — same plumbing pointed at a competitor
- UnifAPI vs RapidAPI