Practical overview
When it fits
Use it when an AI-agent workflow needs to turn public social posts, comments, transcripts or ads into a focused research artifact rather than simply fetch raw social data.
Who it is for
- Researchers and marketers comparing social content performance or competitor strategies.
- Teams mining public comments and transcripts for audience language, questions, objections and content ideas.
- Users building trend, influencer, audience-fit, product-demand or social-listening research workflows with an AI agent.
Documented uses
- Find posts that outperform a creator’s baseline and identify repeatable patterns.
- Extract themes, questions, objections and useful audience phrasing from comments.
- Summarize video transcripts into hooks, claims, quotes and reusable content elements.
- Compare competitor social strategies or examine active ads for messaging angles, offers and calls to action.
- Turn public social signals into trend, prospecting, audience-fit, product-demand or listening reports.
Requirements & limits
The repository is public and lists an MIT license. Using the documented workflows requires a ScrapeCreators API key; agent support for the Agent Skills specification is also required.
- The collection is agent skills, not a standalone analytics dashboard; it needs a compatible agent environment.
- ScrapeCreators is the stated data layer for workflows that require endpoint details, and setup uses a ScrapeCreators API key.
- The design is centered on public social data, with no promise of logged-in or private data.
- The README names workflows and outputs across platforms including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Facebook and Threads; ad analysis includes Meta, Google and LinkedIn ads.
- The stated analysis principles include comparing performance against a creator’s own baseline and preserving useful comments, hooks, captions and transcript quotes verbatim.
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Install the skills and configure ScrapeCreators access
Add the repository's skills to a supported agent environment and set the API key used by ScrapeCreators.
Before you start
- An agent that supports the Agent Skills specification; the README lists Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Windsurf and VS Code.
- A ScrapeCreators API key.
Steps
Run the command below.
npx skills add ScrapeCreators/social-media-research-skillsSet the
SCRAPECREATORS_API_KEYenvironment variable to the ScrapeCreators API key.
Expected outcome
The skills are added to the agent environment and the documented API-key variable is configured for workflows that use ScrapeCreators as their data layer.
Guide limitations
- The guide documents installation and key setup, not execution or deployment of a particular research workflow.
- The README describes public social data; it does not promise access to logged-in or private data.
Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 10 October 2026
- Original website title
- ScrapeCreators/social-media-research-skills · Official homepage title · retained in its source language

