Tikhub provides a unified social data infrastructure that delivers real-time, structured social media content—video, audio, and text—from over 16 platforms via a single API key. Its API returns GDPR‑ and CCPA‑compliant JSON responses in sub‑second latency, supporting use cases such as AI training, market research, and competitive intelligence, with pricing as low as $0.001 per request.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Accessing up-to-date public social media content at scale requires handling dozens of platform APIs, dealing with rate limits, and normalizing heterogeneous video, audio, and text data. This complexity limits developers, researchers, and AI teams from quickly incorporating real‑time social signals into their models and analytics.
Solution
TikHub offers a unified social data infrastructure that aggregates public content from 16 major platforms—including TikTok, Douyin, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter/X, and Chinese networks—into a single RESTful API. The service delivers structured JSON responses in sub‑second latency, covering over 1 billion dataset records across 1,000+ endpoints. Developers can retrieve videos, audio, comments, profiles, and engagement metrics on demand, enabling real‑time training, market research, and competitive intelligence. TikHub also provides Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that expose platform‑specific tools for AI agents, allowing natural‑language queries and autonomous data fetching. The platform is GDPR and CCPA compliant, using only publicly available data.
Target Audience
Primary customers are AI developers, data scientists, and research teams building models that require real‑time social media signals, as well as enterprises in quantitative trading, government/defense analytics, and marketing intelligence.
Features
- Unified API key grants access to 16 platforms and 1,000+ endpoints, eliminating the need for multiple credentials
- Sub‑second structured JSON responses for video, audio, text, and metadata, ready for AI pipelines
- Real‑time MCP servers per platform enable natural‑language queries and agent‑driven data extraction
- Deep coverage of Chinese social networks (Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Weibo, Bilibili, etc.) for cross‑regional trend analysis
- Pay‑as‑you‑go pricing with per‑request costs from $0.001 to $0.01 and automatic volume discounts
- Enterprise options include custom endpoint development, private deployment, and dedicated technical support
- GDPR and CCPA alignment ensures compliance when using public data only