Swaypi

The customers are the people who would otherwise build this themselves: platform builders, agency-tool makers, and brand-discovery startups who need creator data as an input and have no wish to run a scraping operation to get it.

Behind the API is a pipeline rather than a purchased list. Discovery workers find creators across the major platforms, enrichment fills in the profile once a handle is known, and then everything is vetted — filtered to the United States and Canada, checked for a deliverable contact address, and checked for whether the account is still alive at all. Surviving records are tagged and scored by topic so a caller can ask for a category instead of a keyword.

Coverage is deliberately narrowed to North America instead of claiming the world. A creator database that spans every market is usually thin everywhere, and the geographic filter is applied at ingestion rather than as a search parameter, so what the API returns is what it says it is.

Liveness checking is the unglamorous differentiator. Creator lists rot quickly — accounts go private, get abandoned, or get renamed — and a record that was accurate a year ago is worse than no record, because it wastes the outreach it triggers. Re-checking is therefore part of the pipeline rather than a cleanup task.

It is genuinely pre-launch: the pipeline exists and the commercial API does not open yet, which is why this entry is marked the way it is. Billing is built on subscriptions rather than per-record pricing, so the customers it is designed for can plan a cost instead of metering every lookup.