API Direct MCP¶

Remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP, API key) — one endpoint for searching and reading public data across 13 platforms: LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, Truth Social, forums, news, web search, and Google Maps. Built by Josh Waller (apidirect.io). 68 tools plus 60+ ready-made skill playbooks that chain them into concrete outcomes — competitor conquest, just-funded outreach windows, layoff-wave recruiting, due-diligence dossiers. Pay-as-you-go per request, no subscription.

Server type: Remote (Streamable HTTP)
Auth: API key (also accepted as X-API-Key or Authorization header)
Endpoint: https://apidirect.io/mcp?token=YOUR_API_KEY
Tools: 68 (platform search, profile/post detail, skills layer, batch)
Pricing: Pay-as-you-go per request (typically $0.005–$0.006 per page on read endpoints); no subscription
Category: Data & Analytics (filed under Marketing)
Built by: API Direct (apidirect.io)

Why This Matters for Operators¶

Public social and local-business data has always been valuable and always been painful to collect. Thirteen different platforms, thirteen different auth walls, rate limits, and scrapers that break whenever a site changes markup. The result is that lead-gen, competitive monitoring, and reputation work gets done manually, occasionally, or by tools that only cover one platform.

API Direct collapses all thirteen into one API key and one MCP endpoint. The agent asks for LinkedIn posts by founders at Series-A companies, X replies to a competitor's launch tweet, Google Maps reviews of a local acquisition target, or news coverage of a crisis — and gets back structured JSON with engagement metrics, sentiment options, and citations, all billed per request.

The differentiator is the skills layer. list_skills returns 60+ playbooks — expert recipes with the non-obvious filters already encoded (author title, company mentions, AI sentiment, freshness windows). get_skill returns a step-by-step recipe with the caller's inputs filled in. The agent stops improvising raw searches and starts running "competitor conquest," "churn intent," or "outage early warning" as a single outcome-shaped call.

Tools & Capabilities¶

Tool	Purpose
`list_skills` / `get_skill`	Browse and run 60+ ready-made playbooks: lead-gen, recruiting, competitive intelligence, investing, PR/crisis, product insights, OSINT/due diligence
`search_linkedin`	Search LinkedIn posts with filters: author, author title, author company, mentions_company, mentions_member, industry; returns engagement metrics and optional AI sentiment
`linkedin_person_posts` / `linkedin_post_details`	Recent posts by a person or full detail for one post by URL
`linkedin_company_details` / `linkedin_company_posts` / `search_linkedin_companies`	Company page data, company posts, and keyword company search
`search_linkedin_jobs` / `linkedin_job_details`	Job listings with salary, location, industry, and experience level — usable as hiring/expansion/funding signals
`search_twitter` / `search_twitter_users`	Post and user search on X
`twitter_user_profile` / `twitter_user_tweets` / `twitter_user_followers` / `twitter_user_following`	Profile, timeline, and graph data for X accounts
`twitter_verified_followers` / `twitter_tweet_details` / `twitter_tweet_retweets` / `twitter_tweet_quotes` / `twitter_tweet_comments`	Verified-follower extraction and per-tweet engagement deep dives
`twitter_trends`	Current trending topics by location
`search_reddit` / `search_reddit_comments` / `search_reddit_users`	Post, comment, and user search across Reddit
`search_youtube` / `search_youtube_channels` / `get_youtube_comments` / `youtube_channel_details` / `youtube_video_details`	Video, channel, and comment data on YouTube
`search_instagram` / `search_instagram_users` / `instagram_user_profile` / `instagram_user_posts` / `instagram_post_details`	Post and profile data on Instagram, including reels and carousels
`search_threads` / `search_threads_users` / `threads_user_profile` / `threads_user_posts`	Threads post and profile data
`search_tiktok` / `search_tiktok_users` / `tiktok_user_profile` / `tiktok_video_details`	TikTok discovery with watermark-free playback URLs
`facebook_page_details` / `facebook_page_posts` / `facebook_page_photos` / `facebook_page_videos` / `facebook_page_reels` / `facebook_page_reviews`	Facebook page surface in full
`facebook_group_details` / `facebook_group_posts` / `facebook_post_comments` / `search_facebook_posts` / `search_facebook_pages` / `search_facebook_videos` / `search_facebook_events` / `search_facebook_locations`	Groups, comments, and location-scoped Facebook search
`search_forums` / `search_news` / `search_web`	Forum posts, thousands of news sources, and Google organic results with country/language targeting
`google_ai_mode`	Structured conversational replies from Google's AI Mode with citation links
`search_places` / `place_details` / `place_reviews` / `place_photos`	Google Maps local-business data: ratings, hours, reviews, photos, and contact scraping
`batch_requests`	Up to 100 API Direct requests in one concurrent call — free to invoke, each item billed at its endpoint's rate

Installation¶

claude mcp add api-direct --transport http "https://apidirect.io/mcp?token=YOUR_API_KEY"

Per-client walkthroughs are published on the mcp.so listing page; the endpoint is the same for every client. Sign up at apidirect.io to get an API key.

Configuration¶

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "api-direct": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://apidirect.io/mcp?token=YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
}

The key can alternatively be sent as an X-API-Key or Authorization header. Pay-as-you-go credit meter — no subscription required.

Business Relevance¶

Founders and sales leads get competitor-conquest lists, just-funded outreach windows, and local buying-intent capture without paying for a seat in a social-listening suite
Recruiters and hiring managers source talent by title and company, intercept layoff waves, and verify candidate signal from public posts
Investors and deal sourcers run due-diligence dossiers, adverse-media sweeps, and cross-platform identity resolution from one tool call
Marketing operators monitor brand mentions, share of voice, and detractor radar across thirteen platforms, with AI sentiment on every result
Local-service operators pull Google Maps ratings, reviews, and owner contact data for acquisition lists and reputation audits

Integration with CorpusIQ¶

API Direct feeds the top of the funnel; CorpusIQ closes and measures it. A composed workflow: get_skill (local-buying-intent-capture) surfaces prospects talking about a pain point, search_linkedin and search_twitter resolve who they are and who they work for, then CorpusIQ's HubSpot connector records them as contacts with the social context attached, Klaviyo runs the nurture sequence, and GA4 + Stripe measure whether the social-sourced cohort actually converts. Every lead keeps its provenance — which post, which platform, which playbook — so attribution survives from first signal to first invoice.

For competitive intelligence, API Direct's market-map and pricing-objection playbooks complement CorpusIQ's Ahrefs and Semrush connectors: the SEO connectors show what a competitor ranks for, API Direct shows what their customers complain about in public.

Limitations¶

Brand new listing (Aug 2026) — no long track record yet
Pay-as-you-go pricing means unbounded agents can burn credits; set spend caps before wiring it into autonomous workflows
Data is public-only — no authenticated/private feeds, no DMs, no posting (read-only by design)
Platform availability can shift as underlying sites change; individual endpoint coverage varies
Live tool list is served from the endpoint — the 68-tool count and table above come from the published listing, verify after connecting