Is there a Snapchat API? (2026)
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Yes, there is a Snapchat API, and there are several. They were built for different jobs, so the useful question is which one answers yours.
What Snap offers
Checked against Snap's developer documentation on 21 September 2026.
- The Marketing API
- Campaigns, reporting, attribution, audiences and creator collaboration. It is for advertisers, and it is open to developers.
- The Public Profile API
- Part of the Marketing API. Its public endpoints return basic metadata and stats for any Snapchat Public Profile without the owner's authorisation, and Snap describes what they return as a subset of what is publicly visible.
- Snap Kit
- Login and sharing for apps, and embeds that put Lenses, Spotlights, Stories or Profiles on a website.
Where our endpoints fit
The endpoints here are record-level: a creator's profile, their Spotlight videos with view, share and comment counts, one video's full record, its comments, the live public story, saved highlights, lenses, and the public Spotlight feed. If the subset Snap's Public Profile API returns covers your job, start there. If you need the video-level counts and the comments beneath them, that is the gap these fill.
Price the job
- Profile lookups for a shortlist
- A few hundred single objects. A monthly floor is your entire bill, so the absence of one matters more than the rate.
- Spotlight tracking
- A creator's videos and their counts, pulled on a schedule. Priced per row delivered, the cost tracks what you actually use.
- Comment analysis
- Comments on a Spotlight video, at whatever volume the video has. The per-row rate is the whole cost.
Questions people ask
Is there a Snapchat API?
What can Snapchat's Public Profile API return?
Can I get Snapchat Spotlight data through an API?
How much does a Snapchat data API cost?
Try it on your own targets
The only comparison that settles anything is your own. A new account gets 1,000 credits, needs no card, and runs on the same endpoints and rate as a paying one.