Cosmos post API
A public Cosmos post: media URLs, captions, source links and the save count.
GET /v1/cosmos/post
GET /v1/cosmos/post
A public Cosmos post: media URLs, captions, source links and the save count.
- Cost: 1 credit
- Cache: Results are kept up to 30 days; send
max_age_daysto reuse them for free. - Timeout: A request still running after about 25 seconds answers
202with a job to poll (Batch and jobs).
Parameters#
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
url | URL | yes | Public post URL (cosmos.so/e/<id>). Accepted hosts: cosmos.so. |
Every request also accepts:
trim:truefor a smaller response withoutnullfields andextra.raw:trueto also get the platform's original object asraw.max_age_days: accept a cached result up to this many days old, for 0 credits (Caching).
Example request#
Set your key in the environment first (see Authentication).
1curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/cosmos/post" \2 -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \3 --data-urlencode "url=https://www.cosmos.so/e/2107587668"1import os2import requests34params = {5 "url": "https://www.cosmos.so/e/2107587668",6}7res = requests.get(8 "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/cosmos/post",9 headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"]},10 params=params,11)12body = res.json()1314if body["ok"]:15 print(body["data"])16else:17 print(body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"])1const url = new URL("https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/cosmos/post");2url.search = new URLSearchParams({3 "url": "https://www.cosmos.so/e/2107587668"4}).toString();5const res = await fetch(url, {6 headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY! },7});8const body = await res.json();910if (body.ok) {11 console.log(body.data);12} else {13 console.error(body.error.code, body.error.message);14}1{2 "nodes": [3 {4 "name": "SocialScrape Cosmos post",5 "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",6 "typeVersion": 4.2,7 "position": [8 0,9 010 ],11 "parameters": {12 "method": "GET",13 "url": "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/cosmos/post",14 "sendQuery": true,15 "queryParameters": {16 "parameters": [17 {18 "name": "url",19 "value": "https://www.cosmos.so/e/2107587668"20 }21 ]22 },23 "sendHeaders": true,24 "headerParameters": {25 "parameters": [26 {27 "name": "x-api-key",28 "value": "={{ $env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY }}"29 }30 ]31 }32 }33 }34 ],35 "connections": {}36}Example response#
This is a sample from a recorded response. Status 200.
200 OKSample response
1{2 "ok": true,3 "credits_charged": 1,4 "credits_remaining": 4999,5 "cached": false,6 "cached_at": null,7 "request_id": "req_3cfee68cc929a9e6319d5af7",8 "data": {9 "object": "post",10 "platform": "cosmos",11 "id": "2107587668",12 "url": "https://www.cosmos.so/e/2107587668",13 "type": "image",14 "author": {15 "id": "2074596056",16 "handle": "audreyelli",17 "name": "Audrey Ellison",18 "url": "https://www.cosmos.so/audreyelli",19 "avatar_url": "https://cdn.cosmos.so/default-avatars/011.png",20 "verified": false21 },22 "title": null,23 "text": "Japanese movie poster for A Hard Day's Night (1964) featuring The Beatles.",24 "published_at": "2026-01-24T17:23:49.338775Z",25 "duration_seconds": null,26 "language": null,27 "hashtags": null,28 "mentions": null,29 "stats": {30 "views": null,31 "likes": null,32 "comments": null,33 "shares": null,34 "saves": 147,35 "dislikes": null36 },37 "media": {38 "thumbnail_url": "https://cdn.cosmos.so/8d612bfd-2b7b-458c-ac99-af7c406eef97",39 "video_url": null,40 "audio_url": null,41 "image_urls": [42 "https://cdn.cosmos.so/8d612bfd-2b7b-458c-ac99-af7c406eef97"43 ],44 "width": 1080,45 "height": 167146 },47 "song": null,48 "location": null,49 "is_pinned": null,50 "is_sponsored": null,51 "extra": {52 "caption_generated": "Japanese movie poster for A Hard Day's Night (1964) featuring The Beatles.",53 "content_accessibility": "ACCESSIBLE",54 "has_more_media": false,55 "is_featured": false,56 "media": [57 {58 "ai_generated": false,59 "height": 1671,60 "id": "8d612bfd-2b7b-458c-ac99-af7c406eef97",61 "nsfw_status": "SAFE",62 "type": "StaticImage",63 "url": "https://cdn.cosmos.so/8d612bfd-2b7b-458c-ac99-af7c406eef97",64 "width": 108065 }66 ],67 "original_collection_id": 752032445,68 "processing_state": "FINISHED",69 "source": {70 "author": {71 "name": "Tom Elliott",72 "profile_url": "https://www.pinterest.com/telliott1817",73 "username": "telliott1817"74 },75 "is_public_domain": false,76 "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/pin/7177680652369084/"77 }78 }79 },80 "cursor": null,81 "has_more": null82}Response#
A Post object in data.
See Data models for every field. The envelope around data is described in Responses.
Errors#
Failures are free: credits_charged is 0. Branch on error.code, never on the message.
| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
invalid_params | 400 | no | A parameter is missing, unknown or has the wrong type. |
unsupported_url | 400 | no | The URL is not one this endpoint accepts (wrong platform or form). |
not_found | 404 | no | The platform says this profile, post or item does not exist. |
Every request can also fail with the account and platform errors listed on the Errors page.
Example error:
1{2 "ok": false,3 "error": {4 "code": "not_found",5 "message": "The platform says this profile, post or item does not exist.",6 "retryable": false7 },8 "credits_charged": 0,9 "request_id": "req_a17bda79baf2ba2215cdd7a2"10}Related endpoints#
- Cosmos profile (
GET /v1/cosmos/profile) - Cosmos profile posts (
GET /v1/cosmos/profile/posts) - Cosmos profile collections (
GET /v1/cosmos/profile/collections) - Cosmos collection (
GET /v1/cosmos/collection) - Cosmos collection posts (
GET /v1/cosmos/collection/posts) - Cosmos search (
GET /v1/cosmos/search)