Tutorials, deep-dives, and product updates. Building with Facebook + Instagram data, MCP for AI agents, LangChain integrations, and what we've learned shipping a public API.
Meta has no public Marketplace API and BeautifulSoup scripts break. Search Facebook Marketplace by keyword, location and price with one API call, export listings to CSV, and get alerts for new listings and price drops, in Python.
Meta's Ad Library API covers political and EU ads and needs identity confirmation. Here's how to search any advertiser's Facebook and Instagram ads by keyword or page with one API key, read the response, and get alerted when a competitor launches a new ad.
Meta removed the Groups API on April 22, 2024. Here's how to watch a public Facebook group for new posts and send them to Slack, email or Sheets: a 40-line Python script and a no-code n8n workflow.
The Graph API keeps shrinking — public page data, posts, marketplace listings have all moved behind OAuth, app review, or outright deprecation. Here's what we use instead, with working code in Python, JS, and Go.
First-class Model Context Protocol support: Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Cursor, and any MCP-aware client can call every SocialAPIs endpoint natively.
Step-by-step build of an AI agent that monitors Facebook pages, summarizes activity, and alerts on changes — LangChain + SocialAPIs + Python.
Building production-grade AI agents — tool calling, memory, orchestration, deploying with MCP, and the trade-offs you actually have to make.
Reliable API integrations in 2025 — auth, structured logging, rate-limit-aware clients, idempotency, retry patterns. What we ship to make this easier.
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