CrowdTangle MCP. Track public social media insights and trends.
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CrowdTangle. Get your AI agent to track public social media insights, viral posts, and link shares via the CrowdTangle API.
You can monitor trends across Facebook and Instagram, find out which accounts are sharing specific URLs, and pinpoint high-performing content using natural language prompts.
It's built for journalists, marketers, and researchers who need to track public discourse at scale.
What your AI agents can do
Get account details
Retrieves metadata about your CrowdTangle account, including API limits and workspace settings.
Get account leaderboard
Gets the engagement leaderboard and total interaction metrics for accounts listed in your tracking lists.
Get link shares
Identifies which tracked accounts shared a specific URL and provides total interactions generated per share.
Your agent searches across platforms for posts containing a specific keyword and returns relevant accounts and performance data.
Your agent identifies which public accounts have shared a specific URL and calculates the total interactions generated by those shares.
Your agent retrieves posts that are overperforming compared to expected engagement metrics.
Your agent pulls a list of the most recent public social media posts tracked by CrowdTangle, including likes, shares, and comments.
Your agent resolves engagement leaderboards for accounts within your defined tracking lists.
Your agent fetches full engagement data for a single post ID, including reaction breakdowns and share history.
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019d757fget account details
Retrieves metadata about your CrowdTangle account, including API limits and workspace settings.
019d757fget account leaderboard
Gets the engagement leaderboard and total interaction metrics for accounts listed in your tracking lists.
019d757fget link shares
Identifies which tracked accounts shared a specific URL and provides total interactions generated per share.
019d757fget post details
Fetches complete engagement details for a single post ID, including share history and platform metadata.
019d757fget top performing posts
Finds the highest-performing posts by calculating how much they exceeded expected engagement metrics.
019d757flist media posts
Lists recent posts that contain photos or videos, along with their content type and captions.
019d757flist monitored lists
Lists all the account lists you have set up for monitoring and shows how many accounts are in each list.
019d757flist recent posts
Lists the most recent social media posts tracked by CrowdTangle, detailing content, account names, and engagement metrics.
019d757fsearch posts by keyword
Searches for posts across all supported platforms using a specific keyword, returning the post and associated account data.
019d757fsearch tracking lists
Searches for specific account tracking lists by matching a given title.
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What you can do with this MCP connector
CrowdTangle lets your AI agent keep tabs on public social media chatter. It tracks viral posts and link shares across Facebook and Instagram. You can use your agent to search for posts using any keyword and pull up the accounts that shared a specific URL, plus the total interactions those shares generated.
You can also find the highest-performing posts by figuring out how much they blew past expected engagement numbers. When you want the latest scoop, your agent pulls a list of the most recent public posts tracked by CrowdTangle, detailing content, account names, and engagement metrics. To check out what's hot, your agent runs engagement leaderboards for all accounts in your defined tracking lists.
If you need deep details on one piece of content, your agent fetches full engagement data for a single post ID, showing reaction breakdowns and share history. You can list all the account lists you've set up for monitoring and see exactly how many accounts are in each. You'll also get metadata about your CrowdTangle account, including API limits and workspace settings.
To narrow down what you're watching, your agent searches for specific account tracking lists by title. Finally, you can list recent posts that contain photos or videos, showing you the content type and captions.
How CrowdTangle MCP Works
- 1 Connect the CrowdTangle integration to your AI client and authorize it using your API Token.
- 2 Prompt your agent with a query (e.g., 'Find all posts mentioning 'AI ethics' last week').
- 3 The agent runs the necessary tools, processes the raw data, and delivers a summarized answer in conversation.
The bottom line is, your agent handles the data connection and analysis, so you just ask the question.
Who Is CrowdTangle MCP For?
Journalists who need to track breaking stories fast. Digital marketers who need to audit competitor engagement. Researchers who track public discourse. If your job involves monitoring public sentiment or link spread, this is for you.
Tracks breaking stories and monitors how news is spreading online across different social platforms.
Identifies viral trends, audits competitor engagement, and measures the performance of specific campaign links.
Analyzes public discourse patterns and link sharing patterns across multiple social media platforms for academic study.
What Changes When You Connect
- See which accounts are boosting a specific link. Use
get_link_sharesto know exactly which public pages shared a URL, and what total interactions those shares generated. - Pinpoint content that's actually going viral.
get_top_performing_postscalculates a score showing how much a post overperformed its expected engagement, helping you focus on what works. - Analyze public discourse by keyword.
search_posts_by_keywordlets your agent search across platforms for posts about a topic, delivering associated accounts and performance data. - Keep tabs on competitors. Use
get_account_leaderboardto view engagement rankings for your target accounts and spot who's leading the conversation this week. - Review any post in detail. If you need to know the full story behind a post,
get_post_detailsgives you reaction breakdowns and the entire share history. - View media content history.
list_media_postscollects all recent posts that contain photos or videos, listing the URLs and captions for easy review.
Real-World Use Cases
Tracking a news story breakout
A newsroom needs to know how fast a breaking story is spreading. They ask their agent to run search_posts_by_keyword for the story's name. The agent collects results from multiple platforms, showing who posted it and how it's performing, letting the journalists focus on the narrative, not the data.
Auditing a competitor's campaign link
A marketing team needs to know if a competitor's blog post link is gaining traction. They use get_link_shares on the URL. The agent immediately reports which public accounts shared the link and the total interaction count, letting the team adjust their own campaign strategy fast.
Understanding audience interest in a product category
A product manager wants to know if people are talking about 'Electric Vehicles' online. They run search_posts_by_keyword and ask the agent to filter by 'top performing.' The agent returns the best posts and their performance scores, guiding the product team's next content push.
Monitoring key accounts' engagement over time
A researcher wants to track the engagement of their top 20 academic contacts. They first run list_monitored_lists to confirm the list, then use get_account_leaderboard to see who is currently leading in total interactions, giving them a clear, data-backed view of influence.
The Tradeoffs
Treating social media like a simple feed
Just looking at list_recent_posts and thinking that high likes mean high impact. You miss the context of why it succeeded or who drove the reach.
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Don't just look at the list. Run get_top_performing_posts to get the score that measures actual versus expected interactions. This tells you if the post was truly viral, not just popular.
Manually tracking every link share
Copying and pasting URLs into separate monitoring tools and manually checking which pages shared them. This takes hours and is incomplete.
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Use get_link_shares. Give the tool the URL, and it instantly reports every tracked account that shared it, along with the total interactions generated by those shares.
Trying to calculate engagement manually
Adding up likes, comments, and shares from different sources to get a 'total' number. This method is inaccurate because it misses the relative performance context.
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Use get_account_leaderboard or get_post_details. These tools provide standardized, aggregated metrics and relative performance data, giving you a clean, trustworthy score.
When It Fits, When It Doesn't
Use this if you need to move beyond just seeing data. If your goal is to know why something went viral, or who is responsible for the reach, this server is for you. It connects raw posts to performance metrics and link attribution. Don't use it if you just need a simple list of posts; use list_recent_posts for that basic view. But if you need to compare performance or trace a link back to its source, you need the full power of the CrowdTangle suite. It’s about attribution and performance measurement.
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Available Capabilities
Tracking public mentions shouldn't require juggling four different dashboards.
Today, tracking public mentions means logging into Facebook, then Instagram, then a separate link monitoring tool. You copy the URL from one place and paste it into another, cross-referencing engagement metrics that are often displayed in different formats. It's a slow, manual, and incomplete process.
With the CrowdTangle MCP Server, your agent handles the whole thing. You give it a question—like 'Who talked about crypto last week?'—and it returns the aggregated results, showing performance scores and links across all platforms. It just works.
CrowdTangle MCP Server: Find performance data with a single prompt.
Before this, finding out which post was the biggest hit meant running multiple reports: one for total shares, one for comments, and one for general engagement. You had to manually correlate those separate data points.
Now, you ask for the best posts. The agent runs `get_top_performing_posts` and immediately surfaces the highest performers based on a combined score. You get the answer in one shot.
Common Questions About CrowdTangle MCP
How do I use the `search_posts_by_keyword` tool? +
The agent searches for posts across multiple platforms using a keyword. You just need to tell the agent what keyword and timeframe you're looking for.
What is the difference between `list_recent_posts` and `get_top_performing_posts`? +
list_recent_posts shows every post that was made recently. get_top_performing_posts only shows the posts that outperformed their expected engagement, which is a much more valuable metric.
Can I track who shared a link using `get_link_shares`? +
Yes. get_link_shares identifies the specific public accounts that shared a URL and totals the interactions generated by those shares.
How do I check account rankings using `get_account_leaderboard`? +
You run get_account_leaderboard against your defined tracking lists. The tool calculates and returns the total interactions and average engagement rates for those accounts.
Does `get_account_details` give me basic account info? +
Yes. get_account_details retrieves core metadata about your CrowdTangle account, such as API rate limits and workspace configuration boundaries.
How do I use `get_top_performing_posts` to find the best content? +
It resolves posts based on 'score' metrics (actual vs expected interactions). This helps you identify content that significantly outperformed expectations, giving you the highest-performing examples.
What information can `list_media_posts` retrieve about content? +
It lists recent posts that contain photos or videos. You get the associated media URLs, content types (Photo, Video), and the post captions for each item.
How do I manage my tracking lists using `list_monitored_lists`? +
It lists all account lists you are tracking. You retrieve the list IDs, names, platform affiliations, and the count of accounts currently within each list.
How do I get a CrowdTangle API Token? +
Log in to your CrowdTangle dashboard, go to Settings > API, and you will find your API Token there. Ensure your account has API access enabled.
Which social platforms are supported? +
CrowdTangle primarily supports Facebook and Instagram public data. It also tracks specific types of data from Reddit and Twitter (limited).
Can the agent see private accounts? +
No, CrowdTangle only tracks public posts and data from verified pages, groups, and public accounts. Private profiles are not accessible via this API.
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