Free Social Media Scraper
Searching for a free social media scraper usually ends one of two ways: a GitHub project that broke when the platform changed last month, or a "free" tool that caps you at 20 rows and hides the export behind a paywall. Here's the honest version instead: 1Scrape gives every new account $5.00 in free credits — enough to pull thousands of real, exportable rows from TikTok, Instagram, or Google Maps — with no subscription and no credit card needed to start.
Same engine as the paid runs, same clean CSV, same contact columns. When the free credits run out, pricing is flat and public: $8 per 1,000 results, billed per result scraped — and if you never top up, you never pay.
What $5.00 in free credits actually gets you
Credits are just prepaid balance, and runs draw from it at $8 per 1,000 results — so the free $5.00 covers hundreds to thousands of rows depending on the run. Concretely, that's enough to:
- Pull every post under a mid-size TikTok hashtag and see the full engagement picture.
- Export a few hundred Instagram creators from a niche, with public bio emails in their own column.
- Scrape every plumber, salon, or restaurant in a small city off Google Maps — with phone numbers.
- Run a real test of your actual use case — not a demo dataset — before deciding to spend anything.
Pick your platform
This page is the front door; the work happens in the per-platform scrapers, all of which share the free credits and the same CSV format:
TikTok
Hashtags, keyword search, profiles, and bulk video URLs — posts with views, likes, captions, authors, and public bio contacts.
Hashtags, profiles, Reels, and locations — creators with followers, bios, links, and public contact info.
Google Maps
Any "what in where" search — businesses with name, address, phone, website, rating, and a no-website filter for lead gen.
Why "free forever" scrapers usually aren't
Scraping has real costs — the pages have to be fetched, parsed, and kept working as platforms change — so tools promising unlimited free scraping recover that cost somewhere: broken results, brutal row caps, sold data, or an abandoned repo. We think the honest structure is the one you can see: a real free allowance to prove the tool on your own use case, then a flat, published rate with no subscription, no seat fees, and refunds on failed runs.
How it works
Create a free account
Sign up and $5.00 in credits is on your balance — no credit card required to start.
Pick a platform and target
A TikTok hashtag, an Instagram niche, or a Google Maps search — plus any filters you want.
Run it on free credits
Your balance is a hard spend limit, so a run can never cost more than you have. Watch it collect live.
Download the CSV
Billed per result scraped against your free balance — the full export, no row caps, no watermarks.
Frequently asked questions
Is 1Scrape actually free?
It's genuinely free to start: every new account gets $5.00 in credits — thousands of rows at the $8 per 1,000 rate — with no credit card required and no subscription. After that, you only pay if you choose to top up. Free users get the same engine, full CSV exports, and contact columns as paying users.
Do I need a credit card to sign up?
No. You can create an account, browse every scraper, and spend your $5.00 in free credits without entering a card. A card only comes into it if you decide to add more credits later.
What's the catch compared to "unlimited free" scrapers?
The catch runs the other direction. Unlimited-free tools pay their costs with row caps, stale scrapers, or your data. Here the free tier is limited but real — full exports from a maintained engine — and the paid rate is flat and public. You always know which deal you're getting.
What format do I get the data in?
A clean, spreadsheet-ready CSV that opens in Excel, Google Sheets, or Numbers, and imports straight into a database or your own scripts. Every row is one post with its own columns — no copy-paste, no reformatting.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. You fill in a short form — what to scrape and how many results you want — watch the count climb live, and download the CSV when it finishes. There's nothing to install and no API to wire up.