Search Snapchat

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Search public Snapchat content, returning Lens, Spotlight, topic, profile, publisher and place result sections with their source fields.

GET/v1/snapchat/searchx-api-key

Headers

Get your API key

x-api-keystringrequiredheader

Your ScrapeAtlas customer key. Create one on /account/ and set SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY.

Query parameters

querystringrequiredquery

Required search text; the response contains Snapchat's canonical query.

min 1 chars · max 50 chars

Exampletrail running

Response fields

requestIdstring

Request correlation UUID.

Upstream request count, decoded response bytes and elapsed milliseconds.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Upstream HTTP attempts used by this request.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Decoded source response bytes.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsnumber

Elapsed retrieval milliseconds.

≥ 0

successboolean

True when usable Snapchat data is returned.

statusenum

success or partial for usable data. Failure responses use failed or challenged.

one of: success, partial

sourceUrlstring

Canonical Snapchat page or Spotlight URL.

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval timestamp.

Source, completeness and warnings for the returned public records.

coverage.sourceenum

public_page or public_comments.

one of: public_page, public_comments

coverage.completeboolean

Whether the selected source response was returned without a reported omission.

coverage.warningsstring[]

Warning codes describing omitted or additional records.

coverage.orderenumoptional

Returned record order, such as ranked or source_order.

one of: source_order, ranked

querystring

Required search text; the response contains Snapchat's canonical query.

sectionsobject[]

Ordered source result sections with Lens, Spotlight, topic, public profile, publisher edition and place result unions.

up to 100 items

spotlightCardMapobject

Source Spotlight cards indexed by their original identifiers, preserving snaps, media, creators, thumbnails, metadata and engagement counters.

countinteger

Number of result objects returned across the sections.

≥ 0

localestringnullable

Source locale, or null.

countrystringnullable

Source country code, or null.

pageMetadataobjectnullable

Original page metadata, or null.

deepLinkPathstringnullable

Original source deep-link path, or null.

HTTP 200 returns the success variant. Check status: partial means usable data with warnings, and failed or challenged requests carry a failure object described in Errors & responses.

Error codes

HTTP	failure.code	Meaning
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, duplicate, unknown or malformed parameters.
401	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid service API key.
403	`restricted_page`	The requested page reports restricted access.
404	`not_found`	The requested public record was not found.
429	`upstream_rate_limited`	Snapchat temporarily rate limited retrieval.
502	`upstream_challenged`	Snapchat challenged the request.
502	`unsupported_page`	The public source does not validate against the supported structure.
502	`response_too_large` `payload_too_complex`	The source exceeded byte or structural bounds.
502	`unsafe_redirect` `request_limit` `upstream_error`	Retrieval could not complete within its source and request bounds.
503	`busy`	The worker admission queue is full or its wait deadline was exceeded.
504	`timeout`	The request exceeded its deadline.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/snapchat/search?query=trail+running" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/snapchat/search?query=trail+running",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.status, data);

type Result = {
  status: "success" | "partial" | "failed" | "challenged";
  requestId: string;
  [field: string]: unknown;
};

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/snapchat/search?query=trail+running",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!
    }
  }
);

const data = (await response.json()) as Result;
if (data.status === "failed" || data.status === "challenged") {
  throw new Error(`Snapchat request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/snapchat/search",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "query": "trail running"
    },
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/snapchat/search?query=trail+running", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]interface{}
	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
	fmt.Println(data["status"], data)
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/snapchat/search?query=trail+running"))
            .GET()
            .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
            .build();
        var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Use your sa_live_… customer key at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

Responses

Successful result. Synthetic example validated against the runtime contract.

{
  "success": true,
  "status": "partial",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000099",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.snapchat.com/explore/trail-running",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-06T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_page",
    "complete": false,
    "warnings": [
      "search_source_window"
    ],
    "order": "source_order"
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 9000,
    "durationMs": 450
  },
  "query": "trail running",
  "sections": [
    {
      "title": "Synthetic Lenses",
      "sectionType": 6,
      "sectionLayout": 1,
      "numToShow": 0,
      "endOfResults": false,
      "sectionPageToken": "synthetic-token",
      "columnCount": 0,
      "results": [
        {
          "resultType": 6,
          "result": {
            "$case": "lens",
            "lens": {
              "lensId": "100001",
              "name": "Synthetic Lens",
              "iconUrl": "https://cf-st.sc-cdn.net/synthetic-lens-icon.png",
              "deeplinkUrl": "https://www.snapchat.com/lens/00000000000040008000000000000001",
              "creatorName": "Example Creator",
              "creatorUserId": "synthetic-user-id",
              "creatorProfileId": "synthetic-profile-id",
              "creatorIsOffical": false,
              "thumbnailUrl": "https://cf-st.sc-cdn.net/synthetic-lens.jpg",
              "thumbnailSequence": {},
              "scpExclusive": false
            }
          },
          "compId": {
            "corpus": 6,
            "id": "100001",
            "version": "1"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "spotlightCardMap": {},
  "count": 1,
  "locale": "en-US",
  "country": "US",
  "pageMetadata": null,
  "deepLinkPath": null
}

Missing, duplicate, unknown or malformed parameters.

{
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0
  },
  "success": false,
  "status": "failed",
  "failure": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "Invalid request: missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters."
  }
}