Let your AI agents scrape data from social media (free)
Pulling social data used to mean paying for a scraping SaaS or API. Now your own AI agent — Claude Code or Codex scrapes anything with ego (lite) for free.
Just tell your agent what you want
Tell your agent the platform and the data you’re after, and let it run. Here we take X and LinkedIn as examples — the flow is identical on both, you only change what you ask for.
Scrape posts and engagement
“Get OpenAI’s 5 most-liked posts on X this week.” Posts, likes, and views come back in a table.
Collect jobs and profiles
“Find the 15 newest React jobs in New York.” Role, company, and apply link come back in a table.
And it doesn’t stop at two. Add ego (lite) to your agent and it reaches far more than X and LinkedIn — every feed you’re signed into is in reach.
ego (lite) is a real browser you and your AI agents both use
ego (lite) is the browser built to share with your AI agents, like Codex or Claude Code. Zero cost, zero config. Let them handle any web automation much faster.
No scripts. No dependencies. No API keys.
Scraping usually means signing up for a service per platform, juggling API keys, or wiring up your own script — and paying to keep it alive. You skip the entire stack.
Stitch together a scraper for every platform
- A different scraping SaaS or API per platform, each with its own API keys and dashboards
- A monthly subscription, or metered per call
- Or roll your own:
npm install puppeteer-coreand a Node project to maintain - Hand-write DOM selectors (
article,data-testid) that break when the UI changes - Code the scroll, pagination, and extraction yourself
- Fight 403 / 429 rate limits, bot detection, proxies, and logins that don’t carry over
Open your agent and ask
- Nothing to install — no Node project, no Puppeteer, no token
- Runs on the browser you already use, already signed in
- Reads the page’s structure, not fragile selectors, so a UI change won’t break it
- Just tell it what you want — in any language your agent understands
- Free — you only spend your agent’s tokens
- Just the AI agent and browser you already use every day — no platforms, services, or prices to hunt and compare, and no chores to babysit
How it works, step by step
We’ll use X as the example. The same steps work on any site your agent can open — you just change what you ask for.
A Chromium browser you use daily. One click imports your Chrome logins, so the agent reads as you.
：What do you want to pull?
/ego-browserGet OpenAI’s 5 most-liked posts on X this week
Type /ego-browser and just say what you want — in any language your agent understands.
| Post | Likes | Views |
|---|---|---|
| “Introducing our latest…” | 48.2k | 6.1M |
| “Today we’re rolling…” | 31.7k | 4.4M |
| “A quick demo of…” | 27.0k | 3.9M |
Tell your agent the format — table, CSV, Sheets, Notion, JSON. Your AI agent delivers.
It works the same on every platform
Point your agent at any of these and say what you want back — the one-line ask is the same everywhere.
X / Twitter
“Most-liked posts for a search term over the last 7 days.”
“Top 10 posts in r/LocalLLaMA this week, with score and comments.”
“Posts in my feed mentioning 'hiring', with author and reactions.”
YouTube
“Last 20 uploads on a channel, with views and publish date.”
“Captions and like counts from a public profile's recent posts.”
TikTok
“Top videos for a hashtag, with sound, views, and likes.”
“Recent public posts from a page, with reactions.”
Any feed you're logged into
“If you can see it, name it and what to pull.”
What ego (lite) won’t do
Built for read-only research on accounts you already have access to.
What can ego lite do
Read and export, with your own access.
- Export posts, comments, and counts into a table or API
- Read feeds behind logins you already have
- Monitor competitors, brands, and topics
- Source candidates and leads across platforms
- Run the same pull on a schedule
What we don't recommend
The red lines, stated plainly.
- Like, follow, post, DM, or automate engagement
- Farm accounts, fake engagement, or mass-message
- Bypass CAPTCHAs, bot detection, or rate limits
- Reach private or restricted accounts you can’t see
Give your agent a real browser, not another scraper script
Download ego (lite) for MacFAQ
No. You bring an AI agent you already use — Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, or Cursor — and ego lite is the browser it drives. The agent reads on your own logged-in session, so there's no platform API to apply for, no API keys, and no proxy service.
ego lite is a free download. Instead of a monthly SaaS subscription or per-call API metering, you only spend your own agent's tokens — and a read-and-extract task is usually a small amount of them, since the agent works from a compressed snapshot rather than raw HTML. There's no third-party service in the loop to pay or depend on.
X/Twitter, Reddit, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook — anything you can see while logged into your own account. The same one-line ask works everywhere; you just change the platform and what you want back.
ego lite only reads. It doesn't like, follow, post, DM, or automate any engagement, which is the activity platforms usually act on. It doesn't bypass rate limits or a platform's terms, and it behaves like you browsing your own feed. We can't promise any platform's rules won't change, so use a demo account for anything sensitive and stay within each platform's terms.
No. ego lite doesn't defeat CAPTCHAs, evade bot detection, get around rate limits, or reach private or restricted accounts you can't already see. It runs on your real, logged-in session, so it only ever reaches what you can reach yourself.
Your browsing data stays on your own computer — ego lite doesn't upload your history, cookies, or sessions. It's free on macOS today, with Windows and Linux on the roadmap. If you connect an external agent or model provider, that provider has its own data policy.