Stormy Cookbook — TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and Reddit API recipes for AI agents

Open-source, copy-pasteable recipes for the Stormy Social Data API and the Stormy MCP server (Model Context Protocol, Streamable HTTP).

One HTTP contract — search, profile, emails, jobs — across six social networks. No proxy pool, no six vendor SDKs, no scraper to babysit. Point your agent at https://stormy.ai/mcp, or curl the REST base at https://stormy.ai/api/v1.

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Why this exists

Every "get social data" project starts the same way: six different APIs, six auth schemes, six rate limits, six response shapes, and a scraper that breaks on a Tuesday. Then you bolt an LLM on top and discover none of it is shaped for an agent — no cost signal, no idempotency, no durable jobs, no machine-readable capability list.

Stormy is that layer, already built. This cookbook is how you use it.

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Quickstart A: connect the MCP server

The Stormy MCP server speaks Streamable HTTP at https://stormy.ai/mcp and authenticates with an HTTP bearer token. Get a key at stormy.ai/account and export it:

export STORMY_API_KEY="stm_live_..."   # never commit this

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http stormy https://stormy.ai/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $STORMY_API_KEY"

Codex CLI (~/.codex/config.toml)

[mcp_servers.stormy]
url = "https://stormy.ai/mcp"
bearer_token_env_var = "STORMY_API_KEY"

Cursor / Windsurf / any mcp.json client

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "stormy": {
      "url": "https://stormy.ai/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${STORMY_API_KEY}"
      }
    }
  }
}

ChatGPT custom connector

Name: Stormy Social Data
MCP URL: https://stormy.ai/mcp
Authentication: OAuth

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