Directory

Catalog capability map

GET/data-api/v2/directory
Scope
directory:read
Freshness
catalog read
Group
Directory
Platforms
any

What this endpoint answers

One machine-readable description per platform: the object type, an estimated catalog size, how fresh the daily rollup is, and every field, sort key, filter and facet that platform accepts. Read this once at integration time and drive your client from it rather than hardcoding field names - the catalogs do not all carry the same columns.

This is a catalog read: it is served from the CRM Solid database in milliseconds, costs one budget unit, and reports how old the reading is in meta.cache_age_s. It needs the directory:read scope (Directory): Read the account and channel catalog across all seven platforms.

Good to know

  • Catalog sizes are planner row estimates (pg_class.reltuples), not counts. An exact count(*) over an 18M-row catalog takes 15s+ and would time out.
  • freshness.daily_stats_through is the most recent day the engine rollup has written for that platform, which is the honest answer to 'how current is this data'.
  • Cached for 60 seconds.

Parameters

This endpoint takes no path or query parameters.

Call it

Authenticate with a bearer token or the x-api-key header. Keys are server-to-server credentials. Never embed one in front-end code - call the API from your own backend and forward the result.

curl
curl "https://crmsolid.com/data-api/v2/directory" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer psk_live_..."
JavaScript
const res = await fetch("https://crmsolid.com/data-api/v2/directory", {
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.CRM_SOLID_DATA_API_KEY}`,
  },
});

if (!res.ok) {
  const { error } = await res.json();
  throw new Error(`${error.code}: ${error.message} (${error.request_id})`);
}

const { data, meta } = await res.json();
Python
import os

import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://crmsolid.com/data-api/v2/directory",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['CRM_SOLID_DATA_API_KEY']}"},
    timeout=30,
)
res.raise_for_status()

payload = res.json()
data, meta = payload["data"], payload["meta"]

Keys look like psk_live_... for production keys, psk_test_... for test keys and are minted in the panel.

What comes back

Success is { data, meta }. Failure is { error: { code, message, request_id } }. The body below is the spec's own example: the values in it are illustrative readings, not live numbers.

Platforms
1 items
Defaults limit
50
Defaults max limit
500
Defaults scope
addressable
200 GET /directory
{
  "data": {
    "platforms": [
      {
        "platform": "x",
        "object": "account",
        "id_field": "username",
        "addressable_by": [
          "username",
          "user_id"
        ],
        "catalog": {
          "estimated_rows": 18312640,
          "estimate_source": "pg_class_reltuples"
        },
        "freshness": {
          "daily_stats_through": "2026-08-22"
        },
        "fields": [
          "user_id",
          "username",
          "name",
          "followers_count",
          "weekly_growth"
        ],
        "sorts": [
          "id",
          "followers",
          "following",
          "tweets",
          "likes",
          "media",
          "citations",
          "created"
        ],
        "default_sort": "followers",
        "filters": [
          "category",
          "language",
          "country",
          "tier",
          "min_followers",
          "max_followers"
        ],
        "search": {
          "fulltext": true,
          "substring": true
        },
        "facets": {
          "language": "rollup",
          "country": "rollup",
          "category": "sample",
          "followers": "sample"
        },
        "follower_graph": {
          "supported": true,
          "kind": "follows",
          "note": "Real follow edges, but only among accounts already in the catalog."
        },
        "endpoints": {
          "list": "/api/v2/directory/x",
          "detail": "/api/v2/directory/x/{id}",
          "growth": "/api/v2/directory/x/{id}/growth",
          "followers": "/api/v2/directory/x/{id}/followers",
          "following": "/api/v2/directory/x/{id}/following",
          "bulk": "/api/v2/directory/x/bulk",
          "facets": "/api/v2/directory/x/facets"
        }
      }
    ],
    "defaults": {
      "limit": 50,
      "max_limit": 500,
      "scope": "addressable"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "req_9f2c41a8b3d5",
    "generated_at": "2026-08-23T09:14:02.317Z",
    "took_ms": 42
  }
}

The meta block

  • request_idstringrequired

    Unique id for this request. Quote it in a support ticket.

  • generated_atstringrequired

    Server time the response was produced.

  • took_msintegerrequired

    Milliseconds spent server-side.

  • pagePageoptional
  • sourcestringoptional

    Which backend served the payload, for endpoints with more than one.

  • cache_age_sintegeroptional

    Age of the underlying data in seconds. 0 for live reads.

When it fails

GET /directory documents 7 failure statuses. Branch on error.code, which is stable and enumerated; message is prose and may change.

  • 401Unauthorizedunauthorized | invalid_key

    No key was presented, or the key is unknown, revoked or expired.

  • 402PaymentRequiredpayment_required | subscription_inactive

    The key is valid but the plan behind it cannot serve the call: the included requests are spent and overage is switched off, capped or unfunded (payment_required), or the billing period lapsed and was not renewed (subscription_inactive). Retrying does not help; paying does. The X-Plan-* headers on this response say how far past the line you are.

    Carries X-Plan, X-Plan-Limit, X-Plan-Overage, X-Plan-Period-End, X-Plan-Remaining.

  • 403Forbiddenforbidden_scope | forbidden_ip

    The key is valid but not allowed to make this call: it lacks the scope, or the request came from an address outside the key's allowlist.

  • 422InvalidRequestinvalid_request

    A parameter is malformed, out of range or mutually exclusive with another. `details` names the offending fields.

  • 429RateLimitedrate_limited | quota_exceeded

    Either the burst ceiling for the current minute or the daily quota is spent. Distinguish with the code: rate_limited clears within the minute, quota_exceeded does not clear until 00:00 UTC.

    Carries Retry-After, X-Quota-Limit, X-Quota-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-Request-Id.

  • 500InternalErrorinternal_error

    Something failed on our side. Internals are never leaked; quote the request id.

  • 503Unavailableupstream_timeout | upstream_error | not_configured

    The request could not be served right now. BRANCH ON error.code, not on the status: 'upstream_timeout' means a source was too slow (this is what a catalog query hitting its 15-second statement timeout returns, so it is reachable from any endpoint that reads the corpus, not only the live-scrape ones) and the same call is worth retrying with backoff - narrowing it with a smaller limit, a filtered scope or a less popular account makes it far less likely; 'upstream_error' means a source was unreachable, so back off further; 'not_configured' means the capability has no backing service in this deployment, and retrying will never help.

Every response carries X-Request-Id and meta.request_id. Quote it in support requests.

Coverage and limits

This endpoint is not platform-specific. Rate limits come from the tier on your key.

TierRequests a minuteRequests a dayLive reads a minute
free301,0005
standard12025,00020
pro600250,00060
unlimited6,00010,000,000600

This call only draws on the ordinary per-minute and per-day columns. Every response reports where you stand in X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset and the X-Plan headers.

Start calling it

A key takes a minute to mint in the panel, no card. The reference covers authentication, the envelope, scopes, rate limits and every error code in one page.

Reference path: /data-api/reference/directory-index

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