> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.influship.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Get Creator by ID > Retrieve a creator's profile including AI-generated summary, content themes, and optionally their linked social profiles. **What is a Creator?** A creator is a cross-platform entity representing a person or brand. They may have profiles on multiple social networks (Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, etc.) that are linked together. **Include options:** - `profiles`: Include all linked social profiles with metrics Also callable as the `get_creator` MCP tool — see [the MCP server guide](/guides/mcp-server) for setup. **Pricing**: 0.1 credits per request ($0.001) ## OpenAPI ````yaml https://app.stainless.com/api/spec/documented/influship-api/openapi.documented.yml get /v1/creators/{id} openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Influship API version: 1.0.0 description: > Public API for creator search, profile lookup, and campaign-fit analysis. ## Authentication Send your API key in the `X-API-Key` header on every authenticated request. ```bash curl -H "X-API-Key: your_api_key" https://api.influship.com/v1/creators/autocomplete?q=fitness ``` ## Billing and Rate Limits The API uses credit-based billing and credit-based rate limits. - every endpoint has a credit cost - successful responses include `X-Credits-Charged` and `X-Credits-Features` - rate limits are enforced with per-minute and per-hour credit budgets - rate limit state is returned in the `RateLimit-*` headers ## Pagination List endpoints use cursor pagination. - send `limit` to control page size - use `next_cursor` from the response to fetch the next page - stop when `has_more` is `false` Search has one special rule: - `POST /v1/search` creates a persisted search session - `GET /v1/search/{id}` paginates that session for free - free pagination is capped by the original search `limit` ## Errors Errors use a consistent shape: ```json { "error": { "code": "rate_limit_exceeded", "message": "Rate limit exceeded (per minute)" } } ``` See each operation for exact request and response schemas. contact: name: Influship Support email: support@influship.com license: name: Proprietary url: https://influship.com/terms servers: - url: https://api.influship.com description: Production security: - ApiKeyAuth: [] tags: - name: Health description: API health and status endpoints - name: Creators description: >- Retrieve creator profiles and discover new creators through search, autocomplete, and lookalike matching. Creators are cross-platform entities that may have profiles on multiple social networks. - name: Profiles description: >- Access individual social media profiles with detailed metrics, growth data, and activity information. Profiles are platform-specific accounts linked to creators. - name: Creator Emails description: >- Look up known creator email addresses by creator ID or social username. Empty or unresolved results are not billable. - name: Posts description: >- Retrieve and analyze social media posts with engagement metrics, media content, and performance data. - name: Search description: >- AI-powered semantic search to find creators using natural language queries. Understands intent and context to match creators based on content themes, audience, and style. - name: Live Scraping description: >- Fetch fresh data directly from social platforms in real-time. Use when you need the most current information or data for profiles not yet in our database. paths: /v1/creators/{id}: get: tags: - Creators summary: Get Creator by ID description: >- Retrieve a creator's profile including AI-generated summary, content themes, and optionally their linked social profiles. **What is a Creator?** A creator is a cross-platform entity representing a person or brand. They may have profiles on multiple social networks (Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, etc.) that are linked together. **Include options:** - `profiles`: Include all linked social profiles with metrics Also callable as the `get_creator` MCP tool — see [the MCP server guide](/guides/mcp-server) for setup. **Pricing**: 0.1 credits per request ($0.001) operationId: getCreatorById parameters: - schema: description: Additional data to include in response example: - profiles type: array items: type: string enum: - profiles in: query name: include description: Additional data to include in response - schema: type: string format: uuid pattern: >- ^([0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000|ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff)$ description: Creator unique identifier example: 123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000 in: path name: id required: true description: Creator unique identifier responses: '200': description: Successful response content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreatorResponse' '400': description: Validation error response content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error400' '401': description: Authentication error response content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error401' '403': description: Permission error response content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error403' '404': description: Not found error response content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error404' '429': description: >- Rate limit exceeded response. Check Retry-After header for backoff timing. Also returned (without RateLimit-* headers) when an IP is temporarily blocked after repeated failed authentication attempts. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error429' '500': description: Internal server error response content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error500' x-codeSamples: - lang: JavaScript source: >- import Influship from 'influship'; const client = new Influship({ apiKey: process.env['INFLUSHIP_API_KEY'], // This is the default and can be omitted }); const creator = await client.creators.retrieve('123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000'); console.log(creator.data); - lang: Python source: |- import os from influship import Influship client = Influship( api_key=os.environ.get("INFLUSHIP_API_KEY"), # This is the default and can be omitted ) creator = client.creators.retrieve( id="123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000", ) print(creator.data) components: schemas: CreatorResponse: type: object properties: data: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreatorResponseData' warning: description: >- Present when partial results were returned because one or more linked profiles were skipped for data integrity reasons. type: string required: - data additionalProperties: false Error400: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: Validation error response examples: - error: code: validation_error message: 'Invalid value for parameter ''limit'': must be between 1 and 100' param: limit request_id: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 Error401: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: Authentication error response examples: - error: code: unauthorized message: API key missing or invalid request_id: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 Error403: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: Permission error response examples: - error: code: forbidden message: Your plan does not include access to this endpoint request_id: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 Error404: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: Not found error response examples: - error: code: not_found message: Creator with ID '123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000' not found request_id: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 Error429: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: >- Rate limit exceeded response. Check Retry-After header for backoff timing. Also returned (without RateLimit-* headers) when an IP is temporarily blocked after repeated failed authentication attempts. examples: - error: code: rate_limit_exceeded message: Rate limit exceeded (per minute) request_id: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 - error: code: rate_limit_exceeded message: Rate limit exceeded (per hour) request_id: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440001 - error: code: rate_limit_exceeded message: Too many failed authentication attempts. Please try again later. request_id: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440002 Error500: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' description: Internal server error response examples: - error: code: internal_error message: An unexpected error occurred. Please try again later. request_id: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 CreatorResponseData: type: object properties: id: type: string format: uuid pattern: >- ^([0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000|ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff)$ description: Creator unique identifier example: 123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000 name: type: string description: Creator display name example: Jane Fitness bio: type: - string - 'null' description: Creator bio example: Fitness coach & wellness advocate avatar_url: type: - string - 'null' description: Avatar URL example: https://cdn.example.com/avatars/jane.jpg ai_summary: type: - string - 'null' description: AI-generated summary of the creator example: A fitness influencer focused on home workouts and healthy eating audience_demographics: type: - string - 'null' description: Synthesized audience demographic summary example: Young adults interested in practical wellness routines and meal prep brand_alignment: type: array items: type: string description: Brand categories this creator is likely to align with example: - fitness apparel - nutrition - wellness apps content_themes: type: array items: type: string description: Content themes/topics example: - fitness - nutrition - wellness key_facts: type: array items: type: string description: Synthesized facts and notable context about the creator example: - Runs weekly workout challenges - Often features meal prep content vibe_and_aesthetics: type: - string - 'null' description: Synthesized description of visual style and tone example: >- Bright, practical, and encouraging with clean gym and kitchen visuals profiles: description: Social profiles (only included when include=profiles) type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProfileSummary' required: - id - name - bio - avatar_url - ai_summary - audience_demographics - brand_alignment - content_themes - key_facts - vibe_and_aesthetics additionalProperties: false description: Full creator details Error: type: object properties: error: type: object properties: code: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorCode' description: Machine-readable error code message: type: string description: Human-readable error message example: Request validation failed param: description: Parameter that caused the error (if applicable) example: query type: string request_id: description: Request ID for debugging example: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 type: string details: description: Structured error context (e.g., field-level validation issues) type: object propertyNames: type: string additionalProperties: {} required: - code - message additionalProperties: false required: - error additionalProperties: false ProfileSummary: type: object properties: id: type: string format: uuid pattern: >- ^([0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000|ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff)$ description: Profile unique identifier example: 123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000 platform: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Platform' username: type: string description: Profile username example: fitness_coach_jane url: type: string format: uri description: Profile URL example: https://www.instagram.com/fitness_coach_jane followers: type: - integer - 'null' minimum: 0 maximum: 9007199254740991 description: Follower count (null if unknown) example: 125000 engagement_rate: type: - number - 'null' minimum: 0 description: >- Engagement rate as a percentage, null if unknown (e.g. 3.5 means 3.5%) example: 3.5 is_verified: type: boolean description: Whether the account is verified example: true required: - id - platform - username - url - followers - engagement_rate - is_verified additionalProperties: false description: Abbreviated profile information ErrorCode: type: string enum: - validation_error - invalid_parameter - missing_parameter - unauthorized - forbidden - payment_required - not_found - rate_limit_exceeded - internal_error - service_unavailable - database_error - seed_not_found - invalid_seeds - seed_resolution_failed - lookalike_failed - get_profiles_failed - post_analysis_failed - match_failed - scraping_failed - transcript_unavailable description: Machine-readable error code for programmatic handling example: validation_error Platform: type: string enum: - instagram description: Social media platform example: instagram securitySchemes: ApiKeyAuth: type: apiKey in: header name: X-API-Key ````