What a check can answer, per platform
The capability map for the account surface: for each of the seven platforms, whether a catalog check is available, which backend the live check reads, how many live reads per minute that source allows across all callers, and whether ownership can be proved with a bio code. Read this once before you integrate - it is static, free, and it tells you which fields will be null on which platform before you discover it in production.
Operation id accounts.platforms - requires directory:read
- -precision: rounded means the platform rounds before we ever see the number. YouTube has done this to subscriber counts since 2019, so a channel on 1,243,912 reports 1.24M and no amount of polling recovers the rest.
- -catalog.available is false only for LinkedIn, and that is a policy decision rather than a coverage gap: we hold LinkedIn company data under the leads:read scope for our own outreach and do not republish it cheaply. The live check still covers LinkedIn.
- -live.reads_per_minute is a ceiling on the SOURCE, shared across every caller, not a per-key limit. It is null on X and Instagram, where the lookup service in front of the source runs its own concurrency control and your tier's live limit is the only ceiling you will meet. It is a real number on the five platforms we scrape directly, and it is four a minute on LinkedIn because company pages are heavy and LinkedIn blocks anything that reads them faster.
- -ownership_verification is offered on six of the seven. LinkedIn is the exception, and it is the source rather than the feature: a company page carries no owner-editable text we can read logged out, so there is nothing for a code to live in. It is not offered-but-broken anywhere.
Parameters
No parameters. Send the key and nothing else.
Example request
curl
curl -sS "https://api.playersells.com/v2/accounts/platforms" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $PLAYERSELLS_API_KEY"json
{
"data": {
"platforms": [
{
"platform": "x",
"label": "X",
"object": "account",
"audience_metric": "followers",
"precision": "exact",
"catalog": {
"available": true,
"note": null,
"fields": [
"created_at",
"citation_score",
"country"
],
"directory_path": "/best-x-accounts"
},
"live": {
"available": true,
"source": "live:xlookup",
"reads_per_minute": null,
"note": "Read live from our own X scraper. Exact follower count, no rounding."
},
"ownership_verification": {
"available": true,
"field": "bio",
"endpoint": "/scrape/x/verify"
}
}
]
},
"meta": {
"request_id": "req_9f2c41a8b3d5",
"generated_at": "2026-08-23T09:14:02.317Z",
"took_ms": 42
}
}