# Social Media Analytics with API and AI Agents

> Orshot social media analytics puts impressions, engagement and follower growth for every connected account in one dashboard, finds your best time to post from your own history, and exposes it all through a social media analytics API that AI agents can read. Included with Social Posting (social accounts included in paid plans).

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## At a glance

- **Every account on one chart:** LinkedIn, X, Instagram and the rest, compared with the previous period.
- **Per-post metrics:** impressions, reach, likes, comments, shares, saves, clicks, views and engagement rate, day by day.
- **Best time to post:** a day-by-hour heatmap built from your own engagement history, with your peak window called out.
- **Top posts** ranked by engagement, impressions, likes or clicks, and follower growth per account.
- **Daily digest email** with yesterday's numbers and your top post. Quiet days send nothing.
- **Analytics API:** five documented GET endpoints (cross-account analytics, daily series, insights, follower history, per-post breakdowns), same API key as rendering and publishing, 10 requests per minute.
- **No separate tool:** included with Social Posting, including posts you published before connecting.

## When to use it

- You want **social media analytics** across platforms in one place instead of tab-hopping between native dashboards.
- You want to find your **best time to post** from your own audience, not a generic chart.
- You want an AI agent to read performance and plan next week's posts: "what earned the most engagement this week?", "when should I post on LinkedIn?"
- You need a **social media analytics report** for a client: export every post's metrics to CSV, or pull them from the API on a schedule.

### When it is not the right fit

- You only need analytics for accounts you do not publish through: Orshot's analytics come with Social Posting (social accounts included in paid plans).

## Analytics API

| Endpoint covers | What it returns |
| --- | --- |
| Cross-account analytics | Posts, metrics and followers |
| Daily series | Metrics per day |
| Insights | Best times, frequency, decay |
| Follower stats | Follower history per account |
| Per-post breakdown | Every metric for one post |

Filter by platform, account, source and date range. Responses are cached, with a refresh switch for live numbers.

## FAQ

### What is social media analytics?

Social media analytics is measuring how your posts and accounts perform: impressions, engagement, clicks, and follower growth. The point is not the numbers themselves but the decisions they drive, like what to post next and when. Orshot builds this into the same dashboard you publish from, so measuring is not a separate chore.

### What is a social media analytics API?

A social media analytics API returns your posts' metrics as structured data instead of charts, so scripts, dashboards, and AI agents can use them. Orshot exposes five GET endpoints covering cross-account analytics, daily series, computed insights, follower history, and per-post breakdowns, authenticated with the same API key you already use for rendering and publishing.

### Can AI agents read the analytics?

Yes. Through Orshot for agents, an agent like Claude can ask what performed best, when your audience engages, and how followers changed, then act on it: writing captions, rendering images, and scheduling next week's posts. Orshot runs its own LinkedIn and X this way.

### How do I find my best time to post?

Look at when your own posts earned engagement, not generic best-time charts. Orshot builds a day-by-hour heatmap from your posting history and highlights your peak window. It sharpens as you post more, and it is available in the dashboard and through the insights API endpoint.

### How do I create a social media analytics report?

Decide the window, pull the numbers, and show change over time rather than snapshots. In Orshot you can export every post's metrics to CSV for client reports, compare any period against the previous one on the dashboard, or automate the report through the analytics API.

### Do I need a separate social media analytics tool?

Not if your publishing tool measures results too. Orshot includes analytics with Social Posting at no extra cost: Paid plans include social accounts: 1 on the $39 plan, 2 on $99, 3 on $160 and up to 10 on $600. More accounts are $12/mo each, and X accounts are always $12/mo. That covers publishing, scheduling, and full analytics, including posts you published before connecting.

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## Links

- [Social publishing](https://orshot.com/features/social-publishing.md)
- [Orshot for AI agents](https://orshot.com/agents.md)
- [Pricing](https://orshot.com/pricing.md)