Quickstart - Bridgly

1. Get an API key

Sign in to your Bridgly dashboard, open the API Keys page, and click Create key. Copy the key that appears — it starts with bgly_ and is shown only once.

Store the key somewhere safe the moment you create it. For security we only keep a hashed version, so it can never be shown again. If you lose it, revoke it and create a new one.

2. Make your first call

Every endpoint is a POST that takes a JSON body and returns JSON. Send your key in the Authorization header as a bearer token.

curl https://api.bridgly.app/reddit/get-user \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer bgly_your_api_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "username": "spez" }'

const res = await fetch('https://api.bridgly.app/reddit/get-user', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    Authorization: 'Bearer bgly_your_api_key',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ username: 'spez' }),
});

const { data } = await res.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://api.bridgly.app/reddit/get-user",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer bgly_your_api_key"},
    json={"username": "spez"},
)

print(res.json()["data"])

3. Read the response

Every successful response wraps your result in the same envelope. The scraped data is always in data; timeMs and creditsCost tell you how long the call took and what it cost.

{
  "timeMs": 842,
  "creditsCost": 1,
  "data": {
    "username": "spez",
    "karma": 1234567,
    "accountAgeDays": 6800
  }
}

Try other platforms

Swap the URL and body for any endpoint. A few to get you started:

curl https://api.bridgly.app/linkedin/get-profile-from-url \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer bgly_your_api_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "memberIdentity": "williamhgates" }'

curl https://api.bridgly.app/x/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer bgly_your_api_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "query": "openai lang:en" }'

curl https://api.bridgly.app/reddit/get-post \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer bgly_your_api_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/abc123/" }'

Next steps

Browse every endpoint

See each request schema and try calls live in the playground.

Understand responses

The envelope, credit costs, and how errors are reported.