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Influencer Marketing for AI Agents & Developers

Creator intelligence as an API, an MCP server, and a set of Apify actors — with working code for the agents and pipelines that call them.

Influencer marketing is moving from dashboards into software. The buyer is increasingly an agent inside a workflow: a campaign planner building a shortlist, a CRM enriching a creator record, a research loop scoring candidates against a brief. Those systems don’t want a login screen — they want an endpoint, a schema, and a price.

Influship exposes creator intelligence three ways: a native MCP server for AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and ChatGPT; a REST API with a typed SDK; and Apify actors that drop into existing scraping pipelines. The same calls power all three: semantic creator search, brand-fit match scoring, lookalike discovery, profile and post lookup, and video transcripts.

These guides are for the people wiring that up. Each one ships working code, real response shapes, and the honest trade-offs — from a five-minute MCP setup to an end-to-end automated pipeline, to paying for API calls per request with x402 or MPP instead of routing every agent through a sign-up form.

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What you'll learn

MCP, API, and Apify

Call Influship from Claude Code via the native MCP server, from any backend via the REST API and typed SDK, or from an existing Apify pipeline. Same creator-intelligence calls across all three.

Pipelines With Working Code

Discovery, vetting, lookalike expansion, outreach, and content monitoring — wired into agents and cron jobs. Every guide shows runnable SDK calls and real response shapes, not pseudocode.

Agentic Payments

Pay per request over HTTP with x402 (USDC on Base) or MPP (Stripe Shared Payment Tokens, USDC on Tempo). Agents discover, pay for, and call endpoints without anyone standing up an account first.

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Frequently asked questions

Add the Influship MCP server. In Claude Code, run `claude mcp add influship --transport http https://mcp.influship.com/mcp --header "X-API-Key: your-key"`. The assistant then gets creator search, match scoring, lookalikes, and profile lookup as native tools. Cursor, ChatGPT, and other MCP clients use the same URL and header.
Search 5M+ creator profiles in natural language, score how well a creator fits a specific campaign (good / neutral / avoid with reasons), expand a shortlist with lookalikes, pull cached or live profile and post data, and fetch video transcripts. Agents can chain these into a full discovery-and-vetting loop without a human switching tools.
Influship supports per-request payment on the same endpoints as the API key, using two protocols: x402 (USDC on Base) and MPP (Stripe Shared Payment Tokens or USDC on Tempo). An agent hits a paid endpoint, gets a 402 with the payment challenge, signs a payment, and retries — no sign-up flow in the loop. For production traffic, an API key is still cheaper per call.
Both. There’s a typed TypeScript SDK that wraps the REST API, plus the raw HTTP endpoints if you prefer. The SDK is the fastest way to script a pipeline (a cron job, a webhook handler, a Next.js route); the MCP server is the fastest way to work interactively inside an AI tool.

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