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A quick lookup for the terms you’ll meet in this documentation and in API responses. For how the main objects relate, read Key concepts; this page complements it with short, alphabetical definitions.

Terms

TermDefinition
AccountA tracked Instagram or TikTok profile, identified by its platform (instagram or tiktok) and username. See Key concepts.
Account videoA video discovered automatically from a tracked account’s feed. You don’t add these — they appear as the account is refreshed. Read via /v2/account-videos. See Key concepts.
API keyThe credential you authenticate with, scoped to a single organization. Create and manage keys at API keys; see Authentication.
Bearer tokenHow you present your API key on a request: Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY. See Authentication.
CreatorA grouping of one or more accounts that you define — for example, one person’s Instagram and TikTok profiles. Metrics roll up from the linked accounts. See Key concepts.
CursorAn opaque token that points to the next page of a collection. Pass the previous response’s next_cursor back as the cursor query param. See Pagination.
Engagement rate(likes + comments + shares) / views, expressed as a percentage. One of the core analytics metrics. See Key concepts.
Individual videoA video you add yourself by URL, shortcode, or ID — even if you don’t track the posting account. Read and managed via /v2/videos. See Key concepts.
OrganizationYour workspace. Every account, creator, video, API key, and metric belongs to exactly one organization, and a key only ever returns that organization’s data. See Key concepts.
PaginationWalking a collection one page at a time using limit and a cursor, stopping when has_next is false. See Pagination.
Period / windowThe span a metric is computed over — for example 7, 30, or 90 days, or a custom date range. See Key concepts.
Problem details (RFC 9457)The application/problem+json error format the API returns, with type, title, status, detail, code, and instance. See Errors.
Rate limitThe per-key cap on how many requests you may make in a window, surfaced via X-RateLimit-* headers. See Rate limits and Limits & quotas.
Time seriesA daily series of a metric over a window that you can chart, as opposed to a single windowed total. See Key concepts and Data freshness.
TrackingAdding an account or video so CreatorAudit refreshes it on a schedule. Newly tracked resources begin populating as they’re scraped. See Data freshness.
X-Request-IDA correlation id returned on every response. Include it when you contact Support so we can trace the exact request. See Errors.
Looking for the bigger picture of how accounts, creators, and videos fit together? Start with Key concepts.