Start a native search

Starts a native search on one live campaign: Scouty looks for creators on TikTok and Instagram who fit it and emails the ones with a usable address a link to apply. It uses part of this month's search budget, and the emails cannot be taken back. One search runs at a time on a campaign and in a workspace. Read its progress with scouty_get_search.

POSThttps://api.tryscouty.com/v1/campaigns/{campaignId}/searches

Scopesourcing:run
Write
MCP toolscouty_start_search

Markdown version for your agent

Authorization

Send a Scouty token as a bearer token in the Authorization header. The token needs the sourcing:run scope, or the call answers 403 insufficient_scope. Tokens and scopes

Authorization: Bearer $SCOUTY_TOKEN

Path parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`campaignId`	`integer`	Required	The live campaign to find creators for.

Headers

Name	Type	Required	Description
`Idempotency-Key`	`string`	Optional	The same key the body's idempotencyKey carries. Send one or the other, or both with the same value.

Body parameters

A JSON object, sent with Content-Type: application/json.

Name	Type	Required	Description
`idempotencyKey`	`string`	Required	A key you choose for this call, 8 to 128 characters of letters, digits, dot, underscore, colon or hyphen. Sending the same key with the same arguments replays the first answer and changes nothing, so a retry after a timeout is safe.

Errors

A refusal answers { "error": { "code", "message" } }. Branch on code; the message is for a person. Every error and its fix

Status	error.code	Meaning
400 Bad Request	`invalid_request`	The request was not the shape this capability takes, or its body was not JSON.
401 Unauthorized	`missing_token` `invalid_token` `token_revoked` `token_expired` `token_orphaned`	No token, or one that is not recognized, revoked or expired.
403 Forbidden	`insufficient_scope` `wrong_principal`	The token does not carry the scope this capability needs.
404 Not Found	`not_found`	No such route, or no such campaign for this client.
409 Conflict	`idempotency_conflict`	That idempotency key was already used for a different request. Nothing was changed.
429 Too Many Requests	`rate_limited`	Too many requests this minute. Retry-After says how long is left.

const response = await fetch("https://api.tryscouty.com/v1/campaigns/42/searches", { method: "POST", headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.SCOUTY_TOKEN}`, "Content-Type": "application/json", }, body: JSON.stringify({ idempotencyKey: "search-42-1" }), }); console.log(await response.json());

import os import requests token = os.environ["SCOUTY_TOKEN"] response = requests.post( "https://api.tryscouty.com/v1/campaigns/42/searches", headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {token}"}, json={ "idempotencyKey": "search-42-1", }, ) print(response.json())

{ "search": { "id": null, "campaignId": 42, "status": "queued", "stage": null, "stageLabel": "Queued, starts soon", "startedAt": null, "finishedAt": null, "stoppedReason": null, "counts": { "termsGenerated": 0, "postsScanned": 0, "profilesScanned": 0, "passedFilters": 0, "emailsFound": 0, "emailsVerified": 0, "notContacted": 0, "emailsSent": 0, "emailsScheduled": 0, "replies": 0, "applications": 0 } } }