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Field guides for TikTok KOL discovery
How KOLens works under the hood — keyword discovery, creator handle lookup, posting-cadence analytics, Facebook Ad Spy, and the automation patterns that let SMM teams run sourcing at agency scale without an agency contract.
- Facebook Ad SpyCompetitor monitoringWatchlist
Watch competitor Facebook ads on a 24h schedule (auto-refresh + New badge)
Star a Facebook advertiser, KOLens re-scrapes their Ad Library every 24h and flags any ad first seen since your last visit with a New badge. No more daily manual checks.
- AlertsWebhooksSlackEmail
Push KOLens growth alerts to Slack, your inbox, or any webhook URL
KOLens alerts now ship to email + webhook the moment the detector fires. Slack inbound URLs, Zapier, custom endpoints — same JSON payload, configurable per-channel mute, throttle to avoid burst spam.
- Audience analyticsTikTokCreator vetting
Audience Persona is live — sampled-follower analytics for any TikTok creator
KOLens' Audience Snapshot ships today: where a creator's followers actually live, what language they speak, how active they are, which niches they care about. Statistical sample with explicit 95% CI / ±error.
- MCPClaudeCustom ConnectorOAuth
Add KOLens as a Custom Connector in Claude (MCP + OAuth 2.1)
KOLens now speaks MCP over HTTP with OAuth 2.1 + PKCE. Paste one URL into Claude.ai's Custom Connector dialog, click Approve once, and Claude gains 15 KOLens tools — list_kols, get_kol_profile, ad spy, audience snapshots, watchlist, alerts.
- Case StudyClaude CodeMCPKOL DiscoveryWorkflow
Find TikTok KOLs with Claude Code + KOLens MCP — A Phonecase Brand Case Story
How a 4-person phonecase brand wired Claude Code to KOLens, Notion, and Slack via MCP and compressed a 6-hour KOL-discovery + outreach pipeline to under 6 minutes. Prompts, screenshots, real numbers.
- Ad spyMeta Ad LibraryCompetitive research
Facebook Ad Spy — scrape any brand's live ad creatives in 30s
KOLens crawls the Meta Ad Library and pulls every creative — video, image, carousel — for any Facebook page. Watch it inline, see the CTA, body copy, and run dates. 1 credit per 10 ads.
- AutomationDiscoveryTikTok
Automate TikTok KOL discovery — Discovery Plans run daily for you
Set a keyword + interval. KOLens re-scrapes TikTok every 24h, surfaces only new creators, and auto-adds them to your KOL list. No ChatGPT needed; just the keyword.
- Audience analyticsTikTokCreator vetting
TikTok audience snapshot — see where a creator's followers actually live (coming soon)
Sampled country / language / activity / niche signals for any TikTok creator. Honest confidence intervals, no fake demographics. Coming to KOLens.
- TikTokProfile scrapingActivity metrics
Look up any TikTok creator by @handle — full profile in 30 seconds
Paste @username or a TikTok URL. KOLens scrapes the live profile, computes account age, posting cadence, engagement rate, and avg views. 1 credit per lookup.
- Creator activityEngagement metricsTikTok
Posting cadence, account age & creator silence — what KOLens measures
Don't sponsor a dead channel. KOLens computes account age, first/last video, median posting cadence and videos-per-week for any TikTok creator — flags accounts that quietly stopped posting.
- TikTokInfluencer marketingEmail discovery
How to find TikTok KOLs by keyword (with verified emails)
KOLens crawls TikTok live, ranks 200+ creators by engagement, and extracts the verified business emails from every bio link — in under one minute. No annual contracts.