# Post Stats

Read the public views, likes and comments of YouTube and TikTok posts, and rank them. It is free, with no sign-up and no key.

Also known as: Social post stats, Video view counter, Shorts stats, TikTok stats, Post analytics.

## What it does

Post Stats reads the public numbers of social posts: views, likes, comments, shares and saves, and when each post went up. It covers YouTube videos and Shorts and TikTok videos. X posts are refused by name: X's terms ban scraping, x.com/robots.txt disallows every path, and X's oEmbed endpoint carries no counts.

Every number says where it came from (the watch page, the channel page, the video page, a free API) and when it was read, and whether the platform rounded it (5.8M is not exact). A number the platform does not show to a logged-out visitor is listed under not_public with the reason, never guessed.

compare_posts ranks up to 10 posts by views, across platforms, with likes per thousand views, so you can see which videos to make more of. list_channel_stats lists the latest posts of a YouTube channel with their views, and a TikTok profile's totals.

On YouTube and TikTok it reads only public pages, as a logged-out visitor would, names itself as PostStats/1.0 (+https://tools.openkrill.app/; support@openkrill.app) and honours robots.txt on the pages it reads. It never signs in, passes a bot check or runs page scripts, spaces out its requests to each platform, and keeps each answer for 15 minutes. When a platform changes its page so the numbers are no longer where the reader looks, the answer is a shape_changed error, not a wrong number.

Free, and nothing about the caller is stored.

- Views, likes, comments, shares, saves and post time of one YouTube or TikTok post
- The source and read time of every number, and whether the platform rounded it
- Ranks 2 to 10 posts by views across platforms, with likes per thousand views
- Lists the latest Shorts and videos of a YouTube channel with their views
- Says which numbers a platform keeps private, and why, instead of guessing

## Who it is for

Anyone who asks an AI assistant a question like this one: “Which of my last 3 Shorts got the most views?”

## Price

Post Stats is free to use. There is no sign-up, no account and no API key. Calls are limited to 60 calls a minute per network and 5000 calls a day per server, shared by all callers. Repeat questions are answered from a cache.

## Tools it offers

- `get_post_stats`: Get a post's public stats
- `compare_posts`: Compare posts by views
- `list_channel_stats`: List a channel's latest posts

## Connect

The MCP server is `https://poststats.openkrill.app/mcp` (streamable HTTP). It needs no key.

Claude Code, in one command:

```
claude mcp add --transport http post-stats https://poststats.openkrill.app/mcp
```

Hermes Agent, in one command that answers its two setup questions (no key, enable all tools):

```
printf 'n\ny\n' | hermes mcp add post-stats --url https://poststats.openkrill.app/mcp
```

Or add these lines to `~/.hermes/config.yaml`, under an existing `mcp_servers:` key if the file has one. Start a new Hermes session after either step.

```
mcp_servers:
  post-stats:
    url: https://poststats.openkrill.app/mcp
```

Any other agent: give it this page's Markdown address, `https://tools.openkrill.app/tools/post-stats.md`, and ask it to connect Post Stats.

Install guides, each checked with a real call: [Post Stats in ChatGPT](https://tools.openkrill.app/integrations/post-stats/chatgpt), [Post Stats in Claude](https://tools.openkrill.app/integrations/post-stats/claude), [Post Stats in Cursor](https://tools.openkrill.app/integrations/post-stats/cursor), [Post Stats in VS Code](https://tools.openkrill.app/integrations/post-stats/vscode), [Post Stats in Pi](https://tools.openkrill.app/integrations/post-stats/pi).

## Job recipes for agents

Step-by-step recipes that walk an agent through 3 jobs with this server's tools:

- Get a post's public stats, with `get_post_stats`
- Compare posts by views, with `compare_posts`
- List a channel's latest posts, with `list_channel_stats`

[Download the recipes as SKILL.md](https://tools.openkrill.app/skills/post-stats-jobs/SKILL.md). Save it as `post-stats-jobs/SKILL.md` in your agent's skills folder. A connected MCP client gets the same recipes from `prompts/list` on this server.

It is listed under Writing, media and files in the [full tool list](https://tools.openkrill.app/tools). The same facts in plain text are in [llms.txt](https://tools.openkrill.app/llms.txt).

Source: the Post Stats listing, version 2.0.0. As of 2026-10-18.