Truth Social API: The Complete Guide to Real-Time Monitoring (2026)

Truth API: what it is, what it costs, how access works

What is Truth API?

Truth API is Trump Media & Technology Group's licensed B2B data feed, announced on July 16, 2026 and live since August 1, 2026. It delivers posts from 10 high-profile Truth Social accounts, including @realDonaldTrump, the White House, JD Vance, Kash Patel and RFK Jr., in milliseconds per TMTG, with an archive back to 2022. It is sold to financial-services partners, not to developers.

How much does Truth API cost?

Trump Media has not published a rate card. Fortune reported on August 12, 2026 that more than 10 customers, mostly high-frequency trading firms, were paying $60,000 to $100,000 per month. Interim CEO Kevin McGurn said on August 24, 2026 that the customer count was "mid-teens and climbing". That is roughly 200 to 330 times the $300 per month entry price of a self-serve 1322 Truth Social plan, which covers a different problem: any public account you choose rather than a fixed list of 10.

How do I sign up for Truth API?

You cannot. There is no public sign-up page, no self-serve key, no published rate card and no public documentation, and there is nothing to buy online; access is a licensing agreement negotiated with Trump Media, whose published licensing contact is [email protected]. 1322 is independent: it neither sells nor resells Truth API and is not affiliated with Trump Media. What 1322 does sell is a separate self-serve feed for any public Truth Social account you put on a tracked list.

Regulatory scrutiny

The product has drawn official and legal scrutiny. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Adam Schiff wrote to SEC Chair Paul Atkins on July 28, 2026 urging an investigation, and Representative Ritchie Torres petitioned the SEC separately. Senator Alex Padilla announced a bill on August 4, 2026 to ban selling faster access to a president's posts. The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation sued in the Southern District of New York on August 12, 2026, and a preliminary-injunction motion was filed on September 4, 2026. As of September 15, 2026, no ruling has been reported.

Sources (accessed 2026-09-15): TMTG launch announcement (GlobeNewswire, 2026-07-16), CNBC on the August 1 launch, Euronews on the covered accounts, Fortune on customer count and pricing, CNBC Africa on Kevin McGurn's customer-count remark, CNBC on the Warren and Schiff letter, NBC News on the Padilla bill, The Intercept on the lawsuit, Yale Law School on the preliminary-injunction motion.

Is there an official Truth Social API?

Yes, with limits. Truth API went live on August 1, 2026 as Trump Media's first data-licensing product: an institutional feed for financial-services firms that pushes posts from 10 high-profile accounts in milliseconds per TMTG, with an archive back to 2022. It is not public or self-serve and does not cover arbitrary accounts; for those, teams use independent services like 1322, with Truth Social plans from $300 per month.

The product targets high-frequency and algorithmic trading firms under licensing agreements, and Euronews reports the feed arrives fractionally faster than the public timeline. Official pricing is still unpublished, but the live contracts Fortune reported run $60,000 to $100,000 per month. The rest of this guide is about the problem the official product does not address: tracking any Truth Social account you choose, self-serve, with Truth Social plans from $300 per month.

Why there's still no public developer API

Truth Social is built on a fork of Mastodon, the open-source social server. Mastodon itself has a well-documented API, and Truth Social inherited much of that surface internally, but Truth Social never opened a public developer program. There are no self-serve API keys, no documented public endpoints, no rate limit policy, and no support channel; the 2026 Truth API is sold through institutional licensing agreements, not offered as a developer platform. The internal endpoints exist and can change or lock down at any time without notice.

That matters because Truth Social posts move markets. Posts from political figures, most obviously @realDonaldTrump, routinely move prediction-market odds on Polymarket and Kalshi, and sometimes equities and crypto, within seconds. The gap between "no public API" and "market-moving content" is why a whole ecosystem of monitoring approaches exists.

Option 1, Open-source scrapers (free, slow, yours to maintain)

The best-known open-source tool is truthbrush(from the Stanford Internet Observatory), a Python library that authenticates with a Truth Social account and pulls statuses, search results, and user data. GitHub also has assorted scrapers wrapping the same internal endpoints.

What you sign up for with this route:

• Polling latency. You poll on an interval. Poll every 30 seconds and your worst-case detection is 30+ seconds, an eternity for trading use cases.
• Account and IP risk. Scrapers authenticate as a regular account; aggressive polling gets accounts and IPs blocked, so you rotate both.
• Breakage. When internal endpoints change, your pipeline is down until someone patches the library.
• Cost is your time. Free software, but you are now operating scraping infrastructure.

Fine for research and historical analysis. Painful for live monitoring.

Option 2, Pay-per-call scraper APIs

Services like ScrapeCreators and Apify actors expose Truth Social data as a paid HTTP API: you send a request, they scrape and return JSON, you pay per call. They solve the maintenance problem, but not the latency problem. You are still polling; you just outsourced the scraping. At a 10-second poll on one account, a per-call price of even a fraction of a cent compounds to hundreds of dollars a month, for ONE account, with 10-second worst-case latency.

Good for: occasional lookups, backfills, research queries. Wrong shape for: "tell me the instant this account posts."

Option 3, Managed real-time feeds (push, not poll)

The third model inverts the problem: a provider runs the detection layer continuously and pushes new posts to you the moment they are detected. 1322's Truth Social feed works this way: you put accounts on a tracked list, keep a WebSocket open, and receive structured JSON events. Regular lanes typically operate in a 150-250ms range, while dedicated @realDonaldTrump and @WhiteHouse priority lanes typically operate around a 50ms average. Events include new truths, retruths with the full quote chain, profile changes, deletions and pins. No Truth Social credentials, no scraping infrastructure, flat monthly price.

A minimal Python consumer:

import asyncio, json, websockets

API_KEY = "your-1322-api-key"

async def main():
    async with websockets.connect(
        "wss://1322.io/your-ws-path", # from your dashboard /api-access page
        additional_headers={"X-Api-Key": API_KEY}, ) as ws:
        async for raw in ws:
            event = json.loads(raw)
            if event.get("platform") == "truth" and event.get("eventType") == "post":
                handle = event["handle"]
                text = event.get("content", "")
                print(f"[{event['timestamp']}] @{handle}: {text[:120]}")
                # -> match against your prediction markets / alert rules here

asyncio.run(main())

Delivery also works without writing a consumer at all: the included Discord bot and Telegram bot post tracked-account events directly to your server or chat, and signed webhooks can hit your backend.

The prediction-market angle

The highest-value use of Truth Social monitoring in 2026 is prediction markets. The pattern: a tracked political account posts → relevant Polymarket/Kalshi odds move within seconds → the first actors capture the spread. A push feed with sub-second detection is the difference between being the mover and being the market. 1322 customers typically pair the Truth Social feed with the news feed in the same WebSocket, a post corroborated by a matching headline within seconds is a much stronger signal than either alone. More on this setup: prediction market data feed.

Honest comparison

If you are a financial institution that only needs the 10 accounts the official feed carries, Truth API has been live since August 1, 2026 and is licensed directly by Trump Media. If you need historical research at zero cost, run truthbrush. If you need occasional lookups, use a per-call API. If you need to know the moment any tracked account posts, use a push feed. Compare the commercial plans on the real-time Truth Social monitoring API page.

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