# Build Better Social Discovery with Tapestry’s Search API

### Find profiles, explore social insights, and integrate discovery into your app with Tapestry's easy-to-use API

[Tapestry](https://substack.com/@usetapestry)

Mar 27, 2025

Tapestry’s Search API gives devs a powerful, flexible way to integrate decentralized identity and social discovery into your app. Whether you're building a wallet, explorer, or social platform, the API puts rich profile data at your fingertips—indexed and ready to query.

**Search is the interface. What matters is the signal you deliver behind it.**

[Search API](https://docs.usetapestry.dev/api#tag/search)

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## **What You Can Build**

Use the Search API to:

- **Query by username, domain, or public key:** Surface profiles instantly based on identifiers your users already know.
- **Access social metadata:** Pull in follower counts, activity levels, and profile details to personalize UI or inform ranking logic.
- **Extend discovery across chains and ecosystems:** Tapestry unifies multiple identity and social layers, so you don’t have to.

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## Search in Action

Check out Solana Social Explorer to see search live! Seamlessly search for profiles and tokens and instantly get directed to your desired page. Any profile name, domain, or wallet address can be and found via search.

On [SSE](https://www.sse.gg/) the search feature lets you:

- **Find profiles and tokens instantly** using usernames, IDs, and token names
- **Explore social insights** like followers and activity
- **Extend your reach** by including external profiles

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## **Try It in Your App**

The Search API is fast, flexible, and designed for developers. With just a few parameters, you can build your own frontend search, integrate social lookup into onboarding flows, or power an entire explorer UI.

Check out the full API reference and start exploring today → **[Docs](https://docs.usetapestry.dev/api#tag/search)**

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