X (Twitter) Tweet/Posts Scraper

Paste links to public X (Twitter) posts and get clean JSON for each one: text, like and reply counts, author, photos and video links, the quoted tweet, hashtags, mentions and links. X Articles (long-form posts) come back in full: title, cover image and the whole body as Markdown with headings, bold text and inline images.

• No login, no cookies. Your X account is never used, so it can never be locked or banned.
• Auto-unblock. Requests go out directly first. If X starts rate-limiting the run, the Actor switches itself to Apify Residential Proxy with a fresh IP per retry. Nothing to configure.
• You only pay for tweets you get. Deleted, private or age-restricted tweets are skipped and logged, never charged.

Who uses it

• Social media and PR teams tracking how specific posts perform
• Researchers and journalists archiving tweets cited in articles
• Content and growth teams collecting viral examples ("swipe files") for hooks and formats
• Developers who need tweet data in a pipeline without the X API's paid tiers

Input

{
  "tweetUrls": [
    "https://x.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936",
    "https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585341984679469056"
  ],
  "maxTweets": 100
}

x.com, twitter.com, mobile.twitter.com, fxtwitter.com / vxtwitter.com links and bare tweet IDs all work.

Output

One item per tweet:

{
  "id": "1585341984679469056",
  "url": "https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1585341984679469056",
  "text": "Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in! https://t.co/D68z4K2wq7",
  "createdAt": "2022-10-26T18:45:58.000Z",
  "lang": "en",
  "likeCount": 1221749,
  "replyCount": 81253,
  "isEdited": false,
  "possiblySensitive": false,
  "authorId": "44196397",
  "authorName": "Elon Musk",
  "authorHandle": "elonmusk",
  "authorBlueVerified": true,
  "authorAvatarUrl": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/.../aR-Kjpp4_normal.jpg",
  "inReplyToTweetId": null,
  "inReplyToHandle": null,
  "quotedTweetId": null,
  "quotedTweetUrl": null,
  "quotedTweetText": null,
  "hashtags": [],
  "mentions": [],
  "links": [],
  "media": [
    {
      "type": "video",
      "url": "https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1585341912877146112/pu/img/DwJ7wlGIe9iryk6N.jpg",
      "videoUrl": "https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1585341912877146112/pu/vid/1280x720/....mp4?tag=14"
    }
  ],
  "inputUrl": "https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585341984679469056",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-01T14:30:00.000000+00:00"
}

For an X Article, isArticle is true and article holds the long-form content:

"isArticle": true,
"article": {
  "title": "NOBODY GOOGLES ANYMORE. THEY ASK CHATGPT.",
  "previewText": "right now, someone is typing \"what's the best [thing you sell]\" into chatgpt...",
  "coverImageUrl": "https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HTZwFm9XgAA505w.jpg",
  "text": "right now, someone is typing ...\n\n![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HTZtBCOWoAANgSa.jpg)\n\n## the shortlist is the new page one\n\n...",
  "media": [
    { "type": "photo", "url": "https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HTZtBCOWoAANgSa.jpg", "videoUrl": null },
    { "type": "video", "url": "https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/.../Ozc8b78gSkBSK4aY.jpg",
      "videoUrl": "https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/.../1280x720/....mp4?tag=29" }
  ],
  "links": [],
  "wordCount": 1412
}

article.text is Markdown: headings, bold, lists, quotes, and photos/videos in their place in the article. article.media lists every embedded photo and video; article.links lists links from the article text.

For ordinary posts isArticle is false and article is null. videoUrl is the highest-bitrate MP4. Missing values are null; every item has the same keys.

Pricing

Pay per result: you are charged once for each tweet saved to the dataset. Failed, deleted and private tweets are free. Set a maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops there.

FAQ

Do I need an X account, API key or cookies? No.

Why no retweet or view counts? The Actor reads X's public embed data (what shows on news sites that embed a tweet). That data has likes and replies but not retweets or views. Getting those needs a logged-in session, which this Actor deliberately avoids.

Does it get the full text of X Articles? Yes. The article body comes from the public FxTwitter API (open-source FxEmbed). If that service is down, the item still has the article title, preview and cover, and article.text is null.

Can it scrape a whole profile or a search? No. It fetches the posts you link to. Profile timelines and search need login on X today.

Is it legal? It only reads posts that are public on X. You are responsible for how you use the data, including privacy law (GDPR/CCPA) where personal data is involved.

Limits

• Public posts only. Protected accounts, deleted posts and age-restricted posts return nothing.
• X can change its public embed data at any time; we monitor the Actor daily.