X (Twitter) Scraper - Tweets, Search & Profiles | No Login

You put in: {"mode": "search", "searchTerms": ["bitcoin"], "sort": "Latest", "maxResults": 10}

You get back: one record per tweet with 49 fields. Three records from a real run on 2026-11-03, some of the fields:

text	viewCount	likeCount	retweetCount	createdAt
“Bitcoin is a scam” So what is thi…	119307	2515	431	2026-11-01T20:36:41Z
Bitcoin is at the SAME price as in…	39469	177	11	2026-11-01T13:29:19Z
This girl bought 23,000 Bitcoin in…	149255	656	62	2026-10-31T17:01:59Z

You pay: 1,000 tweets cost about $0.25 on the Bronze plan. Free Apify accounts get 2 trial runs of up to 10 results each, nothing charged.

X (Twitter) Scraper is an X API alternative that collects public tweets as clean, flat JSON. Search tweets by keyword, read the latest tweets of any profile, or fetch single tweets by link or ID. You get text, dates, views, likes, retweets, replies, quotes, bookmarks, hashtags, mentions, media and author data, with direct MP4 links for videos and GIFs. It is made for brand and market monitoring, social listening, research, and AI and data teams. No X account, API keys, proxies or cookies are needed.

What is X (Twitter)?

X, formerly Twitter, is a public social network where people post short messages called tweets (or posts). Tweets can carry pictures, videos and links, and they can be replies, retweets or quotes of other tweets. Because most of it is public and time-stamped, X is a leading place to follow news, public opinion and brand mentions.

What data can you get?

The Actor has three modes.

Mode	Give it	You get
search	keywords or X search queries (optional: Latest or Top, date window)	tweets matching each keyword, 20 per page, as many pages as maxResults needs
userTweets	handles (@name, name) or profile links	each profile's tweets from newest to oldest, including its retweets and replies
tweets	tweet links or IDs	one record per tweet

All modes share maxResults (default 50, up to 10,000 per run, counted across all inputs), an optional date window (startDate, endDate, as YYYY-MM-DD in UTC) and the optional tweet filters described under Input.

Tweet fields

Field	Meaning
tweetId, url, text, lang, createdAt	the tweet, its link, text, language and post time (ISO 8601 UTC)
viewCount, likeCount, retweetCount, replyCount, quoteCount, bookmarkCount	counters at the time of the run
conversationId	ID of the first tweet of the conversation
isRetweet	the tweet is a plain repost of someone else's tweet; retweetedTweetId, retweetedAuthorHandle and retweetedText describe the original
isQuote	the tweet quotes another tweet; quotedTweetId, quotedAuthorHandle and quotedText describe it. Empty (null) in search mode, because search results carry no quote data
isReply	the tweet is a reply to another tweet, including a reply to your own tweet in a thread; inReplyToTweetId names it when the data does
sensitive, source	X's sensitive-content mark and the posting app, when X gives them
hashtags, mentions, urls	hashtags (without #), mentioned handles (without @) and full link addresses
mediaType	photo, video, gif, mixed or empty
imageUrls, videoUrl, mediaUrls	picture links; the direct MP4 of a video or GIF (highest bitrate); every downloadable media link
videoThumbnailUrl, videoDurationMs	preview picture and length of the video
authorHandle, authorName, authorId, authorFollowers, authorVerified, authorAvatarUrl	the author's public profile data
authorBio, authorLocation, authorUrl, authorCoverUrl	the author's bio, location, website link and banner picture
authorFollowing, authorLikeCount, authorCreatedAt, authorVerifiedType	how many accounts the author follows, how many tweets the author liked, when the account was created (ISO 8601 UTC) and the kind of verification (for example Business)

Author fields are empty (null) when X does not give them; nothing is guessed. | searchTerm / sourceHandle | which keyword (search) or profile (userTweets) produced the tweet |

How to use X (Twitter) Scraper

1. Open the Actor in the Apify Console.
2. Choose a Mode and fill in its list: search terms, profiles, or tweet links.
3. Optionally set From date and Until date, the tweet filters, and Max results to cap how many tweets (and how much money) the run can use.
4. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
5. Open the dataset and export it as JSON, CSV, Excel or another format, or read it through the API.

An empty input {} also works: it searches X for "bitcoin".

Input

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchTerms": ["bitcoin", "from:nasa moon"],
  "sort": "Latest",
  "startDate": "2026-10-30",
  "endDate": "2026-11-02",
  "minLikes": 100,
  "media": "images",
  "language": "en",
  "excludeReplies": true,
  "maxResults": 500
}

• searchTerms are passed to X search as typed, so X search operators such as "exact phrase", #hashtag or from:name can be used.
• Tweet filters, all optional: minLikes, minReplies, minRetweets (whole numbers), media (any, images, videos or media for either), onlyVerified (true/false), language (a code such as en or zh), excludeReplies and excludeRetweets (true/false). A tweet that does not pass is neither delivered nor charged, and the status message counts it.
• handles (for userTweets) accept @name, name, https://x.com/name and https://twitter.com/name.
• tweetUrls (for tweets) accept https://x.com/name/status/123, twitter.com links and bare IDs.

Output example

{
  "type": "tweet",
  "tweetId": "2116715279053127861",
  "url": "https://x.com/1096361BTC/status/2116715279053127861",
  "text": "18 years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto published a 9-page paper. ...",
  "lang": "en",
  "createdAt": "2026-11-01T02:13:43Z",
  "viewCount": 68427,
  "likeCount": 6159,
  "retweetCount": 2250,
  "replyCount": 1206,
  "quoteCount": 61,
  "bookmarkCount": 14,
  "conversationId": "2116715279053127861",
  "isRetweet": false,
  "isQuote": null,
  "isReply": false,
  "hashtags": [],
  "mentions": [],
  "urls": [],
  "mediaType": "video",
  "imageUrls": [],
  "videoUrl": "https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2116714617254920192/vid/avc1/1920x1080/MYaxIpal4Pb3ri7m.mp4?tag=29",
  "mediaUrls": ["https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2116714617254920192/vid/avc1/1920x1080/MYaxIpal4Pb3ri7m.mp4?tag=29"],
  "authorHandle": "1096361BTC",
  "authorName": "MemeBitcoin",
  "authorId": "1984251466136301568",
  "authorFollowers": 65026,
  "authorVerified": true,
  "authorBio": null,
  "authorLocation": "Internet",
  "authorFollowing": null,
  "authorLikeCount": 1177,
  "authorCreatedAt": "2025-10-31T13:29:57Z",
  "authorVerifiedType": null,
  "authorCoverUrl": null,
  "authorUrl": null,
  "searchTerm": "bitcoin"
}

The example is shortened (text cut, some empty fields left out).

How much does it cost?

The Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. The result price falls with your Apify plan:

Event	Bronze	Silver	Gold and above
Run start	$0.00005	$0.00005	$0.00005
Result (per tweet from search or userTweets)	$0.00025	$0.000226	$0.000188
Detail (per tweet looked up by URL or ID in tweets)	$0.0025	$0.00226	$0.00204

That is $0.25, $0.23 and $0.19 per 1,000 tweets from searches and timelines. Looking tweets up one by one costs more because each one is a separate request. Examples at the Bronze price:

• 100 tweets: $0.00005 + 100 × $0.00025 = $0.02505
• 1,000 tweets: $0.00005 + 1,000 × $0.00025 = $0.25005
• 10,000 tweets: $0.00005 + 10,000 × $0.00025 = $2.50005
• 50 tweets by URL (tweets mode): $0.00005 + 50 × $0.0025 = $0.12505

You are charged only for tweets delivered to your dataset. Tweets outside your date window, duplicates and searches or profiles that return nothing are not charged as results. The run-start fee is charged once per run, when the first request succeeds. The run stops by itself if your spending limit is reached.

On the free Apify plan you get 2 free trial runs of this Actor with your own input, up to 10 results each, and nothing is charged; after that, runs return a stored sample dataset (a real result of the prefilled input). Use any paid Apify plan for full runs.

Use cases

• Brand and product monitoring: search your brand name every day with sort set to Latest and a date window for yesterday.
• Social listening and research: collect tweets on a topic for a fixed period, with views, likes and replies to rank them.
• Account tracking: read what a competitor, journalist or public figure posts with userTweets.
• Media collection: get direct MP4 links of videos and GIFs in videoUrl and all picture links in imageUrls.
• AI and data projects: flat JSON with clean metadata for sentiment analysis, trend models and search indexes.

Why use this X (Twitter) scraper

• The date window is enforced. Tweets outside startDate and endDate are checked on every record: they are neither delivered nor charged, and the status message says how many were skipped.
• It pages until you have enough. Pages are read until maxResults or the end of the results. For Latest search and profiles, paging stops once the tweets are older than startDate.
• It tells you why it stopped. The final status message gives, per keyword or profile, how many pages were read and why it stopped: no more results, date window passed, or maxResults reached.
• Empty is clear and free. A search or profile that returns nothing is named in the status message, and no result fee is charged.
• Videos you can download. Video and GIF tweets carry videoUrl, a direct MP4 link of the highest bitrate, and mediaUrls with all media links.
• Retweet, quote and reply flags: isRetweet, isQuote and isReply, with the original tweet's text for retweets and quotes.
• No duplicates. Each tweet is delivered once per run, even if several keywords find it.
• Try before paying. On a free Apify plan you get 2 free trial runs with your own input, up to 10 results each, nothing charged.

Integrations and API

If you are looking for an X (Twitter) API alternative, you can use this Actor like one. It is not an official X API and is not affiliated with X Corp. You can start runs through the Apify API, schedule them in the Apify Console (for example a daily brand search), and connect the results to webhooks and the integrations available on the Apify platform.

Python example with apify-client:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("clover_folktale/twitter-scraper").call(run_input={
    "mode": "search",
    "searchTerms": ["bitcoin"],
    "sort": "Latest",
    "startDate": "2026-11-01",
    "maxResults": 200,
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["createdAt"], item["authorHandle"], item["text"])

Use it from AI agents (MCP, n8n, Make)

This Actor works as a tool for AI agents through the Apify MCP server. Add it to Claude, Cursor or any MCP client with https://mcp.apify.com?tools=clover_folktale/twitter-scraper, and the agent can search X and read the results itself. It also has ready-made integrations for n8n, Make and Zapier on the Apify platform.

Tips and limits

• Page size. Each request returns about 20 tweets. Large runs make many requests; expect a few seconds per page.
• Several inputs. Keywords, profiles or tweets in one list are read at the same time; maxResults counts across all of them.
• Date window. Dates are UTC; endDate includes the whole day. In search, the window is also added to the query as since: and until: so fewer pages are read, unless your keyword already has its own since:/until:, an OR or brackets. Either way every tweet is checked again. userTweets reads a profile from newest to oldest, so a window far in the past reads the newer pages first (not charged) before it reaches the window.
• Filters. In search, X applies minLikes (min_faves:), minReplies (min_replies:), minRetweets (min_retweets:), media (filter:images, filter:native_video, filter:media), onlyVerified (filter:blue_verified), language (lang:), excludeReplies (-filter:replies) and excludeRetweets (-filter:nativeretweets) itself, like the date window: they are added to the query unless your keyword has an OR or brackets. Whatever X does, the Actor re-checks every tweet against each filter you set, in all three modes (userTweets and tweets have no X-side filtering, only this check). A tweet with a value the data does not carry cannot pass that filter. Tweets that fail are not delivered and not charged. With strict filters a run reads more pages than it delivers.
• Latest and Top. Latest is not strictly ordered by time inside a page; paging stops only when a whole page is older than startDate. Top is ranked by relevance and is read to the end of its results.
• Retweets. In userTweets, a retweet is a record with isRetweet true; its text is X's shortened "RT @name: ..." form and the full original is in retweetedText. Counters belong to the retweet record.
• Ads. There is no isAd field: the data does not say whether a tweet is an ad, so the Actor does not guess.
• Quotes in search. Search results carry no quote data, so isQuote is empty there; use userTweets or tweets for quote information.
• Pinned tweets are not added to a profile's list; they appear in it only when they are in the timeline.
• Avatar. authorAvatarUrl is the small version X lists.
• Unreadable entries. If one entry of an ID or link list cannot be read (a typo, a stray cell, a link to the wrong kind of page), it is skipped and named in the log, and the status message says how many were skipped; the other entries still run and nothing is charged for a skipped one. Only a list with no readable entry stops the run with an input error.
• Free plan. On the free Apify plan you get 2 free trial runs of this Actor with your own input, up to 10 results each, and nothing is charged; after that, runs return a stored sample dataset (a real result of the prefilled input). Use any paid Apify plan for full runs.

FAQ

Do I need an X account, cookies or API keys?

No. You do not need an X account, API keys, proxies or cookies.

Is it legal to scrape X?

The Actor returns only public data, including the public profile data of tweet authors. Private messages, protected accounts and non-public details are never part of the output. You are responsible for how you use the data and for following the laws and platform terms that apply to you.

How fresh is the data?

Data is read when the run happens. Counters such as viewCount and likeCount are the values at that time.

How many tweets can I get?

Up to 10,000 per run via maxResults. How far back a search or profile goes depends on what X shows for it; the status message tells you why a source ended.

Why did my run return fewer tweets than maxResults?

The keyword or profile has no more results, the date window was passed, or tweets were outside the window. The status message of the run lists pages read and the reason per input.

What happens with a wrong handle or deleted tweet?

It is skipped and named in the status message, and no result fee is charged for it. The $0.00005 run-start fee may still apply.

What permissions does the Actor need?

It runs with Apify's limited permissions and only writes to its own run storage (the dataset and key-value store of the run). It does not read or change anything else in your account.

A field or mode is missing. What can I do?

Open an issue from the Actor page and it will be looked at.

Support

Found a bug, a missing field or a mode you need? Open an issue on the Issues tab. We reply within 24 hours, and a mode that stops working is fixed within 24 hours. What changed and when is listed on the Changelog tab.

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