# Twitter (X) Profile Scraper | Bulk User Data, Followers & Bio (`ecomdate/x-profile-scraper`) Actor

Scrape public X (Twitter) profiles in bulk — no login or API key. Get followers, following, bio, tweet & media counts, verification, join date & avatar as clean JSON.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ecomdate/x-profile-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Ecomdate Tech](https://apify.com/ecomdate) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Developer tools, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 profile scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):

```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md).

If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).


# README

Scrape **X (Twitter) profiles in bulk** — followers, following, tweet counts, bio, verification, join date, avatar and more. Paste a list of handles and get clean, structured JSON ready for lead lists, competitor research, or enrichment. **No Twitter login or API key needed on your end.**

### Features

- 🔎 **Bulk profile lookup** — pass hundreds of handles in one run
- 📊 **Full metrics** — followers, following, tweets & media counts
- 🪪 **Identity & status** — display name, user ID, X Blue verification, protected flag, account status
- 📝 **Profile details** — bio, location, account creation date, avatar & header image, pinned tweet IDs
- 🌍 **Optional About data** — account country, join source, affiliate
- 🔗 **Flexible input** — accepts `@handle`, `handle`, or full `https://x.com/handle` URLs
- ✅ **Clean output** — camelCase fields, ISO-8601 dates, one row per profile, easy CSV/Excel export
- 🚫 **Graceful errors** — non-existent or suspended accounts return a row with a `status` field instead of being dropped

### How it works

1. You provide a list of usernames (or profile URLs).
2. The Actor looks up each profile and returns a structured record.
3. If **Include About details** is on, it fetches each profile's About section too.
4. Results stream into the dataset as they're scraped — export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or pull via API.

### Input

| Field | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `usernames` | Array<String> | Yes | – | Handles or profile URLs. Accepts `@handle`, `handle`, or `https://x.com/handle`. |
| `includeAbout` | Boolean | No | `false` | Also fetch each profile's About section (1 extra request per profile, billed separately). |
| `maxItems` | Integer | No | `0` | Cap the number of profiles (`0` = no limit). |

#### Example input

```json
{
  "usernames": ["elonmusk", "@apify", "https://x.com/github"],
  "includeAbout": false,
  "maxItems": 0
}
````

### Output

One record per profile. Example:

```json
{
  "inputUsername": "elonmusk",
  "status": "active",
  "userId": "44196397",
  "username": "elonmusk",
  "name": "Elon Musk",
  "description": "Starmind",
  "location": null,
  "followers": 240761641,
  "following": 1367,
  "tweetsCount": 105390,
  "mediaCount": 4597,
  "verified": true,
  "protected": false,
  "createdAt": "2009-06-02T20:12:29+00:00",
  "avatar": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/...",
  "headerImage": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/...",
  "profileUrl": "https://x.com/elonmusk",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-09T12:00:00+00:00"
}
```

| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `status` | `active`, `notfound`, `suspended`, or `protected` |
| `followers` / `following` | Follower and following counts |
| `tweetsCount` / `mediaCount` | Number of posts and media items |
| `verified` | X Blue / verified badge |
| `createdAt` / `scrapedAt` | ISO-8601 timestamps |
| `profileUrl` / `avatar` / `headerImage` | Source URLs for verification & media |

### Use cases

- **Lead generation** — enrich a list of prospects with follower counts and bios
- **Competitor & influencer research** — compare audience size and activity across accounts
- **Audience analysis** — snapshot metrics for a set of accounts over time
- **Data enrichment** — add X profile data to an existing CRM or spreadsheet

### Pricing

Pay-per-event, so you only pay for what you scrape:

- **Profile Scraped** — **$0.001 per profile** ($1 per 1,000 profiles)
- **About Details Enriched** — **$0.0005 per profile** (only when *Include About details* is enabled)

With Apify's Free plan ($5 in monthly credits) you can scrape roughly **5,000 profiles per month for free** — and there are **no separate compute or platform fees**, the per-profile price above is all you pay.

### FAQ

**Do I need a Twitter/X login or API key?**
No. Just paste the handles — the Actor handles data access for you.

**What happens with accounts that don't exist or are suspended?**
You still get a row for that input, with `status` set to `notfound` / `suspended`, so your results line up 1:1 with your input list.

**Can I input profile URLs instead of handles?**
Yes — `@handle`, `handle`, and `https://x.com/handle` all work. Duplicates are removed automatically.

**How many profiles can I scrape?**
There's no hard limit — use `maxItems` to cap a run. For very large lists, run in batches and monitor your spend.

**Is the data accurate / up to date?**
Data reflects the profile at scrape time (`scrapedAt`). Metrics like follower counts change constantly.

**Is scraping X legal?**
This Actor collects only publicly available profile data. You are responsible for using it in compliance with X's Terms and applicable laws (e.g. GDPR) in your jurisdiction.

### Support

Found a bug or need another field/endpoint? Open an issue on the Actor's **Issues** tab — feedback is welcome and shapes the roadmap.

***

**Need more?** Looking for follower lists or keyword/hashtag tweet search? Check out the other X (Twitter) scrapers from this developer.

# Actor input Schema

## `usernames` (type: `array`):

X/Twitter handles or profile URLs to scrape. Accepts '@handle', 'handle', or 'https://x.com/handle'.

## `includeAbout` (type: `boolean`):

Also fetch each profile's About section (account country, source, affiliate). Makes 1 extra request per profile and is billed separately.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of profiles to scrape (0 = no limit). Protects your API usage and spend.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "usernames": [
    "elonmusk",
    "apify"
  ],
  "includeAbout": false,
  "maxItems": 0
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `profiles` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "usernames": [
        "elonmusk",
        "apify"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ecomdate/x-profile-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "usernames": [
        "elonmusk",
        "apify",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ecomdate/x-profile-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "usernames": [
    "elonmusk",
    "apify"
  ]
}' |
apify call ecomdate/x-profile-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=ecomdate/x-profile-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Twitter (X) Profile Scraper | Bulk User Data, Followers & Bio",
        "description": "Scrape public X (Twitter) profiles in bulk — no login or API key. Get followers, following, bio, tweet & media counts, verification, join date & avatar as clean JSON.",
        "version": "0.0",
        "x-build-id": "tNMW9fVC0rbCbtNRE"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/ecomdate~x-profile-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-ecomdate-x-profile-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/ecomdate~x-profile-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-ecomdate-x-profile-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/ecomdate~x-profile-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-ecomdate-x-profile-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "usernames"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "usernames": {
                        "title": "Usernames / handles",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "X/Twitter handles or profile URLs to scrape. Accepts '@handle', 'handle', or 'https://x.com/handle'.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "includeAbout": {
                        "title": "Include About details",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Also fetch each profile's About section (account country, source, affiliate). Makes 1 extra request per profile and is billed separately.",
                        "default": false
                    },
                    "maxItems": {
                        "title": "Max profiles",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of profiles to scrape (0 = no limit). Protects your API usage and spend.",
                        "default": 0
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```