⚡ Twitter/X Scraper — Profiles & Tweets | 5x Faster | No Login

Extract tweets, full profile data, and single tweet details from any public Twitter/X account. No login or API key required.

Built for speed — runs in under 5 seconds on just 256 MB memory. Pure HTTP, no browser overhead. 5x faster and 10x less memory than typical Twitter scrapers.

Features

• User Profiles — Followers, following, bio, location, verification status, profile/banner images
• User Tweets — Full tweet text, engagement metrics (likes, retweets, replies, quotes, views, bookmarks), media URLs
• Single Tweet Lookup — Fetch any tweet by URL with full details and conversation thread
• Date Range Filtering — Filter tweets by sinceDate and untilDate. Unlike other scrapers, our date filter actually works reliably
• Built-in Deduplication — Automatically removes duplicate tweets across multiple sources
• Per-Account Limits — Scrape 50 accounts with 10 tweets each in a single run
• Language Filtering — Only get tweets in a specific language (en, ja, zh, es, etc.)
• Media Extraction — Photos, videos, GIFs with full-resolution URLs

Why This Scraper?

Feature	This Scraper	Others
Date filtering that works	Yes	Often broken
Built-in deduplication	Yes	No
Per-account tweet limits	Yes	No
Single tweet + thread lookup	Yes	Often unsupported
Strictly honors maxTweets	Yes	May return/charge more
Speed (profile + 5 tweets)	~5s	10-40s
Memory	256 MB	512-4096 MB

Input Configuration

{
    "twitterHandles": ["elonmusk", "BillGates", "naval"],
    "mode": "tweets",
    "maxTweets": 100,
    "maxTweetsPerAccount": 20,
    "sinceDate": "2024-01-01",
    "includeReplies": false,
    "includeRetweets": true,
    "deduplicate": true
}

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
twitterHandles	Array	Twitter usernames or profile URLs
tweetUrls	Array	Direct tweet URLs for single tweet lookup
mode	String	profiles, tweets, or replies
maxTweets	Integer	Maximum total tweets (default: 100)
maxTweetsPerAccount	Integer	Limit per account when scraping multiple handles
sinceDate	String	Only tweets after this date (YYYY-MM-DD)
untilDate	String	Only tweets before this date (YYYY-MM-DD)
language	String	ISO language code filter (e.g., en, ja)
deduplicate	Boolean	Remove duplicate tweets (default: true)
includeReplies	Boolean	Include reply tweets (default: false)
includeRetweets	Boolean	Include retweets (default: true)

Output Examples

Tweet Output

{
    "id": "1519480761749016577",
    "url": "https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1519480761749016577",
    "text": "Next I'm buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in",
    "createdAt": "Thu Apr 28 00:56:58 +0000 2022",
    "retweetCount": 587844,
    "likeCount": 4252293,
    "replyCount": 168886,
    "quoteCount": 167447,
    "viewCount": 256000000,
    "bookmarkCount": 21513,
    "isRetweet": false,
    "isReply": false,
    "language": "en",
    "media": [],
    "author": {
        "id": "44196397",
        "username": "elonmusk",
        "displayName": "Elon Musk",
        "profileImageUrl": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/.../photo_400x400.jpg",
        "isVerified": true
    },
    "hashtags": [],
    "mentions": [],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-03-13T14:11:45.260Z"
}

Profile Output

{
    "id": "44196397",
    "username": "elonmusk",
    "displayName": "Elon Musk",
    "description": "Mars & Cars, Chips & Dips",
    "location": "Earth",
    "url": "https://t.co/...",
    "profileImageUrl": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/.../photo_400x400.jpg",
    "bannerImageUrl": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/44196397/...",
    "followersCount": 236450000,
    "followingCount": 1294,
    "tweetCount": 99031,
    "listedCount": 167806,
    "createdAt": "Tue Jun 02 20:12:29 +0000 2009",
    "isVerified": true,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-03-13T14:11:43.163Z"
}

Usage Examples

Scrape profiles only

{
    "twitterHandles": ["elonmusk", "BillGates"],
    "mode": "profiles"
}

Get recent tweets with date filter

{
    "twitterHandles": ["OpenAI"],
    "mode": "tweets",
    "maxTweets": 50,
    "sinceDate": "2025-01-01",
    "includeReplies": false
}

Fetch a single tweet by URL

{
    "tweetUrls": ["https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1519480761749016577"],
    "mode": "tweets"
}

Multi-account scraping with per-account limit

{
    "twitterHandles": ["elonmusk", "BillGates", "naval", "OpenAI", "Apify"],
    "mode": "tweets",
    "maxTweetsPerAccount": 10,
    "deduplicate": true
}

Performance

Metric	Value
Profile fetch	~400ms
5 tweets	~1s
Single tweet detail	~350ms
Memory usage	256 MB
Compute units (5 tweets)	~0.0004 CU

Export Formats

Results are stored in the Apify dataset and can be downloaded as:

• JSON — Raw structured data
• CSV — Spreadsheet compatible
• Excel — Direct .xlsx download
• XML — Machine-readable format

Limits

• No authentication needed — uses guest access, no login or API key required
• ~800 tweets per profile without replies, ~3200 with replies
• Rate limits are handled automatically with retry and token rotation

Support

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