X (Twitter) Post Details Scraper

Give it a list of X (Twitter) post links — or just the numeric post IDs — and get back one clean row per post: the full text, the publication time, every engagement number X publishes including views, the author's profile, and downloadable image and video files. Posts that have been deleted or locked down come back clearly marked rather than silently missing, so the list you put in is the list you get out. No X account, no login, no browser extension.

What you can do with it

• Turn a list of links into a table. You already have post links in a spreadsheet, a campaign report or a client brief — this fills in the text, the numbers, the author and the media behind every one of them.
• Measure influencer and sponsored posts. Paste the links a creator sent you and check the likes, reposts, replies, quotes, bookmarks and views yourself.
• Watch a post age. Schedule the same list daily and record how engagement moves in the hours and days after publication.
• Archive posts that matter. Capture the exact wording, timing and media of a post before it is edited or taken down, with the author's follower count at the moment of collection.
• Fact-check and research. Resolve a post ID out of a screenshot or a citation into a complete, dated record — the exact wording, the author, the time it went up and the engagement it drew.
• Collect media at source. Pull the original-resolution images and the best available video files attached to each post.

What you get

One row per post. A real, abridged row from a live run:

{
  "requestedPostId": "2085101081260904717",
  "postId": "2085101081260904717",
  "url": "https://x.com/NASA/status/2085101081260904717",
  "text": "In the early hours of Wednesday, Aug. 5, a portion of a @SpaceX rocket impacted on the Moon's surface. In this video, we answer some of your questions.",
  "isLongForm": false,
  "createdAt": "2026-08-05T20:30:11.000Z",
  "language": "en",
  "conversationId": "2085101081260904717",
  "likes": 650,
  "reposts": 139,
  "replies": 100,
  "quotes": 18,
  "bookmarks": 70,
  "views": 205192,
  "isRepost": false,
  "isReply": false,
  "isQuote": false,
  "author": {
    "userId": "11348282",
    "username": "NASA",
    "displayName": "NASA",
    "bio": "Making the seemingly impossible, possible. ✨",
    "location": "Pale Blue Dot",
    "joinedAt": "2007-12-19T20:20:32.000Z",
    "followers": 92245567,
    "following": 119,
    "postCount": 74298,
    "verifiedType": "Government",
    "hasSubscriptionBadge": true,
    "avatarUrl": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1321163587679784960/0ZxKlEKB.jpg"
  },
  "media": [
    {
      "type": "video",
      "imageUrl": "https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HO_EYeIWMAAl-yw.png?format=png&name=orig",
      "width": 720,
      "height": 405,
      "videoUrl": "https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2085101033903071233/vid/avc1/1280x720/NbDpoBdvreV6p1qW.mp4?tag=14",
      "videoBitrate": 2176000,
      "videoDurationSeconds": 133.5,
      "videoAspectRatio": "16:9"
    }
  ],
  "hashtags": [],
  "cashtags": [],
  "mentions": [{ "username": "SpaceX", "userId": "34743251", "displayName": "SpaceX" }],
  "links": [],
  "possiblySensitive": false,
  "postedVia": "Sprinklr",
  "wasEdited": false,
  "communityNote": null,
  "unavailable": false,
  "detailLevel": "full",
  "inputPost": "https://x.com/NASA/status/2085101081260904717",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-05T21:49:09.679Z"
}

A post that cannot be viewed still gets a row:

{
  "requestedPostId": "1962431326201712747",
  "postId": null,
  "url": null,
  "unavailable": true,
  "unavailableReason": "The account limits who can see its posts",
  "detailLevel": "none",
  "inputPost": "https://x.com/i/web/status/1962431326201712747",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-05T21:49:09.213Z"
}

Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
posts	array of text	—	Required. The posts to look up. A link to the post, an old twitter.com link, a mobile link, a link with /photo/1 or tracking parameters on the end, or the numeric post ID on its own — all of them work.
includeQuotedPost	boolean	true	When a post quotes another one, attach the quoted post's text, author and engagement to the row.
includeUnavailablePosts	boolean	true	Keep a marked row for posts that cannot be viewed, so your input list keeps its shape. Turn it off to leave them out entirely.
postsAtOnce	integer	3	How many posts to work through in parallel. Raise it for long lists.
countryCode	select	us	Which country to browse from. Affects what X shows publicly in a few regions.

Output fields

Field	Description
requestedPostId	The post ID you asked for, always present, so your join keys survive.
postId, url	Identifier and permanent link of the post that came back.
text	The post's own text, in full — long posts are returned complete, not cut off. On a repost this is the short RT @account: line X gives the repost itself; the reposted post's full text is under repostOf.
createdAt	Publication time, ISO-8601 UTC.
language	The language X detected for the post.
conversationId	The ID of the conversation the post belongs to.
likes, reposts, replies, quotes, bookmarks	Engagement at the moment of collection. On a repost these are the repost's own counts, not the original's — the original's are under repostOf.
views	How many times X reports the post was seen.
isRepost, isReply, isQuote, isLongForm	Post type flags.
replyToPostId, replyToUsername	What the post replies to, when it is a reply.
repostOf, quotedPost	The original post, when this one repeats or quotes another — with its own text, author and engagement.
author	The account that wrote the post: name, bio, location, join date, follower and post counts, badges, avatar.
media	Images, video files and GIFs, at the best quality available, with dimensions and duration.
hashtags, cashtags, mentions, links	Entities found in the post. Links are the real destinations, not shortened.
postedVia	The app the post was published from.
wasEdited, possiblySensitive, communityNote	Extra context. Each is filled in only where X publishes it for that post, and left empty otherwise.
detailLevel	full when X returned the complete record, partial when X returned a reduced one and some engagement fields are therefore empty, none for an unavailable post.
unavailable, unavailableReason	Set when a post cannot be viewed, in plain English.
inputPost, scrapedAt	The exact value you supplied, and when the row was collected.

Pricing

This actor is pay per result. You are charged for each row that lands in your dataset and for nothing else — no time-based charge. Rows for posts that turn out to be deleted or private count as results because looking them up is the work; if you would rather not pay for them, set Keep a row for posts that cannot be viewed to off and they are left out.

A list of 1,000 posts produces about 1,000 rows and costs about $0.80. A daily re-check of 50 posts costs under $0.05 a day.

Limits & what this actor cannot do

• Replies written by other people underneath a post are not publicly available. The reply count is included; the replies themselves are not.
• Keyword search across all of X is not part of what X publishes openly, so this actor works from the posts you supply rather than a search term.
• Protected (private) accounts are not publicly viewable. Their posts are reported as unavailable rather than returned empty.
• Deleted, suspended and withheld posts are reported as unavailable rather than silently skipped, with the reason stated in plain English.
• Occasionally X returns a reduced record for a post. Those rows are marked partial and the fields X did not publish are left empty rather than filled with a zero that would be wrong.
• Likes, reposts, replies, quotes, bookmarks and views are a snapshot at the moment of collection and keep changing afterwards.
• X publishes view counts for most recent posts but not for every older one. Where X publishes none, views is left empty rather than set to zero.
• Look up a repost and the row describes the repost itself: X gives a repost its own short RT @account: line and its own counts, which are not the original's. The post that was reposted is attached in full under repostOf, with its complete text, its author and its real engagement numbers.
• Asked for a repost, X sometimes answers with the original post instead. Both IDs are kept on the row, so you can always tell which one you received.
• Speed depends on the size of the list and on X's own response times.
• X's terms govern automated access. You are responsible for using the data lawfully, in line with the source site's terms, and for handling any personal data in line with applicable privacy law.

FAQ

Do I need an X account? No. Nothing is needed from you beyond the list of posts you want.

Does it need my login, password or a paid X subscription? No. None of those are used at any point.

What exactly can I paste into the post list? Anything that identifies a post: https://x.com/NASA/status/2085101081260904717, the same link on twitter.com or mobile.twitter.com, a link with /photo/1 or a ?s=20 tracking suffix, or the bare number 2085101081260904717. Duplicates are collapsed automatically.

Can I schedule it? Yes. Schedule it on Apify to re-check the same list hourly, daily or weekly and watch engagement move over time.

Is the data complete? For a public post, yes — text in full, all engagement numbers X publishes, the author, the media and the entities. What X does not publish openly, such as the replies underneath a post, is not available from anywhere and is not invented here.

Why is views empty on some older posts? Because X does not publish a view count for them. The field is left empty rather than filled with a zero that would be wrong.

How do I get the results into my tools? Export from Apify as CSV, Excel, JSON, XML or an HTML table, push into Google Sheets, or pull them straight into your own system.