Dear, Yes I think that's a good idea. I will get back to you on this in a couple of days

I’ve added a best_effort parameter, which is set to false by default. If you set it to true, it will attempt to retrieve metadata when a transcript is not available. Please let me know if you have any questions and if everything runs smoothly. Your feedback is greatly appreciated!

It works good, thank you!

Hi again, I think it doesn't work for X:

https://console.apify.com/view/runs/FxcyiUdocwtEcdf3u - https://x.com/cPenCoreTeam/status/1902534345283510705

https://console.apify.com/view/runs/YxuGvD2dzgbsxoNHr - https://x.com/andrewallenxo/status/1903039584180769157

Dear, Sure, I will look into it and get back to you shortly

Hey, After checking both links. They are actually tweets and not video tweets. It actually works on X but there has to be a tweet video. For example: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1857814606120436119

If you have other examples of non working links, please let me know.

Hello, sorry that I was out for a while. So even with "best_effort" == true, it doesn't give metadata of tweet? Can you possibly extract it the same way it happens for tweet with video. It would be really helpful

Hello, Sorry for the late reply. best_effort parameter when set to true would give you metadata even if there is no transcript. On X there is not an extensive list of metadata you can extract. The Actor already retrieves title, like_count, thumbnail and duration, what other metadata are you expecting ?

I need the text content of the tweet. I thought that it can be extracted from tweet even if there is no video in it

Oh I see. I will look into this in more details. It's a little more complicated to extract the tweet even when there is no video, but I will try to get the tweet along with the transcript by next week. I will keep you updated

Hi, any updates?

Hi again,

After reviewing the possibilities, I realized that implementing such a feature would require developing an entirely new function specifically for scraping tweets. That has to be completely outside the core function of my x video retriever client. It is something outside the current scope of this actor. Since this actor is designed to extract video transcripts and metadata, extending it to handle non-video tweets would significantly shift its focus and defeat its intended purpose.

That said, there are already excellent tweet scrapers available on Apify that specialize in this kind of extraction. I recommend checking out this actor: https://apify.com/xtdata/twitter-x-scraper

Let me know if there’s anything else I can help with related to video-based content.