Twitter / X Profile Scraper

Extract full Twitter/X profile data and recent tweets — no API key, no login, no rate limits.

Up to 100 tweets/profile · Engagement metrics · JSON & CSV export · Handles @usernames and URLs

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What You Get

• ✅ Profile: username, display name, bio, follower/following counts, tweet count, join date, location
• ✅ Verified status (legacy checkmark + Blue verified badge separately)
• ✅ Profile image URL (400×400) and banner URL
• ✅ Up to 100 recent tweets per profile with full engagement metrics
• ✅ Per-tweet: likes, retweets, replies, quotes, views, language
• ✅ Hashtags, @mentions, and expanded URLs extracted from each tweet
• ✅ Media attachments (images, videos) with direct URLs
• ✅ Reply filtering — include or exclude replies with one toggle

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Use Cases

📊 Influencer Research & Vetting

Pull follower counts, engagement rates, and recent content for 50+ accounts in one run — before signing a sponsorship deal.

{
  "profiles": ["elonmusk", "sama", "karpathy"],
  "maxTweets": 50,
  "includeReplies": false
}

🔍 Competitor Intelligence

Monitor what your competitors and their executives are saying. Export to CSV and load into a spreadsheet for trend analysis.

📈 Social Listening & Brand Monitoring

Track mentions, hashtags, and community conversations around your brand without paying for expensive social listening SaaS tools.

🤖 AI Training Data

Collect high-quality tweet text from domain experts — AI researchers, economists, founders — to fine-tune language models or build datasets.

📰 Journalism & Research

Capture public statements from public figures with timestamps and engagement metrics for citation and analysis.

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Quick Start

1. Click Try for free above
2. Add usernames in the Profiles field — plain handles (elonmusk), @elonmusk, or full URLs (https://x.com/elonmusk)
3. Set maxTweets (default 20, up to 100 per profile)
4. Toggle includeReplies if you want thread replies included
5. Run and download results as JSON or CSV

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
profiles	string[]	required	Usernames, @handles, or profile URLs
maxTweets	number	20	Max tweets to collect per profile
includeReplies	boolean	false	Include replies in tweet list

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Output JSON Example

{
  "username": "karpathy",
  "displayName": "Andrej Karpathy",
  "bio": "Previously Director of AI at Tesla, founding team OpenAI...",
  "followers": 928000,
  "following": 412,
  "tweetsCount": 3840,
  "verified": false,
  "isBlueVerified": true,
  "location": "San Francisco, CA",
  "joinDate": "Mon Nov 21 2011 00:00:00 +0000",
  "profileUrl": "https://x.com/karpathy",
  "scrapedAt": "2025-01-15T10:23:44.000Z",
  "tweets": [
    {
      "id": "1877123456789",
      "text": "The thing that's weird about LLMs is...",
      "createdAt": "Thu Jan 09 2025 18:42:00 +0000",
      "likes": 4823,
      "retweets": 612,
      "replies": 198,
      "quotes": 87,
      "views": 284000,
      "language": "en",
      "hashtags": [],
      "mentions": [],
      "tweetUrl": "https://x.com/karpathy/status/1877123456789",
      "isRetweet": false,
      "isReply": false,
      "media": []
    }
  ]
}

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Pricing

Pay only for the data you collect — no monthly subscription.

Volume	Estimated cost
10 profiles, 20 tweets each	~$0.01
100 profiles, 20 tweets each	~$0.10
100 profiles, 100 tweets each	~$0.50

Apify free tier includes $5/month of compute — enough for thousands of profiles.

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Why This Scraper

No API key required. The Twitter v2 API costs $100+/month for basic access. This actor uses the public syndication endpoint that powers Twitter's embed widgets — completely free to query.

No login needed. Works out of the box without any credentials or session cookies.

Handles URLs and @usernames. Pass https://x.com/elonmusk, @elonmusk, or elonmusk — all formats are normalized automatically.

Retry logic built in. Up to 3 retries per profile with configurable timeouts handles transient errors without stopping the run.

Clean, typed output. All engagement counts are integers, media URLs are direct links, and hashtags/mentions are pre-parsed arrays — no postprocessing needed.

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FAQ

Q: Does this work for private accounts? A: No. Only publicly available tweets are accessible. Private accounts return an error record in the output.

Q: Can I scrape more than 100 tweets per profile? A: The public syndication endpoint provides the most recent ~100 entries. For historical archives, a different approach is needed.

Q: Do I need a Twitter/X account to run this? A: No account or credentials are required at all.

Q: Is the data real-time? A: Yes — follower counts and tweet metrics reflect the current state at scrape time.

Q: What happens if Twitter rate-limits a request? A: The actor retries up to 3 times. Profiles that fail after all retries are recorded with an error field rather than halting the run.

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