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Twitter URL Scraper

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Twitter URL Scraper

Twitter URL Scraper

quacker/twitter-url-scraper
Try for free

Pay $2.50 for 1,000 posts

Copy any Twitter URL and extract Twitter usernames, profile photos, follower count, tweets, hashtags, favorite count, and more. Export scraped datasets, run the scraper via API, schedule and monitor runs or integrate with other tools.

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Maintained by Apify

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  • 166 monthly users

  • 4.2 / 5 (8)

  • 36 bookmarks

  • 99% runs succeeded

  • 16 days response time

  • Created in Mar 2022

  • Modified 5 days ago

You can access the Twitter URL Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

1# Start Server-Sent Events (SSE) session and keep it running
2curl "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/sse?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&actors=quacker/twitter-url-scraper"
3
4# Session id example output:
5# event: endpoint
6# data: /message?sessionId=9d820491-38d4-4c7d-bb6a-3b7dc542f1fa

Using Twitter URL Scraper via Model Context Protocol (MCP) server

MCP server lets you use Twitter URL Scraper within your AI workflows. Send API requests to trigger actions and receive real-time results. Take the received sessionId and use it to communicate with the MCP server. The message starts the Twitter URL Scraper Actor with the provided input.

1curl -X POST "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/message?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&session_id=<SESSION_ID>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
2  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
3  "id": 1,
4  "method": "tools/call",
5  "params": {
6    "arguments": {
7      "startUrls": [
8            {
9                  "url": "https://twitter.com/apify"
10            }
11      ],
12      "tweetsDesired": 100
13},
14    "name": "quacker/twitter-url-scraper"
15  }
16}'

The response should be: Accepted. You should received response via SSE (JSON) as:

1event: message
2data: {
3  "result": {
4    "content": [
5      {
6        "type": "text",
7        "text": "ACTOR_RESPONSE"
8      }
9    ]
10  }
11}

Configure local MCP Server via standard input/output for Twitter URL Scraper

You can connect to the MCP Server using clients like ClaudeDesktop and LibreChat or build your own. The server can run both locally and remotely, giving you full flexibility. Set up the server in the client configuration as follows:

1{
2  "mcpServers": {
3    "actors-mcp-server": {
4      "command": "npx",
5      "args": [
6        "-y",
7        "@apify/actors-mcp-server",
8        "--actors",
9        "quacker/twitter-url-scraper"
10      ],
11      "env": {
12        "APIFY_TOKEN": "<YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
13      }
14    }
15  }
16}

You can further access the MCP client through the Tester MCP Client, a chat user interface to interact with the server.

To get started, check out the documentation and example clients. If you are interested in learning more about our MCP server, check out our blog post.