X (Twitter) User Search Scraper - Find Accounts by Keyword

Search X (Twitter) for user profiles matching any keyword or phrase and export bios, follower counts, and verification status to a dataset. No login required.

What you get

• Username, display name, user ID, bio, and location for each matching account
• Follower count, following count, tweet count, and media count
• Blue verification status and verified type
• Profile picture and cover photo URLs
• Pinned tweet IDs and account creation date
• Cursor-based pagination - fetch thousands of matching accounts across multiple runs

Free tier vs. paid

Free runs are capped at 25 users per run, up to 3 runs per day, with a 30-minute wait between runs, to help cover data costs. Upgrade to any paid plan on the actor's pricing page to honor your Max Users setting in full with no wait.

Use cases

• Lead generation - find prospects whose bio matches your target job title, industry, or niche
• Audience research - discover who is talking about a topic or product
• Influencer discovery - surface accounts in a niche by keyword before checking follower counts
• Competitor follower mining - search for keywords common among a competitor's audience
• Sales prospecting by bio keyword - e.g. "founder", "recruiter", "marketing agency"

How to use

1. Enter a Search query - a keyword or phrase to match against usernames, display names, and bios
2. Set Max Users (default 100; 0 for unlimited)
3. Run the actor - one matching user per row in the Dataset tab
4. To fetch the next page, open the Key-value store tab → copy the NEXT_PAGE_ID value → paste it into Page ID on your next run

Output format

One user per dataset row - perfect for direct CSV, Excel, or Google Sheets export:

{
  "searchQuery": "startup founder",
  "username": "example",
  "userId": "123456789",
  "name": "Example User",
  "description": "Bio text…",
  "location": "San Francisco",
  "isBlueVerified": true,
  "followersCount": 12345,
  "followingCount": 678,
  "tweetsCount": 9999,
  "createdAt": "Mon Jan 01 12:00:00 +0000 2020",
  "profilePicture": "https://pbs.twimg.com/...",
  "profileUrl": "https://x.com/example"
}

Pagination

Each run returns up to Max Users. If more matching accounts exist, the actor saves a resume cursor to the default Key-value store under the key NEXT_PAGE_ID.

1. Open the Key-value store tab on the run page
2. Copy the value of NEXT_PAGE_ID
3. Start a new run with the same Search query and paste the cursor into Page ID

When NEXT_PAGE_ID is null, the search results are fully exhausted.

Input options

Field	Type	Description
Search query	string	Keyword or phrase to match against usernames, names, and bios (required)
Max Users	integer	Cap on results - default 100, 0 for unlimited
Page ID	string	NEXT_PAGE_ID from the previous run's Key-value store

Related X (Twitter) actors

Part of a complete X (Twitter) toolkit - explore the rest of the suite:

• X (Twitter) Profile Scraper - Public profile data - bio, counts, links
• X (Twitter) User Tweets Scraper - Full timeline of any account by username
• X (Twitter) Tweet Scraper - Search and export tweets by query, hashtag, user
• X (Twitter) Tweet Replies Scraper - Every reply under a post for sentiment analysis
• X (Twitter) Quote Tweets Scraper - Every quote tweet of a post, with engagement
• X (Twitter) Followers & Following Scraper - Full followers and following lists, no login
• X (Twitter) List Members Scraper - Members or followers of any public list
• X (Twitter) Active Hours Analyzer - Posting heatmap, peak hours, and time zone
• X (Twitter) Retweeters Scraper - Find every account that retweeted a post
• X (Twitter) User Mentions Scraper - Brand and keyword monitoring across mentions
• X (Twitter) Trends Scraper - Trending topics and hashtags by location
• X (Twitter) Article to Markdown Scraper - Long form Articles as clean Markdown
• X (Twitter) MCP Server - All X tools for AI agents via MCP