User Scraper

Understand X accounts beyond tweets with profile data and optional follower or following mapping for research, outreach, and audience analysis.

About SIMO IT

SIMO IT provides actionable scraping solutions that convert social graph data into growth and research signals.

Features

• collect profile data for one or many X handles
• optionally fetch followers
• optionally fetch following
• analyze network overlap and relationship patterns
• build lead lists and influencer maps

Use cases

• account research before outreach and partnerships
• audience and community analysis
• profile segmentation for sales and marketing campaigns

Output

For each handle: profile data plus optional followers and following, ready for enrichment and network analysis.

How to use

1. Open the Actor on Apify.
2. Provide handles or userUrls.
3. Turn on getFollowers and/or getFollowing if needed.
4. Configure pagination and run the Actor.

No technical setup is required from your side. Backend infrastructure is managed by SIMO IT.

Input

• handles (string, conditionally required): X usernames (without @), comma-separated or new lines.
• userUrls (string, optional): X/Twitter profile URLs (comma-separated or new lines).
• getFollowers (boolean, optional, default: false): Include followers for each handle.
• getFollowing (boolean, optional, default: false): Include following for each handle.
• page (integer, optional, default: 1): Starting page number.
• limit (integer, optional, default: 20, max: 100): Records per page.
• maxPages (integer, optional, default: 1): Maximum number of pages to fetch per section.
• maxItems (integer, optional): Maximum number of user records to output.
• followersMaxItems (integer, optional): Maximum followers per handle.
• followingMaxItems (integer, optional): Maximum following per handle.

Filters and pagination

• user target: handles, userUrls
• optional network data: getFollowers, getFollowing
• page controls (followers/following): page, limit, maxPages
• output caps: maxItems, followersMaxItems, followingMaxItems

Example input

{
  "userUrls": "https://x.com/openai, https://twitter.com/apify",
  "getFollowers": true,
  "getFollowing": false,
  "limit": 20,
  "maxItems": 20,
  "followersMaxItems": 100
}

Example output

{
  "handle": "openai",
  "user": {
    "id": 4398626122,
    "id_str": "4398626122",
    "url": "https://x.com/openai",
    "username": "openai",
    "displayname": "OpenAI",
    "rawDescription": "Research and deployment of safe AI systems.",
    "created": "2015-12-11T00:00:00+00:00",
    "followersCount": 5500000,
    "friendsCount": 12,
    "statusesCount": 4200,
    "favouritesCount": 95,
    "listedCount": 10200,
    "mediaCount": 380,
    "location": "San Francisco, CA",
    "profileImageUrl": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/.../normal.jpg",
    "profileBannerUrl": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/.../1500x500",
    "verified": true,
    "blue": true,
    "blueType": "Business",
    "protected": false,
    "descriptionLinks": [],
    "pinnedIds": [1891009988776655400],
    "_type": "snscrape.modules.twitter.User"
  },
  "followers": [
    {
      "id": 12345,
      "username": "example_follower",
      "displayname": "Example Follower"
    }
  ]
}

FAQ

Do I need my own backend or API setup?
No. This Actor is ready to run on Apify, and backend infrastructure is managed by SIMO IT.

Can I run multiple handles in one job?
Yes. Pass multiple usernames in handles as comma-separated or newline-separated text.

Will this return followers and following by default?
No. Enable getFollowers and/or getFollowing explicitly.