X (Twitter) Data Scraper — Tweets, Profiles, Search, Followers

Read-only X (Twitter) data as structured JSON. No X account, no developer-portal application, no browser automation.

Give it a username or a search query, get back clean records in your Apify dataset.

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What it does

Mode	Returns
User tweets	Recent posts from an account
User profile	Bio, follower/following counts, verification, join date, avatar
Search	Full X search syntax — from:, to:, since:, until:, min_faves:, #hashtag, $cashtag
Followers	Who follows an account
Following	Who an account follows
User replies	An account's replies

Pagination, retries and rate-limit backoff are handled for you.

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Why this one

Read-only by design. It never posts, follows, likes, or logs in as anyone. It reads data that is already public — the same thing a logged-out browser sees. It never asks for your X credentials, so your X account is never involved and can never be the thing that gets restricted.

Only X, maintained accordingly. This isn't one connector among hundreds. When X changes its internals, that's the whole emergency rather than a ticket in a queue.

Free to try, no signup. Run it with the key field blank and you get a live @elonmusk profile — real data, real response shape, zero credits. When you want any other account, you bring your own key.

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Pricing — this Actor is free

This Actor charges you nothing on Apify. There is no per-result fee and no subscription here. You only ever pay Apify's own platform compute, same as any Actor.

1. Free demo — no key, no signup

Leave "Your SocialAPI key" blank. You get the @elonmusk profile, live, for free. It's rate limited per IP and fixed to that one account — it exists so you can see the exact response shape before committing to anything.

2. Your own key — everything else

Every other mode (any username, search, followers, following, replies) needs a key from socialapi.tech. Sign up with Google for $0.20 in free credits — no credit card, no X Developer account.

Then:

• You're billed by SocialAPI directly at per-call pricing (1 credit = $0.00001), with no subscription and no monthly minimum
• No marketplace margin — you pay us directly, so there's nothing stacked on top
• You get the full API too: 40+ endpoints, a real-time WebSocket stream (1–4 second typical detection lag), and webhooks — things a batch Actor can't express

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Input

{
  "mode": "user_tweets",
  "usernames": ["elonmusk", "naval"],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "socialApiKey": "xm_your_key_here"
}

Search instead:

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "bitcoin min_faves:100 since:2026-10-01",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Field	Type	Notes
mode	string	One of the modes in the table above
usernames	array	Handles without @. Used by every mode except Search
searchQuery	string	Search mode only. Full X search syntax
maxItems	integer	Per username/query. Higher costs more
socialApiKey	string	Blank = free @elonmusk demo. Your own key unlocks every mode

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Output

One record per tweet or profile, pushed to the dataset. Each record carries _target (which username or query produced it) and _mode, so merged datasets stay traceable.

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What it can't do

Worth stating plainly, because other tools are vague about it:

• Protected accounts — not accessible. That data isn't exposed to anyone.
• Direct messages — same.
• Who viewed a profile / who blocked you — X doesn't publish this, so nothing can read it.
• Posting, following, liking — this is read-only. Those need the official X API and an authenticated account.

If a tool claims any of the first three, it's doing something other than what it says.

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Legal and acceptable use

This reads publicly visible data. The lines that matter in practice: don't use anyone's credentials, don't try to reach protected content, and don't generate load that looks like an attack. What you do with the data afterwards may carry its own obligations depending on your jurisdiction and use case.

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Links

• Get a free API key — https://socialapi.tech/?utm_source=apify&utm_medium=marketplace (Google sign-up includes $0.20 in credits)
• Full API docs (40+ endpoints) — https://socialapi.tech/docs?utm_source=apify&utm_medium=marketplace
• Pricing — per call, no subscription: https://socialapi.tech/?utm_source=apify&utm_medium=marketplace

Built and maintained by the SocialAPI team.