X (Twitter) Profile Scraper - Followers, Bio & Tweets

X (Twitter) Profile Scraper extracts public profile data from X (formerly Twitter) for any list of handles or profile URLs: followers, following, posts count, bio, bio links, location, website, join date, checkmark type, affiliation badge, professional category, profile picture and banner, and optionally each profile's latest posts with likes, reposts, replies and views. No X account, login, cookies or API key needed. $0.14 per 1,000 profiles, plus $0.10 per 1,000 posts when you ask for posts.

What does X (Twitter) Profile Scraper do?

It reads public X profiles the way a logged-out visitor sees them and turns each one into a clean dataset item. Paste handles (NASA, @NASA) or profile URLs (https://x.com/NASA, https://twitter.com/NASA), press Start, and download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them through the Apify API.

• 👤 Profile details: display name, handle, numeric account ID, bio, the links in the bio, location, website (the real link, not a t.co shortlink) and join date.
• 📊 Counts: followers, following, posts, likes, media posts, public lists, highlighted posts, subscriptions and, for organisations, affiliated accounts.
• ✅ Verification and labels: checkmark, gold (Business) or grey (Government) checkmark, X's reason for it, identity verification, the affiliation badge (the organisation an account belongs to), professional type and category, parody/commentary/fan labels.
• 📝 Latest posts (optional): each post with full text, date, likes, reposts, replies, quotes, bookmarks, views, hashtags, mentions, links, photos and video URLs, and the reposted or quoted post. For most brand, media and organisation accounts that is the newest posts, up to about 800 back; for many personal accounts X shows logged-out visitors about 100 of their most popular posts instead, and the item says which (tweetsOrder).
• 🧾 Stable columns: every profile item has the same fields, so CSV and Excel exports line up.
• 💸 Pay only for results: handles that don't exist or are suspended are free, and a run stops exactly at the maximum cost you set.

What data can you extract from X profiles?

Field	What it is
id, handle, name, url	Numeric account ID (stable when the handle changes), current handle, display name, profile URL
bio, bioLinks, bioLanguage	Bio text, the links written in it (expanded) and its language
location, website, createdAt	Location as typed by the owner, website link (expanded), join date (ISO 8601)
followersCount, followingCount	Followers and accounts followed
tweetsCount, likesCount, mediaCount, listedCount	Posts, likes given, media posts, public lists
isBlueVerified, verifiedType, verificationReason, isIdentityVerified	Checkmark, Business/Government type, X's reason, ID verification
affiliatedWith, affiliatedWithUrl, affiliationBadgeUrl, affiliatesCount	The organisation badge on the profile, and how many accounts an organisation has affiliated
professionalType, professionalCategory	Business or Creator, and the category (e.g. Science & Technology)
parodyLabel, subscriptionsCount, highlightedTweetsCount, birthDate	Parody/Commentary/Fan label, creator subscriptions, highlighted posts, public birth or founding date
profileImageUrl, bannerUrl, profileImageShape, hasDefaultProfileImage	400×400 avatar, header image, avatar shape (Square = organisation), default avatar flag
isProtected, possiblySensitive, pinnedTweetId, scrapedAt	Protected account, sensitive-media flag, pinned post, when it was read
tweetsOrder, latestTweets	Only when Latest posts per profile is above 0: latest or top (see Limits), and the posts described below

Each post in latestTweets has id, url, text, createdAt, lang, likeCount, retweetCount, replyCount, quoteCount, bookmarkCount, viewCount, isPinned, isRetweet, isQuote, isReply, inReplyToTweetId, inReplyToHandle, conversationId, hashtags, mentions, links, media (type, image URL, MP4 URL, alt text), retweetedTweet, quotedTweet, source and possiblySensitive.

How to scrape X (Twitter) profiles

1. Open the Actor and add handles or profile URLs to X handles or profile URLs, one per line.
2. Optional: set Latest posts per profile (for example 20) to include each profile's most recent posts, and Only posts newer than (for example 30 days) to stop at a date.
3. Keep the default proxy (Apify Residential).
4. Click Start. Profiles appear in the Output tab as they are read; the Latest posts view shows one row per post.
5. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or fetch it with the Apify API.

How much does it cost to scrape X profiles?

You pay per result, platform usage and proxies included:

What	Price per 1,000	Silver plan	Gold plan
Profile	$0.14	$0.126	$0.112
Post included with a profile	$0.10	$0.09	$0.08

• 10,000 profiles without posts cost $1.40.
• 1,000 profiles with their latest 20 posts each cost $0.14 + 20,000 × $0.10 / 1,000 = $2.14.

Handles that don't exist, are suspended or are invalid cost nothing. Set a maximum cost per run when you start the Actor: it stops cleanly before the first profile (or post) it could not pay for, and keeps everything read so far. Apify's free plan includes monthly platform credit, enough to try the Actor on thousands of profiles.

Input example

{
  "handles": ["NASA", "@nytimes", "https://x.com/Google"],
  "maxTweetsPerProfile": 20,
  "onlyTweetsNewerThan": "30 days",
  "includeRetweets": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

Field	Default	Description
handles		Handles (NASA, @NASA) or profile URLs on x.com or twitter.com, including links to a post (the author's profile is read). Duplicates are read once.
maxTweetsPerProfile	0	Latest posts to include per profile. 0 reads the profile only.
onlyTweetsNewerThan		Only posts from this date on: 2026-01-31, 2026-1-31, 31/01/2026, Jan 31 2026, 2026-01-31T18:00:00Z or an age like 7 days, 2w, 3 months, yesterday. Dates are UTC days; with both day and month 12 or less (01/02/2026) the date is read month/day/year.
includeRetweets	true	Keep reposts. Turn off for the account's own posts only.
proxyConfiguration	Residential	Proxy settings.

Output example

One dataset item per profile (trimmed to one post):

{
  "id": "20536157",
  "handle": "Google",
  "name": "Google",
  "url": "https://x.com/Google",
  "bio": "Here to help.",
  "location": "Mountain View, CA",
  "website": "https://blog.google/newsletter-subscribe/",
  "createdAt": "2009-02-10T19:14:39.000Z",
  "followersCount": 31901418,
  "followingCount": 299,
  "tweetsCount": 252026,
  "likesCount": 5671,
  "mediaCount": 38351,
  "listedCount": 89934,
  "isVerified": false,
  "isBlueVerified": true,
  "verifiedType": "Business",
  "isProtected": false,
  "profileImageUrl": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2042749771337564160/AgOFPEL3_400x400.jpg",
  "bannerUrl": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/20536157/1780004508",
  "pinnedTweetId": "2115489522603466766",
  "bioLinks": [],
  "professionalType": "Business",
  "professionalCategory": "Science & Technology",
  "affiliatedWith": null,
  "affiliatedWithUrl": null,
  "affiliationBadgeUrl": null,
  "affiliatesCount": 39,
  "verificationReason": "This account is verified because it's an official organization on X.",
  "isIdentityVerified": false,
  "parodyLabel": null,
  "subscriptionsCount": 0,
  "highlightedTweetsCount": 77,
  "birthDate": null,
  "bioLanguage": null,
  "profileImageShape": "Square",
  "hasDefaultProfileImage": false,
  "possiblySensitive": false,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-08T10:50:22.223Z",
  "tweetsOrder": "latest",
  "latestTweets": [
    {
      "id": "2118808678149308701",
      "url": "https://x.com/Google/status/2118808678149308701",
      "text": "From fun idea → functional smart device 🏄‍♂️ ...",
      "createdAt": "2026-11-06T20:52:09.000Z",
      "lang": "en",
      "likeCount": 700,
      "retweetCount": 65,
      "replyCount": 94,
      "quoteCount": 25,
      "bookmarkCount": 144,
      "viewCount": 125035,
      "isPinned": false,
      "isRetweet": false,
      "isQuote": false,
      "isReply": false,
      "inReplyToTweetId": null,
      "inReplyToHandle": null,
      "conversationId": "2118808678149308701",
      "hashtags": [],
      "mentions": ["antigravity"],
      "links": [],
      "media": [
        {
          "type": "video",
          "url": "https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/2118806487526965248/img/ubIcFbfarZzf12xX.jpg",
          "videoUrl": "https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2118806487526965248/vid/avc1/1920x1080/Q6SHSG_WRkkAiMOQ.mp4?tag=29",
          "altText": null
        }
      ],
      "retweetedTweet": null,
      "quotedTweet": null,
      "source": null,
      "possiblySensitive": false
    }
  ]
}

A field is null when the profile leaves it empty (no bio, no website) or X does not provide it. Handles that don't exist or are suspended are not added to the dataset; they are listed in the run log and in the SUMMARY record of the run's key-value store.

Use cases

• Influencer and creator research: compare reach, activity and engagement on recent posts across a list of accounts.
• Brand and competitor monitoring: track follower growth and what brands, publishers and organisations post, on a schedule.
• Lead enrichment: add bios, websites, locations, categories and affiliations to a list of X handles.
• Account checks: find which handles exist, which are suspended, protected, verified, parody or using a default avatar.
• Social listening and AI: feed recent posts of chosen accounts into sentiment analysis, summaries or a RAG pipeline.
• Academic and market research: build datasets of public profile attributes and posting activity.

Use it via API, Python, JavaScript and integrations

Run the X (Twitter) Profile Scraper from your own code with the Apify API:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/socialscrapers~x-profile-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"handles": ["NASA", "Google"], "maxTweetsPerProfile": 10}'

Python, with the apify-client package:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("socialscrapers/x-profile-scraper").call(
    run_input={"handles": ["NASA", "Google"], "maxTweetsPerProfile": 10}
)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["handle"], item["followersCount"], len(item.get("latestTweets", [])))

JavaScript, with the apify-client package:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('socialscrapers/x-profile-scraper').call({ handles: ['NASA', 'Google'], maxTweetsPerProfile: 10 });
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.map((p) => `${p.handle}: ${p.followersCount} followers`));

It also works without code: connect it to Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack or webhooks from the Integrations tab, run it on a schedule (for example daily follower tracking), and let AI agents call it through the Apify MCP server.

Limits

• Public data only, no login. The Actor sees what X shows a logged-out visitor. Protected accounts return their profile details, without posts.
• Which posts X shows. For most brand, media and organisation accounts, X shows logged-out visitors the newest posts and lets them page back about 800 posts (tweetsOrder: latest). For many personal accounts it shows about 100 of their most popular posts from across the years instead, with no newer ones (tweetsOrder: top); Only posts newer than then filters that selection. The run's SUMMARY lists those profiles.
• Replies to other accounts, likes, followers lists and keyword search are not shown to logged-out visitors, so they are not collected. The owner's own threads (replies to themselves) are included.
• likesCount, listedCount and a few other fields are sometimes null when X leaves them out of its answer.
• Datacenter proxy choices fall back to residential. If you pick Apify Proxy without the RESIDENTIAL group, the first session X refuses moves the run to RESIDENTIAL, in the same country; custom proxy URLs are used exactly as given.
• Share and short links work. t.co/… links are followed to the profile or post they lead to, a post link without a handle (x.com/i/web/status/…) reads its author's profile, and mobile.twitter.com, twitter.com and fxtwitter.com links name their profile directly. Following a link is never charged.
• A run with 0 results still succeeds when your input was fine. When a handle does not exist, is suspended or withheld, or a link leads nowhere, the run ends as Succeeded with a status message naming each input and why, and nothing is charged. A run fails only when no input holds a handle or link at all, or when X refuses every one of 3 or more inputs.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape X (Twitter) profiles? The X (Twitter) Profile Scraper only reads data that X shows publicly to anyone without an account. Whether you may use that data depends on your purpose and your jurisdiction (for example personal-data rules such as the GDPR), so check before you store or publish personal data.

Do I need an X account, cookies or an API key? No. You only need a list of handles or profile URLs.

How many profiles can I scrape? As many as you like: runs read profiles in parallel, and large lists of tens of thousands of handles are fine. Each profile's posts are limited to what X shows logged-out visitors: about 800 latest posts, or about 100 top posts (see Limits).

Why did I get fewer posts than I asked for? The profile has fewer posts, the date in Only posts newer than was reached, the account is protected, X stopped showing older posts to logged-out visitors, or the run hit its maximum cost. The run log and the SUMMARY record say which, per profile.

Why are some profiles' posts years old? For many personal accounts X shows logged-out visitors a selection of about 100 popular posts rather than the latest ones. Those profiles have tweetsOrder set to top; brand and organisation accounts usually have latest.

How do I get only new posts each day? Schedule the Actor daily with Only posts newer than set to 1 day (or 25 hours for some overlap).

What happens with handles that don't exist or are suspended? They are skipped, logged and not charged. The SUMMARY record lists them under notFound and suspended.

Can I run it without a proxy? Yes, set the proxy to "No proxy". Small lists usually work, but the default residential proxy is more reliable for large lists.

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