X / Twitter Monitor & Scraper — Search, Timeline & Watchlists

Scrape and monitor public posts on X (Twitter) without the official paid API. One Actor covers keyword search, user timelines, and multi-handle watchlists — with likes, reposts, replies, quotes, bookmarks, views, media flags, and clean post URLs ready for dashboards, alerts, CRM enrichment, and n8n / Make / Zapier.

Built for brand monitoring, competitor tracking, influencer research, and scheduled social listening on Apify.

Why teams pick this Actor

• Full monitor + scraper in one place — search · user_timeline · list / watchlist
• Rich engagement fields — likes, reposts, replies, quotes, bookmarks, views, language, media flags
• Clean post text — normalized whitespace (no messy blank lines / \n\n dumps); readable in Output and exports
• Clean snake_case JSON — id, text, author, handle, created_at, url, plus filter flags (is_reply, is_repost, is_quote)
• Residential proxy included — Actor-owned Apify RESIDENTIAL (no proxy UI to misconfigure)
• Filters that matter — toggle replies and reposts; hard maxItems cap for predictable cost
• Example Tasks ready — timeline, brand search, multi-handle watchlist
• Pairs with transcripts — scrape posts here, then send video URLs to X Video Transcriber

Modes at a glance

Mode	Best for	What you provide
user_timeline	Tracking accounts, creators, competitors	One or more handles
search	Brand / keyword discovery with from:handle	searchQuery (+ optional seed handles)
list	Multi-account watchlists	handles and/or optional listUrl

Search tip: Prefer from:Handle keyword (or pass seed handles) for reliable public results. When X’s native SearchTimeline is guest-walled, the Actor falls back to those handles and filters timeline posts by your keywords — so you still get structured data instead of an empty run.

List tip: Native X List timelines are probed; when guest-walled, your handles are the watchlist. Always pass the accounts you care about.

Input examples

User timeline (recommended start)

{
  "mode": "user_timeline",
  "handles": ["Apify"],
  "maxItems": 20,
  "includeReplies": false,
  "includeReposts": false
}

Brand / keyword search

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "from:Apify scraper",
  "maxItems": 15
}

Watchlist (multi-handle)

{
  "mode": "list",
  "handles": ["Apify", "apifydevops"],
  "maxItems": 20
}

Output example

{
  "id": "2106006297003106381",
  "text": "Some viral TikTok carousels are just paid ads...",
  "author": "Apify",
  "handle": "apify",
  "created_at": "2026-10-02T13:00:03Z",
  "likes": 4,
  "reposts": 0,
  "replies": 0,
  "views": 259,
  "url": "https://x.com/apify/status/2106006297003106381",
  "has_media": false,
  "has_video": false,
  "has_photo": false,
  "is_reply": false,
  "is_repost": false,
  "source_mode": "user_timeline"
}

Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML from the Dataset / Output tab.

How to run

1. Open X / Twitter Monitor → Try for free
2. Pick a mode (start with user_timeline)
3. Add handles or a from: search query
4. Keep maxItems ≤ 100 while testing on free credit
5. Open Output (or Storage → Dataset) and download

Schedule the Actor for recurring brand / competitor checks.

More tools from TicTech

Need	Actor
Transcribe X / Twitter videos	X Video Transcriber
TikTok / IG / YT Shorts → transcript	Shorts Transcriber
Instagram posts & reels	Instagram Scraper
TikTok posts & profiles	TikTok Scraper
Bluesky posts & search	Bluesky Scraper

Tip: scrape the post with this Monitor, then pass video post URLs into X Video Transcriber for captions.

Usage Limits

• Free tier: max items per run ≤ 100 while testing. When the Actor free-use gate is hit, the run exits SUCCEEDED with an upgrade tip (results kept).
• Hard maxItems ceiling per run (safe ceiling 500 when set to 0)
• Need more capacity? Apify pricing
• Public data only — protected / suspended accounts return nothing
• X may rate-limit or wall some guest search / list surfaces; use from: / seed handles for reliable search

Pricing

Pay-per-event (PPE) on synthetic Apify events:

• apify-default-dataset-item — per post pushed (~$1.50 / 1k on FREE; lower on paid tiers)
• apify-actor-start — small per-run start fee (scales with RAM)

Runs stay lean (HTTP GraphQL, no browser). Dominant cost is residential proxy + compute — keep maxItems tight on schedules.

For more details, contact the maintainer or email us at contact@tictech.id