🌐 X Twitter Public Data Scraper - Profiles, Posts, Search & Monitoring

Turn public X/Twitter profiles and posts into clean, analysis-ready data - without an X account or cookies.

⚡ Fast · 🔓 Login-free · 💸 Pay only for saved results · 📄 JSON / CSV / Excel / XML / API

👤 Profiles · 📝 User timelines · 🔎 Profile search · 💬 Public replies · 🔔 Monitoring · 🎯 Advanced filters

This is an unofficial Actor and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by X Corp. or Twitter.

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🤔 Why use this Actor?

Copying X data by hand is slow, inconsistent, and difficult to repeat. This Actor turns public pages into structured rows that are ready for research, lead lists, dashboards, alerts, and automated workflows.

Manual work	With this Actor
Open profiles one by one	Process up to 100 targets in one run
Copy text and metrics manually	Get normalized profiles, posts, media, and engagement
Repeat the same checks every day	Schedule monitoring and save only changes
Clean spreadsheets after export	Download a ready-to-use dataset
Lose time on one invalid target	Skip it safely and continue the run

🔥 What you can collect

Mode	Best for	What you get
👤 User profiles	Creator research, lead enrichment, account analysis	Bio, location, website, followers, following, verification, public links, and derived metrics
📝 Recent posts by user	Content research, brand tracking, datasets	Up to 500 recent public posts per profile with text, engagement, media, and links
🔎 Search inside profiles	Focused topic and competitor research	Posts matching words, phrases, language, engagement, author, and media operators
💬 Posts by URL with replies	Conversation and campaign analysis	Requested posts plus replies visible to logged-out public visitors
🔔 Monitor posts and engagement	Alerts, schedules, dashboards	Baseline snapshots, new posts, and engagement updates between runs

🚀 Try it in 10 seconds

Choose 👤 User profiles, paste a few usernames, and click Start.

{
  "scrapeType": "PROFILES",
  "usernames": ["NASA", "OpenAI"],
  "maxResults": 50
}

The run log shows progress, skipped targets, filters, saved results, and total runtime. If the input is incomplete or invalid, the Actor stops cleanly and tells you exactly what to fix.

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👤 Collect public profiles

Use profile mode for creator discovery, company research, account comparison, and public contact enrichment.

{
  "scrapeType": "PROFILES",
  "usernames": [
    "NASA",
    "@OpenAI",
    "https://x.com/SpaceX"
  ],
  "maxResults": 100
}

Profile rows can include:

• Display name, username, bio, location, website, and public profile URL
• Followers, following, posts, likes, media, and list counts
• Verification, privacy status, account creation date, and account age
• Emails, mentions, hashtags, and links found in the bio
• Follower-to-following ratio and estimated posting frequency
• Recent-post engagement averages when publicly available

📝 Collect recent posts by user

Collect public timelines from one or many accounts. Use maxPostsPerProfile to inspect between 1 and 500 posts per profile.

{
  "scrapeType": "USER_POSTS",
  "usernames": ["NASA", "OpenAI"],
  "maxPostsPerProfile": 100,
  "includeReposts": false,
  "maxResults": 200
}

Post rows can include:

• Full text, author, timestamp, URL, post ID, and conversation relationships
• Likes, reposts, replies, quotes, bookmarks, and public views
• Images, video thumbnails, and public video URLs when available
• Hashtags, mentions, links, quoted posts, and repost information
• Language, media type, total engagement, and engagement rate
• sourceUsername for clean attribution across multi-profile runs

🔎 Search inside selected profiles

Find matching posts inside the public profiles you provide. This keeps results focused on accounts that matter to you instead of mixing in unrelated global content.

{
  "scrapeType": "PROFILE_SEARCH",
  "usernames": ["NASA", "SpaceX"],
  "queries": [
    "moon lang:en min_faves:100",
    "launch filter:videos -filter:retweets"
  ],
  "maxPostsPerProfile": 200,
  "maxResults": 300
}

🧩 Supported search operators

Operator	Example	Meaning
Words	moon mission	Text contains every word
Exact phrase	"artificial intelligence"	Text contains the full phrase
Excluded word	AI -crypto	Text does not contain the excluded word
Author	from:NASA	Post belongs to this author
Language	lang:en	Post uses this language
Minimum likes	min_faves:100	At least 100 likes
Minimum reposts	min_retweets:20	At least 20 reposts
Minimum replies	min_replies:5	At least 5 replies
Any media	filter:media	Contains an image or video
Images	filter:images	Contains an image
Videos	filter:videos	Contains a video
Links	filter:links	Contains an external link
Replies	filter:replies	Is a reply
Reposts	filter:retweets	Is reposted content
Excluded type	-filter:retweets	Excludes that content type

Each match contains searchQuery, so you always know why it was returned.

Search is limited to the recent public timelines of profiles supplied in usernames. It is not global X search.

💬 Collect posts and public replies

Paste an x.com link, twitter.com link, or numeric post ID. The requested post is returned first, followed by replies exposed to logged-out public visitors.

{
  "scrapeType": "POST_DETAILS",
  "postUrls": [
    "https://x.com/NASA/status/2086853708533440600"
  ],
  "includeReplies": true,
  "maxReplies": 20,
  "maxResults": 100
}

maxReplies is a safety cap. X may expose only part of a conversation publicly, so the number of available replies can be lower.

🔔 Monitor new posts and engagement

Use Monitor mode with an Apify schedule to track new posts and public engagement changes.

{
  "scrapeType": "MONITOR",
  "usernames": ["NASA", "OpenAI"],
  "monitorKey": "space-news-watch",
  "maxPostsPerProfile": 20,
  "emitInitialPosts": true,
  "maxResults": 100
}

Reuse the same monitorKey on each scheduled run:

• 📸 BASELINE - current posts saved during the first snapshot
• 🆕 NEW - a post not present in earlier snapshots
• 📈 UPDATED - text or public engagement numbers changed

Updated rows include previous values and numeric deltas. A successful check with no changes returns zero rows and is not treated as an error.

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🎯 Filter exactly what you need

Filters apply before rows are saved and charged:

• 📅 Start and end dates
• ✅ Required keywords and ⛔ excluded keywords
• 🌍 Language code
• ☑️ Verified authors only
• ❤️ Minimum likes, 🔁 reposts, 💬 replies, and 👀 views
• 🖼️ Images, videos, any media, or posts without media

Example: keep English image posts with at least 1,000 likes.

{
  "scrapeType": "USER_POSTS",
  "usernames": ["NASA"],
  "maxPostsPerProfile": 200,
  "language": "en",
  "mediaFilter": "IMAGES",
  "minLikes": 1000,
  "maxResults": 100
}

💡 Popular use cases

• 📣 Brand monitoring - track posts and engagement from brands or competitors
• 🧑‍💻 Creator discovery - compare public profiles and audience metrics
• 🧠 Content research - find high-performing posts inside selected accounts
• 📰 News tracking - monitor public organizations and save only new updates
• 📊 Analytics - export clean engagement data into spreadsheets or BI tools
• 🔔 Alerts - connect scheduled monitoring runs to webhooks or automations
• 🤖 AI datasets - collect structured public text with dates, authors, links, and metrics

📦 Clean output, ready anywhere

Open the Output tab to preview results or export them as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS. The dataset includes dedicated views for profiles, posts, replies, search matches, and monitoring changes.

Example post result

{
  "recordType": "post",
  "platform": "x",
  "postId": "2086853708533440600",
  "sourceUsername": "NASA",
  "username": "NASA",
  "displayName": "NASA",
  "text": "Post text...",
  "publishedAt": "2026-08-10T16:34:30+00:00",
  "likeCount": 4619,
  "repostCount": 583,
  "replyCount": 181,
  "bookmarkCount": 216,
  "viewCount": 871563,
  "totalEngagement": 5409,
  "engagementRate": 0.6206,
  "language": "en",
  "mediaType": "image",
  "mediaUrls": ["https://pbs.twimg.com/media/example.jpg"],
  "url": "https://x.com/NASA/status/2086853708533440600"
}

📥 Input cheatsheet

Field	Used by	Description
scrapeType	All modes	Selects the workflow
usernames	Profiles, Posts, Search, Monitor	Usernames, @handles, or profile URLs
postUrls	Post details	Post URLs or numeric IDs
queries	Profile search	Up to 20 profile-scoped queries
maxPostsPerProfile	Posts, Search, Monitor	Timeline depth from 1 to 500
includeReplies / maxReplies	Post details	Enables and limits public replies
Filter fields	Post-based modes	Date, keyword, language, media, verification, and metrics
monitorKey	Monitor	Stable key reused by scheduled runs
maxResults	All modes	Hard cap for saved dataset rows
maxConcurrency	All modes	Number of targets processed in parallel

Fields unrelated to the selected mode are safely ignored.

💸 Pricing and budget control

You pay only for results saved to the dataset.

Event	Base price
Actor start	$0.00005 per run
Public profile	$0.003 per result
Post, search match, or monitoring change	$0.0015 per result
Public reply	$0.0015 per result

Higher Apify subscription levels receive automatic volume discounts. Missing, private, suspended, removed, skipped, and filtered targets do not create paid result events.

For predictable spending:

1. Set 💰 Maximum saved results in the Actor input.
2. Set Maximum charge per run in Apify before starting.
3. Test a small sample, inspect the dataset, then increase the limits.

❓ FAQ

Do I need an X account or cookies?

No. All available modes use data exposed to public visitors.

Can it collect protected or private accounts?

No. Protected accounts and content that X does not expose publicly are unavailable.

What if one target is invalid or missing?

That target is skipped with a readable warning. Other valid targets continue, and the final summary reports the skipped item.

What if my Actor input is wrong?

The run finishes safely with an Input needs attention message and a concrete explanation. It does not fail with a confusing traceback or charge result events.

Why did a successful run save zero results?

Typical reasons are strict filters, no monitoring changes, no search matches, or targets that currently expose no public data. The final log explains which case occurred.

Does it support global X search, followers, or following lists?

No. Global search, follower/following lists, and list timelines require authenticated access and are not included in this login-free Actor.

How fast is it?

Targets are processed concurrently. Actual speed depends on the selected mode, timeline depth, public X response times, and proxy settings. Profile batches are designed for fast bulk collection.

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🚀 Ready to start?

Choose a mode, paste your targets, set a result limit, and click Start. Your structured public X dataset will appear in the Output tab.

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