Tweet Scraper — Twitter (X) search scraper, $0.15 per 1,000 tweets

Scrape tweets from X (Twitter) search: keywords, hashtags, search URLs, handles, advanced search operators, filters and date ranges. Newest first (Latest) or as X ranks them (Top). No X API key, no login, no proxy setup — pay only for the tweets you get.

• $0.15 per 1,000 tweets — less than half of apidojo/tweet-scraper's $0.40.
• Drop-in apidojo alternative — the same input fields and the same tweet object, so switching is changing one actor id.
• Fast — 1,000 tweets in about 2½ minutes (measured on "netflix down", Latest).
• Newest first, no gaps — a Latest search is read in parallel time windows and delivered in order, without holes between them.

Switching from apidojo/tweet-scraper

Change the actor id; keep your input and your parsing code.

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' })
// was: client.actor('apidojo/tweet-scraper')
const run = await client.actor('tweetpipe/tweet-scraper').call({
  searchTerms: ['netflix down'],
  maxItems: 1000,
  sort: 'Latest',
})
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems()

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("tweetpipe/tweet-scraper").call(
    run_input={"searchTerms": ["netflix down"], "maxItems": 1000, "sort": "Latest"}
)
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items

What people use it for

• Brand and product monitoring: every tweet mentioning you, newest first.
• Outage and incident tracking: "is X down" spikes as they happen.
• Sentiment analysis, market and crypto research, academic datasets.
• Lead generation: who tweets about your niche, with their follower counts.
• Feeding tweets into an LLM, a dashboard or a spreadsheet.

Input

{
  "searchTerms": ["netflix down", "#outage lang:en"],
  "maxItems": 1000,
  "sort": "Latest"
}

• searchTerms — any X search, advanced search operators included (from:, to:, "exact phrase", OR, -filter:replies, since:, …).
• startUrls — X / Twitter search URLs (profile URLs are searched as from:handle).
• twitterHandles — tweets from these accounts.
• maxItems — stop after this many tweets (empty = no limit, within your maximum charge per run).
• sort — Latest, Top, or Latest + Top.
• Filters: tweetLanguage, onlyVerifiedUsers, onlyTwitterBlue, onlyImage, onlyVideo, onlyQuote, minimumRetweets, minimumFavorites, minimumReplies, author, inReplyTo, mentioning, geotaggedNear, withinRadius, geocode, placeObjectId, start, end.
• includeSearchTerms adds a searchTerm field; customMapFunction reshapes each tweet.

Output

One dataset item per tweet — JSON, CSV, Excel or the API:

{
  "type": "tweet",
  "id": "2106518220979200001",
  "url": "https://x.com/example/status/2106518220979200001",
  "twitterUrl": "https://twitter.com/example/status/2106518220979200001",
  "text": "is netflix down for anyone else?",
  "retweetCount": 2,
  "replyCount": 5,
  "likeCount": 14,
  "quoteCount": 0,
  "viewCount": 830,
  "bookmarkCount": 0,
  "createdAt": "Sat Oct 03 22:54:15 +0000 2026",
  "lang": "en",
  "isReply": false,
  "isRetweet": false,
  "isQuote": false,
  "author": {
    "type": "user",
    "userName": "example",
    "url": "https://x.com/example",
    "twitterUrl": "https://twitter.com/example",
    "id": "303570001",
    "name": "Example User",
    "isBlueVerified": false,
    "profilePicture": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/…_normal.jpg",
    "followers": 210,
    "following": 182
  },
  "entities": { "hashtags": [], "symbols": [], "urls": [], "user_mentions": [] }
}

Also on every tweet: inReplyToId, inReplyToUsername, conversationId, quoteId and the quoted tweet, source, extendedEntities (media), and the author's bio, location, account age and counts.

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.15 per 1,000 tweets, platform usage included. You are charged only for tweets in the dataset, and a run stops at your maximum charge. On Apify's free plan a run is a demo of up to 10 tweets; any paid plan gets full results.

FAQ

Do I need an X (Twitter) API key or account? No.

How many tweets can I get? As many as the search has: runs of a few thousand tweets finish in minutes, bigger ones take proportionally longer. Latest goes back as far as X search does; Top returns what X's Top tab shows (usually a few hundred).

Is scraping X legal? This actor reads public tweets only. Check the rules that apply to how you use the data (for example GDPR for personal data).

Limits

• Search only in this version: list URLs, single-tweet URLs and reply threads are not supported yet.