X.com Twitter API Scraper
Pricing
$0.40 / 1,000 tweets
X.com Twitter API Scraper
Scrape Twitter (X) data efficiently with this powerful Apify Actor. Real-time, authentic data. No pre-built databases. Extract tweets, user profiles, and more using keywords, hashtags, URLs, and advanced search filters. Fast, reliable, and cost-effective. #TwitterScraper
5.0 (1)
Pricing
$0.40 / 1,000 tweets
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Total users
165
Monthly users
81
Runs succeeded
>99%
Issue response
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Last modified
7 days ago
You can access the X.com Twitter API Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
$# Start Server-Sent Events (SSE) session and keep it running<curl "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/sse?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&actors=xtdata/twitter-x-scraper"
# Session id example output:# event: endpoint# data: /message?sessionId=9d820491-38d4-4c7d-bb6a-3b7dc542f1faUsing X.com Twitter API Scraper via Model Context Protocol (MCP) server
MCP server lets you use X.com Twitter API Scraper within your AI workflows. Send API requests to trigger actions and receive real-time results. Take the received sessionId and use it to communicate with the MCP server. The message starts the X.com Twitter API Scraper Actor with the provided input.
$curl -X POST "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/message?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&session_id=<SESSION_ID>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{$ "jsonrpc": "2.0",$ "id": 1,$ "method": "tools/call",$ "params": {$ "arguments": {$ "startUrls": [$ "https://twitter.com/apify",$ "https://twitter.com/search?q=apify%20&src=typed_query"$ ],$ "searchTerms": [$ "web scraping",$ "scraping from:apify"$ ],$ "twitterHandles": [$ "elonmusk",$ "taylorswift13"$ ],$ "maxItems": 50,$ "sort": "Latest",$ "tweetLanguage": "en",$ "start": "2021-07-01",$ "end": "2021-07-02",$ "customMapFunction": "(object) => { return {...object} }"$},$ "name": "xtdata/twitter-x-scraper"$ }$}'The response should be: Accepted. You should received response via SSE (JSON) as:
$event: message$data: {$ "result": {$ "content": [$ {$ "type": "text",$ "text": "ACTOR_RESPONSE"$ }$ ]$ }$}Configure local MCP Server via standard input/output for X.com Twitter API Scraper
You can connect to the MCP Server using clients like ClaudeDesktop and LibreChat or build your own. The server can run both locally and remotely, giving you full flexibility. Set up the server in the client configuration as follows:
{ "mcpServers": { "actors-mcp-server": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "@apify/actors-mcp-server", "--actors", "xtdata/twitter-x-scraper" ], "env": { "APIFY_TOKEN": "<YOUR_API_TOKEN>" } } }}You can further access the MCP client through the Tester MCP Client, a chat user interface to interact with the server.
To get started, check out the documentation and example clients. If you are interested in learning more about our MCP server, check out our blog post.
