Fetch public Twitter (X) user profiles by ID or username, run batch lookups, and retrieve timelines, followers, following, mentions, subscriptions, and long-form Articles as structured JSON.
Pick an endpoint to see what it does, which parameters it accepts, and the JSON your application receives. Authenticate with your API key in the x-api-key header.
/v1/twitter/users/{user_id}/by_idGet a complete user profile by numeric Twitter ID. Returns bio, follower/following counts, verification status, join date, and profile images.
user_id | required | The numeric Twitter user ID |
{
"data": {
"id": "44196397",
"username": "elonmusk",
"name": "Elon Musk",
"bio": "Mars & Cars, Chips & Dips",
"followers_count": 170000000,
"following_count": 500,
"tweet_count": 45000,
"verified": true,
"created_at": "2009-06-02T20:12:29Z",
"profile_image_url": "https://pbs.twimg.com/..."
}
}Profile, relationship, and timeline data for account-level analysis.
Retrieve full profiles, follower and following counts, verification status, and recent timelines to qualify creators, compare audiences, and build outreach lists.
Collect follower and following lists page by page to map communities, find overlapping audiences, and identify the accounts that connect them.
Use batch lookups to refresh stored profiles on a schedule — bios, images, counts, and verification changes — and track mentions of the accounts you care about.
Resolve usernames to IDs, verify account age and activity, and pull published Articles to separate active, credible accounts from throwaways.
Sub-100ms response times. Most of that is your network latency, not our infrastructure. Deploy, test, iterate the same day instead of week-long proofs-of-concept.
99.9% uptime SLA. Your data pipeline doesn't stop because X changed a selector. Monitoring, patching, and infrastructure are all us. You focus on what you built.
Tweets, profiles, followers, communities, trends, geo, real-time Streams — 40+ endpoints. Whatever you need from X, it's here. No fragmented tooling, no API gaps forcing you to bolt on a second service.
RESTful API, SDK support (Python, Node, Go, PHP), MCP, CLI, and no code. Use it in an existing system or a new greenfield; the response shape never surprises you.
Use ScrapeBadger through an official SDK, a standard API request, a real-time connection, or the tools already in your workflow.
Build asynchronous data pipelines with typed responses, automatic pagination, retry handling, and access to the complete Twitter API.
Add Twitter data to Node.js and TypeScript applications with type definitions, async pagination, and support for both ESM and CommonJS.
Connect from any backend or programming language using standard HTTP requests. Responses arrive as structured JSON that can be stored, transformed, or passed into another service.
Receive new tweets through a persistent WebSocket connection or deliver them directly to your application through signed webhooks. Available with Twitter Streams for account and query monitoring.
Give compatible AI agents access to Twitter profiles, tweets, search, trends, communities, lists, and monitoring tools through ScrapeBadger's MCP server.
Search tweets, retrieve profiles, inspect trends, and export results as JSON, CSV, Markdown, or terminal-friendly tables without writing an application.
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“Started with the Apify actor, then moved to the API for more control. The 1,000 free credits were enough to build our MVP. Now processing 2M+ tweets monthly.”
“Perfect for academic research. The community and trends endpoints give us data we couldn't get anywhere else. Documentation could use more examples, but support is responsive.”
“We monitor 50,000+ accounts for our clients. ScrapeBadger handles it without breaking a sweat. The bulk ID endpoints are a game-changer for large-scale monitoring.”
“The geo and trends endpoints power our location-based analytics. Setup took 10 minutes. Their Apify actors are also great for quick one-off scrapes.”
Start with pay-as-you-go credits (never expire) or save up to 64% with a monthly or annual subscription. Failed requests never consume credits, and the exact charge is returned in the X-Credits-Used response header.
Every endpoint uses the same model: 1 base credit + 1 credit per item returned. Single-item lookups always cost 2 credits. Paginated list endpoints cost 1 + the number of items in the page. Failed requests cost 0 credits.
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