Twitter (X) scraper API: pricing, alternatives

X sells API access pay-per-use. Each post in a response costs $0.005 and each user costs $0.010. A search that returns 100 posts costs $0.50. X’s pricing page lists no free tier. Scrapers fill the gap by reading the public web interface, and X changes that interface often.

• —Brand monitoring. Posts and replies that mention a brand, a product, or a handle.
• —Social listening. Search by keyword and read the conversation threads underneath.
• —Profile tracking. Follower counts, bio, and recent posts for a set of accounts over time.
• —Creator reads. Views, likes, reposts, and quotes on a creator's recent posts.
• —List and follower graphs. Who an account follows, who follows it, and the lists it belongs to.

• —Login walls. X hides most content from logged-out visitors. Scrapers use pooled accounts, and those accounts get suspended in waves.
• —Guest tokens. The public web interface needs a guest token that X rotates and rate-limits. When it changes, every scraper built on it fails at once.
• —Protected and suspended accounts. Many scrapers return an empty success. You cannot tell "protected" from "no posts".
• —View counts. X shows views only in some places. A scraper that fills in 0 breaks every reach number you compute.
• —Long threads. Replies load in pages with cursors that expire. Half a thread is a common result.

• —Public reads on request. You ask for a public profile, post, or search. We read it and answer. A protected account returns a clear error.
• —Null means hidden. A view count X does not show comes back as null, never as 0.
• —Stable pagination. Replies, followers, and search pages come back with cursors that keep working.
• —Media that stays up. Images and videos are served from our CDN. The link you store keeps working.
• —One schema with Instagram and TikTok. A post is a post on every platform. One parser, three networks.
• —Pay per answer. $0.0025 per request, down to $0.002 at volume. 30-day cache hits are free. Failed requests are free. You pay only when Openhandle returns an answer. No monthly plan.

Openhandle is read-only. We never post, like, repost, follow, or message on any account. Protected accounts, direct messages, and anything a logged-out visitor cannot see are out of scope. Account owners can ask us to block their profile. The public data notice lists every limit.

Create a key and make your first X call. You get 100 free live requests and no card is needed. See every endpoint on the X (Twitter) API page, and run a request from the quickstart in cURL, TypeScript, Go, Python, PHP, or Rust.