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x.com · HTTP 200

Twitter/X Scraper API

Extract tweets, user profiles, engagement metrics, and trending topics from X (formerly Twitter). Full stealth browsing with residential proxies to handle X's aggressive bot detection.

X (formerly Twitter) has some of the most aggressive anti-scraping defenses on the web. Spider uses browser fingerprint rotation, residential proxies, and real browser rendering to reliably extract tweets, profiles, and engagement data at scale.

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Response x.com/X.md markdown · 112 lines
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Code · Fields · Cost · Run it keyless, no account

The same call, in code.

The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on x.com.

twitter-scraper.ts
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://x.com/OpenAI");

// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();

console.log(data);
await spider.close();
ready to run · spider-browser, no selectors

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What teams build with x.com data.

Social Listening

Monitor brand mentions, competitor activity, and industry conversations across public tweets and threads.

Trend Analysis

Track trending topics, hashtags, and viral content to spot emerging narratives before they peak.

Influencer Research

Analyze engagement rates, follower counts, and posting patterns to identify high-value accounts for partnerships.

News Monitoring

Capture breaking news and real-time updates from journalist accounts, news outlets, and official sources.

Fields you can pull.

Tweet textAuthorLikesRetweetsRepliesTimestampMediaHashtags

Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.

Stealth

Anti-bot bypass

Residential proxy rotation and fingerprint randomization to reliably access X pages despite aggressive bot detection.

Rendering

Full React SPA

Complete JavaScript execution renders X's React interface, including lazy-loaded tweets and infinite scroll.

Data

Rich tweet data

Extract text, engagement metrics, media, threads, and profile data in clean structured JSON.

What x.com costs to scrape.

The capture above cost $0.000383 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.

  • Free balance on signup
  • No card required to test
  • Balance never expires
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Run it keyless, no account

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"url": "https://x.com/X", "return_format": "markdown"}'

Scraping x.com.

Can I scrape X/Twitter without API access?

Yes. Spider renders X pages in a real browser and extracts data from the DOM. No Twitter/X API keys or paid API tier required.

How does Spider handle X's anti-bot detection?

Spider uses residential proxy rotation, browser fingerprint randomization, and stealth browsing with real Chrome instances to avoid detection.

What data can I extract from X?

Tweet text, author info, likes, retweets, replies, timestamps, media attachments, hashtags, and full user profiles.

Can I scrape X search results?

Yes. Spider can render X search results pages and extract tweets matching any query, hashtag, or advanced search filter.

Does scraping X violate their terms?

Spider accesses only publicly visible content. The legality of scraping public social media data is supported by court precedent (hiQ v. LinkedIn).

More Social scrapers.

Start scraping x.com.

You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.