X Post Scraper API

The X Post Scraper API lets you extract detailed data for any X (Twitter) post including engagement metrics (views, retweets, quotes, likes, bookmarks), full post content, timestamp, and complete author profile information. Each successful request costs 5 API credits.

Endpoint: https://api.scrapingdog.com/x/post

API Parameters

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Scrapingdog Parameters

api_key Required
Your personal API key. Available on your dashboard.

Type: String

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Post

tweetId Required
This is the tweet ID of the X post you want to scrape. You can find it in the post URL (e.g., for twitter.com/i/web/status/1655608985058267139, the ID is 1655608985058267139).

Type: String

API Examples

Code to Integrate

curl "https://api.scrapingdog.com/x/post?api_key=APIKEY&tweetId=1655608985058267139"

import requests

params = {
    "api_key": "APIKEY",
    "tweetId": "1655608985058267139"
}

response = requests.get("https://api.scrapingdog.com/x/post", params=params)
data = response.json()
print(data["tweet"])
print("Likes:", data["likes"], "| Views:", data["views"])

const params = new URLSearchParams({
  api_key: "APIKEY",
  tweetId: "1655608985058267139"
});

const res = await fetch(`https://api.scrapingdog.com/x/post?${params}`);
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data.tweet, data.likes, data.views);

<?php
$url = 'https://api.scrapingdog.com/x/post?' . http_build_query([
    'api_key' => 'APIKEY',
    'tweetId' => '1655608985058267139',
]);
echo file_get_contents($url);

API Response

{
  "tweet_id": "1655608985058267139",
  "post_url": "https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1655608985058267139",
  "tweet": "Excited to announce that we have launched our new X Scraper API!",
  "created_at": "Mon May 08 12:34:56 +0000 2023",
  "views": 1284950,
  "retweets": 3241,
  "quotes": 512,
  "likes": 28475,
  "bookmarks": 4123,
  "profile_name": "Scrapingdog",
  "profile_handle": "scrapingdog",
  "profile_url": "https://twitter.com/scrapingdog",
  "profile_picture": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/...",
  "description": "Web Scraping API for developers",
  "location": "India",
  "followers_count": 5420,
  "following_count": 312,
  "likes_count": 1840,
  "statuses_count": 2310,
  "is_blue_verified": false
}