🐦 Twitter (X) User Scraper

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Scrape public Twitter / X user profiles, followers, following counts and retweeter networks at scale — no login or API key required. Powered by the Apify platform with built-in auto proxy escalation, live result streaming and a smart fallback strategy for blocked requests.

⚡ Get clean, structured user data straight from x.com — verified status, follower/following counts, bio, location, account age, profile pictures, banners, professional badges, and an enriched about payload.

✨ Why this actor

🚀 Key features

• 🔗 Bulk URLs — paste a list of profile URLs or plain usernames.
• 🌐 No-proxy by default — automatically escalates to Apify DATACENTER then RESIDENTIAL proxies (with 3 retries) only when X blocks the connection.
• 📡 Live streaming — every captured user is pushed to the dataset immediately, so a crash mid-run never wipes your progress.
• 🪪 Rich profile mode — toggle 🪪 Include rich 'about' profile to fetch verification info, profile image shape, account creation source, etc.
• 👻 Unavailable users — optionally surface suspended / protected accounts.
• 📚 Per-section output — each input URL writes its own grouped JSON file to the run’s key-value store, plus a combined OUTPUT key.

📥 Input

Example input

{
"startUrls":[
"https://twitter.com/elonmusk",
"https://x.com/openai"
],
"getRetweeters":true,
"getFollowers":true,
"getFollowing":true,
"getAbout":true,
"includeUnavailableUsers":false,
"maxItems":100,
"requestDelay":1.0,
"proxyConfiguration":{"useApifyProxy":false}
}

📤 Output

Each record is pushed live to the default dataset.

{
"inputSource":"https://twitter.com/elonmusk",
"type":"user",
"userName":"elonmusk",
"url":"https://x.com/elonmusk",
"twitterUrl":"https://twitter.com/elonmusk",
"id":"44196397",
"name":"Elon Musk",
"isVerified":true,
"hasNftAvatar":false,
"profilePicture":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/.../m8mdWZCG_normal.jpg",
"coverPicture":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/44196397/1774145451",
"description":"https://t.co/dDtDyVssfm",
"location":"",
"followers":239969983,
"following":1332,
"protected":false,
"createdAt":"Tue Jun 02 20:12:29 +0000 2009",
"statusesCount":102639,
"mediaCount":4489,
"favouritesCount":227779,
"listedCount":169028,
"about":{
"accountBasedIn":"",
"locationAccurate":false,
"profileImageShape":"Circle",
"avatarUrl":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/.../m8mdWZCG_normal.jpg",
"usernameChangeCount":"0",
"accountCreatedAt":"Tue Jun 02 20:12:29 +0000 2009",
"accountSource":"",
"verifiedSince":"-156836000000000"
}
}

The run also writes a per-section JSON to the key-value store (source_01_elonmusk.json, source_02_openai.json, …) and a combined OUTPUT.json that mirrors the legacy grouped-by-name format.

🚀 How to use (Apify Console)

1. Log in at https://console.apify.com → Actors.
2. Open 🐦 Twitter (X) User Scraper.
3. Paste your profile URLs into 🔗 Profile URLs.
4. Pick which networks / fields you want (🔁, 👥, 🤝, 🪪).
5. (Optional) Drop in an authToken + csrfToken for tougher targets.
6. Hit Start.
7. Watch the live log — it will tick 📥 @username — N followers per user.
8. Open the Dataset or Key-value store tab when the run completes.
9. Export to JSON / CSV / XLSX.

🤖 Use via API

curl-X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/<ACTOR_ID>/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN"\
-H"Content-Type: application/json"\
-d'{
 "startUrls": ["https://twitter.com/elonmusk"],
 "maxItems": 50
 }'

🎯 Best use cases

• 🧠 Audience research — analyze who is engaging with a brand or person.
• 📈 Influencer discovery — find creators by exploring a competitor's retweeter / quoter graph.
• 🏷️ Lead generation — extract bios and external links from prospects.
• 🛡️ Brand safety — monitor verified status changes on managed accounts.

💸 Pricing

This actor uses Apify's pay-per-event (PPE) model:

• No data → no charge. If a source fails or returns nothing, no row_result events are emitted, so you are not billed for empty runs.
• Skipped unavailable users and the per-section KVS mirror copies are not chargeable events — only successful default-dataset writes are.
• When your spend cap (ACTOR_MAX_TOTAL_CHARGE_USD) is reached, the actor stops pushing further items and exits cleanly — never with a failed-run.

Configure the row_result event's USD price (and any tiered discounts) in Apify Console → Actor → Publication → Monetization.

❓ FAQ

Do I need an X account? No. The actor runs in guest mode out of the box. You can paste an auth_token + ct0 for harder cases — both stay encrypted in Apify Secrets.

Why does the first run take a few seconds? The actor warms up by fetching the X web client bundle so it can stay in sync with the latest GraphQL schema. After that, throughput is steady.

How do you handle rate limits? On a block we escalate proxies (direct → datacenter → residential) and rotate residential IPs up to three times before failing the source.

Will protected / suspended accounts appear? Only if you enable 👻 includeUnavailableUsers. They are tagged with isUnavailable: true and an unavailableReason.

🛟 Support & feedback

• 🐞 Issues — open a ticket on the Apify Store actor page.
• 💬 Questions / feature requests — ping the maintainer via Apify chat.

⚖️ Legal

Data is collected only from publicly available profile information. End users are responsible for compliance with applicable laws (GDPR, CCPA), the X Terms of Service and robots.txt.

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