X (Twitter) Post Detail Scraper

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Fetch the full detail of any public X (Twitter) tweet by URL or status ID — text, media, engagement counters, author, timestamp, mentions, and hashtags — in clean structured JSON.

Why use this actor

• No account / no login required — paste a tweet URL or status ID and get the data back.
• No API key needed — X's official API is paid and rate-limited; this actor returns the same data the public web app shows.
• Full tweet text — including long-form (premium) tweets over 280 characters, returned in full_text.
• Media URLs — every photo size and video bitrate variant is included in extended_entities.media.
• Engagement counters — like, retweet, reply, quote, bookmark, and view counts in one shot.
• Author snapshot — handle, display name, followers, profile image, verified status captured at scrape time.
• Bulk input — pass a mix of URLs and status IDs in one run; one clean dataset row per tweet.
• Stable JSON output suitable for pipelines, spreadsheets, and databases — every row carries _input, _source, _scrapedAt envelope fields so you can join results back to your input list.

How it works

1. You provide a list of tweet URLs (https://twitter.com/jack/status/20, https://x.com/jack/status/20) or bare status IDs (20).
2. The actor fetches each tweet the same way X's web app does, then assembles a flat JSON record with full text, media, counters, and author.
3. Results stream into your dataset, ready to download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

You do not need to manage scrapers, browsers, or rotating IPs — all handled internally. If the primary path is unavailable for an older tweet, the actor automatically falls back to a secondary source so you still get a result.

Input

{
"tweets":[
"https://twitter.com/jack/status/20",
"1445078208190291973"
],
"proxyConfiguration":{
"useApifyProxy":true,
"apifyProxyGroups":["DATACENTER"]
}
}

Output

Input: https://twitter.com/jack/status/20

{
"_input":"https://twitter.com/jack/status/20",
"_source":"S1-primary",
"_scrapedAt":"2026-05-18T11:04:30.976327+00:00",
"rest_id":"20",
"id_str":"20",
"conversation_id_str":"20",
"user_id_str":"12",
"created_at":"Tue Mar 21 20:50:14 +0000 2006",
"lang":"en",
"full_text":"just setting up my twttr",
"display_text_range":[0,24],
"favorite_count":311853,
"retweet_count":126211,
"reply_count":17883,
"quote_count":6481,
"bookmark_count":21449,
"views":{"state":"Enabled"},
"is_quote_status":false,
"source":"<a href=\"http://twitter.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter Web Client</a>",
"entities":{
"hashtags":[],
"symbols":[],
"urls":[],
"user_mentions":[]
},
"author":{
"rest_id":"12",
"screen_name":"jack",
"name":"jack",
"description":"no state is the best state",
"created_at":"Tue Mar 21 20:50:14 +0000 2006",
"followers_count":7537422,
"friends_count":3,
"statuses_count":30509,
"media_count":2963,
"listed_count":33146,
"favourites_count":38827,
"is_blue_verified":true,
"profile_banner_url":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/12/1742427520",
"url":"https://t.co/ZEpOg6rn5L"
}
}

Error envelope

Tweets that are deleted, protected, or otherwise unreachable return a structured error instead of crashing the run:

{
"_input":"https://twitter.com/jack/status/999999999999999999",
"_error":"not_found",
"_errorDetail":"S1: TweetUnavailable: NotFound; S2: 404",
"_source":"S2-fallback",
"_scrapedAt":"2026-05-18T11:05:14.012345+00:00"
}

_error values:

Filter on _error to triage failed rows.

Pricing

This actor is billed per result: $8.00 per 1,000 tweets (Tier 6). Each successful tweet = 1 result. Errors (not_found, private, blocked, invalid_request) are not billed.

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Notes

• Deleted tweets return {"_error": "not_found", "_input": "..."} — they cannot be recovered after the author or X removes them.
• Protected accounts cannot be fetched. If the author has set their tweets to "Protected" (followers-only), the tweet returns {"_error": "private", ...}.
• View counts may be missing (views.count absent) for very new tweets or accounts that opted out of public view-count display.
• Long-form tweets (premium tweets over 280 characters) return the full body in full_text — no truncation.
• Media variants: when present, extended_entities.media carries every photo size and the full mp4 bitrate ladder for videos, verbatim from X's response — ready for direct download.
• Counters are eventually-consistent and may lag the live network by a few minutes.
• Fallback path: some older tweets are only available via the secondary source (_source: "S2-fallback"), which returns a slightly simpler shape — reply_count and quote_count may be absent in that case.