# X (Twitter) Profile Posts Scraper (`scraper_one/x-profile-posts-scraper`) Actor

Extract posts published by specified X (Twitter) profiles. Retrieve URLs, IDs, content, publication dates, text and engagement metrics. Ideal for social media monitoring solutions.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scraper_one/x-profile-posts-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Scraper One](https://apify.com/scraper_one) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Social media, Developer tools
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 3,392 total users, 373 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 17 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 4.34 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

from $0.20 / 1,000 result items

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## X (Twitter) Profile Posts Scraper

![Apify Actor](https://img.shields.io/badge/Apify-Actor-blue)

This **Apify Actor** extracts **posts** from **X (Twitter) profiles** provided as input URLs. It retrieves post content,
author data, timestamps, media,
and engagement statistics. Perfect for **social media monitoring, research, user tracking, and trend analysis solutions**. 🚀

***

### 🧩 Features

- 👤 Scrape **posts** from multiple X (Twitter) profiles
- 🔢 Set **result limit** per profile
- 📸 Extract **media, author info, post text, ids, timestamp and engagement stats**

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### 📥 Input Parameters

| Parameter         | Type       | Required | Description                                                                   |
|-------------------|------------|----------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `profileUrls`     | `string[]` | ✅        | List of X profile URLs to extract posts from (e.g., `https://x.com/elonmusk`) |
| `resultsLimit`    | `number`   | ❌        | Maximum number of posts to retrieve **per profile**. Default: 5       |
| `skipPinnedPosts` | `boolean`  | ❌        | Skip scraping pinned posts. Default: false                                    |

***

### ✅ Example Input

```json
{
    "profileUrls": [
        "https://x.com/elonmusk"
    ],
    "resultsLimit": 20
}
```

***

### 📤 Output Format

The scraper returns an array of post objects in JSON format with details such as text, author, and metrics.

### Input URLs, errors and charges

Every successful result includes `inputUrl`, the exact original `profileUrls` entry, including when X redirects it. `postUrl` remains the post address and `profileUrl` remains the post author’s profile address; it may differ from the requested profile for reposts.

An invalid or unsupported input URL produces one row containing only `inputUrl` and `error: "INVALID_URL"`. Confirmed unavailable content produces the same two-field row with `error: "PAGE_UNAVAILABLE"`. Other URLs continue to be processed. Successful results have no `error` field. Empty results, temporary connection problems, login requirements and rate limits do not by themselves mean the content is unavailable.

Error rows are not billed as scraped posts and do not count toward `resultsLimit`. The existing initialization charge still applies. Supported inputs are X/Twitter profile URLs such as `https://x.com/username` or `https://x.com/@username`, and community URLs such as `https://x.com/i/communities/123`.

#### Example Output

One complete result record and one complete error record for another input:

```json
[
    {
        "inputUrl": "https://x.com/elonmusk",
        "postText": "🦾🔥",
        "postUrl": "https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1938336472253534273",
        "profileUrl": "https://x.com/elonmusk",
        "timestamp": 1750970402000,
        "conversationId": "1938336472253534273",
        "postId": "1938336472253534273",
        "media": [],
        "author": {
            "name": "Elon Musk",
            "screenName": "elonmusk",
            "followersCount": 221266053,
            "favouritesCount": 153129,
            "friendsCount": 1146,
            "description": "",
            "profileImageUrl": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1962489503274401794/y2LFZ-8e_normal.png"
        },
        "replyCount": 1558,
        "quoteCount": 50,
        "repostCount": 954,
        "favouriteCount": 9609,
        "viewCount": 125430
    },
    {
        "inputUrl": "https://x.com/example_missing",
        "error": "PAGE_UNAVAILABLE"
    }
]
```

***

### 🚀 Usage

1. Go to [Apify Console](https://console.apify.com/) and create a new task using this actor.
2. Paste input in JSON or use form view.
3. Run the actor and monitor results in the console.
4. Download results as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

***

### ⚠️ Limitations & Notes

- Works only with **public X profiles**.
- Always ensure compliance with **X (Twitter)'s Terms of Service**.
- Free users can process up to **5 profile URLs per run** and retrieve up to **100 posts per profile URL**.
- Free users are rate-limited to a certain number of processed profile URLs per day.
- For higher usage limits, upgrade to a [paid Apify plan](https://apify.com/pricing). **Contact us if you need custom limits!**

***

### Works Best With

For best results, use this actor together with [X Post Replies Scraper](https://apify.com/scraper_one/x-post-replies-scraper).

First, collect posts (tweets) from your selected profiles using **X Profile Posts Scraper**, then pass the `postUrl`
values from selected results into **X Post Replies Scraper**'s `postUrls` input to extract replies and enrich your dataset. ✅

#### Best Use Case Flow

- 👤 Run X Profile Posts Scraper → Find posts from specific profiles
- 📥 Feed `postUrl` values into X Post Replies Scraper's `postUrls` input → Get replies for each selected post
- 📊 Gain insights → Analyze engagement, sentiment, and conversation threads

This combination provides a powerful workflow for understanding discussions around specific profiles on X. 🚀

***

### Other Recommended Scrapers

- 🐦 [X (Twitter) Posts Search](https://apify.com/scraper_one/x-posts-search) — Find posts/tweets based on keywords,
  hashtags, and more
- 🐦 [X (Twitter) Post Replies Scraper](https://apify.com/scraper_one/x-post-replies-scraper) — Scrap replies of multiple
  X (Twitter) posts
- 🐦 [X (Twitter) Profile Posts Scraper](https://apify.com/scraper_one/x-profile-posts-scraper) — Scrap posts by
  specified X profiles/users
- 📘 [Facebook Posts Search](https://apify.com/scraper_one/facebook-posts-search) — Discover Facebook posts for a given
  topic or page
- 📘 [Facebook Comments Scraper](https://apify.com/scraper_one/facebook-comments-scraper) — Extract comments from public
  Facebook posts
- 📘 [Facebook Reactions Scraper](https://apify.com/scraper_one/facebook-reactions-scraper) — Extract reactions from
  public Facebook posts
- 📘 [Facebook Posts Scraper](https://apify.com/scraper_one/facebook-posts-scraper) — Scrap posts from Facebook pages,
  groups etc.
- 💬 [YouTube Search Scraper](https://apify.com/scraper_one/youtube-search-scraper) — Extract search results from YouTube
- 💬 [YouTube Comments Scraper](https://apify.com/scraper_one/youtube-comments-scraper) — Extract comments from YouTube
  videos
- 🎬 [YouTube Downloader](https://apify.com/scraper_one/yt-downloader) — Download youtube videos

### Support & Contact

✉️ Need help or want to suggest a feature? **Open an issue** or contact us at **scraper1one@gmail.com**.

# Actor input Schema

## `profileUrls` (type: `array`):

List of profile URLs to process. Note: Free-plan users can process up to 5 profile URLs per run.

## `resultsLimit` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of posts to retrieve per profile URL. If not set, only a few of the first posts will be returned. Note: Free-plan users can retrieve up to 100 posts per profile URL.

## `skipPinnedPosts` (type: `boolean`):

If true, the pinned posts will be skipped

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "profileUrls": [
    "https://x.com/ishowspeedsui",
    "https://x.com/AshtonHallofc"
  ],
  "resultsLimit": 30
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "profileUrls": [
        "https://x.com/ishowspeedsui",
        "https://x.com/AshtonHallofc"
    ],
    "resultsLimit": 30
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scraper_one/x-profile-posts-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "profileUrls": [
        "https://x.com/ishowspeedsui",
        "https://x.com/AshtonHallofc",
    ],
    "resultsLimit": 30,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scraper_one/x-profile-posts-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "profileUrls": [
    "https://x.com/ishowspeedsui",
    "https://x.com/AshtonHallofc"
  ],
  "resultsLimit": 30
}' |
apify call scraper_one/x-profile-posts-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scraper_one/x-profile-posts-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Fo9GoU5wC270BgcBr/builds/5Cc8CEEd4md4k5BEx/openapi.json