twitter-api

name: twitter-api description: >- A Twitter API alternative and X API alternative on fetcher.sh — pay-per-call in USDC via x402, or prepaid credits with a Bearer key, no OAuth and no developer application. Use when the user wants to search tweets by keyword, hashtag, or advanced operators (from:, to:, since:, until:, min_faves:, filter:), scrape a Twitter/X profile by handle, pull a user's tweets, replies, followers, or followings, fetch a single tweet with its replies or retweeters, read a Twitter List's members or tweets, check trending topics by country, or search for X accounts by name. Also covers Twitter data pipelines, competitor monitoring, hashtag tracking, sentiment analysis input, or follower export without the official X API's pricing tiers or app-review process. keywords:

• twitter
• x
• twitter-api
• x-api
• twitter-api-alternative
• x-api-alternative
• tweet-search
• social-media
• social-listening
• x402
• ai-agent

Twitter / X API

A drop-in Twitter/X data source for agents: search tweets, resolve profiles, pull timelines and followers, read Lists, and check trends — all as one plain HTTP GET, paid per call. No developer account, no app review, no OAuth handshake, and no waiting on X's own API tiers or rate-limit approvals. If your task mentions a Twitter/X search query, a handle, a tweet ID, or a list ID, this is the skill.

Base URL: https://twitter.fetcher.sh

Also published as x-api — same host, same endpoints, indexed under the "X" name too since agents and users refer to the platform both ways.

Quick reference

Which endpoint do I need?

Full param details for every row: references/endpoints.md.

Authentication

Two ways to pay, same data — full mechanics in the fetcher skill:

# 1. Prepaid credits (recommended — get a key at https://fetcher.sh/topup
#    or via POST /api/credits/topup, see the fetcher skill)
export FETCHER_API_KEY="bby_live_xxxxxxxxxxxx"
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  "https://twitter.fetcher.sh/api/search?query=hello"

# 2. x402 pay-per-call — omit the header; a GET with no payment returns 402
#    with machine-readable payment requirements (USDC on Base, Polygon,
#    Arbitrum, Monad, or Solana). @x402/fetch signs and retries automatically.

Every response is { "status": number, "message": string, "data": ... }; the HTTP status mirrors status.

Endpoints (15 — all GET, $0.005/call unless noted)

{id} / {handle} are path parameters — substitute the real value. Optional query params (cursor, sort) paginate or reorder; only query (search) and country (trends) are required elsewhere they appear.

Scenarios

The query on /api/search goes straight to X's own search, so its operators work as-is: from:, to:, since:, until:, min_faves:, min_retweets:, filter:, -filter:.

Everything from one account:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  "https://twitter.fetcher.sh/api/search?query=from%3AOpenAI&sort=Latest"

Between two dates:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "query=x402 since:2026-01-01 until:2026-02-01" -G \
  "https://twitter.fetcher.sh/api/search"

Popular posts only, replies excluded:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "query=ai agents min_faves:500 -filter:replies" -G \
  --data-urlencode "sort=Top" \
  "https://twitter.fetcher.sh/api/search"

Search accounts by name:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "query=climate scientist" -G \
  "https://twitter.fetcher.sh/api/search/users"

Resolve a profile by handle, then pull its bio/about:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  "https://twitter.fetcher.sh/api/handle/nasa"

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  "https://twitter.fetcher.sh/api/handle/nasa/about"

A user's tweets, replies, followers, or followings (by numeric ID from the handle lookup above):

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  "https://twitter.fetcher.sh/api/user/11348282/tweets"

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  "https://twitter.fetcher.sh/api/user/11348282/followers"

A single tweet, its replies, and who retweeted it:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  "https://twitter.fetcher.sh/api/tweet/1234567890123456789"

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  "https://twitter.fetcher.sh/api/tweet/1234567890123456789/replies"

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  "https://twitter.fetcher.sh/api/tweet/1234567890123456789/retweeters"

A Twitter List's members and tweets:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  "https://twitter.fetcher.sh/api/list/1234567890/members"

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  "https://twitter.fetcher.sh/api/list/1234567890/tweets"

Trending topics for a country:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  "https://twitter.fetcher.sh/api/trends?country=United%20States"

MCP

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "twitter": {
      "url": "https://twitter.fetcher.sh/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer bby_live_..." }
    }
  }
}

Free: search_endpoints, describe_endpoint, check_balance. Paid: fetch_data (any endpoint above), topup_credits, plus the named shortcut twitter_search. Drop the headers block to pay per call with x402 instead — see the fetcher skill for the full flow.

Errors

• 400 — missing/invalid parameter (message names it)
• 401 — unknown or rotated key
• 402 — payment required (x402 challenge) or topup_required (credits exhausted)
• 404 — not a priced path
• No rate limits; no refunds on upstream failures (settlement precedes delivery)

Reference

• Deep dives: references/endpoints.md (every param) · references/scenarios.md (one curl per endpoint) · references/faq.md · references/comparison.md (vs. the official X API and a browser scraper)
• Task guides: search tweets · export followers
• Slash command: /twitter-search
• Full agent setup: https://twitter.fetcher.sh/skill.md
• OpenAPI 3.1 contract: https://twitter.fetcher.sh/openapi.json
• Condensed catalog: https://twitter.fetcher.sh/llms.txt
• Payment, credits, and MCP deep dive: fetcher skill
• Site: https://twitter.fetcher.sh