# LurkAPI, free: X post API

> An account's tweets and retweets, about 20 per page, with text, media and engagement counts.

LurkAPI's X post API on its Free credits plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. It returns all 6 key fields we check: Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author, Audience.
We haven't run LurkAPI through [our X post API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-post-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 298 plans for X post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.075 per 1,000 posts or less.
[Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 posts: $0.0011. Zapi charges for each page of results. We count 20 posts on each page to get the $0.0011 price.
[TweetAPI](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/tweetapi/17-monthly-pro-get-tw-v2-user-tweets/llms.txt), [TwitterAPIs](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/twitterapis/top-up-from-10-pay-as-you-go-get-twitter-user-tweets/llms.txt) and [Sorsa](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/sorsa/199-monthly/llms.txt) are the best X (Twitter) post API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/lurkapi/free
- [X (Twitter) post API: 15 providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://lurkapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/twitter/user-tweets`
- API key: with the plan, on https://lurkapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://lurkapi.com/docs/twitter/user-tweets?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- Sold by: LurkAPI (https://lurkapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Text: ✓
- Media: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Analytics: ✓
- Author: ✓
- Audience: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.00
- Per: page of 20
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 87 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: An account's tweets and retweets, about 20 per page, with text, media and engagement counts.

## Data

- Freshness: 5 minutes
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Fair use: Don't try to break, overload or get around the limits of the service. Don't share or resell your API keys. Building your own products on top of LurkAPI is fine. Don't use LurkAPI to harass people or for anything illegal. [...] LurkAPI returns publicly available data. You're responsible for how you use it, including the privacy and data protection laws that apply to you.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 100 pages

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: handle. Optional: cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/twitter/user-tweets

## About the plan

- Plan: Free credits
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 34 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post URL, text, created at, language, source, author ID, author username, author name, author avatar, author verified, author verified type, author followers, like count, reply count, repost count, quote count, bookmark count, view count, media, hashtags, user mentions, linked URLs, poll, article, in reply to ID, in reply to username, conversation ID, quoted post ID, possibly sensitive, quoted post, reposted post, pinned, next cursor

## LurkAPI's plans (4)

- [LurkAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/lurkapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 5 minutes
- [LurkAPI, $9 pack](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/lurkapi/9-pack/llms.txt): $0.045 per 1,000, 100% complete, 5 minutes
- [LurkAPI, $59 pack](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/lurkapi/59-pack/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 100% complete, 5 minutes
- [LurkAPI, $225 pack](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/lurkapi/225-pack/llms.txt): $0.022 per 1,000, 100% complete, 5 minutes

## LurkAPI's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/twitter/user-tweets`: [LurkAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/lurkapi/free/llms.txt)

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## LurkAPI: X post API alternatives

- [GetXAPI, $49 monthly, Growth, GET /twitter/user/tweets_and_replies](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/getxapi/49-monthly-growth-get-twitter-user-tweets-and-replies/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapingDaddy, $90 monthly, Ultra, GET /v1/x/tweets](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/scrapingdaddy/90-monthly-ultra-get-v1-x-tweets/llms.txt): $0.022 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [LiveDune, $225 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/livedune/225-monthly/llms.txt): $0.022 per 1,000, 50% complete, 1 hour
- [Social Fetch, $59 pack](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/social-fetch/59-pack/llms.txt): $0.024 per 1,000, 100% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://lurkapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/docs.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/docs/linkedin/profile.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/docs/twitter/user-tweets.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing