# Scrape.ly, free: X post API

> Scrape public posts from X (Twitter) profiles and tweet URLs: text, timestamps, likes, reposts, replies, views, media, and author details.

Scrape.ly's X post API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. Scrape.ly's docs list all 6 key fields we check: Text, Media, Engagement, Analytics, Author, Audience.
We haven't run Scrape.ly through [our X post API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-post-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 348 plans for X post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.092 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), [YepAPI](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/yepapi/top-up/llms.txt) and [ChatterAPI](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/chatterapi/149-monthly/llms.txt) are the best X (Twitter) post API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/scrape-ly/free
- [X (Twitter) post API: the best of 20+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrape.ly/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.scrape.ly/v2/actors/echofield~tweet-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrape.ly/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://scrape.ly/store/echofield/tweet-scraper?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- Sold by: Scrape.ly (https://scrape.ly?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 587 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Scrape public posts from X (Twitter) profiles and tweet URLs: text, timestamps, likes, reposts, replies, views, media, and author details.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You decide what you collect and for what purpose, and you are solely responsible for Your Content, for having all rights, permissions and legal bases, and for complying with the law and with the terms of the sites your runs access. [...] Some Actors find or collect information about people, if you use them you are the controller of the results and must meet your duties to the people concerned. You must not use them to decide a person's eligibility for credit, employment, insurance, housing or benefits, to stalk, harass or expose anyone, or for any other unlawful purpose. [...] If you run Actors that find information about people, you must have a lawful purpose for each run and must not use the results to decide eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing or benefits (or for any other purpose that makes them a consumer report under the US Fair Credit Reporting Act or similar law), to stalk, harass, intimidate, dox or locate anyone against their will, for illegal surveillance, to discriminate, or for unsolicited marketing. [...] You must not use the Services to: 1. break any law, or infringe anyone's rights, including copyright, database, trademark and trade-secret rights, 2. create, store or distribute child sexual abuse material, terrorist content or other illegal content, 3. commit or support fraud, phishing, scams, identity theft or money laundering, 4. send spam or unsolicited bulk messages, or create fake accounts, engagement, reviews or traffic, 5. run malware, ransomware, spyware, backdoors or keyloggers, or any code designed to damage or gain unauthorised access to a system, 6. carry out denial-of-service attacks, or scan or test systems you are not authorised to test, 7. mine cryptocurrency, or use our resources for purposes unrelated to the Actors you run, 8. engage in a practice prohibited by Article 5 of the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), such as manipulative or exploitative techniques, social scoring, or building facial-recognition databases by untargeted scraping of facial images, 9. breach sanctions or export control law, 10. probe, scan, attack or overload our infrastructure, escape the run environment, or access other users' data, runs or accounts, 11. avoid or manipulate billing, usage limits, spending caps or rate limits, including by misusing an Actor's charging mechanism, 12. hold more than one free account per person or organisation, or use fake identities or other methods to obtain free or promotional credit, 13. resell, sublicense or provide access to the Services as a service to third parties, except by running Actors to deliver your own products and services, or with our written consent, 14. manipulate Store rankings, ratings, reviews, usage statistics or bookmarks, or post false reviews or issues, 15. impersonate anyone, or misrepresent your affiliation, or 16. help or encourage anyone else to do any of these things.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $5 a month
- Enough for: 12,500 results a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 16.67
- Concurrent: 5

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of twitterHandles, startUrls, searchTerms or conversationIds. Optional: maxItems, sort, tweetLanguage, onlyVerifiedUsers, onlyTwitterBlue, onlyImage, onlyVideo, onlyQuote, author, inReplyTo, mentioning, minimumRetweets, minimumFavorites, minimumReplies, start, end, fullHistory, includeSearchTerms, customMapFunction, geotaggedNear, withinRadius, geocode, placeObjectId
- Method: POST
- Path: /v2/actors/echofield~tweet-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 with full legal capacity

## The 46 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post URL, text, created at, language, full text, conversation ID, posted from, repost count, reply count, like count, quote count, bookmark count, view count, possibly sensitive, author username, author name, author ID, author URL, author blue verified, author verified type, author profile picture, author followers, author following, author bio, author location, author account created, author posts count, author media count, author likes count, author banner image, author protected, media, user mentions, hashtags, URLs, card, is reply, in reply to post ID, in reply to username, in reply to user ID, is repost, reposted post, is quote, quoted post ID, quoted post

## Scrape.ly's plans (5)

- [Scrape.ly, free](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/scrape-ly/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Scrape.ly, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/scrape-ly/19-monthly/llms.txt): $0.34 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Scrape.ly, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/scrape-ly/199-monthly/llms.txt): $0.34 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Scrape.ly, $999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/scrape-ly/999-monthly/llms.txt): $0.34 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Scrape.ly, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/scrape-ly/contact-us/llms.txt): 100% complete, live

## Scrape.ly's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v2/actors/echofield~tweet-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items`: [Scrape.ly, free](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/scrape-ly/free/llms.txt)

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## Scrape.ly: X post API alternatives

- [Parse, $1,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/parse/1000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [QuanticData, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/quanticdata/79-monthly/llms.txt): $0.316 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Macrocosmos, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/macrocosmos/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.33 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, $4,800 yearly, Team, POST /v1/runs, Twitter User Tweets Scraper](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/lobstr-io/4800-yearly-team-post-v1-runs-twitter-user-tweets-scraper/llms.txt): $0.40 per 1,000, 83% 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 2026-11-06.

- https://scrape.ly/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://scrape.ly/api/linkedin-profile-api.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://scrape.ly/api/twitter-x-api.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://scrape.ly/docs/api-overview.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://scrape.ly/legal/acceptable-use.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://scrape.ly/legal/terms.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://scrape.ly/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://scrape.ly/store/echofield/tweet-scraper.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing