# ScraperSocial, free: X post API

> Give this endpoint an X (Twitter) handle and it returns that account's recent public posts as a JSON array — text, engagement counters, timestamps, language, and reply/retweet flags.

ScraperSocial's X post API on its Free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. It returns 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Text, Engagement, Analytics, Author.
We haven't run ScraperSocial 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/scrapersocial/free
- [X (Twitter) post API: 15 providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-x-twitter-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapersocial.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.scrapersocial.com/v1/twitter/tweets`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapersocial.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://scrapersocial.com/twitter/tweets-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- Sold by: ScraperSocial (https://scrapersocial.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Text: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Analytics: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 230 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Give this endpoint an X (Twitter) handle and it returns that account's recent public posts as a JSON array — text, engagement counters, timestamps, language, and reply/retweet flags.

## Data

- Freshness: 3 hours
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use the API to: access private, login-gated or paywalled content, or attempt to, harass, stalk, dox or surveil individuals, or build profiles of specific private individuals across platforms, send spam or unsolicited outreach at scale, violate applicable law, including data-protection law that applies to your use of the data in your jurisdiction, resell raw API access wholesale under your own brand without written permission (building products on top of the API is what it's for, that's fine and encouraged), probe, overload or interfere with the service, or evade rate limits and metering. You are responsible for how you use the data you retrieve, including compliance with the target platforms' terms as they apply to you and with intellectual-property and privacy rights in downloaded media.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 25 credits
- Enough for: 25 results

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.33
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: handle. Optional: limit, cursor, fresh
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/twitter/tweets

## About the plan

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

## The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post URL, text, view count, like count, reply count, repost count, quote count, bookmark count, created at, author username, language, is reply, is repost, next cursor, has more

## ScraperSocial's plans (6)

- [ScraperSocial, free](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, 3 hours
- [ScraperSocial, top-up from $4.50](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/scrapersocial/top-up-from-4-50/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 67% complete, 3 hours
- [ScraperSocial, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/scrapersocial/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, 3 hours
- [ScraperSocial, $5 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/scrapersocial/5-monthly/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, 3 hours
- [ScraperSocial, $54 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/scrapersocial/54-yearly/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 67% complete, 3 hours
- [ScraperSocial, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/scrapersocial/contact-us/llms.txt): 67% complete, 3 hours

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

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

## ScraperSocial's APIs (17)

- [ScraperSocial: Facebook page API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: Facebook post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: Instagram post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: Instagram profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn post comment API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-comment-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn post details API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: Threads post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/threads-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: Threads profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: TikTok profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: TikTok video API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: X post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: X profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/scrapersocial/top-up-from-4-50/llms.txt)

## ScraperSocial: X post API alternatives

- [ProLevelMax, top-up, Pay per use, POST /v1/run, X (Twitter) tweets by search, profile or URL](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/prolevelmax/top-up-pay-per-use-post-v1-run-x-twitter-tweets-by-search-profile-or-url/llms.txt): $1.20 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [Bright Data, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/bright-data/top-up/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, $20 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/runs, Twitter User Tweets Scraper, full](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/lobstr-io/20-monthly-starter-post-v1-runs-twitter-user-tweets-scraper-full/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [X API, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/x-api/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $5.00 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://scrapersocial.com/api/linkedin?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/api/twitter?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/linkedin/profile-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/twitter/tweets-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=x-twitter-post-api-pricing