# ScrapeBadger, free credits, GET /v1/twitter/users/{username}/by_username: X profile API

> Get a user profile by their username (screen name). Returns comprehensive profile data including bio, follower/following counts, verification status, and account metadata. The most common way to look up a user profile.

ScrapeBadger's X profile API on its Free credits plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 9 of the 11 key fields we check: Bio, Photo, Links, Location, Verified, Followers, Following, Posts, Likes.
We rank 237 plans by price. [TweetAPI's $417 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/tweetapi/417-monthly-giga-get-tw-v2-user-by-ids/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.00083.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapebadger/free-credits-get-v1-twitter-users-username-by-username
- Get it: https://scrapebadger.com/pricing
- Request: `GET https://scrapebadger.com/v1/twitter/users/{username}/by_username`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapebadger.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.scrapebadger.com/api-reference/endpoint/users/get-user-by-username
- Sold by: ScrapeBadger (https://scrapebadger.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 82%
- Bio: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Links: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Verified: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Following: ✓
- Posts: ✓
- Likes: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 profiles: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Repeat free: 1 minute
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Get Profile · Search Jobs · Get Job · Company Jobs · Get Company · Get School · Get Post · Get Article · Get Course · Geo / Company Suggest · Web Scraping API · Google Scraper API · Twitter Scraper API · Reddit Scraper API · Facebook Scraper API · Instagram Scraper API · TikTok Scraper API · YouTube Scraper API · ChatGPT Scraper API · Gemini Scraper API · Perplexity Scraper API · Amazon Scraper API · eBay Scraper API · Walmart Scraper API · Etsy Scraper API · AliExpress Scraper API · Target Scraper API · ASOS Scraper API · Best Buy Scraper API · Vinted Scraper API · Depop Scraper API · Wallapop Scraper API · Gumtree Scraper API · Leboncoin Scraper API · Apple App Store Scraper API · Google Play Store Scraper API · Bing Scraper API · Yahoo Scraper API · DuckDuckGo Scraper API · Yandex Scraper API · Baidu Scraper API · Naver Scraper API · Zillow Scraper API · Redfin Scraper API · Realtor Scraper API · Apartments.com Scraper API · Idealista API · Immobiliare.it API · LoopNet Scraper API · Airbnb Scraper API · Booking.com Scraper API

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get a user profile by their username (screen name). Returns comprehensive profile data including bio, follower/following counts, verification status, and account metadata. The most common way to look up a user profile.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit in its terms: the applicable law and the rights holders decide
- Use data: to access and use the Services and Documentation through the Access Channels for your internal business purposes and for the purpose of building and operating your own products and services, provided that your products do not consist of, or primarily function as, a means of providing others with access to the Services or to raw Output on demand [...] You must not, and must not permit anyone else to: [...] (c) use the Services, the Documentation or any Output to develop, train, benchmark for competitive purposes, or improve a product or service that competes with the Services, [...] Whether and how you may collect, keep and use Third-Party Content is governed by the applicable law and by the rights of the relevant third parties, not by the Agreement [...] you must not use the Services or any Output to: (a) download, store, copy, re-host, publish, display, distribute, sell, license or otherwise exploit images, photographs, videos, audio or other media obtained from a Source [...] unless the rights holder has authorised that use or a statutory exception clearly applies to you, (b) publish, republish, redistribute, communicate to the public, sell, license, use in advertising or otherwise commercially exploit creative listing descriptions, articles, reviews or other protected text obtained from a Source, unless the rights holder has authorised that use or a statutory exception clearly applies to you [...], (c) extract or re-utilise the whole or a substantial part [...] or create a substitute, mirror or competing database from a Source [...] you are the controller (or a processor acting for another controller)

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: 500 calls, once

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: username
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/twitter/users/{username}/by_username

## About the plan

- Plan: Free credits
- Who can get it: anyone 18 or over

## The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, username, name, account created, bio, location, website, profile picture, banner image, followers, following, posts count, listed count, likes count, media count, legacy verified, verified type, blue verified, protected, possibly sensitive, follows the authenticated user, followed by the authenticated user, can DM, professional type, pinned post IDs

## ScrapeBadger's plans (15)

- [ScrapeBadger, free credits, GET /v1/twitter/users/{username}/by_username](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapebadger/free-credits-get-v1-twitter-users-username-by-username/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [ScrapeBadger, top-up from $10, PAYG, GET /v1/twitter/users/{username}/by_username](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapebadger/top-up-from-10-payg-get-v1-twitter-users-username-by-username/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [ScrapeBadger, $49 monthly, Starter, GET /v1/twitter/users/{username}/by_username](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapebadger/49-monthly-starter-get-v1-twitter-users-username-by-username/llms.txt): $0.163 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [ScrapeBadger, $129 monthly, Growth, GET /v1/twitter/users/{username}/by_username](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapebadger/129-monthly-growth-get-v1-twitter-users-username-by-username/llms.txt): $0.143 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [ScrapeBadger, $299 monthly, Pro, GET /v1/twitter/users/{username}/by_username](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapebadger/299-monthly-pro-get-v1-twitter-users-username-by-username/llms.txt): $0.12 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [ScrapeBadger, $699 monthly, Scale, GET /v1/twitter/users/{username}/by_username](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapebadger/699-monthly-scale-get-v1-twitter-users-username-by-username/llms.txt): $0.107 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [ScrapeBadger, $1,499 monthly, Volume, GET /v1/twitter/users/{username}/by_username](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapebadger/1499-monthly-volume-get-v1-twitter-users-username-by-username/llms.txt): $0.10 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [ScrapeBadger, $3,600 monthly, Max, GET /v1/twitter/users/{username}/by_username](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapebadger/3600-monthly-max-get-v1-twitter-users-username-by-username/llms.txt): $0.09 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [ScrapeBadger, $490 yearly, Starter, GET /v1/twitter/users/{username}/by_username](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapebadger/490-yearly-starter-get-v1-twitter-users-username-by-username/llms.txt): $0.136 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [ScrapeBadger, $1,290 yearly, Growth, GET /v1/twitter/users/{username}/by_username](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapebadger/1290-yearly-growth-get-v1-twitter-users-username-by-username/llms.txt): $0.119 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [ScrapeBadger, $2,990 yearly, Pro, GET /v1/twitter/users/{username}/by_username](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapebadger/2990-yearly-pro-get-v1-twitter-users-username-by-username/llms.txt): $0.10 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [ScrapeBadger, $6,990 yearly, Scale, GET /v1/twitter/users/{username}/by_username](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapebadger/6990-yearly-scale-get-v1-twitter-users-username-by-username/llms.txt): $0.09 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [ScrapeBadger, $14,990 yearly, Volume, GET /v1/twitter/users/{username}/by_username](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapebadger/14990-yearly-volume-get-v1-twitter-users-username-by-username/llms.txt): $0.083 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [ScrapeBadger, $36,000 yearly, Max, GET /v1/twitter/users/{username}/by_username](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapebadger/36000-yearly-max-get-v1-twitter-users-username-by-username/llms.txt): $0.075 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [ScrapeBadger, contact us, Custom, GET /v1/twitter/users/{username}/by_username](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapebadger/contact-us-custom-get-v1-twitter-users-username-by-username/llms.txt): 82% complete, live

## ScrapeBadger's calls for this API (4)

- `GET /v1/twitter/users/batch_by_ids`: [ScrapeBadger, free credits, GET /v1/twitter/users/batch_by_ids](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapebadger/free-credits-get-v1-twitter-users-batch-by-ids/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/twitter/users/batch_by_usernames`: [ScrapeBadger, free credits, GET /v1/twitter/users/batch_by_usernames](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapebadger/free-credits-get-v1-twitter-users-batch-by-usernames/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/twitter/users/{user_id}/by_id`: [ScrapeBadger, free credits, GET /v1/twitter/users/{user_id}/by_id](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapebadger/free-credits-get-v1-twitter-users-user-id-by-id/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/twitter/users/{username}/by_username`: [ScrapeBadger, free credits, GET /v1/twitter/users/{username}/by_username](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapebadger/free-credits-get-v1-twitter-users-username-by-username/llms.txt)

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## ScrapeBadger: X profile API alternatives

- [Social Fetch, $59 pack, Growth, GET /v1/twitter/profiles](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/social-fetch/59-pack-growth-get-v1-twitter-profiles/llms.txt): $0.047 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [Sorsa, $49 monthly, Starter, GET /info-batch](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/sorsa/49-monthly-starter-get-info-batch/llms.txt): $0.049 per 1,000, 82% complete, live
- [TwexAPI, $499 pack, Scale, GET /twitter/{screen_name}/about](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/twexapi/499-pack-scale-get-twitter-screen-name-about/llms.txt): $0.083 per 1,000, 27% complete, live
- [TwitterAPI.io, $1,499 monthly, Business, GET /twitter/user/info](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/twitterapi-io/1499-monthly-business-get-twitter-user-info/llms.txt): $0.12 per 1,000, 82% 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 2026-10-29.

- https://docs.scrapebadger.com/api-reference/endpoint/users/get-user-by-username
- https://docs.scrapebadger.com/credits-and-pricing
- https://docs.scrapebadger.com/rate-limits
- https://scrapebadger.com/legal/terms
- https://scrapebadger.com/linkedin-scraper
- https://scrapebadger.com/llms.txt
- https://scrapebadger.com/pricing
- https://scrapebadger.com/twitter-scraper-api