twitter-api

Q: How do I install twitter-api?

Run npx skills add https://github.com/fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills --skill twitter-api in your project. The skills CLI detects the agents you use and copies the skill into the right folder. For Claude Code you can also place the skill folder at ~/.claude/skills/twitter-api/ (personal) or .claude/skills/twitter-api/ (project).

by fetcher-shBackend & APIs

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:, minfaves:, 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.

Installs: 8.1K
Last 24h: +63
Trending rank: #2843
Security: Warn

Install

Works with every agent the skills CLI supports.

npx skills add https://github.com/fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills --skill twitter-api

01
Install
Run the command in your project. The CLI asks which agents to install for.
02
Describe the task
Ask your agent for something this skill covers. It loads twitter-api automatically when relevant.
03
Review the result
The agent follows the SKILL.md steps, scripts and references bundled with the skill.

Security audits

Independent scans of the skill's instructions and bundled files.

Gen Agent Trust Hub PassSAFE ·The skill provides a direct interface to fetch Twitter/X data through a third-party proxy service. While the skill's code and instructions are safe, it ingests untrusted content from social media, which introduces a surface for indirect prompt injection.

Socket PassNo alerts

Snyk WarnMEDIUM ·Risk: MEDIUM · 2 issues

SKILL.md

The instructions your agent reads when the skill is triggered.

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


Base URL	`https://twitter.fetcher.sh`
Auth	`Authorization: Bearer bby_live_...` or x402 (USDC)
Price	$0.002–$0.005/call
Endpoints	15, all `GET`
MCP	`https://twitter.fetcher.sh/mcp`
Machine-readable	`/openapi.json` · `/llms.txt` · `/skill.md`

Which endpoint do I need?

I want to...	Call
Search tweets by keyword or operator (`from:`, `since:`, `min_faves:`, ...)	`GET /api/search`
Search accounts by name	`GET /api/search/users`
Look up a profile by @handle	`GET /api/handle/{handle}`
Get a user's followers or followings	`GET /api/user/{id}/followers` or `/followings`
Get a single tweet by ID	`GET /api/tweet/{id}`
See who retweeted a tweet	`GET /api/tweet/{id}/retweeters`
Read a Twitter List's tweets or members	`GET /api/list/{id}/tweets` or `/members`
Check trending topics for a country	`GET /api/trends`

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)

Endpoint	Price	What it returns
`/api/search`	$0.005	Tweets matching a query; supports X's advanced search operators
`/api/search/users`	$0.005	Accounts matching a name/keyword query
`/api/handle/{handle}`	$0.005	Profile by @handle
`/api/handle/{handle}/about`	$0.005	Extended profile/about info by @handle
`/api/user/{id}`	$0.005	Profile by numeric user ID
`/api/user/{id}/tweets`	$0.005	A user's tweet timeline
`/api/user/{id}/replies`	$0.005	A user's replies
`/api/user/{id}/followers`	$0.005	A user's followers
`/api/user/{id}/followings`	$0.005	Accounts a user follows
`/api/tweet/{id}`	$0.002	A single tweet by ID
`/api/tweet/{id}/replies`	$0.005	Replies to a tweet
`/api/tweet/{id}/retweeters`	$0.005	Accounts that retweeted a tweet
`/api/list/{id}/members`	$0.005	A Twitter List's member accounts
`/api/list/{id}/tweets`	$0.005	A Twitter List's tweet feed
`/api/trends`	$0.005	Trending topics for a country

{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

FAQ

What does the twitter-api skill do?

How do I install twitter-api?

Run npx skills add https://github.com/fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills --skill twitter-api in your project. The skills CLI detects the agents you use and copies the skill into the right folder. For Claude Code you can also place the skill folder at ~/.claude/skills/twitter-api/ (personal) or .claude/skills/twitter-api/ (project).

Which AI agents can use twitter-api?

Any agent that supports the open Agent Skills format (a folder with a SKILL.md file), including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Cline, OpenCode and more.

Is twitter-api safe to install?

Security partners have reviewed it: Gen Agent Trust Hub passed; Socket passed; Snyk flagged items to review. As with any skill, read the SKILL.md and bundled scripts before installing.

Who maintains twitter-api?

It is published by fetcher-sh in fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills. It has 8,104 recorded installs.

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twitter-api

Install

Install

Describe the task

Review the result

Security audits

SKILL.md

Twitter / X API

Quick reference

Which endpoint do I need?

Authentication

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

Scenarios

MCP

Errors

Reference

FAQ

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