Scrape Twitter / X without the official API.
Tweets, profiles, followers, trends and more.

Two ways to run it

1. Hosted : nothing to manage ⭐

Runs on Apify. You do not need X accounts, cookies or proxies.

• Configure and run from your browser, no code needed, or drive it from code with the Python API
• Search tweets, profile timelines, follower / following lists
• Export in different formats (JSON, CSV or XLSX)
• Free tier included; pay-as-you-go pricing is on the Actor page

2. Self-hosted : full control

Bring your own X accounts and proxies. Run it from Python or the CLI, inside your own infrastructure.

from Scweet import Scweet

s = Scweet(auth_token="YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN")
tweets = s.search("bitcoin", limit=100)

Both give you the same data. Self-hosted: you run the code, and you manage the accounts and the proxies. Hosted: you press a button and get the results.

What you can scrape

• Tweets — by keyword, hashtag, user, date range, engagement filters, language, location
• Profile timelines — a user's full tweet history, with replies and media tabs
• Tweets by id — full data for known tweet ids, their replies, and who reposted them
• Followers / Following — full account lists at scale, verified followers included
• User profiles — bio, follower count, verification status, by handle or by id
• People search & trends — find accounts by keyword, read what is trending now

Python Quickstart

Three steps from nothing to tweets. One account, one call, one result.

1. Install

pip install -U Scweet

2. Get your auth_token

Log into x.com → DevTools F12 → Application → Cookies → https://x.com → copy the auth_token value. That one value is all you need; Scweet builds the rest.

Use a dedicated account, never your personal one.

3. Scrape

from Scweet import Scweet

s = Scweet(auth_token="YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN")
tweets = s.search("bitcoin", limit=100)

for tweet in tweets:
    print(tweet["text"])

That is the whole first run. On the next run, reuse the same accounts with no credentials:

s = Scweet()                       # reads the state file scweet_state.db
tweets = s.search("ethereum", limit=100, save=True)   # save=True writes a CSV

Always set limit. Without it, a run continues until the daily cap of the account.

Next: add a proxy for real volume, use several accounts, or read the full documentation.

Proxies

A proxy is optional for a small run and recommended for real volume, because many requests from one IP raise the risk to an account. Pass one URL for all accounts:

s = Scweet(auth_token="YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN", proxy="http://user:[email protected]:8000")

On a rotating provider, put {session} in the URL to give each account its own exit IP: http://user,session-{session}:[email protected]:8000. For a proxy per account, see Multiple accounts & proxies.

All methods have async variants: asearch(), aget_profile_tweets(), aget_followers(), etc.

Common tasks

Search tweets

tweets = s.search(
    "AI agents",
    since="2026-01-01",
    from_users=["elonmusk"],
    min_likes=50,
    limit=200,
    save=True,
)

Profile timeline

tweets = s.get_profile_tweets(["elonmusk"], limit=200)

Followers / Following

followers = s.get_followers(["elonmusk"], limit=1000)
following = s.get_following(["elonmusk"], limit=1000)
verified  = s.get_verified_followers(["elonmusk"], limit=1000)

User profiles

profiles = s.get_user_info(["githubstatus", "elonmusk"])
profiles = s.get_user_info(user_ids=["44196397"])   # numeric ids work too

Tweets by id, replies, reposters

tweets    = s.get_tweet_info(["1866123456789", "1866123456790"])  # up to 50 per request
replies   = s.get_tweet_replies("1866123456789", limit=100)
reposters = s.get_reposters("1866123456789", limit=100)

People search, trends, media

people = s.search_users("python developer", limit=50)
trends = s.get_trending()
media  = s.get_profile_media(["nasa"], limit=100)
tweets = s.get_profile_tweets(["nasa"], limit=100, include_replies=True)

For the full list of supported search operators, see twitter-advanced-search.

CLI

# Search with proxy, save to CSV
scweet --auth-token YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN --proxy http://user:pass@host:port \
  search "bitcoin" --since 2026-01-01 --limit 500 --save

# Followers, saved as JSON
scweet --auth-token YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN \
  followers elonmusk --limit 1000 --save --save-format json

For multi-account runs, use --cookies-file cookies.json.

Multiple accounts & proxies

For higher throughput and reduced ban risk, use multiple dedicated accounts with per-account proxies.

Running Scweet locally at any real volume usually means dedicated accounts and proxies. You can use a single proxy, a rotating proxy, or assign one per account. On a rotating provider, put {session} in the proxy URL to give each account its own session — see "Proxy modes" in DOCUMENTATION.md.

cookies.json format:

[
  { "username": "acct1", "cookies": { "auth_token": "..." }, "proxy": "http://user1:pass1@host1:port1" },
  { "username": "acct2", "cookies": { "auth_token": "..." }, "proxy": "http://user2:pass2@host2:port2" }
]

s = Scweet(cookies_file="cookies.json")  # proxies are read from the file, one per a