Twitter/X User Tweets API

What is the Twitter/X User Tweets API?

Pass a profile URL or @handle and get the tweets Twitter's public timeline embed exposes as clean JSON. Important: this is not a chronological or latest feed — Twitter publicly returns on the order of ~100 of the account's most popular posts (same limit ScrapeCreators documents). Do not use this endpoint to detect new tweets. Each result uses the same tweet contract as Search / Tweet Details: ISO-8601 publishedAt, author (id when exposed, username, displayName, followers, verified, avatar), engagement always shaped as {views,likes,replies,retweets,quotes,bookmarks} (the timeline embed usually leaves views and bookmarks null), isReply / isRetweet / isQuote, conversationId, source when present, hashtags[] (always present, may be empty), and media[]. Flat 2 credits per call. Pass cache=true to serve from the 24h shared cache (0 credits on hit); default is always fresh.

What you get

• Most popular public tweets (~100 Twitter cap) — not latest/chronological
• ISO-8601 publishedAt (same parser as tweet-details)
• engagement{} with 6 keys (views/bookmarks often null on this surface)
• hashtags[] + media[] (empty arrays when none)
• conversationId / source / isQuote when Twitter exposes them
• Flat 2 credits per call

Platform limits

Honest ceilings from the upstream platform surface — not Captapi bugs. Unexpected truncation here is usually the platform, not us.

• Twitter's public timeline embed returns on the order of ~100 of the account's most popular tweets — not a chronological or latest feed. Do not use this endpoint to detect new tweets.

Fill in the parameters below and copy a ready-to-run request, or open the live Playground to run it against your account (no API key paste).

curl "https://api.captapi.com/v1/twitter/user-tweets?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FNASA" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer capt_live_..."
# or: -H "x-api-key: capt_live_..."

Example response

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "handle": "elonmusk",
    "totalReturned": 5,
    "tweets": [
      {
        "platform": "twitter",
        "url": "https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2084274899065897011",
        "id": "2084274899065897011",
        "text": "Worth noting that any USAID funding that appeared to have the slightest merit whatsoever for helping people in need was moved to the State Department. \n\nOnly the funding where they provided no evidence at all for who would receive the money was stopped.\n\nhttps://t.co/qGUew8TyKD",
        "lang": "en",
        "publishedAt": "2026-08-03T13:47:14.000Z",
        "author": {
          "id": "44196397",
          "username": "elonmusk",
          "displayName": "Elon Musk",
          "url": "https://x.com/elonmusk",
          "followers": 241148496,
          "verified": true,
          "profileImage": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2053244804520427520/m8mdWZCG_normal.jpg"
        },
        "isReply": false,
        "isRetweet": false,
        "possiblySensitive": false,
        "conversationId": "2084274899065897011",
        "engagement": {
          "views": null,
          "likes": 51392,
          "replies": 2623,
          "retweets": 6975,
          "quotes": 344,
          "bookmarks": null
        },
        "hashtags": [],
        "media": []
      },
      {
        "platform": "twitter",
        "url": "https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1519480761749016577",
        "id": "1519480761749016577",
        "text": "Next I’m buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in",
        "lang": "en",
        "publishedAt": "2022-04-28T00:56:58.000Z",
        "author": {
          "id": "44196397",
          "username": "elonmusk",
          "displayName": "Elon Musk",
          "url": "https://x.com/elonmusk",
          "followers": 241148496,
          "verified": true,
          "profileImage": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2053244804520427520/m8mdWZCG_normal.jpg"
        },
        "isReply": false,
        "isRetweet": false,
        "possiblySensitive": false,
        "conversationId": "1519480761749016577",
        "engagement": {
          "views": null,
          "likes": 4209989,
          "replies": 168055,
          "retweets": 579720,
          "quotes": 168169,
          "bookmarks": null
        },
        "hashtags": [],
        "media": []
      }
    ]
  }
}

Billing metadata is returned in response headers: X-Captapi-Credits (credits charged), X-Captapi-Cache (hit or miss), and X-Captapi-Source. Failed requests (4xx/5xx) are never charged. See the full list of error codes in the error reference.

Response structure

A successful call returns success, cached, creditsUsed, and a data object with the following fields:

Parameters

Authentication: send your key as Authorization: Bearer capt_live_.... A typical call costs 2 credits. Pass cache=true for a free 24h cache hit; default is always fresh.

How it works

1. 1. Sign up — get 100 free credits, no card required.
2. 2. Create a key from your dashboard.
3. 3. Send one request to /v1/twitter/user-tweets and parse the JSON response.

Use cases

Frequently asked questions

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