Extremely Powerful, Unofficial Twitter API

The business-risk comment in this thread aged well. Twint was impressive in 2020, but it is no longer a dependable unofficial Twitter API in 2026. X changed the guest, page, and data behavior it relied on, so old claims about follower extraction and uninterrupted scraping should be treated as historical.

For experiments, a local scraper is still useful. Production needs more than extraction: stable response schemas, cursor pagination, retry behavior, deduplication, and maintenance when the upstream changes. Xquik packages those pieces for tweet, search, profile, reply, and follower workflows, with REST and MCP access.

It is managed rather than free or open source, which is the real tradeoff. Pay-as-you-go starts at $10 with non-expiring credits. For a one-off OSINT task, DIY may be cheaper. For a recurring product, paying per use can be cheaper than repeatedly repairing Twint or a browser scraper.

Very useful tool, I use it since december. Another impressive project (if you are into OSINT) is SpiderFoot https://github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot , absolute powerhouse of various modules for research on internet.

this is really cool!
honestly, it would be risky to build business on this tho. Sooner or later Twitter MAY do something about.

I am not happy with twitter for their restrictions and conditions, but I still think its not right thing to go scrap a website for data. It sounds like you are stealing, because you are doing something which they don't want you to do.

Really good stuff, bookmarked!

This looks super cool... Can't wait to dig into this. Thanks for sharing

This seems fantastic, I will give it a try. There is a lot of knowledge in Twitter unnecessarily fenced off by their idiotic and greedy practices.

I just discovered this. IDK what the legal status is, but it seems really popular and EXTREMELY powerful.