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](../x-api/SKILL.md) — same host, same endpoints, indexed under the "X" name too since agents and users refer to the platform both ways.

Quick reference

Which endpoint do I need?

Full param details for every row: [references/endpoints.md](references/endpoints.md).

Authentication

Two ways to pay, same data — full mechanics in the [fetcher skill](../fetcher/SKILL.md):

# 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)

{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:, minfaves:, minretweets:, 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: searchendpoints, describeendpoint, checkbalance. Paid: fetchdata (any endpoint above), topupcredits, plus the named shortcut twittersearch. Drop the headers block to pay per call with x402 instead — see the [fetcher skill](../fetcher/SKILL.md) 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](references/endpoints.md) (every

param) · [references/scenarios.md](references/scenarios.md) (one curl per endpoint) · [references/faq.md](references/faq.md) · [references/comparison.md](references/comparison.md) (vs. the official X API and a browser scraper)

• Task guides: [search tweets](../../task-guides/search-tweets.md) ·

[export followers](../../task-guides/export-twitter-followers.md)

• Slash command: [/twitter-search](../../commands/twitter-search.md)
• 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](../fetcher/SKILL.md)
• Site: <https://twitter.fetcher.sh>;