Platform · Twitter / X
Twitter / X API Alternative
Read-access to Twitter without the $100/month Basic tier. Profiles, tweets, communities, and transcripts from one API key.
The official X API starts at $100/month for Basic and climbs to $42,000/month for Enterprise. CreatorCrawl gives you Twitter profiles, user tweets, single tweet detail, X Communities, and video transcripts under pay-as-you-go credits that never expire. Every endpoint is exposed as a native MCP tool so your AI agent can read Twitter in natural language.
Why pick CreatorCrawl over the X API (formerly Twitter API)?
The official X API (formerly Twitter API) is the first place most developers look. Here is why teams building real products switch off it.
X API (formerly Twitter API)
- Free tier is write-only, no read access
- Basic tier is $100/month for 10,000 tweets
- Pro tier is $5,000/month
- Enterprise tier is $42,000/month or more
- OAuth 2.0 PKCE setup for read-only use cases
CreatorCrawl
- No approval process, sign up in 60 seconds
- Pay-as-you-go credits, never expire, no subscription
- Native MCP server for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed
- Same API covers 5 other platforms under one key
- Real-time data on every request, 250 free credits on signup
Twitter / X endpoints
6 endpoints covering profiles, content, engagement, and search. Every endpoint is exposed as an MCP tool so your AI agent can call it in natural language.
/twitter/profileProfile
User profile metadata: follower count, following count, bio, join date, verified status.
/twitter/user/tweetsUser Tweets
Timeline of tweets from any public account with pagination.
/twitter/tweetTweet
Single tweet detail with metrics, media, and thread context.
/twitter/communityCommunity
X Community metadata including member count, description, and rules.
/twitter/community/tweetsCommunity Tweets
Posts from any X Community, paginated.
/twitter/tweet/transcriptTranscript
Plain-text transcript from video tweets for downstream LLM processing.
Connect Twitter / X to your AI agent in 60 seconds
The CreatorCrawl MCP server exposes all 6+ Twitter / X endpoints as native tools. Drop this config into Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, or Zed and your agent can read Twitter / X in natural language.
{
"mcpServers": {
"creatorcrawl": {
"url": "https://creatorcrawl.com/api/mcp",
"headers": {
"x-api-key": "your_api_key_here"
}
}
}
}Save the config, restart your MCP client, and ask your agent something like "Pull the last 20 posts from a Twitter / X account and summarise the themes."
What teams build with Twitter / X data
Sentiment analysis on public conversation
Pull the user tweets endpoint for accounts you care about and feed the results into an NLP pipeline. Track brand sentiment, detect crisis events early, and surface qualitative signals.
Competitor intelligence
Watch competitor accounts for product launches, campaign changes, and engagement spikes. Calculate engagement rate from recent tweets and trigger alerts on outliers.
AI agents that reason about X
Give your Claude or Cursor agent access to the Twitter endpoints via MCP and it can search profiles, pull tweet timelines, and summarise conversations in natural language.
Community research for X Communities
Read any public X Community's metadata and recent posts. Useful for niche research, competitive positioning, and finding adjacent audiences you are not yet reaching.
Frequently asked questions about the Twitter / X API
How is this different from the official X API?
No $100/month minimum for read access, no OAuth 2.0 PKCE setup, no rate limit tiers. You sign up, get an API key, and hit the endpoints. Every call is 1 credit. 250 credits are free on signup, then pay-as-you-go bundles start at $29 for 5,000 credits. Credits never expire.
Which Twitter / X data can I read?
Profiles (with full metadata), user tweet timelines with pagination, single tweet detail, X Community metadata and posts, and video tweet transcripts. Everything publicly visible on X.com is readable.
Can I send tweets or post on X through the API?
No. CreatorCrawl is a read-only data API. If you need to publish tweets, use a publishing-focused API like PostEverywhere or Zernio. CreatorCrawl is for reading public Twitter data into your product or AI agent.
Can I use this with Claude and Cursor?
Yes. The CreatorCrawl MCP server exposes every Twitter endpoint as a native tool. Drop one config block into your MCP client and your agent can read Twitter in natural language without writing any HTTP code.
How fresh is the data?
Every request hits the platform in real time. Follower counts, tweet counts, and engagement metrics are the numbers your users see when they visit x.com right now.
Is scraping Twitter / X legal?
Reading publicly available data is generally considered legal under precedents like hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn. The specifics depend on jurisdiction and downstream use. Review X's Terms of Service and applicable privacy laws against your use case before going to production.