Get User Tweets

Get the latest tweets from a specific user’s timeline. Returns comprehensive tweet data including text, media, engagement metrics, and all metadata. Supports pagination to retrieve the full tweet history.

GET /v1/twitter/users/{username}/latest_tweets

Get user tweets

cURL

curl --request GET \
  --url https://scrapebadger.com/v1/twitter/users/{username}/latest_tweets \
  --header 'x-api-key: <api-key>'

import requests

url = "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/twitter/users/{username}/latest_tweets"

headers = {"x-api-key": "<api-key>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {'x-api-key': '<api-key>'}};

fetch('https://scrapebadger.com/v1/twitter/users/{username}/latest_tweets', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/twitter/users/{username}/latest_tweets",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "x-api-key: <api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/twitter/users/{username}/latest_tweets"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("x-api-key", "<api-key>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://scrapebadger.com/v1/twitter/users/{username}/latest_tweets")
  .header("x-api-key", "<api-key>")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://scrapebadger.com/v1/twitter/users/{username}/latest_tweets")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["x-api-key"] = '<api-key>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

200

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "1234567890123456789",
      "text": "Hello, world! This is a tweet.",
      "created_at": "Wed Oct 10 20:19:24 +0000 2018",
      "full_text": "<string>",
      "lang": "en",
      "user_id": "44196397",
      "username": "elonmusk",
      "user_name": "Elon Musk",
      "favorite_count": 0,
      "retweet_count": 0,
      "reply_count": 0,
      "quote_count": 0,
      "view_count": 123,
      "bookmark_count": 123,
      "favorited": false,
      "retweeted": false,
      "bookmarked": false,
      "possibly_sensitive": false,
      "is_quote_status": false,
      "is_retweet": false,
      "conversation_id": "<string>",
      "in_reply_to_status_id": "<string>",
      "in_reply_to_user_id": "<string>",
      "media": [
        {
          "media_key": "<string>",
          "url": "<string>",
          "preview_image_url": "<string>",
          "width": 123,
          "height": 123,
          "duration_ms": 123,
          "view_count": 123,
          "alt_text": "<string>"
        }
      ],
      "urls": [
        {
          "url": "<string>",
          "expanded_url": "<string>",
          "display_url": "<string>",
          "unwound_url": "<string>"
        }
      ],
      "hashtags": [
        {
          "text": "AI",
          "indices": [
            123
          ]
        }
      ],
      "user_mentions": [
        {
          "id": "<string>",
          "username": "<string>",
          "name": "<string>",
          "indices": [
            123
          ]
        }
      ],
      "poll": {
        "id": "<string>",
        "end_datetime": "<string>",
        "duration_minutes": 123,
        "options": [
          {
            "position": 123,
            "label": "<string>",
            "votes": 123
          }
        ]
      },
      "place": {
        "id": "<string>",
        "full_name": "San Francisco, CA",
        "name": "San Francisco",
        "country": "United States",
        "country_code": "US"
      },
      "quoted_status_id": "<string>",
      "retweeted_status_id": "<string>",
      "edit_tweet_ids": [
        "<string>"
      ],
      "editable_until_msecs": 123,
      "edits_remaining": 123,
      "is_edit_eligible": true,
      "has_card": true,
      "thumbnail_url": "<string>",
      "thumbnail_title": "<string>",
      "has_community_notes": true,
      "source": "Twitter Web App"
    }
  ],
  "next_cursor": "<string>"
}

{
  "error": "Invalid or missing API key"
}

{
  "error": "Insufficient credits"
}

{
  "error": "Rate limit exceeded. Please retry after a short delay."
}

Authorizations

x-api-key · string · header · required

Your ScrapeBadger API key. You can find this in your dashboard at https://scrapebadger.com/dashboard/api-keys.

Path Parameters

username · string · required

The username (screen name) of the user.

Example:

"elonmusk"

Query Parameters

cursor · string

Pagination cursor for fetching the next page of results.

Response

200

application/json

Successfully retrieved user tweets.

Paginated list of tweets.

data · object[] | null

Array of tweet objects.

Show child attributes

next_cursor · string | null

Cursor for fetching the next page. Null if no more results.