Twitter Tweets

Scrape Twitter Tweets easily by using our API

To enable this engine, set the engine=twitter_tweets parameter.

Scraping Twitter tweets is a powerful technique for gathering meaningful insights about trending topics, user opinions, and sentiments. With our API, you can easily extract tweets enabling you to identify emerging trends and understand what people are talking about in real-time.

Scrape Tweets

Twitter Tweets API Specific Parameters

#1: URL Parameter

Parameter	Type	Description
url required	string	The URL of the tweet you are looking to scrape information from.

Twitter Tweets API Integration Examples

We will use following URL as an example for this request:

https://social.webscrapingapi.com/v1?engine=twitter_tweets&api_key=<YOUR-API-KEY>&url=https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1508551897287782400

Ready to Use Twitter Profile Scraping Scripts:

cURL

curl --request GET --url "https://social.webscrapingapi.com/v1?engine=twitter_tweets&api_key=<YOUR-API-KEY>&url=https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1508551897287782400"

NodeJS

const http = require("https");

const options = {
  "method": "GET",
  "hostname": "social.webscrapingapi.com",
  "port": null,
  "path": "/v1?engine=twitter_tweets&api_key=<YOUR-API-KEY>&url=https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1508551897287782400",
  "headers": {}
};

const req = http.request(options, function (res) {
  const chunks = [];

  res.on("data", function (chunk) {
    chunks.push(chunk);
  });

  res.on("end", function () {
    const body = Buffer.concat(chunks);
    console.log(body.toString());
  });
});

req.end();

Python

import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("social.webscrapingapi.com")

conn.request("GET", "/v1?engine=twitter_tweets&api_key=<YOUR-API-KEY>&url=https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1508551897287782400")

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))

PHP

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://social.webscrapingapi.com/v1?engine=twitter_tweets&api_key=<YOUR-API-KEY>&url=https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1508551897287782400",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
]);

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

curl_close($curl);

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

Go

package main

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

func main() {

	url := "https://social.webscrapingapi.com/v1?engine=twitter_tweets&api_key=<YOUR-API-KEY>&url=https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1508551897287782400"

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

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

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

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

Java

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://social.webscrapingapi.com/v1?engine=twitter_tweets&api_key=<YOUR-API-KEY>&url=https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1508551897287782400")
    .asString();

.NET

var client = new RestClient("https://social.webscrapingapi.com/v1?engine=twitter_tweets&api_key=<YOUR-API-KEY>&url=https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1508551897287782400");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);

Ruby

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'

url = URI("https://social.webscrapingapi.com/v1?engine=twitter_tweets&api_key=<YOUR-API-KEY>&url=https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1508551897287782400")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)

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

Response Example

{
  "search_parameters": {
    "twitter_url": "https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1508551897287782400",
    "engine": "twitter",
    "twitter_domain": "twitter.com",
    "device": "desktop",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1508551897287782400"
  },
  "search_information": {
    "organic_results_state": "Results for exact spelling",
    "total_results": null,
    "query_displayed": null
  },
  "post_id": "1508551897287782400",
  "post_url": "https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1508551897287782400",
  "post_text": "My favorite moment of the #Oscars is my mom- the real Linda Mitchell- meeting Maya Rudolph- who is just a national treasure.  It made me so unbelievably happy.    @DebbieRianda ’s year is made!",
  "post_time": "2022-03-28T17:08:51.000Z",
  "post_retweets": 379,
  "post_comments": 53,
  "post_likes": 6503,
  "status": "Ok"
}