---
title: "Twitter Data API Alternative - Posts & Profiles - Crawlora"
description: "A Twitter/X data API alternative to the $100-$42,000/mo official tiers — public posts and profiles as structured JSON, no developer app or approval."
image: "https://crawlora.net/platforms/x/opengraph-image-145a00?9fd06bfac51b8fc7"
url: "https://crawlora.net/platforms/x"
---

# Twitter Data API Alternative - Posts & Profiles - Crawlora

A Twitter/X data API alternative to the $100-$42,000/mo official tiers — public posts and profiles as structured JSON, no developer app or approval.

## Structured Data

```json
[{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://crawlora.net/#organization","name":"Crawlora","alternateName":["Crawlora API","Crawlora.net"],"url":"https://crawlora.net/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://crawlora.net/icons/favicon-512.png","width":512,"height":512},"description":"Crawlora provides agent-native web scraping APIs and hosted MCP tools for search, maps, geocoding, streaming media, travel, real estate, marketplaces, finance, social video, app intelligence, and AI workflows.","knowsAbout":["Web scraping","Web scraping API","SERP API","Structured web data extraction","Anti-bot bypass","Proxy infrastructure","Model Context Protocol","Web data for AI agents"],"sameAs":["https://github.com/Crawlora-org","https://www.npmjs.com/package/@crawlora-org/sdk","https://pypi.org/project/crawlora/","https://rubygems.org/gems/crawlora","https://packagist.org/packages/crawlora/sdk","https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/Crawlora-org/crawlora-go-sdk","https://mcpservers.org/servers/crawlora-net-mcp","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140216339","https://www.linkedin.com/company/crawlora-net","https://x.com/crawlora_net","https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/crawlora"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://crawlora.net/#website","name":"Crawlora","alternateName":"Crawlora API","url":"https://crawlora.net/","description":"Crawlora provides agent-native web scraping APIs and hosted MCP tools for search, maps, geocoding, streaming media, travel, real estate, marketplaces, finance, social video, app intelligence, and AI workflows.","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@id":"https://crawlora.net/#organization"}}]
```

```json
[{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CollectionPage","name":"X scraping API","description":"Fetch public X posts, profiles, and first-page profile posts through documented Crawlora API endpoints.","url":"https://crawlora.net/platforms/x","about":["X API","Web scraping API"],"numberOfItems":3,"isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","name":"Crawlora","url":"https://crawlora.net/"}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://crawlora.net/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Platforms","item":"https://crawlora.net/platforms"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"X","item":"https://crawlora.net/platforms/x"}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"HowTo","name":"How to scrape X","description":"X public pages are rendered for interactive browsing, not simple JSON export. Crawlora's X endpoints return public post and profile data as structured JSON.","url":"https://crawlora.net/platforms/x","step":[{"@type":"HowToStep","position":1,"name":"Pick a post or profile","text":"A public post URL/status ID, a username, or a profile's first visible post page."},{"@type":"HowToStep","position":2,"name":"Call the X endpoint","text":"Pass the post ID and optional username, or the profile username, to Crawlora's X endpoint."},{"@type":"HowToStep","position":3,"name":"Get structured JSON","text":"Receive post text, author context, profile counts, verification state, and visible timeline items where available."},{"@type":"HowToStep","position":4,"name":"Monitor public activity","text":"Re-run to refresh public post details or profile-level signals for research and monitoring."}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"How do I scrape X?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Send a public X post ID or username to Crawlora's X endpoint and get structured JSON for public posts, profiles, or the first visible profile posts page. Collect public data and respect X's terms."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"Can I scrape X without an account?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Yes — Crawlora's X endpoints target public web pages and do not require your account cookies, OAuth token, or login state."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"Is scraping X legal?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Collecting publicly accessible post and profile data is generally permissible if you respect X's terms of use, robots directives, rate limits, and applicable law. This is for public data you're authorized to collect."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"How is this different from X's own API?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"X's official API is tiered and expensive: Free allows one tweet lookup every 15 minutes, Basic ($100/month) caps out at 10,000 tweets and 7 days of search history, and full-archive access needs the Pro ($5,000/month) or Enterprise (from $42,000/month) tier. Crawlora reads the same public posts and profiles without a developer app, approval, or tier."}}]}]
```