> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# twscrape alternative for tweet scraping by API

> Compare twscrape with Xquik for tweet scraping, follower exports, replies, profiles, timelines, monitors, signed webhooks, REST APIs, and MCP. Includes pricing.

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This guide compares twscrape and Xquik on specific X tasks: search tweets, export followers, monitor accounts or keywords, publish actions, send webhooks, and connect apps or agents.

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## Quick answer

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  <Card title="Choose twscrape when" icon="check">
    You want a Python library or CLI, can supply authorized X/Twitter accounts, and can maintain sessions, rate limits, storage, and exports yourself.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Choose Xquik when" icon="circle-check">
    You need tweet search, follower exports, write actions, 1-second monitors, signed webhooks, SDKs, or MCP from one product.
  </Card>
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## Source-backed twscrape scope

twscrape's official GitHub README describes it as a Twitter GraphQL API implementation with SNScrape data models. Installation uses `pip install twscrape`, and development installs can point at the GitHub repository.

The README lists support for Search and GraphQL Twitter APIs, and async/await functions that can run multiple scrapers in parallel. It also lists login flow with email verification, saved account sessions, raw Twitter API responses, SNScrape models, and automatic account switching for rate-limit smoothing.

The README says twscrape requires authorized X/Twitter accounts to work with the API. It documents adding accounts with cookies or login credentials, login and relogin CLI commands, account status inspection, account database selection, and optional manual email verification.

The usage examples cover search tabs for Top, Latest, and Media. They cover tweet details, retweeters, tweet replies, and user lookup by login or ID. They also cover following, followers, verified followers, subscriptions, user tweets, user replies, and user media. Other examples show list timelines, trends, raw responses, and converting Tweet and User models to dict or JSON.

The CLI docs cover search, tweet details, replies, retweeters, user lookup, user media, following, followers, verified followers, subscriptions, user timelines, and trends. They also cover one-document-per-line stdout output, raw output, desired `limit`, and per-endpoint pagination behavior.

The README limitations say request limits reset every 15 minutes per endpoint, and each account has separate limits by operation. They also say `user_tweets` and `user_tweets_and_replies` can return about 3,200 tweets maximum, and rate limits may vary by account age and status.

## Comparison

| Area | twscrape | Xquik |
| - | - | - |
| Use when | Developers want to maintain their own scraping code. | Teams need tweet search, follower exports, write actions, 1-second monitors, signed webhooks, SDKs, and MCP together. |
| Product type | Open-source library. | Platform for tweet search, follower exports, account actions, monitors, webhooks & files. |
| Coverage | twscrape README covers Search and GraphQL access, account sessions, raw or SNScrape-shaped responses, search, tweet, user, list & trend calls, and account switching for rate-limit smoothing. | Tweet and profile reads, exports, X actions, monitors, webhooks, SDKs, MCP, and pay-per-use reads. |
| Pricing & value | The package is open source and free to install. You supply authorized accounts and handle sessions, rate limits, output files, and job runs. | Xquik starts at USD 20/month with 140,000 included credits. Many read calls cost 1 credit per result or call. Top-ups cost USD 0.00015/credit, and webhook plus stored-event management is free. |
| Integration effort | Plan for Python setup, account pool setup, login or cookie handling, CLI output, pagination behavior, retries, storage, exports, alerts, and monitoring. | Use a dashboard tool first, then call the same task through REST, webhook, SDK, export, or MCP when it needs automation. |
| Summary | twscrape is an open-source library for developers who want to build and maintain their own X data pipeline. | Xquik gives teams hosted API keys, exports, monitoring, support, and billing. |
| Hosting | A library you host and maintain. | Hosted product with dashboard and API. |
| Operational work | You handle retries, storage, exports, and uptime. | Xquik handles exports, uptime, and support. |
| Ownership fit | Teams that want full code ownership. | Teams that want hosted endpoints without building them first. |

## Operating model

Compare twscrape and Xquik by output, cost, and handoff. twscrape is an open-source library for developers who want to build and maintain their own X data pipeline. Xquik gives teams hosted API keys, exports, monitoring, support, and billing.

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  <Card title="Hosting" icon="route">
    twscrape requires a self-hosted library and ongoing maintenance. Xquik provides a hosted API and dashboard.
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  <Card title="Operational work" icon="square-terminal">
    With twscrape, teams handle retries, storage, exports, and uptime. Xquik handles exports, uptime, and support.
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  <Card title="Ownership fit" icon="download">
    Choose twscrape for full code ownership. Choose Xquik for hosted endpoints without building them first.
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## What to test in Xquik

For API comparisons, price the whole task: endpoint access, pagination, retries, storage, exports, alerts, webhooks, SDKs, and maintenance. Choose Xquik when you need all of them from one product.

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  <Card title="Tweets, followers & exports" icon="download">
    23 extraction tools cover tweets, replies, quotes, reposts, likes, followers, following, verified followers, communities, lists, Spaces, articles, and search. Export results to CSV, JSON, XLSX, Markdown, or API responses.
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  <Card title="Automation & writes" icon="workflow">
    18 X write actions cover tweets, media uploads, likes, retweets, follows, DMs, profile updates, and community actions from connected accounts.
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  <Card title="Monitoring & delivery" icon="bell">
    Account and keyword monitors check active streams every 1 second. Store events, poll them, or deliver them through signed webhooks.
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  <Card title="Developer tools" icon="code-xml">
    Choose REST, an SDK, MCP, or pay-per-use reads. Credit records show each request's cost.
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## What to verify in a trial

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  <Step title="Run the real task">
    Use a real task: search a keyword, export followers, upload media, send a DM, monitor an account, or deliver a webhook. Compare outputs, not feature labels.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Inspect the output">
    Confirm returned data, pagination, retry behavior, webhook payloads, export formats, and how much code each call needs. Then compare total cost for the same task: access, included volume, top-ups, and engineering time.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Check the next integration">
    Decide where the result goes next: CSV, JSON, webhook, SDK call, MCP tool, dashboard review, or another API.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Migration path

Start with one API-backed task. Keep the current integration running while you compare output shape, latency, pagination, retries, exports, and alert delivery in Xquik.

Keep the test small: one task, one output, one cost model, and one owner for the output. Switch only when the Xquik output matches the required records and reduces integration work or cost.

twscrape is free to use. You still run, maintain, and monitor it.

Price the real workload. On Xquik, Starter is USD 20/month with 140,000 credits. Top-ups are USD 0.00015/credit, webhook and stored-event management are free, and active monitors bill only while enabled.

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  <Card title="Xquik API overview" icon="book-open" href="/api-reference/overview">
    Review REST API authentication, endpoint groups, and response patterns.
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  <Card title="Integration guide" icon="route" href="/guides/workflows">
    Map dashboard tools to REST calls, signed webhooks, exports, and MCP tools.
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  <Card title="Pricing & billing" icon="credit-card" href="/guides/billing">
    Check included credits, top-ups, free operations, and active monitor billing.
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  <Card title="Official twscrape site" icon="external-link" href="https://github.com/vladkens/twscrape">
    Verify current product details before making a final decision.
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