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Twitter news monitoring API to classify posts
2 credits per analyzed post · All plans from $0.00012/credit · Supports guest paid reads
News classification reads each post with AI and answers 3 questions about your topic. The endpoint is POST /api/v1/x/analysis/news. Name the topic in analysis.targets. The answers classify what a post says. They do not check whether its claims are true.
The snippets keep relevant reports that cite a source, then print the most linked sites. They do not print the full response.

Name the topic

Put the topic in analysis.targets, with its other names as aliases. A topic can be an event, a company, a person, a ticker, or a product.
relevance is high only when the post names the topic or reports an event about it. Posts about the same industry, competitors, or the wider market do not count. Filter rows on relevance before you count answers.

Read the news answers

results[].answers holds each decision by question ID. attribution says whether a source is given. It does not rate the source.

Separate reports from rumors

Keep reporting with named or linked attribution for sourced news. Watch speculation with absent attribution for rumors that spread without a source. analysisSummary.questions.format.shares holds each format’s share of posts. Store it per run to see when speculation outgrows reporting.

Track the sources

results[].sourceDomains lists the sites each post links to. The summary’s sourceDomains counts posts per site, most posts first, up to 20. For more posts than 1 call returns, send the same body again with cursor set to next_cursor. Add sinceTime and untilTime to read 1 day or 1 hour.

Pick the posts to analyze

Send tweetIds, texts, or a search, never more than 1. Sending none, or more than 1, returns 400 invalid_input. A search combines every search field you send into 1 X search. queryType sets the order, Latest or Top. For more posts than 1 call returns, send the same search again with cursor set to next_cursor. Stop when has_next_page is false.

Compare with an earlier answer

Send the results of an earlier call as baseline to see what changed. Each row in the new results gets monitor, and analysisSummary.monitor counts the posts per status. The comparison costs nothing extra.
A baseline row needs the post’s id, or tweet.id, and its answers. Send whole result rows when you have them. Their monitor carries the settings’ fingerprint, so rows from other settings show as not_comparable. A decision counts as changed only when the new answer clearly leaves the old one, so near ties between calls stay unchanged. Keep analysis the same between calls for comparable answers.

Budget the analysis

Each analyzed post costs 2 credits. Each text in texts costs the same. Posts in unanalyzed cost nothing. When credits cover fewer posts than you asked for, fewer come back. The posts left over appear in unanalyzed with insufficient_credits. If credits cover no post, the call returns 402 insufficient_credits.

Body

string[]
Up to 100 post IDs or post URLs, such as x.com/nasa/status/20. A post named twice is analyzed once. Send tweetIds, texts, or a search, not more than 1.
string
X search to analyze, with the operators of Search Tweets.
string
Analyze 1 account’s posts. Send a handle, with or without @, or a profile URL.
string
Analyze a public List’s posts. Send its ID or URL.
string
Analyze the quotes of 1 post. Send its ID or URL.
string
Analyze the replies in 1 post’s conversation. Send its ID or URL.
string
Inclusive start of the search, such as 2026-09-25T00:00:00Z. Unix seconds also work. A time without an offset is UTC.
string
Exclusive end of the search. Unix seconds also work. A time without an offset is UTC.
string
Search order: Latest or Top. Defaults to Latest.
integer
Maximum posts to analyze from the search. Range: 1-100. Defaults to 20. Credits can return fewer.
string
The next_cursor of the page before. Send the same search with it.
string[]
Up to 100 texts of your own, such as drafts. Each must contain words. Reads nothing from X.
object[]
Rows of an earlier answer to compare with, up to 10,000, such as its results. Each needs the post’s id, or tweet.id, and its answers. Each new result’s monitor says whether the post is new, changed, or unchanged. The comparison costs nothing extra.
object
Optional settings. Leave it out to ask the route’s own questions.

Headers

string
Full account API key. An OAuth bearer token also works.
string
Send Bearer xq_your_guest_key_here for an active paid_reads guest key.
string
required
Must be application/json. The body can be up to 256 KB.

Response

200 OK

object[]
Each analyzed post with its answers. Each row costs 2 credits.
object[]
Each post without an analysis. These cost nothing.
object
Totals of the answers across the analyzed posts.
boolean
Whether the search has more posts. Always false for tweetIds and texts.
string
Send it as cursor with the same search for the next page. Empty when there is none.

400 Invalid input

The body names no posts, names more than 1 source, or has an invalid field. The message says what to send instead. The request costs nothing.

401 Unauthenticated

Anonymous requests get WWW-Authenticate: Bearer and a guest wallet checkout action. This is not a Payment challenge.
Missing or invalid API key. Check the x-api-key header value.

402 Payment required

Full account keys can receive no_subscription, subscription_inactive, no_credits, or insufficient_credits with account payment options. Guest keys receive only the guest top-up action. The failed request creates no checkout. Ask the user to confirm before calling any checkout or top-up route.

403 Protected account

A search that needs a protected author returns this. Choose a public account. The request costs nothing.

502 X API unavailable

The read service returned an error. Retry after a short delay.

503 Service busy

Xquik is busy. Wait for the Retry-After header, then send the request again. The request costs nothing.

429 Rate limit exceeded

You exceeded your tier rate limit. Wait for the Retry-After header before retrying.

424 Dependency failed

The normalized v1 response contract can return 424 when the read service is unavailable.

News monitoring API questions

How do I monitor news about a topic on X?

Search the topic in query and name it in analysis.targets. Each row in results holds the post’s format, attribution, and relevance.

Does it check whether a post is true?

No. The answers say what kind of post it is and whether it names a source. They do not verify claims or rate the source.

How do I find rumors?

Keep rows whose format is speculation. Rows with absent attribution give no source for their claims.

Can I follow 1 outlet or reporter?

Yes. Send their handle in username, and name your topic in analysis.targets.

How much does news classification cost?

Each analyzed post costs 2 credits. Posts in unanalyzed and refused requests cost nothing.

Does this replace X’s official API?

No. This page documents Xquik, an independent third-party service. It does not document X’s official API.
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